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How Parents Can Use NCSA

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NCSA is where college recruiting happens. For more than 20 years, we’ve grown to be the world’s largest recruiting network, helping over 300,000 student-athletes get recruited. Our network gives student-athletes access to over 40,000 college coaches from schools across the country, roster openings in 35 sports and the opportunity to pursue their dream of competing at the college level.

The NCSA experience starts with a free recruiting profile, but our recruiting resources don’t stop there. Learn how NCSA can help you and your athlete navigate the college recruiting process.

Table of Contents

  • How NCSA helps student-athletes 
  • How parents can access their athlete’s NCSA profile
  • How NCSA gets you the most exposure to college coaches 
  • NCSA college recruiting tools and digital recruiting technology
  • Can NCSA help get my athlete a scholarship? 
  • How does NCSA work with college coaches? 
  • What parents have to say about NCSA 
  • Check out an ncsa workshop

How NCSA helps student-athletes 

Our team has experienced the recruiting process firsthand, both personally and professionally. And when you combine our expertise with our digital recruiting resources and tools, you’ll see that we’re able to guide you through the recruiting process like no one else can. 

Check out our navigating NCSA video series for a rundown on how to make the most of NCSA’s products and features.

How parents can access their athlete’s NCSA profile   

When setting up your athlete’s NCSA profile, create a username and password that both you and your athlete can use to access the account.

How NCSA gets you the most exposure to college coaches 

Recruiting starts digitally, with college coaches using recruiting networks like NCSA to find new talent starting as early as 8th grade.

The best way to get exposure is to create an NCSA Recruiting Profile, where they’ll add athletic stats, highlight video, academic information, and more for college coaches to review.

Coaches will use this information to determine if they want to add your athlete to their list of prospective student-athletes. As coaches are searching our network, we’ll notify your athlete each week of any coach activity on their profile. 

Attending camps is also a great way to get evaluated by college coaches in person. Our team can help you and your athlete research camps and select which ones to attend based on your sport, location, budget and recruiting goals. You can search our list of camps, combines and other events to find opportunities near you here.   

NCSA college recruiting tools and digital recruiting technology   

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Since our inception, we have been committed to providing student-athletes access to top college recruiting tools and resources, including: 

  • NCSA Recruiting Profile: Add your athletic stats, highlight video, academic information, personal statement, college preferences and more to make it easy for coaches to evaluate you as a recruit.     
  • Coach Activity Report: A Coach Activity Report lists coaches who have viewed your student-athlete’s profile and searched for their information. This tool allows athletes the ability to see which programs are most interested in them as they narrow down their list of target schools.  
  • Message Center: Coach contact information is available through the NCSA Recruit Match platform, so you don’t have to waste time searching the internet for emails and phone numbers. Keep all your recruiting communication organized in one place. You can also create and manage custom email templates that can be edited with the help of a Recruiting Coach and sort incoming college coach messages by camp invites, requests and more. 
  • NCSA Match: Based on your preferences, recruiting evaluation, skill level and academics, we’ll match your student-athlete with a list of colleges that offer the best fit. This can be a huge time saver for families who are already busy balancing everyday responsibilities.
  • College Search: Easily filter through schools based on specific athletic, academic and college fit criteria. Check out this video for a demo of how to use the College Search to filter through athletic programs at schools across the country.
  • Recruiting education: We believe in providing free recruiting resources to student-athletes, which is why we offer free online workshops that cover relevant topics to help keep you on track. Join an upcoming workshop to set up an effective recruiting game plan, learn how to get on a coach’s radar and effectively communicate with college programs to succeed in college recruiting
  • Recruiting Experts: Our team of experts can guide you like no one else can. We share a passion for helping student-athletes, and we’re ready to be your biggest fan and advocate.

View a full list of features here.

Can NCSA help get my athlete a scholarship? 

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We work with high school athletes and their families every step of the way through the recruiting process, including their search for an athletic scholarship.

We help families like yours determine your college cost budget, research different scholarship opportunities and find programs with roster openings and scholarship money.

We also help prepare you for financial aid conversations with coaches and college admissions departments, as well as how to negotiate a scholarship offer to get the most aid possible.

Learn more about scholarships, student loans, financial aid and grants in our paying for college section. 

How does NCSA work with college coaches? 

We work with over 40,000 college coaches to help them fill open roster spots with our free NCSA Coach product. 

As the world’s largest collegiate athletic recruiting network, we have hundreds of thousands of student-athletes in our database that coaches can search through to find and evaluate talent. 

Coaches can filter student-athletes based on specific information to help them conduct targeted searches, which is why it’s crucial that athletes complete their NCSA Recruiting Profile. Additionally, coaches can see if your athlete has favorited their program.

Learn more about NCSA Coach. 

What parents have to say about NCSA 

From NCAA Division 1 to Junior College programs, NCSA has helped 300,000+ student-athletes commit to their best college match. But we’ll let these parents and student-athletes speak for themselves:

Alex Robertson, and her mom didn’t really know what to do when starting the recruiting process. Learn about Alex’s story and how NCSA was able to support them throughout the process.


Jacob Jones was ready to make his commitment, but the program experienced a head coaching change and communication went dark. Leaning on his NCSA Recruiting Coach, Jacob was able to keep going in the recruiting process and find another opportunity to play at the college level.

Want to see more of our rave reviews? Explore more NCSA reviews. Or read some of our athlete success stories here.

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