Positioning
A sporting CV, built as you play
Most sports products for young athletes are built to win one thing: a college coach's attention, in the four years someone is watching. Pic Me is built for the record that surrounds those years — and keeps going after them.
In one line
Your sporting CV, built as you play — shown to the clubs, teams and sponsors you choose.
Who it is for
Athletes aged 14 and over in the Pennsylvania pilot, and the families behind them. Also the people on the other side of the record: clubs, teams and schools who want a season history rather than a highlight reel, scouts reading a profile an athlete chose to share, and sponsors looking at a career rather than a single post.
The athlete and their family decide who reads it. Pic Me does not sell anyone access to an athlete, and no plan changes who can see a young athlete's profile.
What the record holds today
Said plainly, because a positioning page that overstates itself is just an advert: some of this is live, some is running in a limited pilot, and some is still being built.
- Private athlete profileAvailable
- Film links (your video stays where you already host it)Available
- Personal sports résuméAvailable
- Reviewed text postsPilot
- Guardian-managed consent and controlsPilot
- Guardian-reviewed messagingPilot
- Video and photo uploadsComing soon
- Live streamingComing soon
- Shareable athlete cardsPilot
- Local leaderboardsPilot
- Challenges and achievementsPilot
- Fan and family followingPilot
- Family planComing soon
- Podcast publishing (separate $15/month plan)Coming soon
Recruiting is one outcome, not the product
A record is worth having whether or not a college coach ever opens it: for the next club, the next school, a sponsor, or simply to see a season next to the one before. Recruiting becomes one of the things the profile can do — and when a family wants a recruiting service as well, that is a sensible pairing rather than a conflict.
What Pic Me does not do is claim to replace it. There are no recruiting letters, no position rankings, no coach messaging, and no promise of an offer or of contact from anyone.
Showcase and contact are two different settings
A young athlete often wants to be seen; a family rarely wants to be reachable by anyone who happens to find the profile. Pic Me treats those as two separate questions. What is shared is chosen and can be widened as an athlete gets older; who can make contact is controlled separately, and contact from an unknown adult is held for a guardian to review before it reaches the athlete.
Today that means profiles for athletes under 18 start private, reviewed text posts are running in a limited pilot, and photo and video uploads are still being built. A public showcase is being built on top of those controls, not in place of them.
What we do not claim
Visibility never guarantees recruitment. A visibility score is not a measure of ability, and paying never buys one. Pic Me is not affiliated with, endorsed by or partnered with any company it is compared to, and every competitor description on this site is a summary of that company's own public website, linked so you can check it.
Read the comparisons
- Pic Me vs Hudl — the film room and the record.
- Pic Me vs NCSA College Recruiting — guidance through recruiting, and the record it sits on.
- Pic Me vs Metron Sports — a recruiting engine and a sporting CV.
- Pricing — what each plan is, and what it is not.