How do sport scholarships work?

Scholarships to US universities are given out to student athletes who excel in their certain sport as well as obtain good academic results. A scholarship is a percentage of tuition fees that will be covered by the university. This percentage is worked out by the sports coach who is interested in you as coaches are given a set budget every season to distribute throughout their team. Scholarship amounts have a wide range and can vary from a full scholarship (where the university would cover all the fees), to a percentage scholarship (where a percentage of the fees are covered by the university the rest by the student).