GotGame?Media Helps Student Athletes Take First Step in Landing Scholarships

Even though it is still summer, most high school athletic programs have begun practices and preparation for the fall season.  For seniors and even juniors, this also signals the time they need to focus their attentions on attaining athletic scholarships from colleges.  A local company, GotGame?Media is helping those student athletes take their game to the next level. 

A recent story in the Columbus Dispatch reports that for $24.99 a month, student athletes can upload their stats and films and other information that may influence a coach to the GotGame site.  GotGame’s technology further lets coaches enter the rosters from their previous 10 seasons and a GotGame program will produce data to help “match” the coaches with the most desirable recruits registered on the GotGame site.

"It's a combination of Monster and eHarmony," says founder MarKel Snyder.
So, is the Internet the only future for recruiting?
Ohio University sports administration professor Heather Lawrence, who has spent most of her professional career in intercollegiate athletics, says yes and no.

"Electronic communication, in one form or another, is the future of it, because even the cost of putting a stamp on a packet of information adds up so quickly for these programs," said Lawrence, who also works with GotGame?Media. "However, the one thing that you cannot duplicate is finding out a kid's character."

That's why most sites consider themselves a tool -- a "good first step," as Bundschu put it -- to hook up coach with player.

For more, see the story in the Columbus Dispatch.