Women’s basketball · NCAA, NAIA, U SPORTS

Find the universities where she actually fits.

Athlavia narrows the university database down to the programmes where basketball level, degree, cost and roster opening line up at the same time. Then it helps you contact the right coaches and keep track of every reply.

No card required. Guardian-linked accounts for under-18 athletes.

1,859
universities fielding women’s basketball, from NCAA DI to junior college
1,223
that report awarding athletic aid to women
6
scored components behind every recommendation
0
bulk-contact buttons anywhere in the product
The problem

The information exists. It is just spread across four hundred websites, two governing bodies and an inbox nobody is managing.

An athlete and her parents working through university brochures at home
Where most families start
“We have absolutely no idea which universities we should be contacting.”
  • Division is treated as a proxy for basketball quality, and it is not one.
  • A strong university gets eliminated because its degree is called Exercise Science rather than Sports Therapy.
  • Scholarship talk happens in percentages, when the only number that matters is what the family actually pays.
  • Emails go out from a personal inbox and nobody remembers who replied.
  • Coach email addresses found online are frequently a year or two out of date.
Where Athlavia gets you to
“These are the 28 universities where basketball, academics and finances appear to fit.”
  • 28universities where basketball, academics and finances appear to fit
  • 19contacted, each with a reason specific to that programme
  • 8coaches replied
  • 4want a call
  • 2discussing scholarship packages
How it works

One loop, run properly, from first profile to signed offer.

01
Profile

Basketball, academic, financial and preference information in one structured place, entered once.

Statistics are stored season by season and labelled by source. Athlete-entered data is never presented as verified.

02
Match

Programmes are ranked into Reach, Target, High probability and Watchlist, each with a stated reason.

Required preferences become filters. Everything else becomes scoring you can re-weight.

03
Contact

Personalised drafts built from verified facts about that programme, sent from your own mailbox after you approve them.

Introduction, then two controlled follow-ups. A reply cancels the rest.

04
Compare

Offers side by side on estimated family cost, not scholarship percentage.

Aid is classified as published, possible, coach-indicated, offered or confirmed.

Searching universities across the United States, Canada and Europe
An athlete reviewing her Athlavia dashboard
Every recommendation, explained

A score you can argue with.

Six components, weighted the way your family weights them. No single mysterious number, no model deciding what your daughter is worth. Move a weight and the whole list reorders in front of you.

Six components, not one number
Basketball level, playing opportunity, academic fit, financial fit, preferences and recruiting likelihood, each scored separately.
Confidence travels with the score
A match of 87 with 41% confidence is a different proposition from 87 with 79%, and the product says so.
The AI explains, it does not decide
Scores are calculated deterministically. Language models write the explanation and never invent the number.
University of Vermont
NCAA DI · America East · Burlington, Vermont
78
confidence 76%
Basketball
79
Opportunity
86
Academic
80
Financial
71
Preference
74
Roster facts
2 listed senior guards, 1 junior combo guard, 4 international players
Platform inference
Probable guard recruitment need in the 2027 class
74%

A live component of the product. University names and conferences are real; the scores shown here are illustrative.

An athlete working through a cone dribbling drill in an empty gym
What makes it different

Three things a university list will never do for you.

Roster intelligence

Every team roster is captured periodically and read for positional opportunity. Two senior guards on the roster is a fact. A likely guard need in 2027 is an inference, and it is labelled as one with a confidence figure attached.

Division I eligibility moves to an age-based model for prospects first enrolling in autumn 2027, so a listed senior is never assumed to be leaving.

Evidence on everything

Every cost, degree and coach contact carries a source, a retrieval date and a confidence level. You can ask why the platform believes a coach email is current and get an answer.

“University athletics staff page — verified 4 August 2026.” Contacts that change or disappear are flagged before anything is sent.

Degrees by concept

Sports therapy is matched to athletic training, rehabilitation, kinesiology and exercise science. You choose which related subjects you would accept, rather than losing a good university to a naming convention.

