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addressing the needs of our Youth and planting the seeds for a secure future. |
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Canadian Junior Golf Association, 39 Riviera Drive, Unit 12, Markham, Ontario L3R 8N4 w Telephone: 905-947-1411 w 1-877-508-1069 w Fax: 905-947-9734 website: www.cjga.com w email: info@cjga.com |
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CJGA Develops New Tools to Help You Reach The Next Level by Brent Long |
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Canadian Junior Golf Association members will be a stroke up on the competition when it comes to scholarship and educational opportunities thanks to the association’s new web portal being launched this spring. In an effort to give the CJGA and its members a higher profile among college and university coaches across North America and more bang for their buck, the new web portal on www.cjga.com will allow members to post in depth information about themselves including video messages or video swing analysis for coaches to access and review in their pursuit of recruiting student athletes. |
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“This could be a big help absolutely,” says 16year-old Scott Lowe who enters his last year of high school in Calgary this fall and is hopeful of landing a golf scholarship. “Anyway they can help make it easier for a Canadian to make contact with these coaches and schools is a positive move and should open doors down the road.” Lowe faces the challenges most teenagers looking for a scholarship are left with – researching schools on line, analyzing team results, studying background info about the coaches, learning about educational programs, making geographical decisions, trying to figure out which coaches to contact, creating a resume, emailing it off to coaches and then trying to contact coaches personally in an effort to establish a relationship with them. “I have been looking at some NCAA Division One and Division Three schools as well as University of Victoria and University of British Columbia, which are in the NAIA,” says the CJGA member. “There are lots of good schools out there.” He’s learned that a lot of American college coaches look primarily at AJGA and US junior results and don’t give a lot of weight to CJGA, Future Links or other provincial or national championships. |
