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Family Collaboration

Recruit Together
Without Taking Over

Recruitment is a family project that only one person can sign. Parents want to help; athletes want to be trusted. So followers get their own login and their own view, the athlete decides what each of them can see, and anything a follower adds waits for the athlete to say yes.

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How It Works

Four Steps to Helping Properly

It takes about two minutes to set up, and it ends the "any news?" text message forever.

1

Invite your people

The athlete sends a follow invitation by email to a parent, guardian, coach, or advisor. They create their own free account - no shared passwords, no logging in as each other.

2

Choose what they see

Turn each permission on or off per follower: the college list, the timeline tasks, the profile, the schedule, and the logged coach interactions.

3

They help from their own view

A follower switches into the athlete's view, sees what they're allowed to see, and can suggest colleges and add notes if the athlete granted those rights.

4

The athlete approves

Suggested colleges and follower notes arrive as pending items. The athlete accepts or declines each one. Nothing enters the list without the athlete's say-so.

What You Get

What Collaboration Actually Does

The real permissions and workflows, described exactly as they behave.

Five separate view permissionsColleges, timeline tasks, profile, schedule, and coach interactions are each their own switch - a coach can see your schools without reading your private notes about phone calls.
Interactions get their own switchLogged coach conversations carry the athlete's own words about private discussions, so sharing them is a deliberate, separate choice rather than a side effect of sharing the college list.
College suggestions with approvalA follower can propose a school with a note explaining why. It lands in the athlete's pending list to accept or decline - never straight onto the list.
Notes with approvalFollowers can add notes to tracked colleges, which go through the same approve-or-reject flow. Helpful context, zero surprise edits.
Relationship typesEach follower is recorded as parent, coach, advisor, or other, so an athlete with several followers always knows who is who.
A switcher for parentsParents following more than one athlete - or following an athlete while having their own account - switch between views from the user menu instead of logging in and out.
Activity viewsDedicated pages show what followers have suggested and noted, so an athlete can work through a backlog of family input in one sitting.
Revocable at any timePermissions can be tightened or a follower removed whenever the athlete wants. Access granted at 15 does not have to last until 18.

Why it's built this way: the athlete owns the account and every decision on it. Followers are genuinely useful - an extra pair of eyes on schools, a memory for what a coach said - but the design deliberately makes helping easy and overriding impossible.

The rest of the toolkit

Every tool works with the same college list, so what you add in one shows up in the others.

College Tracker36 recruitment stages, notes and contact aging College Comparison42 criteria side-by-side - try the live demo Recruiting MapYour tracked colleges, coloured by stage Coach AppointmentsDual-timezone meetings and calendar feeds Athlete ProfileShareable public profile with QR and print College FinderSearch nearly 700 D1 & D2 programs - no account needed All ToolsThe full toolkit on one page

Bring Your Family Into It

Create a free account, invite the person who has been asking you for updates, and set exactly what they can see. Then get back to playing.

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