Connecting Talent. Building Futures.
The college recruiting process can feel like getting lost in a crowd. Profiles disappear into databases. Calls go unreturned. Families pay premium fees only to feel like one more name on a long list. We started EB Sports Recruiting because Ohio's athletes and their families deserve better than that.
Our founder, Eric Brown, previously worked for one of the largest collegiate athletic recruiting services in the country, and he saw firsthand what gets lost at scale. Talented kids slipped through the cracks. Families with real questions got generic answers. The personal relationships that drive real recruiting outcomes are hard to maintain when you're managing thousands of athletes at once.
Before sports, he was a social worker. He spent his career walking alongside families through some of the hardest moments of their lives, listening, advocating, and getting things done. That background never left him. When he looked at the recruiting industry, he saw families who needed the same thing his social work clients always needed: someone in their corner who actually showed up.
EB Sports Recruiting is what happens when those two careers come together.
Before recruiting, Eric played. That's him bottom-right with the Jewett-Scio Hot Stove Baseball team — already stealing bases at nine years old. From youth leagues through high school, Eric grew up inside the world EB Sports Recruiting now helps families navigate. The athlete's perspective never leaves him. He knows what it's like to be the kid in the photo, the one chasing a game and a dream, with parents on the sideline trying to figure out what comes next.
We specialize on purpose. EB Sports Recruiting works with athletes in football, baseball, and basketball — three of the sports that move the most Ohio kids through college recruiting every year. Across each, we know the high schools, the position and program coaches, the Division I, II, and III programs that recruit from this state, and the regional camps, showcases, and tournaments that actually matter.
Specialization means our advice is sharper, our outreach lands with the right coaches, and our families don't pay for services they don't need. National platforms cast a wide net. We go deep — in Ohio, in three sports we know cold.
You work directly with us. No call centers. No rotating account managers. The person who builds your plan is the person you call when you have a question at 9 p.m. after a Friday night game.
Honest evaluations, not sales pitches. We tell families candidly where their athlete fits in the recruiting landscape, whether it is D1, D2, D3, NAIA, or JUCO. We build the plan around the truth, not around what gets you to sign up.
Strategy built around your athlete, not a template. Every athlete's film, academics, position, and personality are different. Your recruiting strategy should be too.
A social worker's approach. Recruiting is stressful. Decisions affect a family's finances, a kid's confidence, and where they'll spend the next four years of their life. We treat it that way.
Every athlete who works with us gets seen. Every family gets a real person on the other end of the phone. Every plan is built specifically for the kid in front of us, never pulled from a corporate playbook.
If your athlete has a dream of playing at the next level, we'd love to hear from you.
The phone gets answered. The email gets returned. That's the whole point.
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