Where recruiting meets data.
Boys' & girls' soccer · youth to college
We run the whole recruiting process.Stop guessing.
Most families guess their way through recruiting. We measure it — the same assessment a college staff runs, against every program in the country.
Free plan: your 15 best-fit schools, 1 fully managed for you. No credit card.
The whole thing
Everything in soccer recruiting. One place.
Not a list of schools. Not a mail-merge tool. The entire process — boys' and girls', from your first youth club all the way to signing with a college — running in one product.
Step 01
Start young
The climb starts long before college — we map every step of the youth ladder.
- 1,802 clubs
The club pyramids
Every club on both pyramids — MLS NEXT, ECNL, Girls Academy and their second tiers — strongest leagues up top.
- 3,471 records
A real step up
Age-group standings show whether a club move is a genuine level change or just a new badge.
- 7,281 staff
The director to email
The director and age-group coach to actually reach — a real name, not a generic info@ inbox.
- 443 clubs
Tryout links, held
When a club makes your list, the door to actually try out is one tap away — not a search project.
Step 02
Know where you fit
Then college: two honest scores — athletic and academic — against every program in the country.
- 2,217 · 10 factors
The Fit Score
AthleticEvery program scored on the criteria staffs actually use — level, openings at your position, physical profile, footprint.
- 59,830 spots
Roster math
AthleticDepth by class year, who graduates at your spot, and whether the players a program signs actually stay.
- 2,186 programs
Admissions fit
AcademicYour GPA and tests against each school's real admitted range — not a guess about “good academics.”
- all 50 states
Campus fit
AcademicMajors offered, undergrad size, public or private, and how much of the campus comes from your state.
Step 03
Get in front of them
Because you know where you fit, every email is aimed at a real opening — never a blast.
- 5 data sources
Your player's actual voice
Talk for one minute at setup and every draft after sounds like them — not a template a thousand other kids sent.
- 5,374 emails
Coach emails, personalized
Each draft is built from that program's roster need, your GPA and major, their recruiting zone, and your voice.
- 7,340 coaches
Verified coach database
Real staff on file across every division and both genders — you send from your own inbox, we never email for you.
- 1,154 camps
The right ID camps
Only the camps hosted by schools already on your Fit list — dates, cost, and who's actually in the room.
Step 04
See it through
From the first email to signing day — tracked, nudged, and finished.
- 4 stages
The pipeline board
Every school staged from Ready to send through Emailed and Replied to Offer — one board, always current.
- 653 tracked
The result watch
We watch results at the schools you follow and surface the timely two-line follow-up the moment news breaks.
- 6 playbooks
Coach replied?
Paste any reply — we read it, suggest the next stage, and draft your answer in your player's own voice.
- 1,403 outcomes
Where the road leads
The programs that actually send players pro, from real signings — MLS SuperDraft, NWSL, USL Championship & Super League.
One thing we don't do: judge how good you are. We're not scouts and we don't evaluate playing ability. Startline measures where you fit — academically and athletically — and runs the logistics. The talent is yours to bring.
Watch
Why I built this
Ninety seconds on the problem every recruiting family runs into — and the tool I wish we'd had when it was us.
Why this exists
You've been told to “get exposure.” Nobody told you where you fit.
A service wanted $3,000 to work their relationships on our behalf — a stranger deciding which coaches heard my name. The spreadsheet they sent proved what that was worth.
NCSA · SportsRecruits · the rest
$3,000up front
The big services run on relationships, cover 30-plus sports, and charge four figures. What arrived for us: a spreadsheet of names.
- Belmont University
- Butler University
- Lipscomb University
- Vanderbilt University
- Trevecca Nazarene
No score. No roster math. No reason any of them were on the list — half didn't recruit the position, and some hadn't had an opening in two years.
Startline
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What you get, on every one of 2,217 schools:
- Athletic Fit94level, openings, minutes, size, region
- Academic Fit88GPA range, major, in-state, size
- Roster opening2 of 3center-mids graduate in '27
- Do they recruit here?41%of their roster is from your state
- Next stepJun 14their ID camp — drafted email ready
The same school — with the reason it ranks, the room on the roster, and the exact next thing to do.