One athlete moved from 12 matching universities to 61 by accepting four related degree names.

Highlight reel, skills and coach engagement tracking

Nothing is sent without you

There is no button that emails every coach in the country. You approve each programme, you read each draft, and a reply cancels every queued follow-up automatically. A coach who asks not to be contacted is suppressed permanently.

  • IntroductionYou approve it
  • Follow-up 1Day 9
  • Follow-up 2On a real update
  • StopNo further contact
The profile coaches receive

One link. Everything a coach asks for.

Highlight reel, full games, season statistics, academic summary and upcoming fixtures on a single page. Each coach gets a distinct link, so you can see which programmes opened it and which watched the full game.

Private by default. Under-18 profiles are never indexed by search engines and carry no home address, date of birth or medical information.

An athlete and her mother reading through a university prospectus
A parent and athlete reviewing matches and follow-up tasks together
CLASS OF 2027
MIA FERREIRA
Point guard · 5’9" · Reading Rockets Academy · England
27.3
MIN
13.8
PTS
5.1
AST
4.0
REB
2.1
STL
34%
3PT
79%
FT

2025-26 season · coach supplied, labelled as such

Highlight reel, full games and skill-tagged clips sit on the same page as the statistics, so a coach never has to ask where the film is.

Pick & roll3PT shootingTransitionDefencePassingFinishing
When offers arrive

Compare on what you pay, not what you are offered.

A 60% scholarship at an expensive private university can cost a family more than a 30% award somewhere cheaper. Athlavia reads the letters, extracts the numbers and puts the estimated annual family contribution side by side.

A family comparing three university offers on estimated net cost
Pricing

Start free. Pay when you start contacting coaches.

Free
£0
no card required

Build the profile and see where you stand.

  • Athlete recruiting profile
  • Limited search across the university database
  • Basic university discovery
Start free
Recruit
£29
per month

Find the right universities and manage the list yourself.

  • Full university matching
  • Shortlist
  • Recruiting CRM
  • Comparison tools
Choose Recruit
Recruit Pro
£59
per month

The platform does the repetitive work. You approve everything that leaves.

  • AI-assisted outreach
  • Follow-up automation
  • Engagement tracking
  • Roster intelligence
  • Reply intelligence
  • Scholarship management
Choose Recruit Pro
Premium
POA
quoted per athlete

Everything in Recruit Pro, with a person on the case.

  • Human recruiting review
  • Athlete-level assessment
  • University strategy
  • Higher-touch support
Enquire

Academy and club accounts for coaches managing several athletes are available separately. Athlavia does not sell athlete information to universities. Billing is not connected in this version.

Questions

The ones families ask first.

If yours is not here, write to support@athlavia.com and a person will answer it.

Do you guarantee a scholarship?
No, and anyone who does is selling you something. Athlavia improves the quality of the list you contact and the quality of the contact itself. The outcome still depends on the athlete.
Are the coach email addresses current?
Every contact carries a last-verified date and a source. Staff pages are re-checked, and when a coach disappears, changes title or changes school the record is flagged for review rather than used.
Will this spam coaches?
It cannot. Programmes enter the outreach list only after you approve them, each draft is read before it sends, and the sequence stops at three messages or at the first reply.
My daughter is 16. What happens to her data?
Under-18 accounts are guardian-linked and private by default. Profiles are not indexed by search engines unless a guardian explicitly enables it, and they carry no home address, date of birth, live location or medical information.
Do universities pay you for our information?
No. Athlavia is paid by families. Athlete information is not sold to programmes, and there is no coach-facing athlete database in this version of the product.
We are not American. Does that matter?
The product was built for an international athlete first. NCAA, NAIA and U SPORTS run as separate eligibility routes, and the checklist tells you which one applies to each programme on your list.

Start with the profile. The shortlist comes next.

Six sections, about twenty minutes. At the end you get a ranked list of programmes and the reason each one is on it.