We Built RecruitRadar Because We Were Lost With College Sports Recruiting

My son is a talented basketball player. He’s not 6’7” with a highlight reel that goes viral overnight; but he’s good. Really good. We’ve heard it from coaches and trainers who know the game: he has potential to play at the college level, maybe D2, possibly even D1.

That should be exciting news; and it is. But it also opened a door to a process we knew absolutely nothing about.

The Questions That Kept Us Up at Night

When you realize your kid might actually have a shot at playing college ball, it’s exciting, but also overwhelming. Where do we start?

What schools should we be looking at? We didn’t know the difference between D1, D2, D3, or NAIA schools, let alone which schools had programs worth targeting. We didn’t know who the coaches were, how to find their contact information, or how to even get on their radar.

We’re just parents both working full time jobs. We love our son. We want to do right by him. And we were starting from zero.

The Problem: Data Is Scattered

The information exists — school divisions, conference affiliations, coaching rosters, contact details. The problem is that it lives across thousands of different websites, and keeping track of it manually is impossible.

Coaches change programs all the time. A school you researched last month might have a completely different staff today. If you reach out to a coach who’s no longer there, you’ve wasted the effort, and potentially started that school’s recruiting relationship on the wrong foot.

What We Built, and Why

RecruitRadar started as a personal project to solve our own problem. We wanted one place to:

• Find schools — search and filter by academics, location, division, conference, enrollment, and more

• See who’s coaching — current staff, titles, and contact information, all in one place

• Track the schools you care about — build your personal list and keep everything organized in one place instead of in spreadsheets or scattered across browser tabs

• Get notified when coaching rosters change — when a school updates their coaching staff page, we’ll alert you so you’re never reaching out with stale information

Recruiting is about relationships, and relationships start with knowing who you’re actually talking to. We monitor school coaching pages regularly so you don’t have to; when the staff changes, you’ll know.

The core idea is simple: recruiting intelligence for families who aren’t recruiting insiders.

We’re not blasting emails to coaches on your behalf or promising offers. We’re giving you the information you need to make smart decisions, track the recruiting process, know who to contact to enable real conversations, and share your student-athlete’s profile directly with coaches and see when they’ve viewed it.

Who RecruitRadar Is For

If your student-athlete has aspirations to play at the college level — in any sport, at any division — and you’re the parent trying to figure out how to help them get there, RecruitRadar was built for you.

You don’t need to be an expert. You just need the right data, organized in a way that makes sense, so you can show up informed and give your kid the best possible shot.

Try It Free

Men’s basketball is live now, with more sports on the way.

Create a free account and start tracking up to 5 schools today — no credit card required. Full access to coach contact information and unlimited school tracking starts at $20/month.

Sign up free at recruitradar.app

Know another sports parent who’s navigating this? Send it their way. We’re building this for families like ours, and word of mouth means everything at this stage.

RecruitRadar is built by a parent who’s in the thick of the recruiting process; building what I wished existed.