Recruiting isn't a favor someone does for you — it's a process you can measure and run. Which schools realistically fit, which rosters have room at your position, and what to do next, this week.
How the Fit Score works
Two honest scores, not one blended guess.
Every school gets an Athletic Fit and an Academic Fit — scored separately, shown separately, never quietly averaged into one number that hides which half is weak. You decide how much each one matters with a slider. Every factor is measured from real roster and admissions data, and shows exactly how much it moved the score.
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How we got there · 5 factors
- Level Match+28/30
What share of their current roster came from your league tier or below.
Example — 62% of their roster came from your tier or below
- Roster Openings+24/25
Who's graduating at your exact position — and how deep they already are.
Example — 2 of 3 center-mids graduate in '27
- Freshman Playing Time+11/15
The share of their true freshmen who actually got on the field.
Example — 71% of their true freshmen played
- Physical Profile+13/15
How your size compares to the players they actually recruit at your position.
Example — In their range at the position
- Recruiting Geography+12/15
Whether this program actually signs players from your part of the country.
Example — Tennessee is a top-3 source state for them
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How we got there · 5 factors
- Level Fit+36/40
Your GPA and test scores against their admitted 25th–75th percentile.
Example — 3.6 GPA · 1290 SAT — inside their admitted range
- Major Match+18/20
Whether they actually offer what you want to study.
Example — Exercise Science is one of their listed majors
- In-State Fit+20/20
Public vs. private, and how much of their class comes from your state.
Example — In-state, and 41% of their class is from Tennessee
- Public / Private+10/10
The public-or-private campus preference you stated, honored in the score.
Example — You said private — Belmont is private
- School Size+8/10
Undergrad enrollment against the campus size you said you wanted.
Example — 8,300 undergrads, close to the size you wanted
Shown, but never scored: Program Trajectory and Pro Pathway (MLS SuperDraft / NWSL / USL). They're genuinely interesting and we put them on every school page — but they don't predict whether you fit, so they never touch your score.
Nothing is a black box.When a program ranks high you know why — and when it doesn't, you know what would have to change.
What you actually get
From ranked list to a coach's reply
The Fit Score ranks the schools. The rest of the tool does the work — five steps, one place, for every school on your list.
Get the ranked list
Every program in your game, ordered by fit — athletic and academic scored separately, with the reason on every row.
Find the real openings
Each program's depth chart by position — who leaves, who stays, and how deep the class behind you already is.
Record your voice, once
Your player talks for a minute. We learn their tone and the phrases they use, so nothing we draft sounds like a template.
Say it in one email
Five data sources, written in your player's own voice. The coach reads their own roster back to them — not a mass blast.
Coach — you graduate 2 of 3 center-mids in 2027, and I'm a 2027 CM 4 miles inside your zone.
I carry a 3.6 GPA for Exercise Science and have followed you since your 2024 conference final.
Before your June 14 ID camp — are you recruiting a 2027 CM?
Every highlight is pulled for you
- Roster analytics
- Recruiting zone
- Academic fit
- ID camp directory
- Program fun fact
You review, you send.
Track it to an answer
Every touch logged from your first email through to an offer — and when a coach goes quiet, we draft the nudge that restarts the conversation.
Academy & club years
Too young to be recruited? We still run your climb.
The club years aren't a waiting room. Boys' and girls' pathways run different leagues, and we cover every one of them — with the contacts and the age-group form to judge every step.
The academy years · both sides of the game
Club → CollegeNot old enough to be recruited yet?
Start here. The club years are the whole climb.
You don't need a college list at 14 — you need the next club. We rank every academy on both pyramids, name the director to contact, show each side's real form at your age group, and draft the email. Same product, same depth, years before recruiting starts.
