David Hourin

Level Playing Field David Hourin

"College is not a four-year decision. It's a forty-year decision."The top-ranked colleges in the United States offer pathways to professional and financial success. For high school student-athletes, the way to attend these highly-competitive schools is by securing admission as a recruited athlete. Level Playing Field: How Sports Offer Access to America's Best Colleges is a training manual that will provide student-athletes of all sports with a framework of what they can do right now to use their athletic ability to get recruited by top-tier academic institutions across the country. The guide busts myths about recruiting and college athletics. Readers will learn about colleges, camps, and connections to opportunities they may not have known are available to them. No matter where you are in the recruiting process, this helpful tool will provide students and parents with mindset shifts and behavioral commitments that they can put into action right away. At the end, readers will come away with a better understanding of the steps they can take to achieve admission to an esteemed higher education institution with an offer to play NCAA athletics. Author David Hourin has spent years researching college athletic recruiting, speaking with hundreds of coaches at Ivy League recruit camps. He's worked with dozens of high school student-athletes, connecting them with top colleges like University of Chicago and Kenyon College. David played football at Lake Travis High School in Austin, Texas, where he was a member of multiple state championship teams. He was recruited to play football at Williams College in western Massachusetts, ranked the #1 liberal arts college in the United States according to U. S. News and World Report. Upon graduating from Williams in 2018, David was recruited by McDonald's Corp. to join the first class of its leadership development program. He now works as a restaurant consultant for McDonald's in Southern California.