College Recruitment Program Guide 2012
Welcome It gives us great pleasure to welcome you to Athletes USA. We believe it is the personal and trust-based relationship with our clients that is our defining feature. With endorsement from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) we are one of the most trusted sports brands in our sector. To date Athletes USA has a current client database consisting of over 30,000 registered international sports athletes, 20,000 U.S. college coaches, which has allowed us to secure over 1000 athletic scholarship into U.S. colleges that include UCLA, Stanford, Harvard, Alabama and hundreds more. We have saved our athletes and their families over 100,000,000USD since 2006.
Gordon Brown, Ex UK Prime Minister and Athletes USA Founder Chris Vidal at One Goal Global Event.
As one of the fastest growing sports brands in the world, we welcome the opportunity of you joining our international team and serving your needs. It gives us great pleasure to welcome you to Athletes USA. Minister Grandge, Jamaican Sports Ministry and Chris Vidal
International Partners Ash Smith CEO Athletes USA
Athlete: Jamaal Smith Sport: Basketball College: UNM, 2006-2009 Now: Pro Basketball and Athletes USA Brand Ambassador “I knew when I had my first phone call with Athletes USA they would be able to help me reach me goals. The inspirational team secured me a 100% basketball scholarship to UNM and they didn’t stop there. Athletes USA went on to help me with all the paper work I needed to do.”
Success Stories We enjoy having connections to over 3000 U.S. schools in the NCAA D1, 2, 3, NAIA and NJCAA. Our network consists of relationships with over 20,000 college coaches. In conjunction with our reputation among schools and coaches and world’s sporting community has allowed us to reach an impressive result in placing over 1000 athletes since 2006 saving over 100,000,000USD in college tuition fees for our member athletes. Our success rate is due to our continued innovation to keep improving college recruiting tools and our staff of all whom have in depth knowledge in the college system. Athletes USA enjoys a 93% success rate, this is due to a high due diligence when scouting athletes. We see it as a priority to involve all family members in the college recruitment process by informing the athlete and the parents in what we see is a realistic and achievable goal. Our high standards and reputation has allowed Athletes USA to become the world’s No.1 college recruitment agency.
Athlete: Mike Oimen Sport: Golf Residence: USA College: UAB, 2006-2010 Now: Pro golf coach
Athlete: Cassie Raymakers Sport: Volleyball Residence: USA College: UCF, 2006-2009 Now: Marketing manager, ESPN
“Athletes USA was an eye opener. I was doing alot of the recruiting myself but I only knew coaches around my state in Iowa. After using Athletes USA programs I was able to connect to hundreds of coaches and I secured a scholarship to UAB to compete in golf.”
“I really found Athletes USA great. They helped me with contacting coaches. It was really easier working with them, I had a recruitment plan session were I explained my criteria in what I was looking for and then 1 month later they had 4 schools interested in me. I’ve recommended Athletes USA to many of my friends.”
Athlete: Sam Walker Sport: Golf Residence: UK College: Eastern Tennessee State University, 2010- Present
Athlete: Nelleke Smits Sport: Soccer Residence: Netherlands College: Western Texas 2009 - Present
“I want to follow the paths of Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Anthony Kim, Paul Casey, Luke Donald ,who are all professional golfers who competed in U.S. College Golf. I am now doing this due to Athletes USA help.”
“I joined Athletes USA in December 2008 hoping to gain a soccer scholarship for the Fall of 2009. Within just 1 week in becoming a member of Athletes USA I gained three full ride scholarship offers.”
Athlete: Nicolas Suissa Sport: Swimming Residence: France College: 2010 - 2011 Santa Rosa Now: Enrolling to UNLV 2012
Athlete: Diego Manzano Sport: Soccer Residence: Spain College: TAMIU 2011-Present
“Truly fantastic. Im currently competing at Santa Rosa JC in California, which is a two year school. I wanted to be in this area because of family. Now Athletes USA are helping me again in placing me into one of the best schools in the country UNLV. I recommend Athletes USA to anyone who wants to go to college.”
“I can only say thanks to Athletes USA. With their help I am enjoying my life at College and doing what I love, playing soccer. I have achieved honours, such as regional team, which wouldn't have been possible without Athletes USA.”
College recruitment How we are helping the next generation of international sports stars. Our unique service allows athletes all over the world to follow their dreams and ambitions. We have an array of affordable and engaging marketing solutions that make it easy for our clients to promote their abilities to over 50,000 international sports coaches.
