How to Use Recruiting Technology the University Athlete Way. Marc Swindle, University Athlete

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1 How to Use Recruiting Technology the University Athlete Way Marc Swindle, University Athlete

2 What we let you do:» Search almost 80,000 club players on multitudes of criteria and tag players for follow up.» Take that information with you when you go to large tournaments.» Integrate your online work with frequently updated rosters and schedules to quickly find players you need to look at on your PDA.

3 What we let you do:» Share information between your wireless PDA and your own UA account online.» Share information between Palms at tournaments.» Send evaluations and notes to other coaches on your staff wirelessly.» Exchange roster and schedule updates with other coaches.

4 At your office now:» Upload notes, evaluations, and tasks you created at a tournament to our website.» Make additional notes or assign tasks.» Modify your recruiting data.» Search our 80,000 player database.

5 At your office now:» Add players to your list to see at future tournaments.» Get contact info on players and their coaches.» Request changes to player info.» Download and print reports.

6 At your office now:» Download the new info back into your PDA for the next event.» Search clubs and colleges.

7 At your office now:» Export to Scoutware and other compatible recruiting software.

8 At your office new:» To prevent receiving unwanted s, you can use filters to block specific positions and/or grad years.

9 At your office new:» Search, view, and link Scott Carter evaluations to your database. (Requires Scott Carter membership.)

10 Custom rosters» Create custom rosters to work away from the office, or at non-ua tournaments. Select teams to export to your PDA.

11 At your office new:» We have changed our video and photo system for the athletes. They can now upload their videos to YouTube, and you will be able to watch that from their UA account.» Photos will be uploaded to Picasa, and you will also be able to view these from their UA account.

12 At your office new:» Players will be able to maintain a blog (volleyball diary) that you can view or subscribe to.» These services are all FREE to the athletes, so you will be seeing a lot more video, pictures, and blogs.» Camper Excel Export allows you to export contact information for ANY list of athletes.

13 At your office new:» Pop Up box for tag, group, and/or note.

14 On your PDA now:» Use up to 4 staff-defined Tags and Buster to mark athletes.» Use up to 5 staff-defined characters in the Group field.» Build a custom schedule based on tags and groups. View by court and time.» Identify unknown players by their uniform and the court they are on.

15 On your PDA now:» Build a list of players you ve never seen by grad year, scholarship status, height, position, etc.» Take notes and evaluate each player you see.» Share or print those notes with fellow staff.» Download the most current schedule and roster updates.» Lots more.

16 AVCA downloads» Convention schedule for Palm, WM & BB» Sunday Showcase for Palm only»

17 On your PDA now:» Save a set of search criteria. Name the search to access later.

18 On your PDA New:» With new software and smartphones popping up, we have made our software compatible with Blackberry and Windows Mobile devices (requires third party software).

19 On your PDA New:» New home screen for Palm and Windows Mobile. Customize MyTab to contain as many or as few features as you would like.» Create custom rosters to work away from the office, or at non- UA tournaments.

20 On your PDA New:» View Scott Carter evals. Download updates as he posts them.» Team hand grenade function. Buster an entire team with one tap. Or assign them all a tag or group.

21 On your PDA New:» Wireless download of tournaments.» Wireless upload of evaluations to your UA account.» Grid Overview.

22 New Devices: Blackberry» Search for athletes by name or division.» Mark recruits, take notes and evaluations» Search teams by name, division, or state.» Create custom schedules based on players or teams.

23 New Devices: Blackberry» View schedules and courts.» Recruits list.» Update rosters and schedules remotely.» Sync to web.

24 New Devices: Windows Mobile» Requires third party software.» Identical in function to Palm software.

25 Sorry, no iphone. YET!

26 New Membership Pricing Structure» Gold level:» More features, geared more to D1 with multiple recruiters.» Silver level:» Basic web and PDA functionality.» Tournaments information is still an additional cost ($125- $260 each)

27 Silver level provides all the basics:» Includes 1 PDA license (must have license to use recruiting software at tournaments).» Web access to recruit database» Wireless download of tournaments to PDA.» Wireless upload of evaluations to your UA.com account.» Custom scheduling with Hearts, Spades, Diamonds, Clubs, Buster.

28 Gold level includes more features» All of the above, with up to 3 total PDA licenses.» Print at large tournaments.» Scott Carter evaluations available on the Palm. Updates available live at tournaments. (requires subscription to Scott Carter).» Excel and Scoutware exports from web searches.

29 More Gold features» Wireless evaluation sharing with your staff at tournaments.» Personal PDA roster: build your own roster of up to 30 teams, sync to your Palm, and work on your evals away from your computer. This will be helpful for non-qualifiers and regional tournaments.

30 Even More Gold features» Ability to use 5 character group field on Palm.» Camper export. Get an excel file with all known address of players in your area.

31 2008 Prices (available January 2, 2008)» Division I: On or before February 1, 2008» Gold: $450» Silver: $200» Division I: After February 1, 2008:» Gold: $500» Silver: $250» Non-Division I (Silver Package only)» Anytime: $125

32 Help Us Help You» Keep your profile up to date with contact, program, and school information so that athletes can find you.» Athletes do search the Needs List. It is a good idea to keep a general listing on there. For example: 2009, any position.

33 Upcoming Tournaments» January 5-6: Tour of Texas Qualifier, Dallas» January 19-21: Fiesta Classic, Phoenix» January 26-27: Tour of Texas 1, College Station» February 16 18: SCVA, Las Vegas» February 16 18: Omaha» March 14 16: Colorado Crossroads, Denver

34 Questions?