Recruit Spotlight — For Travel Ball Players
Custom One-Pager Recruiting Websites for Travel Ball Players
A real recruiting site, not a profile on someone else's platform.
Coaches don’t want to log into NCSA to scout your kid. They want a clean, professional site they can pull up on their phone in 10 seconds — stats, highlight tape, schedule, contact form. That’s what we build.
Your player owns the site. Their domain. Their YouTube channel. Hosted on Vercel (free). One-time pricing. Starting at $297.
No subscription. No platform lock-in. No yearly NCSA renewal.
The Problem
You're paying $1,500/yr to rent a generic recruiting profile.
NCSA. SportsRecruits. CaptainU. BeRecruited. They all charge $400-$1,500 per year for a template-driven profile sitting on their platform.
When your kid graduates and you stop paying, the profile disappears. The work was rented, not owned. And coaches admit privately that they're tired of clicking through cookie-cutter profiles that all look identical.
Travel ball families spend $5K-$15K per year on tournaments, gear, and lessons. Paying another $1,500/yr for a renter's recruiting profile makes zero sense.
That's the problem Recruit Spotlight solves.
The Features
What you get with Recruit Spotlight.
Every tier includes the core platform. What varies is depth: how much video work we do, how much stat tracking, how custom the build is.
Recent Recruit Spotlight Sites
Real builds. Real players.
A few of the players whose sites we've shipped recently. Click any of them to see the full live site.
Three Tiers · One-Time Pricing · No Renewals
Honest pricing. Player owns the site.
Pick the tier that matches where the player is in their recruiting journey. Every tier is one-time — no subscriptions, no yearly fees, no platform lock-in.
Recruit Spotlight Starter
Real site. Owned by player. $297.
$297
one-time · player owns site
- Custom one-pager (not a template)
- Hero · Profile · Stats · Schedule · Bio · Coach Inquiry sections
- Hosted free on Vercel
- Player owns the site + domain
- Site live within 7 days of intake
For: Players starting their recruiting journey who want a real, owned web presence — not a rented profile.
Recruit Spotlight Pro
The full recruiting package most families pick.
$597
one-time · player owns site
- Everything in Starter, plus:
- YouTube channel setup + 5 highlight clip uploads
- SEO-optimized clip titles + descriptions
- Photo gallery (curated from your uploads)
- Awards & Honors section
- Downloadable Recruit Packet PDF
- Site live within 10 days of intake
For: Travel ball players actively in the recruiting funnel — typically 14U through 18U.
Recruit Spotlight Elite
Serious recruiting. Serious package.
$997
one-time · player owns site
- Everything in Pro, plus:
- 15 highlight video embeds (vs 5)
- Multi-season stat tracking page
- Coach References section
- AI-routed coach inquiries via our CRM
- Strategy call with Clint (30 min)
- Site live within 14 days of intake
For: Families serious about college recruiting (D1 / D2 / strong D3). Multi-season athletes targeting scholarships.
🏆 Team Roster Package
$197 per player · 8 player minimum
For coaches and team managers. Every player on the roster gets a Starter-tier one-pager. Shared template, individualized content. 12 players = $2,364 for the whole team.
A La Carte Add-Ons
Updates when you need them. Not a subscription.
Stats change. Schedules change. New tape drops. Pay for updates only when you actually need them.
Update stats, schedule, headshot, swap in new highlight links. Once per season usually.
5 new highlight clips — cut, uploaded, SEO-titled, embedded on the site. For when new tape drops.
Refresh the downloadable PDF with new stats, achievements, and contact info.
Add a new page — pitcher stats, position-specific metrics, recruitment timeline, etc.
How It Stacks Up
The honest comparison.
| NCSA Sports $1,500/yr | Freelancer $500-2K once | SportsRecruits $400-1K/yr | Recruit Spotlight ▼ The pick | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Custom-built site | ✕Template | Varies | ✕Generic profile | ✓Truly custom |
| Player owns site | ✕ | Sometimes | ✕ | ✓Always |
| One-time price | ✕$400-1,500/yr | $500-2,000 | ✕$400-1,500/yr | ✓$297-997 once |
| Owns domain | ✕ | Sometimes | ✕ | ✓Always |
| YouTube setup included | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓Pro & Elite |
| Recruit Packet PDF | ✕ | ✕ | Sometimes | ✓Pro & Elite |
| Mobile-first design | Varies | Varies | ✓ | ✓ |
| Turnaround time | Self-service | 4-8 weeks | Immediate (template) | 7-14 days |
| Cancel anytime | Yes (lose site) | — | Yes (lose profile) | N/A — you own it |
Who Recruit Spotlight Is Built For
Travel ball players. Specifically.
Recruit Spotlight is built around how travel ball recruiting actually works — coaches scouting from phones, families judging budgets, players in a 4-year window.
