For parents
Find the school they’ll be happy at.
The goal was never “recruited anywhere”. It is four good years: the right level, real minutes, a major they want, a cost you can carry. Startline scores all 2,215 college soccer programs on soccer and on school, never blended, so your time goes to the schools that fit.
Free: every program scored · no card · then $99 for 12 months, paid once
Saint LouisD1
84Athletic
92Academic
2,215
programs, scored on soccer and on school
66,998
roster spots read by position and class year
2,201
programs with a six-year graduation rate on file
The costly mistake isn’t missing D1. It’s the wrong school.
Years and money on schools that were never realistic
Showcases, camps and thirty emails aimed at programs a level above your player, or already four deep at their position.
A signing that ends in an unhappy four years
On the bench, without the major they wanted, at a price the family cannot carry. Most of that is knowable before the first email.
Without StartlineAn evening without Startline
- Google a ranking list
- Copy names into a spreadsheet
- Guess at the level
- Email thirty coaches
- Wait, and wonder what the silence meant
With StartlineThe same evening, with Startline
- Answer 20 questions once
- All 2,215 programs scored for your player
- The ones with a real opening at their position
- An email written from that program's roster
- Every coach reply on one board, with your answer drafted
A school they’ll be happy at has to fit six ways.
Soccer and school both. From your 20 answers, Startline weighs all six wherever the data exists and keeps the athletic and academic scores apart. They describe fit, not a chance of being recruited: no one can promise a roster spot, and we don’t.
The right level
Level Match · Level Fit
Their club league and ODP level against the level each program recruits, and their GPA and test scores against the range it admits.
Real minutes, not the bench
Roster Openings · Freshman Playing Time
Who at their position leaves before they arrive, and the share of true freshmen who actually got on the field, where we can read it.
A major they want
Major Match
Whether the school actually offers what they want to study.
A cost your family can carry
Cost Fit
Published tuition for a family in your state, against the budget you give us, before any aid.
A distance that works
On every mapped school
Miles from home on every school we can place on a map. Shown, never scored: you decide how far is too far.
A school they will finish
Graduation Rate · School Size
How many students graduate within six years, and a campus the size they said they wanted.
The real Your Fit list: two scores out of 100 and the miles from home on every mapped school; tap a score and every point is explained.
Soccer recruiting + AI
Powered by AI. Run by a person.
25 jobs keep Startline running, and 8 of them use AI, for words. The two Fit Scores are computed by fixed rules, so the same answers always give the same scores.
Writes in their voice
Two minutes of talking, and each coach email can be put in your child's own words. The facts in it do not change.
Reads school news daily
For the schools you follow, one line worth mentioning to the coach, with its link.
Rewords a reply on request
Say what you do not like about a drafted answer to a coach and AI rewords it, adding nothing new.
Reads their game film
Points to the moments worth keeping in a highlight reel, each with its time in the film. No rating.
Half of every score is the school.
Getting on the field and being happy off it are different questions, so Startline answers them separately. Academic Fit is its own score out of 100, built from 6 factors (Level Fit, Cost Fit, Major Match, Graduation Rate, In-State Fit, School Size) and never averaged into the athletic one.
60%
median six-year graduation rate across our programs. Every school is scored against it.
Saint Louis · women’s
D1 · MO · 255 mi
Athletic
84
Academic
92
Two scores out of 100 · never averaged into one
Academic Fit, added up
30 + 14 + 20 + 15 + 8 + 5 = 92
Sample player2027 center mid, Nashville, TN: GPA 3.6, SAT 1210, wants Exercise Science, $30k–$50k budget. The school’s side is real: the engine’s result against Saint Louis’s own published data.
Level Fit
30 / 30
GPA 3.6 inside the 3.59–3.99 band around the 3.79 Saint Louis admits on average, and SAT 1210 at the foot of its 1210–1430 — within their range.
Cost Fit
14 / 20
$52,260 published tuition, above the $30k–$50k this family gave us — a stretch before any aid.
Major Match
20 / 20
Exercise Science is offered (Exercise Science and Kinesiology).
Graduation Rate
15 / 15
80% finish within six years, against a 60% median.
In-State Fit
8 / 10
A private school, so in-state status doesn't move tuition the same way.
School Size
5 / 5
7,332 undergrads — the medium campus this family said they wanted.
Find the programs that need your player now.
Most tools answer “could my kid play here?” The question that decides a happy Saturday is whether that program needs somebody like your kid right now. You can read it off the program’s own published roster.
Center mid · 2027
Sample playerRoster openings
Evansville
26 players2026-27 roster
3 midfielders still there when you arrive
A competitive spot
2 seniors or grad students now, leaving this spring
Filled cells are still there in fall 2027. Outlined cells have left by then.
Start free. Pay when you want the why.
Six questions, and the answer to each.
Is my kid actually good enough for D1?
D1 is 562 of the 2,215 four-year programs, and "good enough" is not one bar — it is different at every one of them. We score your player against all of them and show the reasoning, so the answer is a list of programs rather than a verdict.
What level should we be targeting?
The levels where the roster, the recruiting history and your player's own league line up. That is usually a range across two divisions, not a single tier, and seeing the spread is what stops a family aiming at one level and missing the others entirely.
Are we wasting time emailing schools that will not reply?
Often, yes — and for two reasons you can check in advance. D1 coaches cannot reply before June 15 after sophomore year (D2, D3 and NAIA coaches can), and a program carrying four players at your position was never going to answer. Both are visible before you send.
What schools actually need someone at my kid's position?
The question almost nothing answers. We read 66,998 published roster spots by position and class year, so you can see who is ahead of them and who graduates.
Are we overlooking schools?
Almost certainly. Most lists are built from the handful of names a family has heard of. Every program in the country is scored for your player, which is how the good fits nobody mentioned surface.
Is my kid's GPA helping or hurting?
Both, and the split is the useful part. Academic fit is scored separately from athletic fit and never blended into it, because getting in and getting on the field are different questions with different answers.