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SportsRecruits Club and High School Welcome Kit

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Alyssa Palomba
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This article serves as a resource center that your club or high school can use to provide your families with more information about SportsRecruits and let them know that your organization is investing in your student-athletes' recruiting process. We have resources around getting started on the platform along with recruiting tips throughout the process. Most importantly you can easily showcase your SportsRecruits rosters and commits on your site. 

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This article will walk you through:

  • Information and Assets That Can Be Shared on Your Club or High School Site
      • What is SportsRecruits?
      • Why SportsRecruits?
      • Support Contact
      • Webinars
      • Helpdesk Resources
      • Recruiting Resources
      • Help Articles for Student-Athletes to Get Started
      • Logging into SportsRecruits
      • Embedding SportsRecruits Videos on Your Site
      • Embedding SportsRecruits Rosters
      • Showcasing Your Commits
      • SportsRecruits Logos For Your Site
      • Need Help With Updating Your Site?
  • Other Important SportsRecruits Resources to Get Your Club or High School Started on SportsRecruits
      • Finding the Link to Your Club or High School’s SportsRecruits Storefront
      • Follow SportsRecruits On Social
      • Putting Together a SportsRecruits Press Release
      • Priming Email for Your Organization
      • Important Help Articles for Staff to Get Started

 

Information and Assets That Can Be Shared on Your Club or High School Site

 

What is SportsRecruits?

SportsRecruits is a platform that provides clubs, student-athletes, and their families access to every college coach in the country. Club organizations use our platform to empower their athletes in the recruiting process and oversee their efforts and communication with complete transparency. Connections made on the platform have resulted in commitments to the best academic and athletic institutions across the country. SportsRecruits is headquartered in New York City. For more information, visit sportsrecruits.com.

 

Why SportsRecruits?

Using SportsRecruits is simple, intuitive, and powerful. Watch the demonstration video below to see some of the ways SportsRecruits will connect our club's student-athletes, parents, and staff, with college coaches.

 

 

Support Contact

Customer Success Specialist Team: help@sportsrecruits.com

The SportsRecruits Customer Success Specialist (CSS) team is here to help our team with any of the day to day technical support on the platform and ultimately find success on SportsRecruits.  If you need help with the platform or need tips for getting started, reach out to the SportsRecruits team.

Webinars

The SportsRecruits’ team of recruiting analysts put together monthly webinars on relevant topics in the recruiting space.  Our webinars are recorded and posted on the webinars page as well as new live webinars are announced monthly.

SportsRecruits Webinar Page

Helpdesk Resources

Our team has built out over 100 articles and videos to help our team successfully navigate the platform. Check out the categories below for the answers to many of your questions!

Recruiting Resources

In addition to the innovative SportsRecruits Recruiting Platform, SportsRecruits also offers its educational and inspirational resources to help student-athletes and families navigate the recruiting process. Below, we've included links to a selection of articles to help you get started on the right foot and execute the best possible recruiting process. 

Help Articles for Student-Athletes to Get Started

Logging into SportsRecruits

Ready to get started on SportsRecruits? Finish setting up your account and get started now.

Log Into SportsRecruits 

 

Embedding SportsRecruits Videos on Your Site

To add the "Why SportsRecruits" or “Student-Athlete Training” videos to your announcement, use any of the following methods:

Using "Embed Video" Feature

Depending on your site building software, it may be possible to insert video simply to use a simple url.  If your software includes this feature, copy and paste the url to the video that you want to use below. 

Why SportsRecruits - https://sportsrecruits.wistia.com/medias/77i9kyiptp

Student-Athlete Training - https://sportsrecruits.wistia.com/medias/fuqkxakav1

Using Javascript

Copy and paste the code below into the html/raw text of your website or however you typically add video to your site.

Why SportsRecruits:

<script src="https://fast.wistia.com/embed/medias/77i9kyiptp.jsonp" async></script><script src="https://fast.wistia.com/assets/external/E-v1.js" async></script><span class="wistia_embed wistia_async_77i9kyiptp popover=true popoverAnimateThumbnail=true" style="display:inline-block;height:84px;position:relative;width:150px">&nbsp;</span>

 

Student-Athlete Training:

<script src="https://fast.wistia.com/embed/medias/77i9kyiptp.jsonp" async></script><script src="https://fast.wistia.com/assets/external/E-v1.js" async></script><span class="wistia_embed wistia_async_77i9kyiptp popover=true popoverAnimateThumbnail=true" style="display:inline-block;height:84px;position:relative;width:150px">&nbsp;</span>