The club leagues we rank — strongest first, each side's own pyramid
Every club from its league's own published directory
Boys
978 clubs- MLS NEXT152
- ECNL Boys167
- National Academy League53
- MLS NEXT Academy Div.176
- ECNL Regional430
Girls
824 clubs- ECNL Girls131
- Girls Academy126
- GA ASPIRE108
- ECNL Regional396
- National League63
And then — college
Every program, D1 · D2 · D3 · NAIA
1,006men's programs
1,211women's programs
When I was getting recruited, my family did every bit of this by hand — nights on the phone reading the same email out loud to my dad, digging through team pages one at a time to find who was graduating, sizing myself up against every kid already on the roster. I made it to Division I anyway. But I made it in spite of the process, and I built this so no family has to run it on guesswork again.
I ran ODP in parallel with ECNL — state team, region team, then named all-region at the inter-regional. I bring it up because ODP gets treated like a consolation prize and it isn't one: college coaches and pro scouts are in that building.
WHEN I WAS RECRUITED
My family, doing it all by hand
NOW
The same step, already done for you
Finding schools
When I was recruited
Google, message boards, and whoever my club coach happened to know. No idea if they even recruited my position.
Now
Every program in the country ranked for you, athletic and academic scored separately.
Knowing if there was room
When I was recruited
You didn't. You emailed and hoped. Half the schools on my paid list hadn't had an opening at my spot in two years.
Now
The depth chart before you spend the email — who graduates, who stays, how deep the class behind you is.
Writing the email
When I was recruited
Same template, forty times, at 11pm. Change the school name and hope nobody notices.
Now
Drafted from that program's real roster need and your own academics — in your player's voice, not a template.
Following up
When I was recruited
A note in my phone I stopped checking. Conversations went cold and I never knew which ones.
Now
Every touch logged, and a nudge drafted the moment a coach goes quiet.
What it cost
When I was recruited
A service quoted my family $3,000 to make introductions.
Now
Free to start. $20 a month if you want the rest.
I got there anyway — ECNL, a Developmental Academy, an MLS Academy, then D1 soccer. But I got there in spite of the process, not because of it. Every hour in the left column is an hour a family shouldn't have to spend guessing.
Start free
Your first list costs nothing.
Free · no credit card
Your 15 best-fit schools, free
The full ranked list with every factor shown, plus 1 school fully managed for you — analysis, coach email, follow-up — so you see the real thing before you pay anything.
Straight answers
Questions parents actually ask
Do you place players or guarantee offers?
No — and be wary of anyone who says they can. What we give you is a clear path to follow and every material you need to walk it: the ranked list built on sound analytics, the roster math behind each school, the emails ready to send, and the follow-up plan. Real logic, not vibes — so you can see exactly where you fit in your college environment and what to do about it this week.
How is this different from a $3,000 recruiting service?
Those services run on relationships: someone you've never met contacting schools on your behalf, deciding which coaches hear your name, and nudging you toward whatever mold fits their network. It can feel like being managed, not represented. Startline is the opposite — a data analytics assessment built on the real-world criteria coaches use to fill a roster: level, position need, physical profile, recruiting footprint. It was engineered by a former D1 player with an industrial engineering degree who treats recruiting as a broken process to fix, not a rolodex to rent. You keep control, and it costs $20/month, not thousands.
What does the Fit Score actually measure?
The criteria a college staff actually assesses when they fill a roster: your realistic level of play, whether your position group has real openings (who's graduating, who just committed), how your physical profile compares to the players that program recruits, whether you're inside its recruiting footprint, and where the program's pathway leads — including MLS SuperDraft pipeline data. Every factor is measured from real roster data, and you can see how each one moved the score.
Is it for boys and girls soccer?
Both. Every feature — Fit Score, roster analytics, coach outreach, academy directories — works for boys' and girls' soccer across all divisions.
What do I get for free?
Your 15 best-fit schools, with 1 fully managed for you — the complete analysis, the personalized email, and the follow-up tracking, end to end — so you can see exactly what the paid experience looks like. No credit card to start.