<p>Has anyone had experience using BeRecruited or NCSA Athletics? If so, which would you say is the better option and why? Or, is there a better service to use?</p>
<p>Not sure how useful either are. For my son’s sport, (football), Go Big Recruiting was recommended, and as an O-Linemam, he got a lot of looks on that site. But, it’s not free.</p>
<p>I would talk to the coach and see what she/he recommend. A lot of these so-called services are borderline scams.</p>
<p>It’s only focused on women’s soccer for high academic colleges and universities, but for those, EliteCollegeSports.com is a good resource.</p>
<p>We signed up for NCSA a long time ago when we really had no access to parents who were in the recruiting process. I learned a lot but by the time we came to the process itself this year, I realized we had never really needed it at all. Absolutely zero of the schools who are currently recruiting him found him through the site, the site routinely matched us with schools we had never heard of (not bad in and of itself, but they were really not at all good matches for son) and schools we did email through the NCSA portal never responded.</p>
<p>All the schools that are looking at him now found him through camps on college campuses and by filling out questionnaires during junior year and linking to highlight film.</p>
<p>Edited to add: I wouldn’t do it again, in our case I look at it as an unfortunately expensive mistake, but live and learn.</p>
<p>We did not do BeRecruited at all.</p>