Increase visibility: Swim Cloud & NCSA
1. Open an account with swim cloud
(SwimCloud is a technology platform designed by coaches for coaches, and it is our goal to offer you one dashboard for all of your team or association’s needs – team management, meet management, video review, recruiting, and more. Swimcloud is the undisputed leader when it comes to recruiting, giving college coaches access to over 30,000 prospective student-athletes (resource: swim cloud)
A free recruiting profile gets you in front of hundreds of coaches. Swimcloud Video makes it easy to take practice or race video and upload it to Swimcloud, a Swimcloud Video can also be approved by the swimmer for viewing by college recruiters. It enables to take control of your profile, highlight your progress and achievements. It also gives you the real-time updates on the swimmers. Swimcloud provides rankings for virtually all swimming data. These include top times, team rankings, swimmer comparisons, and performances.
2. Open an account with NCSA (Next College Student Athlete)
- What is NCSA?
NCSA is the largest college athletic recruiting platform, with over 35,000 college coaches using NCSA to find athletes across 37 sports. NCSA is a free recruiting tool that helps college coaches find, evaluate and connect with athletes that meet the criteria for their specific program . NCSA is a recruiting tool that helps high school athletes find, evaluate and connect with college coaches to take their sport to the next level
Why NCSA?
There is direct communication with recruiting coaches. Recruiting coaches know you due to the information you give on the profile You get “Insider Info” into different schools. Your coach ( when creating a team profile) can see which universities or colleges are actively looking for swimmers, they have access to information such as cost, size etc.