5 D2 Overlooked Schools

Alex Swenson profiles five Division II schools—Wingate, Point Loma Nazarene, Bentley, Colorado School of Mines, and Grand Valley State—where partial athletic scholarships combined with academic aid can match Division I packages. His Recruit Ready Challenge, a 30-day program, has helped over 1,000 athletes get recruited.
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Here are the 5 best D2 schools nobody talks about and that have happier students than a lot of D1 schools. And if you want real traction with schools like these, that's exactly why I built the Recruit Ready Challenge, a 30-day plan that gets your athlete organized, visible, and coach ready. It's helped over 1,000 athletes play in college. The doors are open right now. They close September 30th, and we get started together on October 1st. Comment recruit and I'll send you the link. All right, number 5, Wingate University, just outside of Charlotte, the second best athletic department in all of Division II last year, and most families outside of North Carolina have never heard of it. Number 4, Point Loma Nazarene in San Diego, a campus on the ocean, top 10 regional university on the West Coast, and their women's soccer team just won the national championship. Number 3, Bentley outside of Boston, a top business school, and their athletes had the highest graduation rate in all Division II 7 years in a row. That's where you want your student athlete for the next for years. Number 2, Colorado School of Mines. One of our athletes from the Challenge just committed here. The number 1 academic school in all Division II. The football team wears their majors on their helmet and they played for a national title. More academic All-Americans than any DII school behind MIT, Stanford, and Johns Hopkins. And number 1, Grand Valley State in Michigan. The best athletic department in Division II, 6 years in a row, 18 titles overall, a record. They don't have a good year, they have a good decade. And here's what most families miss. D2 partial scholarships stack up with academic money. That total package can beat D1 offers and your athlete can actually play there. Stop chasing the logo, start studying fit. These are the 5 of the 500 inside the Challenge. Comment recruit. Doors close September 30th. We start together on October 1st. See you soon.
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