Charlie Adams

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College Athletics Scholarships Expert

Charlie Adams Quick Facts

Main Areas: Guiding families through the process of getting College Athletics Scholarships, setting the tone at Corporate events with the motivational presentation "Stoke the Fire Within"
Career Focus: Senior National Speaker
Affiliation: NCSA Athletic Recruiting Network, Chicago

Charlie Adams is Senior National Speaker for National Collegiate Scouting Association. He is a national expert at helping young people earn College Athletics and Athletics/Academic Scholarhips. Adams brings 23 years of experience covering high school athletes who reached their dream of playing college sports. Adams was an award winning sportscaster at television stations in South Bend, IN, New Orleans, LA, Bakersfield, CA, and Meridian, MS.

Adams personally covered and interviewed over two thousand athletes who went on to play at the college level in football, basketball, volleyball, softball, soccer, baseball, golf, swimming, cross country and other sports. He also observed countless quality student-athletes that failed to play college sports because they and their families did not know how to navigate the recruiting trail.

As a NCSA Educational Speaker, Adams has a passion for inspiring and educating athletes to succeed in finding the perfect match in college sports. As a sports anchor across America, he covered D1, D1-A, D2, D3, NAIA and Junior College sports and saw first hand what a remarkable experience college sports can be at all levels.

He has delivered keynotes on this subject to thousands of people in such locations as Fairbanks, Baton Rouge, Nashville, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Youngstown, Indianapolis, Chicago, the Cayman Islands, Newark, Louisville, southern California and Bradenton, FL.

Adams is the author of "Stoke the Fire Within." The book reveals the inner fire that is vital for athletes to make it to the next level. As a sportscaster, Adams personally interviewed high achievers such as Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Coach Pat Summitt, Olympic gold medal swimmer Lindsay Benko, Jerome Bettis, and Larry Bird. He delivers peak performance keynotes and breakouts to companies and organizations based on the insights from the book.