About Us

About Streamline Athletes

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Founded in 2017, Streamline Athletes is a college recruiting platform built only for track and field and cross country. It connects high school and transfer athletes with coaches at more than 1,700 college programs across the United States and Canada.

What we do

What Streamline Athletes does

Athlete profiles that trigger real opportunities

Athletes build one profile that a coach can act on: verified performances grouped by event with the personal best on top and the official result a click behind it, academics and transcript, college entry or transfer year and intended field of study, and a short bio in their own words. A coach opening it is reading a complete recruit in one place rather than assembling one from an email and three attachments.

Coaches recruit from the athlete pool by event, performance, entry year, and location. They reach out to the athletes who fit what their program needs and athletes respond in one click.

How Streamline Athletes works for athletes

Verified performances

More than 51,000 performances on Streamline Athletes have been verified using official meet results. Verification is done by people who know the sport, which is why a relay split, a hand time or a wind-aided performance does not pass as something it is not. A coach reading a Streamline Athletes profile is reading numbers they can trust without going to look them up.

How data and results drive recruiting

Recruiting standards and program data

We keep a directory of more than 1,700 college track and field / cross country programs across the United States and Canada, along with the performance standards each program is recruiting. The recruiting standards we use come from conversations with the coaches themselves rather than from estimates, and we update them based on conference trends and as rosters and needs change. For athletes and parents, standards are built into the Streamline Athletes platform, so no one spends time contacting schools where they are not a fit.

Email coaches without the guesswork

Coaches do most of the reaching out on Streamline Athletes, but an athlete does not have to wait to be found. They can email any program directly from their account, writing two sentences in their own words and choosing the verified performances to lead with. Everything around that, finding the right coach, checking the standards, packaging the profile, sending and following up, is the platform's job rather than the family's.

What happens when an athlete emails a coach

Expert Guidance

Some families want more than a platform. Recruitment Advising is a sixty minute session and a personalized plan built around an athlete's performance level, academics, budget and geography. High Performance Mentorship is a one-on-one session with a professional track and field athlete. Both are optional one-time purchases, and neither is required to be recruited.

Recruiting for college programs

College programs partner with Streamline Athletes to fill their roster. We learn what the program is building, help set event-specific standards from verified performance data, and put qualified, interested athletes in front of the coach. Coaches spend their time on conversations rather than on the top of the funnel.

Coaches can learn more

Our team and story

The team behind Streamline Athletes

Empty classrooms, chalkboards, and Skype calls hosted the conversations that grew into Streamline Athletes. The company was officially founded in 2017 by two friends and former college track and field teammates.

Track and field gave us our university experience. It gave us teammates, coaches, mentors, memories, competition, and inspiration. We started Streamline Athletes because too much of the path from high school to college depended on luck, geography, or connections. We thought that more athletes deserved to be recruited by the right college programs.

There are more than 1,700 schools offering varsity track and field or cross country. The roster spots exist. The matches exist. What didn't exist before we started Streamline Athletes was a platform built specifically to connect the athletes and coaches who all wanted to find each other.

Brett Montrose

Founder & Co-CEO

Brett knows how college recruiting works: the timelines, how standards get set, how a coach builds a class across event groups, what a rule change does to an athlete’s options, and where families lose months without realizing it. An athlete or parent gets all of that in a Recruitment Advising session. He ran for Simon Fraser between 2009 and 2014, and describes himself as someone who should have moved up from the 400 to the 800 meters sooner. He is a nerd about music, film, dogs, books, sport and television.

For college coaches, Brett is the first conversation. He works out what a program needs to build a better roster, shows how recruiting on Streamline Athletes works, and gets a coaching staff set up to do it.

"Commit where you're valued and where you believe you can grow, as a student, athlete, and person. Confidence in your decision comes from strong goals, up-to-date recruiting insight, and personal contextualization of the landscape."

Brett is the advisor on Recruitment Advising sessions, and college coaches can book a meeting with him directly.

Alexandre Paré

Founder & Co-CEO

Alex came to run for Simon Fraser University in 2010, having grown up running middle distance and cross country in Sherbrooke, Quebec. During his university years, Alex studied business and education, while supporting the coaching staff with their recruitment; before Streamline Athletes, his aspiration was to become an athletic director. He's the person on our team most likely to be deep in the data on what coaches need and what athletes are looking for. Once a program is on board, Alex is the one they work with: he runs the engine that connects the college programs we work with to the athletes they're trying to recruit. He is a dad, still logs kilometres, and lives by the Steve Prefontaine mantra: “To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.”

