Draftcard Partners With Next College Student Athlete (NCSA) To Connect Student-athletes To College Coaches
DRAFTCARD(™) is a fast-growing social app that allows student-athletes to create shareable trading cards. Athletes can create and connect their stats, highlights and video in their virtual locker(™) directly to NCSA, the largest NCAA- compliant collegiate athletic recruiting network.
- (1888PressRelease) September 14, 2017 - CHICAGO — Next College Student Athlete (NCSA), the largest NCAA-compliant collegiate athletic recruiting network that matches student-athletes with college coaches, has partnered with DRAFTCARD(™), the fast-growing social app that allows athletes to create virtual lockers(™) to showcase their personality on and off the field.
“We are always looking for innovative partners,” said Lisa Strasman, president of NCSA. “DRAFTCARD(™) is a great new way for student-athletes to showcase who they are. By connecting to the NCSA collegiate athletic recruiting network, DRAFTCARD(™) athletes can share their personalities with college coaches.”
Creating an NCSA profile is often the first step on a student-athlete’s college recruiting journey. The profile acts as an athletic resume, allowing college coaches to search for and discover recruits online. This year alone, more than 20,000 student-athletes working with NCSA have committed to a college team.
“In the competitive world of athletic recruiting, it’s important to increase your exposure and visibility. DRAFTCARD(™), with its proprietary AR/VR/AI technology, will change the way we view, interact, recognize, and share athletes’ profiles and talents,” said Chris Burget, CEO and founder of DRAFTCARD(™) . “Partnering with NCSA allows youth athletes from all over the world to stand out in the ever-competitive athletic recruiting process. Our seamless integration with NCSA and the activation process allows athletes to gain access to over 35,000 college coaches in the NCSA network.”
For more information about NCSA, please visit NCSAsports.org or contact David Frank at 312- 624-7570 or at dfrank ( @ ) ncsasports dot org dot
DRAFTCARD(™) will be the world’s first AR/VR/AI sharable digital trading card. Founded by two former Division I scholarship athletes, the DRAFTCARD(™) platform enables student-athletes to post and share their athletic accomplishments with friends, family, coaches and followers, both directly and on all social networks including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat.
ABOUT NEXT COLLEGE STUDENT ATHLETE (NCSA)
NCSA is the world’s largest and most successful collegiate athletic recruiting network. A wholly owned subsidiary of Reigning Champs (www.reigningchamps.com), NCSA’s team of more than 650 former collegiate and professional athletes leverages 17 years of exclusive data, proprietary matching algorithms, and personal relationships to connect tens of thousands of college-bound student-athletes to more than 35,000 college coaches nationwide across 31 sports every year. You can learn more about NCSA at http://www.ncsasports.org/.
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