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College Vision and Loudoun Prep Sports Partner to Offer the Student Athlete of the Month Program


College Vision of Purcellville and Loudoun Prep Sports have partnered to offer a Student Athlete of the Month program which will start with the release of the January 2007 honorees on the www.loudounprepsports.com website.

College Vision is a new business that helps high school students and their parents through the college admissions and selections process.

"We are excited to offer this new program with College Vision which will highlight those athletes that not only play a varsity sport but also excel in the classroom and community as well," said Loudoun Prep Sports editor Dan Sousa.

Like the popular Velocity Sports Performance Athlete of the Month program which has been running on the Loudoun Prep Sports website since March 2006, the College Vision Student Athlete of the Month program will feature a photo shoot of those athletes selected.

Every month one student athlete will be selected from each of the 10 Loudoun high schools from those nominated by coaches, teachers, parents and teammates.

About College Vision

College Vision was established by Randy Trombly and Mark Stavish, two former successful senior executives in Human Resources at AOL, to help parents successfully get their high school students on-track for getting into college.

"As our own children started going through the college application process we realized, that with our HR backgrounds, we could pull together a highly-qualified team of college admissions "coaches" who could each work individually with area students and their parents, who were in desperate need of an experienced ‘partner’ to assist them in the all-important college planning and admissions process," said Trombly.

Trombly said for most families the college admissions process is complicated, time-consuming, and often confusing. Families may sometimes wait too late in the process to get started.

"We will often hear that people didn't get serious about the college admissions planning process until a child's junior year, and then through sad experience, they learn that study habits, grades, and extracurricular activities weren’t good enough to get him into the college of choice," said Trombly. "The truth is that most parents need to get themselves, and their students, serious about it by the eighth or ninth grade."

College Vision has built a model in which parents and students can have there own personal college admissions coaches to help them over all the hurdles.

"College Vision uses the ‘top-of-the-line’ Sylvan Skills Assessment Tool as a first step in charting the path for your son or daughter’s exceptional Future," said Trombly.

Sylvan Learning has been one of the nation’s ‘premier’ Tutoring Companies for more than 25 years their powerful Academic Assessment Tool allows College Vision to get a detailed profile of a child's individual academic strengths and needs. These specific academic needs are captured through this unique combination of standardized tests, diagnostic tools, personal interviews, and even vision and hearing screening.

"This assessment is required for each of our new freshmen, sophomore, or junior student clients and the entire cost of this initial assessment is covered under a contract with College Vision," said Trombly.

The results serve as a blueprint for College Vision to use to determine where a child needs the most help. From this, College Vision will work with the student to develop the most personalized college planning program possible

Parents will also receive a few "coaching suggestions" to reinforce College Vision's efforts including:

Things Mom can do
Things Dad can do
Improving a student's study habits
How much time should be devoted to homework daily
A list of helpful books, website and other resource for parents
College Vision has also developed a comprehensive program to assist student athletes in pursuing their interest in playing sports at the college or university level.

"Students who want to play competitive sports at the college or university level need to factor this into their college search," said Trombly. "While talented student athletes can certainly benefit from having their college tuition, room and board, and other costs covered by athletic scholarships, the reality is that the process is extremely competitive, complicated by strict rules and regulations, and often ‘over-the-heads’ of most parents and their high school students."

College Vision develops a ‘College Marketing Package’ that’s customized for student athletes as well as developing a special ‘Summer Camp Strategy’ that’s designed to enhance a student's athletic skills while also optimizing their credentials for playing at the college level.

"We will even make recommendations for your student’s individualized training and conditioning needs," said Trombly. "Furthermore we will develop a ‘networking strategy’ that will provide direction in regards to: ‘Who to meet?’ ‘Where to visit?’ ‘Which contacts to nurture?’ and ‘Which contacts to get recommendations from?’"

For more information visit the College Vision website at www.mycollegevision.com or contact College Vision at info@mycollegevision.com or call 703-431-7977.