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Best junior college baseball programs to become a professional athlete?

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Paul’s Answer

Here is a list of some of the best programs in the United States:

* Iowa Western
* San Jacinto
* Mclennan
* Crowder
* LSU- Eunice
* Central Arizona
* Chipola
* Johnson County
* Pearl River
* Northwest Florida State

If you want a great NAIA or small college four year baseball program, I would look seriously at Lewis and Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho. They have turned out a large number of professional players.
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Ken’s Answer

It does not really matter where you go to school. If you excel, you will be found. Scouts area everywhere.


What is most important when thinking about becoming a professional athlete, are the following:

  • Learning money management skills. Too often athletes blow through their incomes too fast, leaving themselves broke along the way. Good money management skills can help keep that from happening.
  • Preparing for an alternate career. Too often an athlete's career ends prematurely, leaving them without an income, unless they have another career area for which they have prepared. Many times an athlete is involved in another career area during their sports career. Having this second career will provide sufficient income if the sports income disappears.

The following are tips relating to the second point.

Ken recommends the following next steps:

Getting to know yourself and how your personality traits relate to people involved in various career opportunities is very important in your decision making process. During my many years in Human Resources and College Recruiting, I ran across too many students who had skipped this very important step and ended up in a job situation which for which they were not well suited. Selecting a career area is like buying a pair of shoes. First you have to be properly fitted for the correct size, and then you need to try on and walk in the various shoe options to determine which is fits the best and is most comfortable for you to wear. Following are some important steps which I developed during my career which have been helpful to many .
The first step is to take an interest and aptitude test and have it interpreted by your school counselor to see if you share the personality traits necessary to enter the field. You might want to do this again upon entry into college, as the interpretation might differ slightly due to the course offering of the school. However, do not wait until entering college, as the information from the test will help to determine the courses that you take in high school. Too many students, due to poor planning, end up paying for courses in college which they could have taken for free in high school.
Next, when you have the results of the testing, talk to the person at your high school and college who tracks and works with graduates to arrange to talk to, visit, and possibly shadow people doing what you think that you might want to do, so that you can get know what they are doing and how they got there. Here are some tips: ## http://www.wikihow.com/Network ## ## https://www.themuse.com/advice/nonawkward-ways-to-start-and-end-networking-conversations ## ## https://www.themuse.com/advice/4-questions-to-ask-your-network-besides-can-you-get-me-a-job?ref=carousel-slide-1 ##
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Raashid’s Answer

BEST BASEBALL COLLEGES
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Harvard University.
Stanford University.
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
University of Florida.
Thank you comment icon Hey Raashid, thanks for sharing suggestions on colleges with good baseball programs! Any suggestions you may have on choosing which one to apply to or how to go about applying? How did you find this list? Jordan Rivera, Admin COACH
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