Athletics and records · For college coaches and athletic administrators
A college athletics recruiting display that tells your program’s story
Recruits and families walk through your facility for a short visit. Show them the postseason runs, the honorees, the coaching history and where your alumni went, then let them revisit it from home.
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What is a college athletics recruiting display?
A college athletics recruiting display presents a college program’s postseason history, individual honors, coaching history and alumni careers to visiting recruits and families, usually in a recruiting lounge or arena concourse. HistoryShowcase organizes those by sport and honor on a touchscreen, and the same published site has its own web address coaches can send to recruits after the visit.
Updated
- Made for
- College coaches and athletic administrators
- Where schools put it
- Recruiting lounge, Arena concourse, Recruiting messages
- Layouts
- Pennant, Honors ledger, Profiles, Portrait gallery
- Visitors can filter by
- Sport, Honor, Year
- Cost
- Free to use. No payment details required.
A short visit and a lot of history to cover
A campus visit gives your staff a short window. Recruits tour the locker room and the training facility, meet the coaches and sit down with academic advisors. Your program’s history is usually told in a few banners, a framed jersey or two and whatever a coach can fit into conversation. Families leave with impressions, not details they can return to.
A college athletics recruiting display gives that history a home recruits can explore on their own: postseason runs, all-conference honorees, academic honors, coaching history and where former athletes went after graduation. The published site has its own web address, so coaches can share the same display with recruits and parents after they leave campus and when they are comparing schools at home.
How does a college athletics recruiting display compare with a printed media guide?
| What matters | Printed media guide | HistoryShowcase |
|---|---|---|
| Depth of information | Detailed records and bios in print | Profiles with biographies and up to 100 photos |
| Finding one honoree | Use the index or page through | Search by name or filter by sport |
| After the visit | Families take a copy home | Recruits open the web address at home |
| Updating mid-season | Waits for the next printing | Publish a change once it’s reviewed |
| Alumni careers | A page or two, if included | A where they are now collection |
What recruits and families look for
Postseason history
Conference titles, tournament appearances and national finishes as championship banners, each opening the season and roster.
Individual honors
All-conference, All-American and award winners by sport, in clean ledger rows recruits can scan quickly.
Academic honors
Scholar-athletes and academic award winners, so families see the classroom side of the program.
Where they are now
Former athletes’ careers after college, in coaching, business, medicine, teaching and professional sport.
Coaching staff and history
Current staff profiles and the coaches who built the program before them.
Facilities through the years
Photos of the arena, field or boathouse from the first season to today.
How to organize a recruiting display
Organize by what a recruit asks about, with sport as a filter so each coach can point straight to their program.
Your siteExample University Athletics
- Postseason historyPennant
One banner per title or tournament run.
- All-conference and All-AmericanHonors ledger
Honorees by sport and year, one row each.
- Where they are nowProfiles
Alumni profiles with their careers and their years here.
- Coaching staffPortrait gallery
Current coaches first, past head coaches in a sub-collection.
Visitors can narrow it by
- Sport
- Honor
- Year
How do you set up a college athletics recruiting display?
Bring in the record book
Import your media guide lists as a spreadsheet, or upload the record book and let Smart Add suggest stories to review.
Let each staff contribute
Add sports information staff and coaches as editors. A publisher in the athletic department reviews before anything goes live.
Share it before and after visits
Publish, then send the web address with visit materials so recruits and families can explore on their own.
Where should a college athletics recruiting display go?
- Recruiting loungeRecruits and parents explore while they wait between meetings.
- Arena concourseGame-day visitors and recruits on campus see the full program history.
- Recruiting messagesShare the published site’s web address with recruits and their families.
College athletics recruiting display questions
Can each sport have its own section?
Yes. Make a collection or sub-collection for each sport, or keep shared collections and add a sport filter so coaches can jump straight to their program.
Can recruits see it after the visit?
Yes. The published site has its own web address, so anyone with the link can open it in a web browser at home.
Who maintains it?
Add sports information staff and coaches by email as editors, with athletic administrators as publishers. Changes stay in a private draft until someone with publishing access publishes.
We have decades of media guide content. Do we retype it?
No. Import spreadsheets with one row per story, or upload a document and let Smart Add suggest stories with their sources for you to accept.
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