<p>I don’t think you should spend any time worrying about this, GFG, but I don’t think there’s any guarantee of FA. Just honor and reputation of the program for keeping their word. I have no insider knowledge, just guessing…this topic might deserve its own thread, if others have worries about implied but unenforcable FA agreements.</p>
<p>D just came home from practice and informed us that the AD has arranged a signing ceremony for her and a teammate next Wed at 11:00 am. D is going to an Ivy so it’s not really a ‘signing’, more of an acknowledgment. I really appreciate the gesture, just wish I had a little more lead time to get the time off to be there!</p>
<p>A FA/scholarship agreement should be placed in the NLI that the school and parent sign. Plus its not thatg hard to see where you’ll fall FA wise with the huge schools that guarantee certain FA for certain incomes and so on.</p>
<p>Thats always been my impression.</p>
<p>My D’s scholarship is not huge but I was still blown-back that the school was paying her to come…when everyone else I know would pay extra just to get their kid in!</p>
<p>I thought the signing of an LOI was a really big thing. Tried to tell D that it was and we should make some sort of special event out of it. She’s the first person in our family history who’s been a recruited NCAA D1 athlete, so I thought it was a big thing! She signed on the kitchen counter then drove down to Kinkos and faxed it back. </p>
<p>The next day she learns that her friend from the national teams, who’s recruited as well to the same college, had a school assembly for her signing, complete with local press.</p>
<p>Bumping this thread to ask again for any info. on how signing ceremonies operate at your school. </p>
<p>D has talked to our AD several times, but AD was really vague and D has gotten the impression that nothing is planned for this event beyond serving cake. Not that we want or expect a big deal, but it’s just that the signings we’ve heard about were for local/state schools and so the college sent their coach to the ceremony, along with banners and hoopla. In D’s case, no one is coming from her university and so I’m thinking that signing the paper will take D all of a minute. Thus I’m wondering what is supposed to happen for the rest of the allotted time. At the ones you’ve been to, did the AD or high school coach give a little speech about the athlete? If D had coaches who had ever shown the slightest pride or interest in her or her college search, then I’d relax knowing one of them would step up and say something. But since that’s not the case, I have visions of everyone standing around twiddling their thumbs, lol. Well, at least there will be cake…</p>
<p>cake sounds pretty good compared to signing “it” on the kitchen counter, driving to fedex to fax it back and then having her go to sleep, because practice starts at 6am.</p>
<p>I’m grateful that she’s been recognized as a top athlete in her sport, but some cake would have been nice:)</p>
<p>as far as i know our public hs does not do “signing ceremonies” i do know that private hs in our area have ceremonies, complete with student body assemblies and local newspaper reporters. And I know some rural public hs schools that do the same, usually for a football signing:)</p>
<p>The school I worked for, small private prep, signing ceremonies were done for all athletes, whether there was a LOI or not. A press release was sent out by the athletic office. The students sat at a long table and one by one signed their papers. After they signed the paper, they put on a t-shirt and/or cap from their new school. Each coach had a moment or two to say something about the athlete. After all the athletes were done, there was cake and soda. Coaches, parents, school officials, classmates, teammates and a few reporters mingled for a half hour or so. That was about it.</p>
<p>Hi GFG,
At our school there was a signing ceremony in the gym this year for the kids who were ready to go on Feb 3. The ones who signed later did the kitchen table thing. I did see some photos of those private signings posted on our local paper’s high school sports page website. No speeches, no cake, just a picture of the kid in the college sweatshirt and proud parents. I assume the photo was submitted by the parents. </p>
<p>Sorry- it seems like your AD and coach don’t really know how to make this special for your family. Is there someone besides the coach who could talk about her accomplishments? Maybe her favorite teacher or administrator? The teacher could be given a few athletic stats so that would be included, but it seems to me the best things about your daughter probably have more to do with her character and academic accompishments, and that’s why she was admitted to her school of choice :)</p>