Setting the Right Expectations

Now that your organization has made the decision to invest in IMLCARecruits, it is extremely important to (1) empower your athletes to get started on the platform right away and (2) make sure they are aware of all the tools at their disposal! 

The most successful way to do so, is by relaying that you and your staff will be leaning on IMLCARecruits to drive the recruiting process. This messaging should offer athlete-driven objectives that establish a foundation for a successful recruiting process on the platform. Just like in practice, setting clear expectations and holding your athletes accountable are the best ways to ensure they are successful. With the IMLCARecruits messaging system, you and your staff have an extremely easy way to communicate directly with all of your athletes at once as well as centralize all lines of recruiting communication in one place.

Below is an example of a message to send to your athletes that provides them with key milestones to hit on the platform. We recommend giving your athletes a weekly "challenge" to complete on the platform to guarantee they are maximizing their time and energy on IMLCARecruits!

Example Message to Send to Your Athletes

Athletes,

IMLCARecruits is a useful tool to use as you are tackling your college recruiting process, especially as most of college recruiting has moved online. I am sending you this email to let you know that our teams have been successfully launched on IMLCARecruits. You should have received an activation email from their team in order to get into your new account - Please be on the look out for that email and log into your IMLCARecruits account once you have received it!

• If you already had an account with IMLCARecruits, that account should have been added to our club. In the case that a duplicate account was created for you please reach out to help@sportsrecruits.com, and they will fix that right away. 
• If you do not immediately see this email, please double check your junk/spam folders.

Once you have activated your account, you are all required to watch the following video: SportsRecruits Student-Athlete Training. This Training Video will walk you through all the features of your new profile.

After you've gone through that quick video, I've also outlined some action items below to help you get started.

Challenge 1: Make sure your profile is Verified

• Upload a profile picture
• Add your position(s)
• Update your graduation year, if it is not already in there
• Then, fill-in all of your basic athletic background data, and add your GPA, last year's academic transcript etc. - This IMLCARecruits profile should be thought of as an academic AND athletic RESUME

Challenge 2: Get Video on your profile - Now more than EVER, College Coaches are relying on video to assess you as an athlete

• Here's how to Upload any videos you have to your profile. Or if you have video already up on other video sites, you can also Embed Video to your Profile
• Once you have film in your video library, you have full access to the In-Platform Highlight Reel Editor, which you can use to clip that film into full reels, or specific skills videos
• IMLCARecruits is partnered with many events, including all IMLCA sanctioned events. For these partner events, you will receive game film directly to your Video Library within 10 business days from an event's end. You can review which events are included in IMLCARecruits and learn more about how to access this film below:
• IMLCARecruits + Event Film
• How Does Student-Athlete Access to IMLCA Event Video Work?
• As members of IMLCARecruits through our Organization, each of you has unlimited FREE professional Highlight Reel credits per year. This means that the SportsRecruits team will build a Highlight Reel for you based upon clips of your choosing. I highly recommend taking advantage of this! The links below will show you how to redeem this credit:
• IMLCA Highlight Reel Process (You can skip right to step two in this help article, there is no purchase necessary, as you receive unlimited credits through our team)
• Importance of Video in Recruiting Webinar
• Best Practices on How to Build a Highlight Reel

Challenge 3: Research schools that you might want to consider playing for at the next level. I want you to Favorite schools that are of interest to you, before moving on to "Challenge 4," I want you to have 20 schools on your Favorites List

• Using the Advanced School Search you can filter by division, conference, academic criteria and by college major to determine schools that are of interest to you
• Personalize this list so that you can stay organized as you start to reach out to these coaches 

Challenge 4: Introduce yourself to College Coaches

• Start using the messaging system to express interest in programs on your favorites list -Every message you send through IMLCARecruits will include a link to your profile (that you've already filled out!), which will give that coach direct access to this 'online resume'
• You'll then be able to tell exactly which college coaches have viewed your profile with IMLCARecruits complete transparency

If you have any questions, from forgetting your password to how to add something on your profile, you can email help@sportsrecruits.com or visit the SportsRecruits Help Center for more helpful tips.

Let's get it going,

Coach