Sentence examples for a professional draft from inspiring English sources

The aim of this study was to determine speed characteristics of high-level American female soccer players and evaluate if speed could distinguish between players selected (n = 56) and those not selected (n = 84) in a professional draft.

The coach who had never lost an underclassman to the professional draft suddenly had three turn aside the potential of a Duke degree for the professional ranks.

"One and done" freshmen — or players who have no interest in college and are enrolling only until they turn 19 and become eligible for the professional draft — have been a hot topic in the runup to this weekend's Final Four.

Jamal Crawford has been suspended from Michigan for writing a letter making himself available for the professional draft while still in high school.

The auction on Tuesday, held in a heavily secured ballroom at the Rashid Hotel in Baghdad's Green Zone, was reminiscent of a professional sports draft lottery.

The union also proposed the creation of a professional player draft in which a certain number of teams that finished at the bottom in the won-lost or revenue standing, or both, would each get to pluck one player from a certain number of teams that finished at the top of those standings.

During the 1980's, between 5 and 14 players a year left college early to enter the professional draft or went right from high school to the pros.

Should they remain in college or declare for the professional draft?

By nightfall, the first seven rounds of the professional draft had been completed, six quarterbacks had been taken.

The elites can always call on a professional, non-draft military, augmented by hordes of privatized hire-a-gun outfits, themselves so isolated from society at large that they've almost become the equivalent of foreign legionnaires.

The package includes proposals on organied competition before an athlete enters college, entering professional drafts, signing contracts and competing with professionals.