Social Networking And Athletic Recruitment At Its Best

CSA changes the face of athletic recruitment and fan interaction! End Quote

Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX (1888PressRelease) April 05, 2015 - As Connecting Student Athletes (CSA) is launched today online at www.csathletes.com, a new kind of recruitment experience is now available to address such problems in collegiate sports recruitment. According to CSA founder and CEO, Dominick Walker, "CSA allows student athletes to market themselves through a user-friendly, professional, and streamlined process within an online social network community dedicated to student athletes, colleges/universities, and fans. Student athletes from all sports (age 13 up to high school seniors) can create a CSA profile where they can upload game videos and engage and gain significant exposure to several colleges/universities and fans. Coaches will now have the opportunity to recruit virtually any athlete and fans can support stu-dent athletes and be involved throughout the recruitment process. Through CSA, even talented student athletes in small towns without media coverage and financial resources can be discovered by a univer-sity that might otherwise lack the resources or reach to identify recruits from distant and non-urban ar-eas, a rarity in this era of college athletic scouting."

Despite the large number of talented and skilled high school athletes, less than 1% of all student athletes are offered a Division 1 scholarship. A prime example of this problem is college football where over 100 Division 1 schools are represented; however, each year, student athletes target these schools in overwhelming numbers, even though scholarship opportunities are scarce at these institutions. Unfortu-nately, many of these athletes are unaware of the range of athletic scholarship opportunities that remain untapped at numerous other colleges and universities Several factors contribute to this disparity in-cluding limited knowledge on available opportunities among high school coaches and athletes, lack of exposure to various colleges & universities, and geographic barriers that hinder many college athletic programs from identifying talented athletes in distantly located communities.

So, how can the student athlete increase their exposure to every university and how can each university reach all student athletes, despite their location and lack of resources?

As advances in technology and social media transform talent identification for college sports, it's time to focus on how we can leverage social media to empower our young student athletes and give them the opportunity to continue to do what they love, while achieving higher education. In addition to student athletes networking with coaches and other athletes, the website promotes fan interaction, sports news updates, and also features access to educational resources for student athletes. CSA will directly and indirectly increase opportunities for scholarship acquisition among student athletes and revolutionize the process of athletic recruitment.

If you'd like more information about this topic, or to schedule an interview with Dominick Walker, please contact Dominick at csadwalker ( @ ) gmail dot com

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