Help a high school athlete make a great college team. Contribute Now

Since 2007, Stack Athlete has helped more than 2 million high school athletes make great college teams. To celebrate our 10-year anniversary, we're looking to individual and corporate backers to help further our mission and reach high school athletes who in the past haven't been able to afford Stack Athlete services.

Learn how your support will help students make it to college

Our formula for helping students succeed

We wrote the book on positive, proactive recruiting -- you can download a copy for free here.

Being successful is not all about DI. And it’s not about getting a full ride or bust. It’s about finding a college team at a school that’s going to be a great fit academically, socially, and athletically -- in that order of importance.

To accomplish that, students can’t just sit around and hope they’ll be found. Nor can they hire a “placement service” that acts like an agent and tries to push them onto a college team. Finding the right college is an intensely personal process and the best way to do it is to take control and build a concerted self-marketing campaign. That’s what Stack Athlete helps students do: find the right schools and effectively promote themselves to the college coaches at those schools.

How your backing will help students make it to college

A host of studies have shown that access to college guidance resources and counselors increases the probability that students in underserved communities will go to college.

To help bridge this divide, each participating student will receive a full year subscription to Stack Athlete Platinum. This is our highest tier of service, which couples powerful software with 1-on-1 consultations with seasoned recruiting guides. A recent survey of Stack Athlete Platinum members found that 91% had offers to play in college and 86% made a team.

Recruiting Software

Stack Athlete recruiting software provides all the tools an aspiring college athlete needs to make a great college team. This includes: a recruiting profile, the ability to search for colleges that will be a great fit, the ability to send messages to any coach in the country, and analytics tools to see which college coaches are paying attention to them -- viewing their profile, finding them in searches, and watching their recruiting videos.

Personalized Consultations

Many high school athletes need personalized help in addition to software. To our Platinum level members, we provide a full recruiting team that includes: a sport-specific expert who evaluates students and helps them understand what colleges will be a good fit academically, socially, and athletically; a strategist who helps the students build their self-promotion campaign; and a videography expert who will make highlight videos for the student to make him or her look great.

We are working with nonprofits and school boards in underrepresented communities to identify athletes, teams, and athletic departments that will benefit most from your contribution.

A recent survey of Stack Athlete Platinum members found that

91% recieve offers to play in college
&
86% make a college team

In 2016 alone, 24,000 high school students on Stack Athlete made college teams.

Donation tier 01 $1,000

Supports an individual student for one year of our Platinum service

Donation tier 02 $5,000

Supports most students on a team

Donation tier 03 $25,000

Supports most students in a high school athletic department

Here’s what members say about their CaptainU experience

"Stack Athlete was a fantastic site. I signed a volleyball scholarship and used this site exclusively. I found the site to be VERY easy to use. The communication was fantastic. The price was very reasonable."

Haley Committed DI
Testimonial haley

"Aren will be playing at a DI school next year! It was a great experience! We received a lot of views and responses from potential coaches. I will def be looking you guys up when my 12 year old is ready!"

Aren's Mom, Karen Committed DI
Testimonial aren

"I have committed now and must say that it’s bittersweet to leave CaptainU… it’s been a journey and Stack Athlete was part of it! Overall… we recommended Stack Athlete and would do so again."

Shannon Committed DIII
Testimonial shannon

"Stack Athlete is an excellent tool that definitely helped me gain coaches' interest and eventually got me seriously recruited by seven different schools."

Brian Committed DIII
Testimonial brian

"I use my Stack Athlete account practically every day. It is my main tool for communicating with college coaches."

Cassidy Active recruit
Testimonial cassidy

"Any athlete that is going through the recruiting process should keep their options open, and Stack Athlete helped me find colleges I didn't even know had teams!"

Jonah Committed DI
Testimonial jonah

"I was on another recruiting profile site last year with no success. From the time I created a Stack Athlete profile and sent emails, I started getting immediate response and feedback."

Jordan Active recruit
Testimonial jordan

"Having everything loaded on my Stack Athlete profile helped me keep the entire recruitment process organized. I was able to update and track my progress with each coach and monitor communication in one place."

Patrick Committed DI
Testimonial patrick

"Stack Athlete is an excellent website with very easy to follow instructions. I would highly recommend this program, and I may use it for my second daughter in sixth grade soon."

Ashley's mom Active recruit
Testimonial ashley

"I loved my experience with CaptainU! And it helped me to become a success story... I will be playing Division II soccer in South Carolina this coming fall."

Madelyn Committed DII
Testimonial madelyn

"Stack Athlete provides an easy way to contact coaches and a central location where they can view your profile."

Channing Committed NAIA
Testimonial channing

"I liked the ease of being able to research college programs and teams directly from CaptainU."

