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To: RockyTx
HUNH?

What do you mean by that? A "walk-on"?

She is listed as a "team manager", which sounds like a bench warmer to me. Oh and something about cheering the team on during home games, but isn't that what cheerleaders do?

43 posted on 03/20/2019 9:13:28 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons

A walk on is a student athlete at a D1 or D2 school who is not receiving athletic scholarship money and therefore has not signed what is known as a National Letter of Intent. Some walk ons make it on the team through tryouts. Many, though, are recruited in high school and promised a roster spot; there simply may not be enough scholarship money to go around. Depending on the school, the sport, the college coach, etc., these “preferred walk ons” often get a leg up in the admissions process because they are being recruited to play a sport.


45 posted on 03/20/2019 10:18:37 PM PDT by Atticus
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