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In any sport, the key to being recruited is being informed. By taking advantage articles provided by Hockey-Recruiting.com and beRecruited.com, you are already better prepared than your competitors – improving your chances of being recruited and earning a NCAA Hockey scholarship. So read the below college recruiting articles (many of which have been internationally published both online and in print) and earn your scholarship today.

The key to improving your college recruiting and scholarship chances is being informed. Understand the landscape of your sport on a high school and NCAA level and begin to understand where you fit within that landscape. Do you fit in best in Division I, II, or III softball? And how do your athletic goals fit within that? Do you have strong geographic preferences and how will that impact your college choices?

As you begin to develop and mature academically and athletically, consider your current skill-sets and where you intend to be as a high-school graduate and as a college-graduate. Understanding your personal, athletic, and academic interests and skills is crucially important as you enter the college recruiting process.

Begin collecting information and data about universities, teams, and coaches as early as you can because this is an integral step in setting the academic, athletic and collegiate goals that will guide you through the college recruiting process.

You can find complete Hockey statistics for division I, II, and III Hockey online at http://www.ncaasports.com. How do those stats compare to yours? What do you need to improve to match statistics and what are the various team's strengths and weaknesses?

While determining which teams might be good fits for your abilities and talents, study the conferences and division layouts. Polls / rankings are published during and after the seasons -- these polls are excellent ways to study the landscape of NCAA Hockey. Take a look at the NCAA Hockey College World Series history and results for all divisions:

About the NCAA Frozen Four - NCAA Hockey Championship

The NCAA Frozen Four is the trademarked name of the final two rounds of the NCAA Division I championship of ice hockey in the USA. Schools advance in a single-elimination tournament from four regional sites to a single site, where the national semifinals and final game are played. The NCAA started a women's Frozen Four beginning in the 2000-01 season.

The 2006 men's version will take place at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The 2005 women's version took place at the University of New Hampshire's Whittemore Center in Durham, New Hampshire. The 2005 Patty Kazmaier Award was handed out during the women's Frozen Four.

The 2005 men's semifinals, at Value City Arena on the campus of The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, pitted defending champion Denver against Colorado College and Minnesota against North Dakota. Denver defeated North Dakota in the championship game to win their second straight National Championship. The 2005 women's final matched defending champion Minnesota with 2004 runnerup Harvard, with the Gophers successfully defending their title with a 4-3 win.

The Frozen Four, though not called as such, began in 1948 when Michigan defeated Dartmouth. The first 10 championships were played at the Broadmoor Arena in Colorado Springs, Colo.. Since then, sites rotate as chosen by the NCAA Division I ice hockey committee. The tournament was first referred to as the "Frozen Four" in 1999, and previous tournaments were retroactively renamed.

The Frozen Four regularly sells out well in advance, helping make the Division I men's ice hockey tournament one of the most profitable for the NCAA, trailing only the Division I men's basketball tournament.

The semifinals of the Frozen Four were once played on Thursday and Friday, with the championship on Saturday. But it provided an unfair advantage for the team with the extra rest. The semifinal games are now played in separate sessions on Thursday, with a championship game on Saturday. The Hobey Baker Award ceremony, Hockey Humanitarian Award ceremony, and USCHO.com Town Hall Meeting take place annually on Friday of Frozen Four weekend.

Future NCAA Frozen Four sites

Men:

* 2006: Bradley Center (Milwaukee, WI)
* 2007: Savvis Center (St. Louis, MO)
* 2008: Pepsi Center (Denver, CO)

Women:

* 2006: Mariucci Arena (Minneapolis, MN)
* 2007: Olympic Center (Lake Placid, NY)