In an article posted on August 9, 2010, Wired magazine's Erik Malinowski said, "Play Next Level is the leader in helping players who hope they haven't played their last down of football once this fall's Friday night lights dim for good."
PlayNextLevel, a Rockfish Labs incubation company, launched this past spring as an interactive recruiting platform that allows high school and junior college football players to showcase their skills to college coaches across the country. PlayNextLevel has already acquired more than 1000 player profiles for college coaches to peruse and it's growing daily.
Malinowski also writes, "Each player's profile does offer a impressive amount of info on each prospect. All the standards are there -- height, weight, academic achievements -- along with a dedicated statistics page, an easy-to-find list of colleges the player is interested, and the ability to upload a video highlight reel as well as a photo album."
"Visiting football camps this summer has been hectic, but we're now seeing the rewards from our effort," said PlayNextLevel Founder Alex Mortensen. "The need for players to leverage technology is obvious. And, where the best players can be found, coaches will be soon to follow."
Read the entire article, http://www.wired.com/playbook/2010/08/play-next-level.
About Rockfish Labs
Rockfish Interactive is an entrepreneurial company where our ideas and insights are born from the experiences that we've had building our own companies. Rockfish Labs is our business incubator focused on:
- Bringing entrepreneurs' ideas to life by providing our support/resources.
- Partnering with companies/clients to bring new products to market.
- Developing new technologies and/or companies wholly owned by us.
We have launched 8 new companies from Rockfish Labs: PlayNextLevel, TidyTweet, Silver Joe’s Coffee, Fourthbook, CrazyHotJob, Filesend.us, Genofish and Mind of Moms.