Obscure American university for sports scholarship?

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DD is 15 and is one of the top people in her age group nationally at a particular sport. It's pretty unlikely that she'll "go professional" or make any serious money from it, but she has the opportunity to get a full sports scholarship to a US university, where she would compete at the NCAA level. This would include rent/living costs as well as tuition fees, and would mean that she would graduate debt free (which she certainly wouldn't in the UK!) so it seems like an incredible offer.

My only concern is that the particular universities that are good for her sport, are not well-known in the UK. As it is pretty likely that she'll return to the UK afterwards, I'm wondering if having a degree from an institute no-one here has heard of would affect her job prospects.

She's not Oxbridge material, but she's reasonably bright and I'm pretty sure that she would be able to get into universities of the Exeter/Warwick calibre. If she goes to the US, she's looking at colleges such as Baylor (in Texas) and Louisville (in Kentucky).

the campus itself was dry meaning that no alcohol was allowed on site (including the dorms).

This is common in the US, and not just in church-affiliated universities. The drinking age in the US is 21. Most dorm residents are not of legal drinking age.

Agree with Seneca, most colleges are mostly dry. The drinking age is 21. Obviously people drink before that but not legally - no college bar, no beer and wine at college events, etc. I'm on my third year of college tours with my last high school kid and I have never come across a dorm that wasn't dry.