ScoutForce has been selected by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) to build a new web site for the association. The CSCAA web site will serve as a communication and networking tool for its members, as well as provide a platform to market and communicate to non-members. The site will provide secure login access for all members to be a part of the online community that will have access to documents, members' forum, contact information, and other information provided by the association. This online community will serve to strengthen the value of the membership for the association and provide a means for instantaneously disseminating information to members who are spread across the United States.

As part of our partnership with the CSCAA, we will be the exclusive provider of for recruiting software at the their 2010 association convention being held in Baltimore this year. We are very excited to be working with the CSCAA and looking forward to participating in their association convention this year. It will be great to see some of our existing clients there as well as build relationships with new coaches.

Here at ScoutForce, this type of relationship with the CSCAA is exciting because it allows us to partner with them to use technology so they can continue to be successful and expand their reach. We are committed to helping teams, athletic departments, associations, and the like to leverage technology to be more successful and we are excited about the new products and services we will be introducing in the second half of 2010 that will make this a reality!

Congrats to Boise State Women's Swimming, an active user of ScoutForce, for bringing home the WAC Championship! This staff is committed to recruiting the best student athletes, and it showed at the conference tournament. Justin and Kristin are amazing people to work with! Way to go!!

Here's an interview from Justin about his thoughts on using ScoutForce at Boise State:

What do you like most about ScoutForce?
Ease of use, and ability to log in anywhere. You can learn to use it in 5 min.

How has your experience been with Training and Customer Support?
Helped at anytime, listened to our suggestions with the product.

How has ScoutForce improved your recruiting efforts?
It has kept us more streamlined, and really allowed us to focus on our top recruits with the ability to keep track of everything.

What do you think about the affordability of ScoutForce?
It has made it way easier to justify to our administration, and our results already have been worth it.

What do you think about the ease of use of ScoutForce?
It's the strong point of the program. You have a ton of features available, however you can really choose which ones will help your recruiting best.

Where do you see ScoutForce in a few years?
Dominant in the market or close to it. You get everything you need without the premium price.

ScoutForce continues to change the face of recruiting for NAIA and DIII schools like Concordia College in Ann Arbor. Colleges have learned over the years that they can grow a university through a successful athletic department, just look at what Joe Paterno has done for Penn State in the last 40 years. Many D2 schools have turned to marketing athletics, especially football, in hopes to bring in a growing student body. Concordia in Ann Arbor has caught wind of this idea and has decided to launch its first football program ever. With an undergraduate student body of less than 600 people, adding a football program will grow the campus 15%.

Starting a new football program from the ground up is no easy task, especially given that they just hired the head football coach in January, which means he has less than a year to enroll enough students to put into pads to compete in the 2010 inaugural season. Fortunately for Concordia they purchased ScoutForce for the football coach to be named later a number of months in advance and linked the online prospect questionnaire to the Concordia Football page on their athletic site. This helped Concordia collect hundreds of prospects before they even knew who was going to be running the program.

With the help of ScoutForce, Concordia has been any to recruit more effectively and efficiently while only paying $35/month for each sport. Before the Athletic Director moved all their sports programs to ScoutForce, Concordia had two of their teams try the 30-day free trial. It didn't take very long for them to become believers and now all their paid coaching staff benefits from the tool.

We sat down with Karl Kling, Men's Baseball Coach, whose JV and Varsity baseball teams currently account for 10% of the undergraduate student body, to get his thoughts on ScoutForce:

What do you like most about ScoutForce?
Coach Kling: Several things really. The fact that it is a system that is accessible from anywhere allows it to not only be utilized by various individuals, but also one that doesn't necessitate the transportation of one particular laptop or file folder. Another great feature is the sortability based on numerous categories as well as the ability to see numerous communications with the same individual. An additional benefit is the ability to send a mass communication with the simple click of a button rather than searching for contact emails and entering each in individually. While it has been a short period, I have yet to find any problem areas.

How has your experience been with Training and Customer Support?
Coach Kling: As an addendum to the above question, I think the biggest benefit thus far has been the rapid response by Phil Brabbs when there is a question or suggestion. Nothing beats good technical support and service!

How has ScoutForce improved your recruiting efforts?
Coach Kling: Vastly. It has made it easier, more accessible, more user friendly and quite frankly it has made us more excited to begin the process so that we are already at this point further along than we normally would be at this time.

What do you think about the affordability of ScoutForce?
Coach Kling: Having priced other versions, this is clearly a better avenue to pursue. (Check it out for yourself: ScoutForce Pricing)

What do you think about the ease of use of ScoutForce?
Coach Kling: Awesome. It allows me to search and catalog more information on each recruit then I ever could have imagined.

Where do you see ScoutForce in a few years?
Coach Kling: As a leader in this field, ScoutForce is a company we are anxious to grow with.

2010 will mark the return of Roosevelt Athletics and the first-ever women's athletics. The Roosevelt Lakers will be part of the NAIA and compete in the Chicagoland Conference. With zero student athletes and several rosters to fill for the upcoming seasons, the coaching staff at Roosevelt quickly turned to ScoutForce to help them maximize and streamline their recruiting efforts, but on an NAIA budget.

Fortunately for Roosevelt and other NAIA/DIII schools with small budgets, ScoutForce is very affordable with most customers only paying $35 per month. Most available recruiting software is only affordable by D1 or larger D2, but ScoutForce has changed that with its low pricing that allows every coach into the action of simplifying their recruiting paperwork, while maximizing their time and effectiveness. That's only fair...right?

To learn more about ScoutForce pricing you can check it out here. ScoutForce is the only service to post its pricing online and offer a pay-as-you-go option, so coaches do not get stuck with an annual contract.