How it works

Discover. Translate. Explore. Build. Plan. Launch.

NEXT PLAY guides you through a clear progression so you always know where you are, what you’ve completed, what to do next and why it matters.

Week 1
Discover
Week 2
Translate
Week 3
Explore
Week 4
Build
Week 5
Plan
Week 6
Launch
The six steps

The NEXT PLAY progression

Each step maps to a week of the program and builds on the one before.

Step 101

Discover who you are

Start with the NEXT PLAY Transition Assessment — a coaching and self-reflection tool — and Week 1 exercises that help you name what you’re proud of, what people count on you for, and who you want to become.

Step 202

Translate your athletic skills

Build a skills inventory from your athletic career and translate each one into professional language. “Led defense” becomes “communicated responsibilities, organized teammates and adjusted strategy under pressure.”

Step 303

Explore your future

Explore 13 career categories — what the work involves, typical roles, which athletic skills transfer, questions to ask and next steps. Save the directions you want to research and run small career experiments.

Step 404

Build your professional identity

Write your “tell me about yourself,” frame your athletic experience, and prepare for networking and interviews so you walk into every room with a clear, confident story.

Step 505

Build your life

Your schedule used to be built for you. Design a weekly routine, set goals across every part of life, and create the structure that keeps you moving forward.

Step 606

Create your Next Play

Set career, financial, personal, community and learning goals, then map your first 30 days, first 90 days, months 4–6 and months 7–12 — with goals you track every week.

Your experience

From signup to launch

01

Create your account

Sign up with your school, sport, position and athletic status. Your athlete profile is created automatically.

02

Onboarding & assessment

Tell us your transition timing, what you’re uncertain about and what you want to explore. Then take the NEXT PLAY Transition Assessment.

03

Work the program

Six guided weeks of lessons, reflections and exercises. Your dashboard always shows your next move.

04

Launch your roadmap

Turn everything into a 12-month plan with goals you track, update and complete.

The outcome

A 12-month roadmap that’s yours.

Twelve themed months, each with goals across career, education, finances, health, relationships, community and personal growth.

Month 1
Foundation
Month 2
Exploration
Month 3
Professional Identity
Month 4
Experience
Month 5
Networking
Month 6
Career Development
Month 7
Financial Development
Month 8
Personal Development
Month 9
Opportunity
Month 10
Growth
Month 11
Preparation
Month 12
Next Chapter
Your next play

Your next chapter starts before your last game.

You spent years training for your sport. Start training for the life that comes after it.