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Helping high school athletes get their big breaks

By Devlin Smith

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It's every high school athlete's dream to be recruitedby a big-time school, but to do that, he or she has to get noticed.Enter Orlando, Florida-based Options Sports Group, an online yellowpages of student athletes. Franchisees enroll athletes for the Website, filling in scholastic and athletic details about eachstudent. The franchise then uploads the information onto thestudent's personal page for college and university coaches toview.

Some of Options Sports Group's franchisees are formercollege and professional athletes and coaches who see a majorbenefit for the athletes participating in this Web listing.

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