You were built for more than your sport.
NEXT PLAY helps college athletes turn what they learned through sports into a clear identity, career direction and plan for life after competition.
Start while you’re still competing. Discover who you are and what you want next.
Translate your skills, explore careers and build your professional identity.
Launch a 12-month plan for career, purpose, routine and community.
“We don’t prepare athletes to stop being athletes. We prepare them for everything they’re capable of becoming after sports.”
Years of training. Then the final whistle.
College athletes spend years building their days, their friendships and their sense of self around their sport. Practice, film, lifts, travel, games — the schedule is set and the purpose is clear.
When competition ends — by graduation, injury or choice — many athletes feel uncertain about who they are, what comes next and how to explain their value to the world outside athletics. That uncertainty is normal. It just rarely comes with a playbook.
A new team for your next chapter.
NEXT PLAY is an online transition platform built only for college athletes. It guides you through a structured progression — from understanding who you are to launching a practical 12-month plan.
- The NEXT PLAY Transition Assessment — a coaching and self-reflection tool that surfaces your strengths and themes
- A six-week guided program with lessons, reflections and hands-on exercises
- Career exploration across 13 industries, built around skills that transfer from sport
- A personalized 12-month roadmap with goals you track every week
- Mentors, community and resources — so you never navigate this alone
Six steps. One clear direction.
Discover who you are
Look past the jersey number. Identify your values, interests and the person you are outside competition.
Translate your athletic skills
Turn years of discipline, leadership and pressure into language employers understand.
Explore your future
Research career areas with curiosity instead of pressure.
Build your professional identity
Your resume, LinkedIn, introduction and personal brand — built on your story.
Build your life
Routine, finances, relationships, community, health and purpose.
Create your Next Play
Bring it all together into a practical 12-month plan.
Six weeks to your next play.
Every week has lessons, a video, a written lesson, a reflection and an exercise you save to your profile. Week 1 is free.
Who Am I Without Sports?
Separate who you are from what you do.
Your Athletic Skills
Turn what you built on the field into language employers understand.
Discover Your Future
Explore careers like you would scout an opponent.
Build Your Professional Identity
Show up as a professional who happens to be an athlete.
Build Your Life
Design the structure that used to be built for you.
Your Next Play
Put it all together into a 12-month game plan.
Always know your next move.
Your dashboard feels like a mobile app: where you are, what you’ve completed, what to do next and why it matters.
- Program progress & current week
- Roadmap month and goals
- Your transition profile & strengths
- Recommended next action
- Update LinkedIn headline
- 2 informational interviews
- Build a monthly budget
Your plan. Month by month.
In Week 6 you build a personalized 12-month roadmap — career, financial, personal, community and learning goals, plus concrete plans for your first 30 days, first 90 days, months 4–6 and months 7–12.
Each goal has a title, description, category, due date and status — check it off as you go.
Built to grow with you.
Learn from athletes who made the jump.
Former college athletes now working in business, tech, healthcare, coaching and more. Mentor matching is rolling out — request a mentor from your portal today.
Meet the mentorsJobs & internships that value athletes.
A future career and internship marketplace will connect your NEXT PLAY profile with employers who recruit former athletes. Today, explore 13 career categories and save the paths you want to pursue.
A transition program for your whole department.
Athletic departments invite athletes, organize cohorts, send announcements and view authorized progress — with privacy built in.
Not a course. A team.
Guided progression, real accountability and a community of athletes going through the same transition.
Practical, not preachy
Every lesson ends with an exercise you actually keep — skills inventory, career worksheet, routine and roadmap.
Private by design
Your reflections are yours. Universities only see progress you choose to share — never your answers.
Your next chapter starts before your last game.
You spent years training for your sport. Start training for the life that comes after it.