SPORTS RECRUITS
Recruiting Platform
Sports Recruits allows American Freedom coaches and players to combine recruiting, video and evaluations onto one platform, simplifying the experience for their staff and families. Coaches and players can track recruiting activity in real-time and empower their players and families in the recruiting process.
Take Charge Recruiting
RECRUITING PARTNER
Take Charge Recruiting has been working with student-athletes and their families through the recruiting process for the past 9 years, including: softball (9yrs), baseball (4yrs), and men's/women's volleyball (2yrs). In that time, they have helped their athletes receive over $10.6 Million in Athletic Scholarships.
Take Charge Recruiting is going back to where they started and focusing on softball only.
Take Charge Recruiting uses a proactive approach to help student-athletes get noticed by college coaches through email and skills videos. Being a former collegiate coach and knowing many coaches, Christine Summers, the director of TCR, knows first hand their time is limited. Each coach's time is very valuable and most do not have time to spend searching through website's that use databases with hundreds of athletes that might not be interested in their program or at the caliber the coach is looking for. Many coaches do not have the resources to see all players in person as well.
That is why TCR is different. With their proactive approach, they get the student-athletes information sent out directly to the coach's inbox in the geographic areas chosen by the athlete. This helps target the geographic area interested and allows the coaches to know who the student-athlete is, that they are looking to play collegiate ball, and why they should consider the student-athlete as a prospect.
Take Charge Recruiting is also able to help with the skills video portion and have filmed over 1,000 of them since 2011! They are also able to travel anywhere in the country for groups/teams looking for skills videos.
HEADFIRST HONOR ROLL CAMPS
ACADEMIC SHOWCASE PARTNER
Headfirst Honor Roll Camps are the longest-running, best attended and most popular academic showcase camps for baseball and softball in the country. Founded in 1999, their unique formula combines the most quality access to college coaches with insight, guidance and inspiration for the journey ahead from a team of experienced Headfirst staff, who have been high-academic student athletes themselves.
Headfirst currently offers five camps at three locations in the country. Their flyer is attached below. They will have 50+ college coaches, representing some of the top academic universities in the country, at each camp. They keep their camp numbers below 200, campers must register by position. The format for the three-day camp includes skill evaluation, showcase games and practice sessions with college coaches. All college coaches will receive detailed evaluations on each camper.
As a partner with Headfirst, AF players will receive discounted rate. They will also host our athletes for a meet and greet with the college coaches during the event.
New Balance
Shoe Partner
New Balance is one of the leading athletic shoe companies in the country. New Balance cleats and turfs are some of the most comfortable shoes in baseball and softball.
American Freedom athletes receive discounted pricing on New Balance shoes.
Teams may purchase the red, white and navy model shown above or solid white cleats.
Oakley
Sports Eyeware Partner
OAKLEY Eyewear is the leading sports eyewear company in the country. All American Freedom players, coaches and fans will be able to purchase OAKLEY Eyewear at a discounted price.
For order information, please go to -
https://americanfreedomoakley.itemorder.com/sale
Bownet
TRAINING EQUIPMENT & NET PARTNER
BOWNET is one of the leading providers of training products and nets for softball. American Freedom teams can purchase BOWNET equipment at discounted prices.
Team orders are processed through Coach Blaskowski, AF National Director, 469-536-9800.
RAPSODO
Hitting and Pitching Analytics
RAPSODO is one of the leading hitting and pitching analytic tools in the game of softball. Instructors are using RAPSODO to improve their students skills and efficiency in their mechanics. College Coaches have access to the RAPSODO National Database of certified scores to use in the recruiting process. The Warehouse Training Facility is a RAPSODO Certified facility which allows it to offer testing opportunities for all American Freedom players to have their results posted in the national database.
ON DECK MEASUREMENTS
PLAYER EVALUATIONS
In fastpitch softball, OnDeck Measurements (ODM) is the recognized authority in objective measurables - comprehensive raw softball athletic data. Individual objective scores and the corresponding Allister Index (AI), have become the most important objective statistical measurements in player assessment, self-evaluation, and player development.
https://odmtesting.com/american-freedom-organizational-testing/