 

Using an iframe

If the above JavaScript code is not displaying properly, try using the fallback, which is a resilient embed based on an iframe. Copy and paste the code below into the html/raw text of your Why SportsRecruits:

Why SportsRecruits

<div class="wistia_responsive_padding" style="padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;"><div class="wistia_responsive_wrapper" style="height:100%;left:0;position:absolute;top:0;width:100%;"><iframe src="https://fast.wistia.net/embed/iframe/77i9kyiptp?videoFoam=true" title="Why SportsRecruits? Video" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" class="wistia_embed" name="wistia_embed" allowfullscreen msallowfullscreen width="100%" height="100%"></iframe></div></div>

<script src="https://fast.wistia.net/assets/external/E-v1.js" async></script>

 

Student-Athlete Training

<div class="wistia_responsive_padding" style="padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;"><div class="wistia_responsive_wrapper" style="height:100%;left:0;position:absolute;top:0;width:100%;"><iframe src="https://fast.wistia.net/embed/iframe/fuqkxakav1?videoFoam=true" title="SportsRecruits Organization Athlete Training Video" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" class="wistia_embed" name="wistia_embed" allowfullscreen msallowfullscreen width="100%" height="100%"></iframe></div></div>

<script src="https://fast.wistia.net/assets/external/E-v1.js" async></script>

 

Embedding SportsRecruits Rosters

As an integrated club or high school on SportsRecruits, you can embed your teams' rosters directly to your team's website. These embedded rosters are linked directly to each individual's SportsRecruits Profile, as well as your organization’s Storefront!

How to Embed SportsRecruits Rosters

 

Showcasing Your Commits

As an integrated club or high school on SportsRecruits, you can embed your teams' rosters directly to your team's website. These embedded rosters are linked directly to each individual's SportsRecruits Profile, as well as your organization’s Storefront! If you need help backfilling commitments please contact teams@sportsrecruits.com. We suggest linking to this site on a tab on your website. 

Showcasing Your Student-Athletes’ Commitments

 

SportsRecruits Logos For Your Site

Our Logos and Brand Guidelines can be found here.

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Need Help With Updating Your Site?

The SportsRecruits Team is dedicated to helping you drive the adoption of SportsRecruits within your organization. If you need help with any step in this process please reach out to teams@sportsrecruits.com to work with our Customer Success Management team.

 

Other Important SportsRecruits Resources to Get Your Club or High School Started on SportsRecruits

Finding the Link to Your Club or High School’s SportsRecruits Storefront

  1. Log into your SportsRecruits Staff Account
  2. Go to "Club" or “High School” on the top toolbar
  3. Click "Storefront Preview" in the left sidebar
  4. On your Club or High School Storefront you can copy the url at the top

 

Follow SportsRecruits On Social

We love to share tips, upcoming webinars and the success of the student-athletes and teams on the platform.  If you would like to be featured feel free to reach out to help@sportsrecruits.com or DM us! You can follow our channels below! 

Social Media is also an amazing space to celebrate your commitment:

I Committed! How to Add Your Commitment to Your Twitter and Facebook Accounts

 

Putting Together a SportsRecruits Press Release

When you provide your student-athletes and families with SportsRecruits, that is a huge asset to them being members of your organization. We want to give you the opportunity to promote the fact that you are a SportsRecruits partnered organization. And we too, want to celebrate all of the logos that utilize our platform, making it better every single day!

Here are a few examples of some social posts that our team has put together in the past:

Below are a few questions for you to answer. Feel free to answer any or all of them and send them over to our Customer Success Management Team via teams@sportsrecruits.com. Once we have those back from you, our marketing team can whip up a social post for you to share via any of your social media channels!

Questions for you:

  • How do you plan to utilize SportsRecruits as a Coach/Director?
  • What is one reason that you would recommend SportsRecruits to someone who might be on the fence?
  • What was one of the biggest issues within the recruiting process prior to SportsRecruits?
  • How do you envision SportsRecruits impacting those issues?
  • About your Club or High School

Priming Email for Your Organization

Now that you're officially ready to get started on SportsRecruits, it's important that your athletes/families fully understand the asset that you're providing them through your Organization. You can copy the following email draft and send it out to those athletes/families to notify them of next steps with SportsRecruits.

Example Message to Send to Your Athletes to Help Them Get Started on SportsRecruits

 

Important Help Articles for Staff to Get Started

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