Coaches had started approaching Front Rush about creating a tool to help streamline the recruiting process from showcases, tournaments, and a variety of events in order to keep all the information in an online form instead of “big bulky packets”.

Being the crazy, smart, advanced company that we are, we created Coach Packet. This new tool takes the hard copy information and puts it into a online form that is easy to use whether you are the young tech savvy assistant coach or the old school pen and paper coach. Everyone can easily use the unique link from any smartphone, tablet, laptop, etc. Since the inception of coachpacket.com several organizations have begun to experience the value of online packets.

We attended some huge recruiting events, had our big video release conference, as well as signed with many other big organizations.

Hoop [...]

February 23rd, 2012 – (Lambertville, NJ) – The Men’s Collegiate Lacrosse Association (MCLA) announced that Front Rush will be their official recruiting software through the Summer of 2012. Front Rush is the number one recruiting software for college athletic programs with more than 3,500 clients at over 700 colleges and universities.

“The MCLA is pleased to announce our partnership with Front Rush” said MCLA President Tony Scazzero. MCLA teams now have a proven recruiting, roster and alumni software provider to manage their communications. We understand the need our teams have in communicating with recruits, roster and alumni and have the utmost confidence in the Front Rush product.”

“We are extremely excited about working with the MCLA. They are a fantastic organization and we are lucky to be teamed up with them” states Front Rush co-founder Brad Downs.

The Men’s Collegiate Lacrosse Association (MCLA) is [...]

San Rafael, CA. February 6, 2012. — A new era in recruiting has arrived. West Shore Technologies and Front Rush are pleased to announce a technology partnership that offers college coaches a completely automated process for assessment and compliance/recruiting data management. Coaches who use West Shores’s SportsBoard iPad application to evalutate players can now simply click the ‘Add to Front Rush’ button to seamlessly pass assessed data about any student athlete to Front Rush’s compliance/recruiting database.

“We love what SportsBoard Scout is up to and we are excited to be a part of  their revolutionary approach to scouting.” said Front Rush co-founder Brad Downs.”

With the SportsBoard Scout program, coaches are able to capture assessment ratings, text notes, voice memos, photos and video, and then sync all of that information with the SportsBoard server to apply analytics and rank the talent by position [...]

Front Rush is excited to announce its newest partner to the ‘Add to Front Rush’ team, SDI Camps. If your program is currently as SDI Camps and Front Rush client, within each campers profile you’ll see the ‘Add to Front Rush’ button. With one simple click, all of that camper’s general information will convert over to your Front Rush account. No more manual entry, exporting and importing. It’s as easy as point and click.

“Coaches are finding talent at their camps or clinics all the time, so why not be able to add those potential recruits to their Front Rush database with one click.” states Front Rush co-founder Brad Downs.

SDI Camps prides itself on excellent customer service and the relationship it builds with each of their clients. Their hope is to take as much of the camp stress away from the [...]

“Coaches will be able to import players from their watch list directly into Front Rush with one simple click of a button!” States Dallas Oliver of Tennisrecruiting.net.

“The idea is to make life easier for coaches to search and add their top prospects directly into their Front Rush account. The future of recruiting isn’t importing and exporting data, it’s simple integration that is the future.” says co-founder Brad Downs.

Tennisrecruiting.net is the latest content provider to partner with Front Rush. For more information on Front Rush’s partners, click on the following link, http://www.frontrush.com/web/features/partners.html.

Tennisrecruiting.net is the premier site for junior tennis. Providing tennis coaches with news, rankings, articles, recruit data and much more.

Front Rush provides an easy-to-use and affordable recruiting software that spans over 3,500 teams at over 700 colleges and university nationwide.

Have you been checking your Other inbox?

Have you missed any important messages sent to you?

Well, its definitely possible due to the rules around Facebook’s “Social Inbox”.

Here’s the story, Coach: Over a year ago, Facebook made some changes to their messaging system that put rules into place for receiving messages from other people on Facebook. The logic was very simple: If a person is your friend, or friend of a friend, then messages that they send you on Facebook will show up in your messages section. If a person is not in the group above, then their message will go into your “Other” folder. The problem is that nobody seems to check their “Other” folder and you are not notified the same way as your primary inbox. So as a result, many messages sent to you go unread.

If you are [...]

“We’re excited to have partnered with Front Rush.” says CEO of Collegeswimming.com Greg Earhart. Simply click the ‘Add to Front Rush’ button on each swimmer’s profile and all their data converts over to Front Rush. Search. Click. Repeat. It’s that easy.

“We are pumped to be teamed up with Collegeswimming.com. When the experts in one field team up with experts in another, good things happen.”

The ‘Add to Front Rush’ button is now live in all Collegeswimming.com recruit profiles.

Front Rush provides an easy-to-use and affordable software that spans over 3,500 teams at over 700 colleges and universities nationwide. They are the industry leader in recruiting and compliance software.

Collegeswimming.com provides a database of high school swimmers. Along with providing recruit data to college coaches, Collegeswimming.com contains championship information, competition previews, results, articles, message board and individual records.

Branded email templates are very popular in college recruiting now.

These are the emails that coaches send to recruits that have pictures of the university, and school colors and action shots, and more. Coaches love to send them out because they really can pop-out of a recruit’s inbox, especially compared to the standard black & white text-only email.

We think they can be a great recruiting tool when used properly. The key part of the previous sentence is “when used properly”.

As most of you know, we build email templates for coaches as a service (full discloser) and we often times see coaches relying on the template as a crutch instead of using the content of the email to be the true marketing and recruiting message.

Let me explain:

Your content, your written word, your emotions in the text…THAT is what is king. The images [...]

A story recently came out in the press in response to Steve Jobs’ announcement that he is leaving Apple as CEO. As the story goes, one of the top product guys at Google received an email in the middle of the night from Steve Jobs complaining that there was a major issue with the Google icon that appeared on the iPhone. It was such a big issue that Steve Jobs was personally going to assign an Apple representative to work directly with the Google employee to resolve the issue immediately. So what was the problem? It turns out that the yellow color in the letter O of GOOGLE was slightly off.

Was this slightly off-colored letter going to cause major issues for Apple or Google? Absolutely not! The key takeaway is the care for the granular detail that Steve Jobs had/has. [...]

Technology can be scary.

We have come across countless coaches who have bravely leaped into the smart phone/tablet/web-app world, but are only utilizing a very small percentage of the capabilities of the respective devices.

For example: You bought an iPad and so far you have just opened Safari and your email program. Or, you have a new Android device and you have used it to make calls, send a text message and maybe browse the web. This is totally fine…you are amongst a large group.

If you’re ready to explore these useful devices a little more deeplly, here are a few tips on how to start learning these devices and becoming, dare I say, “experts”:

1) Try to break it I don’t mean take your device and smash it, but I do suggest you roll up your sleeves and start opening everything. Get in there [...]