Parents / Athletes Corner:
Many parents today foster the belief that if a high school athlete is good enough to excel competitively on a high school team, college coaches will likely recruit that athlete. Unfortunately, this view is not quite reality. In today's ever-growing arena of athletics, fame and fortune have spawned fierce competition for recruitment recognition. While recruiting budgets continue to be sparse, one athlete with less skill than another on the same team may receive more interest from colleges simply because he/she has been promoted or marketed better to coaches or recruiters.
The Solution:
Florida Student Athlete Profile Services Inc. has developed a high performance platform that effectively and economically offers athletes the ability to build, manage, update, and market their resumes to college coaches and athletic organizations.
How it Works:
Using our recruiter designed, sport specific registration process, we create an online profile, to include:
- Player video (in-house editing available);
- Pertinent personal information;
- Academic data with the ability to upload school transcripts;
- Athletic statistics and awards; (validated)
- Posting of coaches recommendation letters;
- Postings of reference letters, from athletic directors, high school coaches, optimist coaches, etc;
- Posting of media coverage;
- Current contact information with active email links;
These profiles will be hosted on a searchable platform / athlete database. The profile itself can be delivered directly to your selected and most viable choice of coaches. The platform is FREE to coaches and provides them an easy way to identify potential recruits. Profiles are organized with interactive menus and are specifically designed for coaches and recruiters to easily navigate through all the information they need to properly evaluate a prospect's qualifications.
Some of the more common question asked by athletes and parents:
Q: How long does it take to get a profile into the Florida Student Athlete Profile Services Platform?
A: As soon as client’s academic and athlete information is received the profile is created and can be viewed by college recruiters right away.
Q: Can anyone view student-athlete profiles on the Florida Student Athlete Profile Services Platform?
A: No. Only college coaches may register to search the recruit profiles and view student-athlete profiles.
Q: Will being in the Florida Student Athlete Profile Services Platform guarantee student-athletes a scholarship?
A: No. Many factors determine whether a student-athlete receives a full scholarship offer from a college or university - physical stature, athletic performance, academic standing and much more. What Florida Student Athlete Profile Services does guarantee a student-athlete is exposure to college recruiters, and a straightforward presentation of their personal information. At that point, scholarship offers and other college opportunities become possible. Without such exposure, opportunities are quite limited.
Q: What kind of college recruiters use the Florida Student Athlete Profile Services?
A: College recruiters from all sports and every part of the country can search for prospects in the our platform. There are over a thousand college sports programs (Division I-A, I-AA, Division II, Division III and NAIA) with coaches looking for athletes to compete on their teams. Most want to make sure they are not missing any good prospects. Also, since our services does not
condone subjective and / or inflated athlete profiles, we have a trustworthy relationship with college coaches.
Q: Is Florida Student Athlete Profile Services the best way for a student-athlete to get recruited?
A: The use of our service is an important "first step" in the recruiting process. Student-athletes can take additional proactive steps toward engaging college recruiters on their own, or with the help of other recruit service companies, but these steps are usually more costly in terms of time and/or money invested. Florida Student Athlete Profile Services is a full time service center with an area office in Miami Lakes. The staff recognizes the local demographics and necessities of the athletes in Monroe, Dade, Broward, West Palm Beach, Lee and Collier Counties.
Q: Why haven't we heard of Florida Student Athlete Profiles Services, Inc. before?
A: Because we are new to the area of South Florida (and long overdue)! For years, South Florida has been viewed as a mega warehouse of prospective high school players by many universities. The problem has been financial commitments by local high schools to promote and market all qualified athletes. Marketing is everything in this age of competitive recruitment. The “who knows who” mentality plays a major part in college recruitment, but exposure to as many colleges as possible is a better fundamental tool to get the athlete noticed and evaluated. The ultimate goal is to get the athlete into college. |