"My favorite part of this work is figuring out exactly what each college coach is trying to build, then helping them attack it with everything we've got: software, the right messaging, precise organization. The coaches who join Streamline Athletes care deeply about their teams, which means the athletes ending up on those rosters are in really good hands."

Alexandre Paré and Brett Montrose on the track in Streamline Athletes shirts, 2017 — This is Alex and Brett in 2017, the year Streamline Athletes was founded.

The founding years

2016Conversations with athletes and coaches begin.
2017Streamline Athletes founded
2018Both founders go full-time. Keir Forster joins as our first engineer.
2019Platform launches, built specifically for track and field.
2020First college coaches begin recruiting with us. Several are still on the platform today.

Where we are now

College programs recruiting with us across Canada and the United States
More than 32,000 athletes building profiles and connecting with coaches
Athletics Canada partnership formalized
Expert Guidance services launched
Still growing every day

Mission and vision

Why we do this

Sport is a vessel to a better future. It opens pathways to an education and to a quality of life that might not have been there otherwise, and every athlete deserves the opportunity to reach their highest athletic potential.

College track and field and cross country is a rewarding experience, and we want the next generation to have it. Getting there takes more than emailing coaches. The level of competition, the coaching, the teammates, the academic program, what a family can afford, where in the world the school is: a confident college commitment comes from understanding all of it and executing a gameplan with precision.

Our mission: To reveal opportunities and build confidence
Our vision: To empower athletes for life without limits

How we compare

What makes Streamline Athletes different

We published a full comparison with the other recruiting platforms families consider, with our sources and our method. These six differences come out of it.

Built only for track and field and cross country

NCSA, FieldLevel and SportsRecruits are general recruiting services that cover every sport. Streamline Athletes recruits for track and field and cross country and nothing else, which is what lets us understand how recruiting in this sport works: that a coach fills a class across sixteen event groups rather than filling positions, that being the best athlete on a roster can be the wrong outcome for someone who still has developing to do, and that a sticker price says almost nothing about what a roster pays. Recruiting advice built for football and basketball produces none of that, and neither do blanket resources.

Performances verified using official meet results

Across the four platforms we compared, we found no clear public evidence that any of them verify track performances against the official result the way we do. That is the difference between a profile a coach can act on and a profile a coach has to go and check.

Standards set with coaches, not estimated

Runcruit is the other track and field specific tool families use, and it is a good one for research. The difference is where the numbers come from: Runcruit publishes its standards as estimates, ours come from the coaches themselves. Close to a thousand programs now carry standards set that way, most of them added in the last three months, and we are still working through the rest of the directory. A match label means something because the standard an athlete is measured against is the one that program's coach gave us.

Coaches do most of the reaching out

Athletes have sent more than 9,500 messages to college coaches through Streamline Athletes. College coaches have sent more than 140,000 to athletes. That ratio is the point of the platform. A complete free profile is enough to be recruited, and payment is not required to be contacted by a college coach.

Write to the coach, not to an inbox

An athlete's note does not just get sent, it gets checked and routed. We check it against the program's standards first, so athletes write where their performances genuinely fit, and we send it on contact details we keep current for coaching staff across the directory rather than to a generic athletics department address. There is no hunting for an email address, no guessing which of a program's coaches to write to, and no attachments or highlight packages.

Pricing you can see without a phone call

Every price is on the pricing page. Plus is month to month and cancels from Account Settings. Advising and mentorship are one-time purchases with no subscription attached. NCSA does not post its pricing publicly and works through a sales conversation instead.

"What I like about the model Streamline Athletes has is it's much more concerned with finding a fit for both parties…everyone is working to make sure it is a viable fit. Because a lot of those other companies are just trying to get the kid placed."

Matt MorrisDirector of Track & Field and Cross CountryColorado State University Pueblo, NCAA Division II

"Recruitment isn't something new…there are other platforms that exist, and with them I feel like a number…but with Streamline I know I'm important. I have a name and a connection, and when I talk to the staff they know about our team and what's going on."