Online system Via our Athletes USA online database you can connect to over 20,000 college contacts. Start today by building your free profile to start getting exposure to key coaches. For an additional one time charge of 95USD you can contact as many coaches as you want.
Connect to thousands of coaches within minutes Watch our video to learn how to connect to coaches. Watch the video to see our award winning college recruiting network that helps thousands of athletes daily connect with college coaches across the United States. We have made the recruitment process easy and accessible whenever you want to market yourself to coaches.
How to join Go to www.athletes-usa.com and complete registration. You will be able to create a username and password and login into your account anytime.
Digital Recruitment Ebook Let our team design you an impressive digital Ebook that can be sent to thousands of college coaches allowing you to stand out from the crowd.
Athlete digital Ebook We create and design personal Ebook’s and then send them to an array of college coaches. By using highly powerful design technology we can create powerful and engaging designs that will attract coaches to view your Ebook with great detail. When developing the Ebook platform we worked with college coaches to understand what they wanted you to feature in your Ebook to make sure you have the Best possible chance to impress the coach first time. For this reason we know exactly what information is key for you to include in order to make your first impression count. Video links being one of them, coaches can watch your highlight tapes via your Ebook. We will also create a URL link to your Ebook, which you can use for future personal use.
By using highly powerful design technolgy we can create powerful and engaging designs.
First Impressions Count
Let us help you make a good one.
How to join Speak to our team and we will walk you through the next steps to start the Ebook design and marketing process.
Video Editing Show off your skills in a stylish video. We create, edit and enhance your videos into one compelling and engaging video highlight.
We develop and edit fantastic highlights of your game. Coaches can then view your video in 3 ways, online via a URL that we create for you, your Ebook or via your Athletes USA online profile. A good video is extremely important in the college recruitment process. Not only will we create your video, we will make sure your video is to a standard high enough to impress college coaches
In a recent poll we conducted, college coaches voted an impressive video is a key component in their decision making, when giving out an athletic scholarship.
Recruitment Plan It’s important to gain help in all aspects. This is why every athlete that joins our program receives a complementary information pack with information you need to know about the college recruiting process. This pack includes some of the following:
EBook creation
Video tape
Take exam
Profile update
email coaches
Coaching session
Athletes USA Update
Timetable
Exams
In your recruitment plan you will have a timetable of key events we recommend you complete.
Athletes USA will provide you with free test papers and advice for SAT, TOEFL and ACT exams.
Clearinghouse
Visa
Any athlete wanting to compete in the NCAA will need to make a NCAA Clearinghouse profile. We will provide you with advice and guidance.
International students will be required to have a Visa when entering the United States. Our team will guide you through the process.
Personal Manager By working with team Athletes USA we will contact coaches for you every month. Ensuring you receive scholarship offers.
Any top athlete will tell you in order to become an elite champion you need a good team behind you. Team Athletes USA does exactly this. We help our athletes reach their goals by working with top colleges/universities, clubs, academies and professional sponsors to help make your goals possible. We work with athletes at all levels to help them reach their desired school. In order to help our athletes reach the standards they are looking for we work with our sporting partners to make this possible. Personal managers will also contact colleges on a monthly basis promising to offer you 3 new leads every month and help you with all your college questions such as exams you need to take, clearinghouse and much more.
Athlete: Natalia Gomez-Junco Sport: Soccer College: Current, Memphis University.
Reach your potential. Natalia Gomez did.
Packages You can work with Athletes USA in 3 ways:
Online system
All Star
Recommended Package Elite
- Free profile - Unlimited mails
Ebooks - Upto 6 pages - Upto 12 pages - URL link - Include video
Ebook distribution
- Sent to 150 coaches
- Sent to 450 coaches (Over, 3m) - Sent to 1200 coaches (Over, 6m) - Sent to 450 coaches (Over, 3m)
Video
- Evaluation
- 1 Video Editing
Personal Manager - 1 month - 6 month
Recruitment Plan - General Plan - Personal Plan Custom programs are availiable. Please speak with a team member from Athletes USA to start any program package.
Exclusive
Athlete: Brad Smith College: UAB, 2006-2009 Now: Professional golfer and Athletes USA Ambassador “Coming from Australia I didn’t know how to get a scholarship and what the process was. Today Athletes USA helps thousands of athletes connect with coaches in minutes.”
www.athletes-usa.com info@athletes-usa.com