swimming scholarship
In general you have a good chance of a scholarship when you have participated in the National Championships. You need to swim the following times to have the best chance to receive a full scholarship:
a swimming scholarship?
5 STEPS TO A SWIMMNING SCHOLARSHIP
OVERCOMING ALL ACDEMIC HURDLES
There are three possibilities with which you can easily qualify for a study in the USA: 1. You complete successfully a good entrance qualification such as the vocational diploma, the Abitur (German equivalent of the “A Levels”) or the Matura (Austrian and Swiss Qualification). 2. You have your intermediate secondary school certificate and complete the so-called GED test. 3. You have completed a vocational training. Of course you have to meet only one of the three criteria.
CONTACT SCHOLARBOOK
Ideally, you would contact us about 1 to 1.5 years before you begin your studies in the US. Simply fill out our Assessment of Opportunities. You are a spontaneous person and the idea to study in the US just came to your mind at the last minute? No problem, in exceptional circumstances we can mediate your universtity place even up to 3 months prior to commencing studies. Once we receive your Assessment of Opportunity, we will contact you within 24 hours with our response.
COMPLETE APPLICATION
To complete your candidate profile we need video footage showing you during training and during competition. We also collect all information about your athletic and academic background. Your video and the added information will complete your athlete profile to then receive offers from the coaches.
CHOOSE COLLEGE
Once we have introduced you to the coaches, you will receive your scholarship offers. Your supervisor will advise you on your offers with regard to the athletic and academic interest of the university and together you choose your absolute favourite.
SIGNING THE OFFER
Congratulations! You have found your dream university including an athletic scholarship. Now you only have to seal your choice with the signing of your scholarship contract and apply for your visa. For all the remaining organisational steps you will receive our support and we will complete all steps for you.
5 Reasons for aSwimming Scholarship
Perfectly Combining Studies and Competitive Sports
Your training plan will be adjusted to your study programme – and vice versa. Due to the perfect compatibility that is unique in the world, you will find yourself developing optimal in an athletic and academical way and achieve top performance in sports and studies.
Professional Training Conditions
For the sportive advancement, the college teams provide you with several full-time, extremely well qualified coaches, team physicians, physiotherapists, gyms and university own stadiums that can hold up to 100,000 spectators.
Recognition for your Performance
Your athletic performance will finally be recognised and also financially rewarded in the form of a scholarship. Moreover, on campus, you will be treated like a star, receive a lot of recognition and various privileges.
Studying at the Best Universities in the World
The American university system is one of the best in the world. The worldwide rankings are dominated by the American universities, such as Harvard, Princeton or Stanford. Study at one of the most prestigious universities and secure this way your future dream job.
The Best Time of Your Life
Would you like to escape after school into the world and collect unique experiences? With an athletic scholarship, you will get to know other cultures and make friends from around the world and experience things that you will remember for a lifetime.
What is the scholarship situation?
Sports in the US are very important, therefore receiving scholarships can be highly competitive. Nevertheless, Scholarbook provides more than 30 swimming scholarships annually.
| Men | Women | |
| Universities with swimming teams | 225 | 318 |
| Full scholarships per team | 10 | 14 |
Dario Sieber, who has been studying since 2013 at Limestone College in South Carolina and has a scholarship in swimming, is very thankful to Scholarbook for this opportunity:
“When I started my season last summer I though this would be the end of my swimming career and after high school I would have to go to Military Training School. Thanks to Scholarbook I got the idea to rather study in the USA, and I ended up at Limestone College. I am looking forward to this adventure. To support Scholarbook I would like to say thank you once again!”
Dario Sieber
When should I apply?
The best time to get a swimming scholarship in the US is directly after you graduate from high school. The coaches like to recruit younger students so they can build a better athlete over the course of your bachelor studies.
Of course you can also go for only a few semester to the US or even do your Master’s degree while receiving a scholarship. This is made possible through our excellent relationships with the coaches.
In all cases you should contact us about a year before you plan to go to an American college. The swimming season always begins in the fall semester.
How is the training structured in America?
The highly professional American swimming coaches have different philosophies. Some rely more on quantity, while others believe in the quality of training. In all cases, training will be very time consuming. Often there will be practices early in the morning, before school and then late in the afternoon again. The weekend is sometimes also used for training, so the total amount of training quickly gets up to 25 hours per week.
For swimmers all over the world, a scholarship is therefore an excellent opportunity to reach the top international level.
You can build up your body and you will have a great support team consisting of a team doctor and several physical therapists that are up to date on the latest technique and insights. The modern training facilities will let you reach new heights, again and again.
What does the season look like?
The season starts late in October and ends with the National Championships in early April. During the season there are so-called “dual-meets”, a direct contest between two universities or large invitational events with multiple universities. There will be many spectators at the competitions. Conference Championships and the NCAA National Championships will even be televised.
Around Christmas time there is a short break from competition. Many university teams use this break for training camps in the South where it is warm, for example in Florida. Except of course if your college is already in the South, then you can train outdoors all year.
Without Scholarbook I would probably had a hard time getting a scholarship for a Master’s degree in the United States. It was a successful, organized and very pleasant cooperation!
Beatrice Decker– Track and Field –Alaska Anchorage University – 2014
