College Advisory Program

About CAP

CAP favors a growth mindset vs a results mindset, plots development toward a player’s next level as an athlete, student, and person.  Student athletes arrive at a more well-rounded “success” if they focus on long-arc, growth-mindset orientation rather than results-oriented approach (win at all costs, Division 1 or bust, exclusive pro career focus).


This program sets general athletic, scholastic, and personal development destinations for one to aim for, adjust, and apply as they journey from roughly 12 years old to 32 years old. As we help players chart their pathways, we establish programming that creates “push-pin” moments on their “map” of athletic, social, and academic aspirations on their journey.


Below are push pin groups and suggested athletic, social, and academic programming. 

Grade Focuses

Skill Acquisition

6th Grade

Scholastic Foundation

Skill Advancement

7th & 8th Grades

Emotional/Intellectual Foundation

Functional Attention

9th & 10th Grades

Collegiate Exploration

Positional Awareness

11th Grade

Collegiate Targeting

Tactical Actions

12th Grade

Collegiate Narrowing

Athletic Development

College Summer/Winter

Athletic Advancement

Group Workshop Topics

Destination vs Goals

  • What do you want?
  • Why do you want it?
  • How do you get it?
  • Growth Mindset vs Goal Mindset
  • Long-Arc Mapping

Timing

  • Where to arrive in 9-10 months?
  • When to start whiteboarding?
  • When to start planning?
  • When to survey?
  • When to act?
  • When it’s “too late” and when “it’s never too late?"

Leading, Assisting & Partnering

  • Whose “good old days?”
  • Whose future?
  • Leading
  • Assisting
  • Partnering

Resources

  • You
  • Family
  • School
  • Club
  • Supplemental