{"id":7239,"date":"2011-05-30T18:16:11","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T22:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7239"},"modified":"2011-05-30T18:20:43","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T22:20:43","slug":"organization-gives-student-athletes-a-second-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7239","title":{"rendered":"Organization Gives Student-Athletes A Second Chance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY LEON B. CREWS<br \/>\nSentinel Staff Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In January of this year, <strong>Ricky Sailor<\/strong> founded an organization called Unsigned Preps. His mission is to help high school athletes in their efforts to succeed.<br \/>\n\u201cA lot of kids don\u2019t get scholarships, and I want to make sure they at least have an opportunity to attend college.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy personal journey took me from West Tampa to Texas Tech University and now I\u00edm trying to find a kid to take the same journey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sailor<\/strong> said working with <strong>Tyrone Keys<\/strong> and his organization, All Sports Community Services, Unsigned Preps has helped more than 70 kids nationwide to attend college.<br \/>\n\u201cThe new program I\u2019ve started with the help of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers is a preparation session with kids who have already gotten scholarships. I want to give them the tools they need to be successful. While they are in college, the support will still be there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sailor <\/strong>collaborated with <strong>Eric Vance<\/strong>, Tampa Bay Buccaneers player development, to devise a program to benefit college bound high school student-athletes. Seniors from Hillsborough, Pinellas and Pasco Counties participated in a one day symposium.<\/p>\n<p>The curriculum was designed to promote awareness and ease the difficult transition from high school to college as well as tackle common challenges faced by numerous collegiate level athletes.<\/p>\n<p>The program deals with real life issues which often arise and adversely impact many college football players.<\/p>\n<p>Unsigned Preps is looking forward to expanding and creating many future partnerships which enable them to continue annual programs and events to uplift youth, athletes and more importantly, the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY LEON B. CREWS Sentinel Staff Writer In January of this year, Ricky Sailor founded an organization called Unsigned Preps. His mission is to help high school athletes in their efforts to succeed. \u201cA lot of kids don\u2019t get scholarships, and I want to make sure they at least have an opportunity to attend college.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}