West Virginia University Takes Control with ACS InControl
The West Virginia University Department of Intercollegiate Athletics has selected ACS Athletics for its department-wide technology needs. The Mountaineers are in the process of implementing a software solution, ACS InControlTM, for recruiting, compliance monitoring and student-athlete information management.
“Coaches, administrators and student-athletes were spending too much time filling out paperwork and entering data in multiple systems. We needed to improve efficiencies with a unified solution for student-athlete, recruiting and compliance information,” said Russ Sharp, Senior Associate Athletic Director at West Virginia University.
With InControlTM, each of West Virginia’s 17 sport programs will use a very powerful recruiting system, which will allow coaches to maintain accurate electronic records of all prospect information, recruiting activities and correspondence, effectively managing the recruiting process from start to finish. In addition, use of InControlTM will eliminate paper-driven processes such as submission of contact, evaluation and telephone logs. The InControlTM system then analyzes those activities to ensure compliance with NCAA rules, eliminating the need to spot-check and ensuring 100% monitoring of NCAA Bylaw 13 activities.
Once prospects become enrolled student-athletes, the roster management tools enable the department of intercollegiate athletics to administer required student-athlete forms electronically, greatly reducing the amount of time spent completing such forms and furthering the institution’s efforts to, “go green.” InControlTM also eliminates cumbersome processes such as student-athlete verification of daily and weekly hourly limitations (CARA logs), communicating roster changes and administering student-athlete complimentary admissions.
Sharp added, “With ACS, our staff will have immediate access to information that drives the student-athlete life-cycle and will be able to automate communications and processes in one integrated system. We’ve enjoyed working with ACS and have been impressed with their ability to adapt the system to meet our needs.”
ACS Athletics is the only company that provides all of these services in one integrated platform, ACS InControlTM, allowing coaches, administrators and student-athletes to be more successful. For more information, please contact ACS Athletics at (800) 343-6220 or sales@acsathletics.com.