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posted 03/05/2010
JUMPFORWARD, SOUTH CENTRAL PREMIER SOCCER CLUB ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP
Strategic Agreement to Empower South Central Premier Members with Leading Online Athletic Career Center Solution
Branford, CT, March 05, 2010—The South Central Premier Soccer Club (www.southcentralpremier.com ) and JumpForward (www.jumpforward.com), the sports-relationship management (SRM) solutions provider, jointly announce a partnership that will provide South Central Premier members free access to the most comprehensive educational and recruiting solution for high school athletes.
JumpForward, which recently aired on ABC’s Shark Tank season finale, provides an online educational and communications tool that empowers athletes and parents to navigate the athletic recruiting process, comply with academic and amateurism eligibility rules, and track, manage, organize, and search for over 50,000 college coaches for FREE.
By providing prospective student-athletes and parents with a roadmap that outlines academic and athletic eligibility requirements, South Central Premier athletes and parents can eliminate many of the athletic recruiting obstacles and costly solutions. Moreover, JumpForward will provide online education sessions for South Central Premier members.
JumpForward’s Online Athletic Career Center brings both an academic and athletic perspective to the recruiting process and provides the following FREE tools for South Central Premier athletes and parents:
· JumpForward’s NCAA Core Course Grade Tracking Worksheet: Provides athletes and parents a tool to track, manage, and organize the necessary NCAA core courses. Moreover, the tool automatically performs the NCAA core course grade calculation, and based on that calculation, guides the athletes and parents to appropriate ACT or SAT score needed.
· JumpForward’s Search Engine: Enables athletes and parents to search and save information on over 2,500 Colleges & 55,000 College Coach e-mails and phone numbers. In addition, the search engine provides all majors associated with the various colleges, tuition costs, average incoming freshmen GPA, ACT, and SAT scores and much more.
· JumpForward’s Knowledge Center: Provides athletes and parents with a roadmap to navigate the eligibility rules, the differences among the athletic affiliations, athletic scholarship information, and much more.
· JumpForward’s Communications Center: Empowers athletes to manage, track, and organize e-mail and phone communication with college coaches. To guide athletes through phone conversations with college coaches, JumpForward provides a calling question bank of more than 60 questions a high school athlete may want to ask the college coach and save all responses.
· JumpForward’s Recruiting Communications Calendar: Highlights important communication periods between athletes and college coaches.
· JumpForward’s Sport Profile: Provides athletes and parents a secure sport profile to upload video highlights, action pictures, academic and athletic information.
“We are proud to be partnering with the South Central Premier Soccer Club and empowering athletes, parents, and coaches to take control of the athletic recruiting and communications process,” said JumpForward CEO Adam McCombs.
“South Central Premier Soccer Club is excited to be able to offer our college bound athletes this cutting edge comprehensive tool for navigating the athletic recruiting process at no cost. Jumpforward demystifies the complex recruiting process for South Central Premier players and their parents. It provides online tools that enable athletes to be proactive, strategic and organized,” said South Central Premier Soccer Club president Andrea Duffy.
About JumpForward
Headquartered in Chicago, IL, JumpForward is a team of former NCAA and NAIA athletes and former NCAA college coaches dedicated to leveraging the power of the internet to deliver the most innovative on-demand sports-relationships management (SRM) solutions designed specifically for athletes, high school athletic directors, club teams, and college coaches. For more information, please visit the company’s website at www.jumpforward.com.
About South Central Premier Soccer Club
South Central Premier Soccer Club, a member of the U.S. Soccer Development Academy, is a non-profit centrally located in Connecticut, community of families whose student-athletes are serious about developing their soccer skills. Our ultimate goal is to foster a "love of soccer" and to help each player develop the life skills and character traits necessary to succeed. South Central Premier was formed to promote player development and to create the highest level of competitive soccer in the state for aspiring young soccer players. South Central Premier concentrates on the technical nature of the game of soccer in the early years and blends those teachings later on with the tactical aspects of soccer so necessary for success.
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The Connecticut Junior Soccer Association recently voted to award Andrea Duffy life membership in recognition of her years of service to CJSA. CJSA awards life membership in recognition of the exceptional contributions of an individual to the CJSA, to the community and to the sport of soccer. Andrea was president of CJSA for 10 years from 1993 to 2003. While President of CJSA, Andrea established the CJSA Inner City Program, the CJSA scholarship program for graduating high school seniors, the CJSA American Cup, the CJSA website, the CJSA Young Player Development Program (YPDP), the TOPSoccer program for athletes with disabilities, the CT State Referee Committee and Silent Sidelines Weekend. She also served as State Registrar from 1991 to 1993. In CJSA’s 40 year history only 10 individuals have been awarded life membership. They include SCP’s Bob Dikranian and Chico Chacurian.
