Hi, My name is Akeem Shavers and I was once in your student-athletes shoes. I wanted to play my sport in college but had no idea of how to make it happen without being a highly recruited athlete.

I was just coming off of a season-ending injury, my team had only won 3 games my senior year and I had only gotten to play in five of our 10 games. Plus I was attending a school that college coaches never recruited anyone out of in the 60+ year history of my school. So my chances were slim-to-none if I’m being honest.

So I did what any college-hopeful would do and I went to my coaches and asked if they could help me get a scholarship to play football in college because I definitely couldn’t afford to walk on or take on any student loans, and I didn’t even know recruiting services existed back then. But in a nutshell, they told me that it wasn’t their job to get me a scholarship and if I was good enough college coaches would’ve found me.

That’s when I knew it was up to me to make it happen. I was starting the process SUPER late and I had nothing to lose, so I jumped in headfirst into the recruiting world making a thousand and one mistakes but getting better after each lesson and learning from all of my trial and error. And before I knew it, I had received my first offer to play college football. That’s when I thought that if this school wants me, there may be other schools that want me as well.

So I took what worked from what got me my first offer and repeated the process a few times and with a little patience and determination I went from being not-ranked and overlooked, to receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in scholarship offers and ultimately signing with Purdue University in the Big Ten Conference.

People from my area saw that I was able to make my way out and started asking if I could help. So I began to help people when I could between classes, free evenings, and in the off-season to help them get the same results. Those who took my advice started seeing results and I knew that I had something that could actually help other people.

So when my playing career came to an end… I made a promise to myself that I would do whatever I could to help out younger players… and the parents and coaches that support them… to help them get scholarship offers just like I was able to…

So I started by breaking down the exact “system” I used to become a Power 5 scholarship athlete and what was working for the people I shared this “system” with over the years.