Congratulations. If you’re reading this, you or your child is among a tiny fraction of 35 million student-athletes ready to play in college. The bad news is, you’re probably already discovering how random, contingent, fraught and maddening the recruiting process is. 

We can help.

Because if you’re elite enough to play in college, then you’ve played on competitive teams all your life. And if you’re a strong enough student to pursue a high-academic strategy, then you’ve learned by now what we have over a lifetime in elite sports: 

You are a rare breed, indeed.

You know plenty of good students at your high school, and lots of athletes: but how many kids can successfully, legitimately do both at an elite level?

Which is why the combination is so potent. It’s the law of scarcity.

If you can harness it, that ‘scholar-athlete’ designation will pay dividends the rest of your life. 

Rich dividends. 

Beyond recruiting, beyond academics, beyond your sport. 

Professionally. Financially. Socially. Interpersonally. 

Leadership. Confidence. Focus. Discipline. Ambition. 

Rizz.        

Which is why we won’t focus on getting you recruited onto the ‘best’ possible team. Our goal is to help you use your athletics to - yes, play, compete, have fun, perform at a high level on a good team - but to inspire you to ascend academically and pre-professionally at the highest quality college as possible for you, that combines elite athletics with world-class academics. 

Because we’ve been through this process countless times, the first goal is simply to help you understand - and fully internalize - just how rare, and therefore, how valuable, your scholar-athlete status is. Then, to inspire you to keep your grades as high as possible, in as rigorous a curriculum as (reasonably) possible, with as high test scores as possible, with extracurriculars and interview skills that highlight your strengths.  

And then to work with you to understand the playing field you’re on. High academic schools include the DI FCS Ivies and Service Academies, DI FBS schools like Rice or Stanford and their peers. But also DIII schools like Amherst, Williams, Middlebury, Bowdoin, Colby, Wesleyan, Pomona and their peers - which offer some of the highest quality academics on earth - combined with much more competitive athletics than most families understand.  

A sophisticated strategy often includes high-academic DIII opportunities where athletes develop credentials that pay off immediately, in terms of first jobs and grad schools, and continue to do so for a lifetime via strong, accomplished alumni networks. But, because so many athletes are fueled by an ill-informed bias for a “D1” designation - that often pays dramatically less valuable dividends than the fantasy promises (see the transfer portal today!) - they miss this golden opportunity. 

Of course, we work with legit DI athletes all the time, successfully so (see Coach Cahill’s placement list). But for every successful DI athlete we work with, there are two others who would thrive at some of the high academic schools within the Ivies, NESCAC or the Patriot League, or their peers nationally, who blow a tire on their recruiting because they don’t fully understand the field they’re playing on. 

So, if you think you are ‘above’ even considering high academic FCS or DIII schools - God Bless you and your journey - but you’re on the wrong website. If you’re ambitious about embracing the full breadth of opportunities at the top 25 high academic FBS, FCS, and DIII options, let’s get to work!