Introduction If you are not helping your student-athletes find a list of suitable schools they should be aiming for in the recruiting process, you are not doing enough to put them into a successful position. High school student-athletes can sometimes struggle with motivation, especially when it comes to off-the-field activities like studying or recruiting. By
Club sports organizations are tasked with the difficult assignment of providing recruiting assistance for their families. While there is no way to account for every twist and turn the recruiting process offers, there are some things that clubs can attempt to avoid when thinking about how to help their student-athletes. Here are three traps that
In “The Importance of Video,” Part 3 of our 4-part Webinar Series “Engineering the Recruiting Process,” Sports Recruits Co-Founder Matt Wheeler discussed how vital video is to a successful recruiting process. In the Webinar, he touches upon how video has grown to become a necessity in the process, how having highlight reels and full games drive engagement with college coaches and how a proper distribution plan is a key to the process that often goes overlooked. You can watch the video below, and also read some of the interesting takeaways from the presentation.
Club staffers may be doing a disservice to their student-athletes in a critical area. In today's club sports world, it feels like there are more showcases, camps and tournaments than days on the calendar. In this competitive recruiting landscape, this is a good thing. Now for the bad news: The time leading up to events
Families have high recruiting expectations from clubs, and these can be met by implementing tools to empower athletes to act on their own while tangible support from the club can be felt along the way.
For the second consecutive year, SportsRecruits sent a survey to its members on club teams. The goal was to gain insight into the thought processes of these families as they relate to their club sports experience, as well as expand on some of the things that were learned in the previous year.
Though club sports are membership entities by definition, there is much that can be learned from this economic trend. This paper discusses the multitude of benefits imbued by this new paradigm and the ways clubs can capitalize on it.
The youth sports industry may be entering a new phase of development. Spending patterns are changing; sentiment around sports specialization is a hotly debated topic; the explosive growth of the previous development era may be coming to an end. What has caused these changes? And what impact will they have on the future of club sports? This paper examines these pressing trends.
The job of a recruiting coordinator (or coaches) in a club organization is very difficult and time consuming. One of the biggest pain-points when trying to help student-athletes through the recruiting process is motivating them to get involved.
In “Best Practices,” Part 1 of our “Integrated Club Webinar Series,” SportsRecruits Co-Founder Matt Wheeler discussed how having a technology platform can alleviate many of the stresses facing a club organization today.
