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The Largest Student-Athlete Recruiting Network
Over the past 20 years, NCSA has refined the tools that student-athletes need during the college recruiting process to find their college match. Using their hands-on guidance, college matching tools, and network of 35,000+ college coaches, more than 150,000 student-athletes have made commitments to their college choice. Today, NCSA is the world’s largest and most-experienced college athletic recruiting network.
NCSA, the premiere recruiting service for student-athletes and SMARTTRACK® College Funding, national leaders in helping families pay less for college, have teamed up to make sure your student-athlete finds the right-fit opportunity and that you are able to pay for it in the most tax-advantaged, cost-efficient way possible.
Your NCSA MVP membership entitles you to these valuable benefits:
FREE Smart Advisor – work one-on-one with a professional college funding expert to help you develop and implement a comprehensive, money-saving college funding plan.
Discounted pricing on Smart Premium, our proprietary suite of programs designed to help identify generous schools, find merit scholarships, and support you through the entire financial aid
Discounted pricing on Smart Premium, our proprietary suite of programs designed to help identify generous schools, find merit scholarships, and support you through the entire financial aid application process.
TOP REASONS TO JOIN THE NCSA NETWORK
Learn how recruiting really works – call 866-495-5172 to get an expert evaluation from a college scout and find out what college programs you might qualify for
Create a free recruiting profile in minutes
Get exposure to more than 42,000 college coaches – a coach logs into the network every 10 minutes!
Access exclusive Recruit Match technology to help you get recruited
Work with the national leader in recruiting – our athletes have earned more than $2.5 billion in scholarships since 2001
Know which college coaches are looking at your profile
Find the schools that are the best fit for you – there are more than 1700 to choose from
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The NCSA Experience.
NCSA is the world’s largest and most successful collegiate athletic recruiting network because their focus has always been on finding the best college options for our student-athletes. That means a school that can launch a lifetime of success by being a good athletic and academic fit.
What sets NCSA apart is their comprehensive approach that addresses every phase of the recruiting process. NCSA understands that while each recruiting journey is unique, they all benefit from a systematic approach or process to hit key milestones and reach the ultimate goal of becoming the next college student-athlete.
Every NCSA member can expect to play a very active role in their recruiting process. And, like every sport, recruiting demands the same level of commitment, patient, persistence and competitive spirit. The following briefly outlines the typical recruiting journey with NCSA.
Setting Family-Wide College Goals
It’s important to hear from you the goals you’ve set for your student-athlete. For many families, this is often the first time they’ve sat down together to discuss what kind of college experience they envision. This is a great starting point and allows us to set expectations and start to make recommendations and build an individual plan.
Review and Plan for Academic Eligibility
Academics are an essential part of every recruiting effort. NSCA will go through NCAA core course requirements, review GPA, discuss transcripts, and look at ACT and SAT test schedules and recommend a course of action to maximize your academic standing.
Create Your NCSA Online Profile
You will build your online profile. This is how you can quickly get exposure to college coaches who are actively filling rosters. Your profile will feature basic physical specs, key stats for your sport, academic info, a personal statement, and also your highlight and skills videos.
Compile Video Highlights/Skills
Just about every sport will require video of highlights or basic skills so coaches can get a good sense of your athleticism. You can easily upload your videos to your profile or we can help you edit videos for you to post.
Evaluate and Project Best College Level Fit
A recruiting expert in your sport will evaluate your video, designate a star rating and make college division recommendations. This unbiased, professional evaluation is extremely valuable to college coaches and helps you focus your college search.
Discover Your Top College Picks with Recruit Match Technology
Using NCSA’a proprietary Recruit Match Technology™, you will be able to identify your top college matches based on your personal preferences, college roster openings and more. Once you have identified your list, you can now devote your recruiting efforts on these prime targets.
Connecting to College Coaches & Communication Training
A convenient message center lets you easily track and organize all of your college coach emails. It’s easy to see what’s been sent and the responses you’ve received. Of course, they’ll provide all the communications training you need, including social media through online drills available at NCSA University or with one on one coaching sessions.
Planning for Camps, Combines, Tournaments and Showcases
Making sure you are attending the right events for recruiting is critical. They will help you get the most out of the time and money you spend by recommending what events are best for you, as well as what you can do to stand out at each event.
Free Online ACT/SAT Preparation
Better test scores can help create more college options and potentially more options for financial aid and merit-based scholarships. That’s why NCSA’s MVP members have free access to comprehensive, self-paced online test preparation tools from Method Test Prep. They’ll also discuss testing strategies like when to take and retake the tests to give you the best scores possible.
Prepping for Official and Unofficial College Visits
You only get to make a first impression once, and they’ll make sure you’re prepared for both official and unofficial visits. Through NCSA University and live coaching sessions, they’ll tell you what to do and, more importantly, what not do during these visits.
College Application Counseling
Student-athletes, like all potential college freshmen, need to be well-versed in the college application process and know how to get the most from the process.
Evaluate and Leverage College Offers
If all things go according to plan, there may be more than one college offer to consider. NCSA can help guide and inform your decisions, teach you how to leverage offers, and figure out how and when to turn a verbal offer into a written commitment.
Parent Reviews of NCSA.
Class of 2019 – Parent – Tennis
“In my mind and experience, NCSA is the elite recruiting assistance agency in the country. I’ve checked out most of the others, but NCSA backs it with great membership options, representatives and coaches who truly care, and access to collegiate information specific to the athlete seeking the best fit in school choices. Thank you & bravo!”
Class of 2020 – Parent – Soccer
“Thus far our experience has been positive, however we are just beginning. We went with another company with our daughter and were not impressed as we progressed further along in the process. We are optimistic that our experience with our son using NCSA will be different.”
Class of 2019 – Parent – Basketball
“1. Simple yet effective way to keep in touch with coaches. 2. Comprehensive website. 3. Helpful recruiting coaches who are genuinely interested in getting kids signed with the right school. 4. It works! On my own, I was able to get about 7 coaches interested in my daughter; after joining NCSA, that list has grown to over 50.”
Class of 2020 – Parent – Football
“We have recommended several people to NCSA (2 families have entered your program through our feedback to them) because we like the communication with the recruiter, and the website is very up to date with tons of information about the colleges and the continuous effort to reach our 2 sons’ goals to play beyond high school. We’re very happy with the program, especially Coach Martin Hyatt, who was our sons’ recruiting coach. We were disappointment he is leaving NCSA, but the recruiter taking his place seems like a perfect fit for our sons’ future. :)”
Class of 2020 – Parent – Volleyball
“Sue Webber has been a huge help! She has taken a personal interest in my daughter and answers all of my crazy questions as the mom. We couldn’t do this without her! I love being able to see who reads the emails and views the profile. The video NCSA made for my daughter’s profile is excellent.”
Class of 2019 – Parent – Field Hockey
“NCSA has an excellent learning process broken down into manageable bits and timelines, as well as great online resources. Profile exposure is helpful. We like the link to details all in one place. School info helps with initial research and reconfirming as the recruiting process evolves. Great staff; always professional. Recruiting coaches don’t sugar coat opportunities. That’s good. We prefer clear, direct feedback for evaluating purposes, to know how our athletes really look to the college coaches. Thank you for positive encouragement but honest feedback. Coach Cormier is always generous with her time, input, and support. It’s an involved process for sure, but overall, we’re enjoying this recruiting journey. Thanks NCSA!”