One of the most exciting things for a student-athlete is receiving a verbal scholarship offer. Years of hard-work and dedication led to that moment of you receiving your first scholarship. As signing day approaches, student-athletes must make smart, rational decisions to stay out of trouble and set themselves up in the best case to be successful in the following years. For each sport there is a "National Signing Day", for example D1 basketball is from April 17 to May 15 and D1 football is from February 6 to April 1. There are signing days for every other sports and division, for example the regular deadline for every other D1, D2 and D3 sport besides football and basketball goes from November 14 to August 1. You cannot sign a NLI at any D3 schools because they don't have them. The NLI program is a guarantee of an athletic scholarship and D3 colleges do not have athletic scholarships. Although it is not mandatory, nothing is official until the student-athlete signs the NLI or National Letter of Intent. Signing the NLI means that the student-athlete's journey is over and he is committed to that specific university. As the NLI is signed your college career becomes official, you have made the final step in your journey as a high school student-athlete. In some rare cases, the student-athlete will leave high school early to go to their committed college, the usually train at the college and live there for a few months before their season starts.
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