For parents
You didn’t apply for this job.
Club fees, tournament weekends, and somewhere in there you became your athlete’s recruiting manager. The spreadsheet is three weeks stale and nobody remembers whether that coach ever wrote back. Athlead keeps the clerical half. The conversations with coaches stay theirs.
The problem
Recruiting is mostly clerical work
A small amount of relationship work sits on top of a large amount of lookup, tracking, and repetition. The first part is why you are doing this. The second part is why families burn out on it.
Your Sunday nights
The spreadsheet is three weeks stale. Somebody asks whether that program ever wrote back, and nobody knows. By the time it is sorted, the email that needed sending tonight is not going out.
No one trained you
Which schools fit their level and their major. Who the recruiting coordinator is. Whether it is a dead period. None of that came with the club fee.
Money already spent
Dues, camps, showcases, hotels, flights. You are not short on investment in this. You are short on hours and a system to put them into.
What you can do
The half that is actually yours
Go live from the stands
You are already there with your phone up. Start the stream from your athlete's profile and the coach who could not fly out watches from the office. The broadcast belongs to your athlete: their name, their profile, their stream. You are simply the one holding the phone, and Athlead records that it was you.
Know whether it is working
Eleven programs opened your athlete's profile this month and four left evaluations. Tap any number to see which divisions, which conferences, and which states they came from, plus everything that landed this week. You stop having to ask them to check their phone at dinner.
Do the research legwork
Searching programs and sorting out which ones are realistic is the most parent-shaped job in recruiting. Build the list, then hand over something to react to instead of a blank page.
One place that stays current
Every view, every evaluation, and every program in one list that updates itself. No tab that somebody abandoned in October.
Who is in charge
Your athlete stays in charge of it
Helping should never mean taking over their account. Everything you can do for your athlete is something they switched on, can watch, and can switch back off.
Off until they say so
Connecting to your athlete gives you nothing on its own. Every kind of help is a separate switch in their settings, and all of them start off.
Theirs to take back
Your athlete can turn any switch off whenever they want, and it stops working immediately. They do not have to explain why, and they do not have to ask anyone.
Recorded either way
When you do something on your athlete’s behalf, Athlead writes down what it was and that it was you. Nothing you do arrives looking like it came from nowhere.
It ends when they grow up
At eighteen, everything your athlete granted you goes dormant. If they still want the help, they turn it back on themselves, as an adult.
Getting started
Three steps, one evening
- 1
Make your own account
Yours, not theirs. You never need your athlete’s password, and you are never asked for it.
- 2
Connect to your athlete
Find them on Athlead and send the request. They accept it from their own phone, and pick what they want your help with.
- 3
Take the clerical half
Watch the interest come in, build out the school list, and film the matches you are already sitting at.
FAQ
What parents ask us first
Get your evenings back
Keep the part of this you actually signed up for. We will take the spreadsheet.
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