Mia Committed DI
Testimonial mia

"Stack Athlete saves time looking for emails, gives you school info, and links to schools. You also know when a coach read your email or saw a video."

Beatriz Committed NJCAA
Testimonial beatriz

"Stack Athlete is a great way to get in touch with a vast amount of schools and coaches."

Sarah Committed DI
Testimonial sarah

"Stack Athlete shows a lot of information about the colleges and provides a way to contact them in a quick and easy way."

Austin Committed DIII
Testimonial austin

"Stack Athlete provided a great, organized method to reach college coaches."

Mitch Committed DIII
Testimonial mitch

"The service was essential to recruiting. Particularly the notifications of when a coach opens and views profiles."

Scottie Committed DIII
Testimonial scottie

"It is valuable to collect all your recruiting information in one place. Stack Athlete makes it easy to do this."

Vincent Committed DIII
Testimonial vincent

"It's a great tool to be recruited and to teach you what steps you need to take in the recruiting process. Stack Athlete allows coaches to see you and open lines of communication."

Miranda Committed DII
Testimonial miranda

"Stack Athlete is a great tool that has numerous options including example letters that show what coaches are looking for."

Brandon Committed DI
Testimonial brandon

"It's very easy to use, and allows you to not miss any information needed for recruiting."

Nicholas Committed DI
Testimonial nicholas

"My recruiting process was very successful and I had several offers as a result of using CaptainU. I could tell that a lot of coaches use Stack Athlete and I had a lot of nice options."

Hunter Committed NAIA
Testimonial hunter

"Whitney completed her Freshman year playing on a DI soccer team. She started every game, they won their league with an undefeated league record, and qualified for the NCAA tournament! Stack Athlete had everything to do with her success! THANK YOU!"

Whitney's Dad, Marco Committed DI
Testimonial whitney

"First of all thank you for what you do. We used your site throughout my daughters recruiting process and you were an integral part of her connecting with the coach that recruited her at a DIII school. We recommend Stack Athlete to any serious athlete planning on playing a sport in College!"

Ursula's Dad, Ricardo Committed DIII
Testimonial ursula

"Stack Athlete helped me stay motivated and share my athletic achievements with colleges all around the country! I was also able to narrow my college search by seeing what colleges were in need of a Goal Keeper. Thanks for you help."

Collin Committed DIII
Testimonial collin

"Fantastic tool, exactly what we had hoped it would be and enabled me to reach my goal! I was able to understand the process and stay on task. By giving me the opportunity to have my stats and events accessible to coaches, I had coaches emailing me and asking me to attend there camps and I signed to run at a DI school!"

Elin Committed DI
Testimonial elin

"Stack Athlete was great for social networking and helped me in every possible way. I would have never been able to reach out to all these coaches, if it weren't for CaptainU. The university I commited to wasn't even on my radar as a potential opportunity and Stack Athlete changed that."

Mackenzie Committed DI
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"Stack Athlete provided a high quality forum that kept my son focused and in contact with many schools. We ended up with four offers, two of which were full scholarships. It is well worth it, and I tell all of the kids and parents I coach now about this website and to start as soon as they can!"

Christian's Father, Gary Committed NJCAA
Testimonial christian

"Stack Athlete was great and gave me the ability to put myself out there and be discovered. It really helped me get past my fears of communicating with college coaches and gave me the framework to follow so I could achieve my goal of playing college sports."

Brendan Committed DI
Testimonial brendan

Frequently Asked Questions

Where can I learn more about why access to resources and counseling are so important?

We recommend starting with a fascinating study in the Journal of Applied Economics and Business Research from the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard: “Counseling and college matriculation: Does the availability of counseling affect college-going decisions among highly qualified first-generation college-bound high school graduates?”

Is my contribution tax deductible?

No. Stack Athlete is a for-profit business and therefore contributions to this program are not tax deductible.

Am I allowed to choose which individual, team, or athletic department benefits from my contribution?

No. This is to prevent any preferential treatment being given to an individual or team.

How are individuals, teams, and athletic departments chosen to participate?

Students will be selected based on need -- with a particular focus on athletes on free and reduced lunches and being the first in their families to go to college. They will not be selected or screened based on athletic ability to allow athletes of all skill levels to participate and to comply with recruiting rules. We are working with nonprofit organizations and school districts to identify underserved schools with high levels of free and reduced lunches. Contributors will not be allowed to select which athletes are invited to participate in the program.

Will athletic ability be a factor in deciding who gets to participate?

Athletic ability will not be a determining factor in whether an individual student is allowed to participate in the program. We will invite athlete of all levels of ability to participate, provided they’re serious about competing in college. This is not about DI Football scholarships; rather it’s about providing opportunity to athletes in all sports and all levels of ability.

Please contact us at contribute@captainu.com with any questions.