Each kind of sport has a number of levels at which sportsmen can play. There is school, university, semi-pro as well as pro level. Each level attracts a certain amount of attention based on how accomplished the players are.

The typical pattern of things is that university talent scouts will watch the high school games to find the players for their respective teams. They will then offer bursaries and scholarships to these players to try to entice them to attend a particular university. This is how most of your universities fill their teams with talent.

Your semi-pro and pro talents scouts will then watch the promising players that are playing university sports. If the player continues to show promise they may find that they are offered a place in a national or regional team when they graduate, sometimes even before they graduate. Being offered a spot in a pro team for any sport is many an athlete’s dream. It is often why they keep playing the sport they have chosen in the first place.

The university games will often get some national television coverage while the school games will most likely only get local coverage. This is because the university players will be potential regional and national players and the talent scouts can then watch the games to spot talent.

It is these talent scouts that lend a more intense atmosphere to the student games than what you would find at school games. Each player holds their future in their hands with each game as they seldom know when the scouts are watching. This does put a lot more pressure on the players which some of the players are not able to handle very well.

The sports levels form a kind of filtering system aimed at creating the best national and regional teams possible in each discipline. Only the best players get into the professional teams.

The vast number of high school players are filtered into university teams. The university teams are filtered into the semi-pro teams and those are filtered into the pro teams.

University sports is a huge step towards getting into a professional sports career. So stick to your guns and do your best.