Changing how athletes get in front of college coaches

Recrua runs your entire recruiting outreach campaign for you — targeting the programs you want, writing emails that actually get coaches to respond (Backed by 3+ years of data), following up consistently, and managing replies until conversations turn into offers and scholarship opportunities.

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Our process

A recruiting cycle built for any sport.

BASED ON REAL CASE STUDY: $20K IN SCHOLARSHIPS OFFERED

John's story is baseball. The system is the same for every sport with college programs — soccer, basketball, track, or anything else. Same targeting. Same outreach. Same reply handling. Home runs or goals, the college recruitment process doesn't change; only the coaches we target do.

Day 0–2 · first 24–48 hours

Tell us about your athlete

After signup, we get everything: stats, film, story, target level, and goals.

No summer spent chasing showcases. No $8k advisor who ghosts you in October. No script your athlete has to read off a phone at 9pm.

You tell it to us straight — the numbers, the gap years, the grades, the goal — and we build the campaign around the real athlete, not a highlight-reel version of them.

INTAKE / JOHN O.Complete

Position

SS/3B · Class of 2028

Story

Hadn't played in 2 years — two years into college, decided he wanted baseball back

Ideal location

Arizona or surrounding state

Deadline

Back on campus in August — weeks, not months

Launched

July 31

Result

Recruited with a $20k scholarship by August 10 — 10x ROI on the program

Campaign built

DAY 3–14 · BUILD + EMAIL WARM-UP

We build the outreach machine

We build your target list — matched by division, level, position, and location — then write emails at scale with personalized, proven copy that gets coaches to respond.

Completely done for you — you don't write a single email, spend months guessing what to say, or worry about landing in spam.

Speaking of landing in spam, this stretch also covers email warm-up. Before a new sending address can reach coaches, it has to build a reputation with inbox providers by sending a small, slowly increasing volume over 1–2 weeks. Skip it and every message lands in spam. So the campaign is written and staged while the inboxes warm — then it goes out at full strength.

Build / John O. campaignWorking

[00:02]Reading oliver-john-2025.profile

[00:06]Scoring 0 programs on need, fit, and distance

[00:11]Shortlist 0 programs · 0 with open roster slots

[00:15]Drafting 0 individually written emails

Writing 0 coaches across Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah — athletic profile for the staffs hunting talent, academics for the selective ones, location for the budget ones. Sending now.

DAY 14+ · REPLIES, OFFERS, RECRUITED

We handle every reply — with you in the room

We handle every coach reply — follow-ups, film requests, questions, all of it — until it needs to be handed off to you. Once your campaign is live, coaches may call or reach out directly, sometimes without warning, so keep your phone on and ready.

You get a private Slack channel with our team. Every coach reply gets posted there the moment it lands, so you always know exactly where each program stands.

No parent chasing coaches at midnight. No wondering what's happening.

Inbox / John Oliver — Cycle 1Recruited

[JUL 31]Campaign live — first emails out to Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah programs

[D+2]Head coach interest — recruiting call booked, film requested

[D+4]✓ Roster offer — spring '27 spot on the table

[D+6]✓ Second offer — roster spot from an in-region program

[D+8]✓ Scholarship offered — athletic money on the table

[AUG 10]✓ Committed — roster spot + scholarship accepted, 10 days after launch

Slack channel — you, your family, and the Recrua team. Every positive reply rings through

Real Offers. Real Scholarships.

The end of the cycle isn't a dashboard metric — it's a coach writing back.

John's family made a few thousand dollar investment. He landed a roster spot with a $20,000 scholarship. That's the actual return on a real campaign.

These are the replies that started it.

Reply / Head coachOffer received

Reply / ProgramOffer received

Reply / Recruiting coordinatorOffer received

+ Scholarship

The email wasn’t the end — the coach called John directly after this, and the scholarship came out of that conversation.

Reply / Head coachOffer received

+ Scholarship

Film went over, the head coach got him on a call, and the offer with scholarship money followed.

NOTEScreenshots are real replies from the John O. campaign, lightly cropped for privacy. Each one led to a phone call with the coach — that's where the roster spot and $20,000 scholarship were offered. All within 10 days from launch to commitment.

FAQ

Answers, straight up.

Every sport with college programs. Baseball, football, basketball, soccer, track, volleyball, hockey, lacrosse, softball, tennis, golf, swimming, wrestling — you name it. The system is the same across all of them: we find the right college coaches for your sport, level, and location, then run the outreach and reply handling until real roster opportunities happen.

From the day you sign on until a coach says yes. We're in the threads through every follow-up, film request and call — and honestly, we don't disappear once you commit. We love staying in touch, checking in down the road, and seeing how it's going once you're on campus. The relationship doesn't end at the signature.

No — nobody honest can promise that. What we guarantee is real contact: your name, film and story landing in front of real college coaches, with every reply worked.

Yes. Transfers and JUCO ballplayers are some of our strongest cases — John Oliver was two years into college and off the field before we launched his campaign.

Still have questions?

HOW IT ALL STARTED, FROM OUR FOUNDER

He was good enough. He just wasn't in front of the right coaches.

I played baseball my whole life. At just 20 years old, I built businesses that generated tens of thousands in revenue through cold email outreach — writing copy, building systems, and turning inboxes into revenue.

In Summer 2026, two years into college, my brother decided he wanted to play baseball again. I knew he was good enough — he just wasn't in front of the right coaches. The traditional path meant spending $5,000–$10,000 on showcases, advisors, and travel workouts across the country.

So I pointed the same email systems I use in my businesses at college baseball coaches.

Ten days later, he had a roster spot and a $20,000 scholarship.

$2k investment → $20k scholarshipRecruited in 10 days

Jacob Oliver

Founder, Recrua

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