How to Benefit from the NCSA Athletic Recruiting Network and Your Athletic Profile – Unverified NCSA Members

With athletic recruiting taking place heavily online, student-athletes striving to play sports in college should have an online athletic profile with film posted for college coaches to start evaluating them. Online profiles allow college coaches the opportunity to find student-athletes from across the country without using any of their recruiting budgets for travel.

Over 42,000 college coaches across the country are in the NCSA College Recruiting database, and while they are searching for recruits, recruits are searching and researching their athletic programs for roster spots. With an NCSA athletic profile, student-athletes not only have the ability to post their profiles for college coaches to view, but they also have many tools and benefits to get assistance throughout the recruiting process and education on NCAA rules and much more.

There are two types of student-athletes that utilize the NCSA College Recruiting Network: verified and unverified prospects. Each have very similar tools in the NCSA Recruiting Management System (RMS), but verified members have more extensive access and more personalized attention from the NCSA staff of over 300 former college athletes and coaches. To get verified, you must go through an evaluation with a NCSA National Scout. Click here to start the process and to fill out an NCSA athletic profile if you don’t already have one!

NCSA Tools and Benefits for Unverified Members:

Dashboard

• This is your home page and shows:
  • Your recruiting “Action List” which tells you what you should be doing right now
  • Your Profile completion status

College Search Map

• Search for colleges based on criteria you set such as geographic location, enrollment size and major
• Helps you identify schools that are right for you

Roster Openings and Coach Requests

• You will be able to see what roster spots college coaches are looking to fill. To contact coaches, you will need to get evaluated by NCSA.

College Coach Views

• Shows that your profile is being viewed and how many times; however, instead of seeing the coaches’ names and college names, you will only see what Division level and state they are from

Favorites

• Track your top college choices!

Unverified Athletic Profile

• Start your own athletic profile to send to college coaches, including information such as:
  • Unverified Stats/Measurables
  • Personal Statement
  • Team History
  • Academics (with transcript upload)
  • You also can upload one YouTube video for coaches to evaluate

Roadmap

• Each quarter of your high school career, the roadmap tells you where you should be in the recruiting process and what you should be working on in athletics, academics and recruiting.

Recruiting Classes

• Access a limited number of webinars to get educated on the recruiting process

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