<p>How readily available are women's tennis scholarships? Are they possible for a good local player, or do you need a regional or national ranking?</p>
<p>This is based on my limited knowledge of NCAA sports due to my brother's football experience several years ago.</p>
<p>Since tennis is not a 'money-making' sport at most universities, I would say that scholarships would be very limited. Due to that limitation, if they are offered at all I would assume that you would have to be nationally ranked, or placed well in statewide or bigger tournaments.</p>
<p>Hope that helps, and take it with a grain of salt!</p>
<p>I just thought that maybe because of Title IX, women's teams would have some scholarship opportunities:</p>
<p>From a government publication:</p>
<p>Title IX: Student Participation in Athletics</p>
<p>In the assessment of the "interests and abilities" portion of the Title IX regulations, a three part test governs. As the name suggests, this test consists of three separate and distinct parts. All that is required under Title IX is that an institution be in compliance with one part of that test. No one part of the test is the predominant or "true" measure of compliance. The three parts of the test are:</p>
<p>Part One: Substantial Proportionality. This part of the test is satisfied when participation opportunities for men and women are "substantially proportionate" to their respective undergraduate enrollments.
Part Two: History and Continuing Practice. This part of the test is satisfied when an institution has a history and continuing practice of program expansion that is responsive to the developing interests and abilities of the underrepresented sex (typically female).
Part Three: Effectively Accommodating Interests and Abilities. This part of the test is satisfied when an institution is meeting the interests and abilities of its female students even where there are disproportionately fewer females than males participating in sports.</p>
<p>Bump please!</p>
<p>Title IX has driven a lot more athletic opportunities for women ... most schools, especially schools with football teams, have more women's sports teams than men's sports teams. For most schools "major" sports such women's basketball have bigger allotments of scholarships ... while "minor" sports, such as tennis, have fewer and often split a few scholarships among many students. More than likely if you are a junior or senior you'd have a pretty good idea already if you're in the hunt for a scholarship ... and yes you probably need to be nationally ranked or be pretty close. I'd suggest checking the web sites of lots of Division I teams ... often the rosters provide the backgrounds of players and you can see how good the top few players (the ones who might have a scholarship) were when they played junior tennis. It also never hurts to proactively contact college coaches ... their response will quickly let you know if you are in the hunt for their program or not.</p>
<p>Thanks for the good idea, 3togo. My daughter is actually only in 8th grade and playing tennis about 3 years, my son is the college freshman. I pretty much see how need and merit money work now. I just wondered how good she needed to get to be in the running for scholarship money!</p>
<p>does she play USTA tournaments? If so, what level? DR?SR? Level 4.. ?</p>
<p>She has not played USTA tournaments yet, just local club tournaments. Some kids at her club do travel to these tournaments, though. I guess that is something we should look into?</p>
<p>Yes, so your daughter gets a ranking.</p>
<p>Thanks, we'll look into it.</p>
<p>interested in info about tennis scholarship- my daughter is eastern ranked top 30 in each age division she played and ranked top 400 nationally; she’s a sophomore and has made the dean’s list every quarter in H.S with a 93-94 average in all subjects; what are her chances of a tennis scholarship in div 1 or financial help/academic scholarship for tennis player at div 2 or 3</p>