Best fit:
- Travel ball players in 14U through 18U serious about getting recruited
- Families spending $5K+/yr on tournaments who want a real ROI on the marketing piece
- Players targeting D1, D2, or strong D3 programs
- Coaches who want their whole roster recruitable, not just the stars
- Anyone tired of paying renewal fees to NCSA for a generic profile
Not the right fit:
- Rec league or non-competitive ball
- Players just starting out at 10U or 12U (do this later)
- Families who want a full marketing campaign to coaches (we don’t do outreach FOR you)
- Anyone who needs the site live in less than 7 days (it’s a custom build)
How It Works
From pick a tier to site live in days.
FAQ
Questions worth answering up front.
The questions we get most from travel ball families considering Recruit Spotlight.
NCSA is great at one thing: getting your kid’s name in front of coaches who use NCSA. But you’re paying $400-$1,500 per year to rent a generic template profile. When you stop paying, the profile disappears. Recruit Spotlight is a one-time payment for a custom-built site that your player actually owns — domain and all. No yearly renewal, no platform lock-in.
Honest answer: yes, partially. We use AI tools to accelerate the boring parts — generating boilerplate code, structuring layouts, drafting initial content. That’s how we can deliver in 7-14 days at one-time prices that are 1/5th of what custom freelancers charge.
But a seasoned developer with 20+ years in the trade has hands on every single build. Clint personally reviews every site before it’s previewed to the family. The AI assists; it doesn’t decide. You’re not getting a robot-generated template that all looks the same — you’re getting a custom site where a real developer made the judgment calls on layout, voice, performance, mobile responsiveness, and SEO. Every site is QA’d by a human before it ships.
Yes. Completely. We build it for you, deploy it to Vercel (free hosting), and hand it over. The domain is registered in the player’s name (or parent’s). The YouTube channel is theirs. If you ever want to leave us, everything stays.
Starter: 7 days from intake. Pro: 10 days. Elite: 14 days. Add-ons (Highlight Reel, Season Refresh) typically turn around in 3-5 days.
All three include a custom-built one-pager. Starter has the core sections (Hero, Profile, Stats, Schedule, Bio, Coach Inquiry). Pro adds the YouTube channel setup with 5 highlight clips, Photo Gallery, Awards section, and downloadable Recruit Packet PDF. Elite adds 15 highlight clips (vs 5), multi-season stat tracking, Coach References section, AI-routed inquiries through our CRM, and a strategy call.
No. When stats change or new highlights drop, order a Season Refresh ($97) or Highlight Reel Add ($147) and we handle it. You never have to log into anything to manage the site.
Drop a Google Drive or Dropbox link with raw game footage and we’ll cut the clips ourselves (Pro and Elite tiers). If you don’t have any footage yet, Starter still works — the site goes live without the highlight reel section, and you can add highlights later as a $147 add-on.
Yes — we recommend it. Most players use [firstnamelastname].com or [firstnamelastname]recruiting.com. You buy the domain (usually $10-15/year through NameCheap or GoDaddy) and we wire it to your site. If you don’t want a custom domain, your site can live on a free vercel.app subdomain.
Right now we’re focused on softball because that’s where we have the deepest experience. Baseball, lacrosse, volleyball, and football are on the roadmap. Email us if you’re interested in another sport and we’ll let you know when we’re ready.
Awesome — congrats. You still own the site forever, and many committed players keep their Recruit Spotlight site live as an athletic profile through high school and beyond. No refund needed; the site is yours.
A coach or team manager pays $197 per player (8 player minimum). Each player gets their own Starter-tier site. Shared template means we move fast — a 12-player roster typically launches within 14 days of the last intake form coming in.
We don’t promise scholarships. Anyone who does is lying to you. What we guarantee: a real custom site, built professionally, delivered on time, owned by the player. If you don’t love the preview, we revise it. If you still don’t love it after revisions, we refund.
Why BlakSheep Creative
Built by the same crew that builds for Fortune 500 brands.
- 20+ years building websites. Same shop, same standards. Based in Denham Springs, Louisiana.
- Veteran-owned. Built on the discipline most agencies only claim.
- Real travel ball families. We’re not a sports recruiting platform pretending to do web work — we’re a digital agency that genuinely understands what coaches want to see.
- Player owns everything. No subscriptions. No platform lock-in. No yearly fees.
- Published pricing. You’re reading it.
- Domain Trust 71 on BlakSheep’s domain. That means real authority — same crew that ranks complex client sites builds yours.
"I built Recruit Spotlight because every travel ball parent I talked to was burning $1,500 a year on NCSA profiles their kid would lose access to the second they graduated. That math is broken. Custom, owned, one-time pricing — that's the only model that respects the family's wallet."
— Clint Sanchez, Founder · BlakSheep Creative · Veteran & First-Responder
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