{"id":33731,"date":"2026-08-02T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/erin-caldwell-signs-for-the-university-of-georgia\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T08:00:00","slug":"erin-caldwell-signs-for-the-university-of-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/academy\/erin-caldwell-signs-for-the-university-of-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Erin Caldwell signs for the University of Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Erin Caldwell has signed a four-year full athletic scholarship with the University of Georgia and will play number three singles for the Bulldogs from September. She arrived at Rowan Hall aged six for a Saturday red-ball group because a school friend went, and she leaves eleven years later on the American college route we recommended to her at sixteen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her story is the one we tell most often to parents who ask why their child has not been moved up a group. Erin was third or fourth in every group she was ever in. Her file from those years is full of technical notes and almost empty of results, and the technical notes are what an American coach asked for by name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"what-the-file-says\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">What the file says<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Twenty-two termly written reviews, going back to 2014. Every stage she moved through was signed off on checkpoints rather than a birthday, and her LTA rating moved from 10.2 to 3.9 without a single stage skipped. Three US coaches read the folder before they watched her play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The written reviews are what got me the scholarship. Six years of them, in one folder.<\/p>\n<cite>Erin Caldwell<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The full story \u2014 the eleven-year pathway, the two years planned backwards from a recruitment calendar, and what Erin and her mother say about the decisions we made along the way \u2014 is on the alumni page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"\/academy\/results-alumni\/erin-caldwell\/\">Read the full alumni story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A full four-year athletic scholarship for a player who was never the strongest in her group at fourteen, and what her file says about how we coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":32816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_spx_person_id":0,"_spx_fixture_id":0,"_spx_pick_id":0,"_spx_eg_facts_label":"","_spx_eg_facts":"","_spx_figure_caption":"","_spx_news_feat":"","_spx_video_url":"","_spx_duration":"","_spx_views":"","_spx_presenter":"","_spx_media_state":"","_spx_start_at":"","_spx_media_status":"","_spx_episode":"","_spx_subject":"","_spx_subject_role":"","_spx_story_year":"","_spx_duration_seconds":0,"_spx_view_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[133,285],"spx_comp":[],"spx_fixture_ref":[],"spx_series":[],"spx_format":[],"spx_video_kind":[],"spx_show":[],"spx_sport":[],"spx_flag":[],"class_list":["post-33731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","tag-assessment","tag-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33731"},{"taxonomy":"spx_comp","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_comp?post=33731"},{"taxonomy":"spx_fixture_ref","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_fixture_ref?post=33731"},{"taxonomy":"spx_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_series?post=33731"},{"taxonomy":"spx_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_format?post=33731"},{"taxonomy":"spx_video_kind","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_video_kind?post=33731"},{"taxonomy":"spx_show","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_show?post=33731"},{"taxonomy":"spx_sport","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_sport?post=33731"},{"taxonomy":"spx_flag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_flag?post=33731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}