Ninety-eight percent of college athletes don't go pro. You knew that. Now what?
Sports gave you discipline, identity, and a clock. When the clock runs out, most athletes get handed a generic career-services packet. We do this differently: the same assessment used by Fortune 500 leadership teams, plus a coach who played D3 lacrosse and has spent a decade with athletes in transition.
The 98% you weren't briefed on
If you played college sports, you spent four years in an environment that gave you discipline, identity, and a clock. When the clock runs out — for the 98% of college athletes who don't go pro — most schools' career services hand you a packet and wish you well.
That's where the Highlands comes in. It gives you objective information about how you're wired. We use that information to think through what you do next: pro path, coaching, an MBA, finance, ops at a startup, the family business. Not based on what athletes are "supposed" to do. Based on what your specific profile suggests.
Why Benjie does this work
I played four years of D3 lacrosse at Denison and captained the team my senior year. I spent the decade after college as a coach. I've watched athletes navigate the transition out of sport from up close. Most of them don't need motivation. They need objective information about themselves they didn't get from playing.
- ·Junior or senior year of college, planning the transition out
- ·Recent graduate, six months past the last game
- ·Pro athlete planning a second act
- ·Coaches and athletic department staff in leadership transitions