How to Write an Athletic Resume for Colleges
A resume that highlights your athletic ability may be necessary to apply for college athletic scholarships. Athletic scholarships are highly competitive, and your resume and other application materials will need to demonstrate to the scholarship committee that you're up for the challenge of being a successful full-time college athlete and a successful full-time college student. Because you'll be required to be both an athlete and a student, your resume will need to show that you're capable of handling many responsibilities and roles at one time.
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Type your name, address, phone number and e-mail address at the top of your resume.
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Create a section for your athletic achievements. This should include each sport you've participated in, your role on the team, which years you participated, major events you competed in and any awards or honors you received. This is no time to be modest. List all your achievements related to athletics.
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Create a section to list your academic achievements. This will demonstrate to the scholarship committee that you're able to be a successful athlete and student at the same time. Include your course of study, such as college prep or advanced placement, your grade point average and SAT score, any academic awards or honors you've received and your honor roll standing. Include relevant dates and list the longest-term achievement first on your resume.
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Add a section for your school and community involvement. This will show that you're able to handle many responsibilities at once. School involvement includes student council membership, memberships or participation in clubs, peer tutoring experience and school-related volunteer work. Community involvement includes non-school-related volunteer work, active membership in organizations and being involved with your church or community center. If you have more than three items to list in school and community involvement, you can list them as separate sections.
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Add a section for conferences and workshops in which you've participated. This would include events such as football workshops or student council retreats. For each item, include the affiliated organization, school or company, the location and the date.
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List your skills in a skills section. This should include any special skills you have that would set you apart as a candidate for an athletic scholarship. You could include sports you participate in that your school doesn't have a team for, such as snowboarding or swimming, languages you speak fluently, or certifications, such as first-aid certification.
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List your work experience in the next section. This should include part-time positions and internships. This further demonstrates that you're able to handle many responsibilities and roles at once, as a college athlete is expected to do. Include your title, the company, the location, your dates of employment and a few bullet points that describe your main responsibilities.
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Create a section to list your career plans. The scholarship committee will want to see that you're committed to a future career and are willing to work hard at school to get there. Start by explaining your immediate career goals, such as obtaining a degree in business and marketing and obtaining a position in a marketing firm. Then, list your long-term career goals, such as opening your own marketing firm.
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