Stefan J Collins
American Sports Coach
Stefan J Collins is a journalist from Manchester, England who played American football for Buena Vista University between January 2018 and December 2021. Collins graduated with a bachelor’s degree in sports management and marketing. As a student athlete, he also discovered his passion for writing and journalism through a part-time job working for the University's newspaper where he won numerous awards for his work. Collins has stated that the experience transformed his world view, afforded him an elite standard of education, introduced him to friends who he will have for the rest of his life and opened doors to countless career opportunities. His pathway for playing college football in the United States was paved by the British American Football powerhouse, the Filton Pride in Bristol. Collins stated that during his final year with The Pride he enjoyed playing his sport and he enjoyed his academic classes but it was also one of the most stressful times of his life because he was trying to market himself to NCAA college coaches and find a place to study in America for the next academic year. He did ultimately succeed in this goal and received numerous scholarship offers, one of which he did sign. But Collins believes that the process could have been much easier with the proper guidance and knowledge and used this experience as the inspiration for writing Stateside throughout 2024 and 2025. Collins lives in his hometown in Manchester, England where he works as a personal trainer, helping athletes improve their explosiveness and athletic performance at Puregym in Bury. He plays golf, baseball and American football recreationally.
Did you ever dream about being a professional athlete when you were younger? Did
you think about how cool it would be to play in a big stadium with thousands of fans screaming your name? Did you ever watch one of those American movies set in a university and think to yourself ‘it’d be so cool to go to college in America.’ If your answer to those questions is yes, then this book can help turn that dream into a reality. Throughout the course of stateside, former NCAA American Football player, Stefan Collins gives an in depth breakdown of every detail you need to be aware of if you are to, first and foremost, earn a scholarship (covering all of the expensive tuition fees) to attend a university in the United States and then succeed both academically and athletically. Collins shares every detail of what being an international student athlete is like, detailing his experiences in securing a scholarship and the four years he spent as a Stateside collegiate athlete, covering both the glamorous details and the enduring work needed to play college sports and earn a degree from a prestigious American University. Several other prominent British athletes across sports such as Tennis, Golf, Basketball, Football and American Football also share their stories and outline how they ended up playing college sports in America and how it transformed their lives in the most positive way imaginable. There is no reason why any young athlete reading this can’t enjoy the same experience and then leave with the highly employable skills necessary to succeed in life after college. Getting yourself recruited by prominent college teams can seem like such a daunting and overwhelming task that you’re not sure of where to begin. How about page one of Stateside?