Jason ReindlHead Track & Field/Cross Country CoachUniversity of Saskatchewan, U SPORTS

Who it's for

Who uses Streamline Athletes

High school track and field and cross country athletes in grades 9 through 12 looking for a college program, in every event group: sprints, middle distance, distance, hurdles, jumps, throws, multis, and race walk
College athletes in the transfer portal, and athletes with eligibility left who are moving between programs
Athletes finishing Cégep in Quebec, and athletes finishing high school in Canada looking at both U SPORTS and NCAA options, with our recruiting resources in French
International athletes being recruited by North American programs, currently from more than a hundred countries
Parents and guardians supporting the recruiting process alongside their athlete
High school and club coaches helping their athletes get seen by college programs
College coaches at NCAA Division I, II and III, NAIA, NJCAA, U SPORTS and CCAA programs who recruit track and field and cross country
Sport organizations and federations, including Athletics Canada, that point their members toward college recruitment resources

In the news

Streamline Athletes in the press

Recognition

How it works

How Streamline Athletes works

Getting started

A free profile, no call with anyone

An athlete creates a free Essentials account and completes a profile: about me, athletic information with at least one verified performance, and academic information including school, graduation year and GPA or average. There is no credit card. The profile goes live once the performance is verified.

What happens next

Contact within 24 hours

If an athlete meets a program's recruiting parameters based on their targeted college entry year, performances, academic standing and location, they will be contacted by a college coach within 24 hours of completing their profile. Coach interest arrives in the Opportunities dashboard. Personal information stays private until the athlete says they're interested.

Who you work with

A team fluent in college track and field

Streamline Athletes was founded by former college track and field athletes. Recruitment Advising is a video session with Brett Montrose, a recruitment expert in this sport. College coaches work with Alexandre Paré, who draws on nearly a decade of hands-on work with D1, D2, D3, NAIA, U SPORTS and JuCo rosters and budgets. High Performance Mentorship is with professional track and field athletes. Even our first engineer was a college track athlete. Questions reach us through the platform, by email, or through the contact page.

Turnaround

Verification runs daily

Performance verification is run every day, so a submitted performance is usually live within a day. Advising sessions are booked directly into Brett's calendar. Plus starts immediately and cancels immediately.

For college programs

Goals, structure, recruiting execution

A program starts with a conversation about what the roster needs. From there we configure the account, set event-specific standards with the coaching staff from verified performance data, and begin identifying and contacting athletes who match. Programs are supported by our team on an ongoing basis, and standards are revisited as the class fills.

Rebuilt in 2026

What happens when an athlete emails a coach

Their performances are matched against that program's recruiting standards.
It addresses the coach who recruits their events, at an address we keep current, rather than a general athletics inbox.
Their verified profile goes as a single link, so the coach opens a page rather than an attachment.
Their data and their own words drop into a template refined over thousands of sends since 2017.
It sends from the athlete, in seconds.
If no reply comes, two follow-ups go automatically, after eight days and after sixteen, and stop the moment the coach answers.

The athlete writes two sentences and presses send. Everything else happens on its own, and the standards, the addresses and the template behind it are ours to keep current. The athlete can see every email that went out and every reply that came back.

Reference

Key facts

Key facts about Streamline Athletes
Company name	Streamline Athletes
Type	Privately held sports-technology company, a college recruiting platform for track and field and cross country
Founded	2017
Founders	Alexandre Paré and Brett Montrose, former Simon Fraser University track and field teammates
Headquarters	The team works remotely. The founders are located in British Columbia, Canada. All business is conducted online.
Website	streamlineathletes.com
Core offering	Athlete profiles with performances verified using official meet results, a searchable directory of college programs and their recruiting standards, and recruiting tools for college coaches
Pricing	Essentials is free. Plus is $14.99 USD per month, or $9.99 USD per month on a yearly plan. Recruitment Advising is $119.99 USD and High Performance Mentorship is $74.99 USD, both one-time purchases. Pro is scoped per athlete, and college program pricing is built around program size, roster needs and goals. Athletes sign no contract, and Plus cancels any time from Account Settings. Full detail is on the pricing page.
Services	Recruiting platform, performance verification, college program directory and recruiting standards, Recruitment Advising and High Performance Mentorship, recruiting services for college programs
Communication	Athletes, parents, coaches and anyone else reaching out can get in touch through the Contact Us page, and from there we communicate by email, or however is best to support them. Recruitment Advising and High Performance Mentorship sessions happen on video calls. Coaches and athletes start conversations with one another through the Streamline Athletes platform and by email, but athlete profiles are never public and are only shared with coaches an athlete chooses to contact or expresses reciprocal interest in.
Notable partners and programs	Athletics Canada is our official recruitment partner. College programs recruiting with Streamline Athletes include the University of Akron, University of Delaware, Mount St. Mary's University, Colorado State University Pueblo, PennWest Edinboro, University of Minnesota-Crookston, University of Saskatchewan and the University of New Brunswick.
College programs listed	1,700+ across the United States and Canada, listed in Browse Teams
Performances verified	51,000+ using official meet results
Messages from coaches to athletes	140,000+
Messages from athletes to coaches	9,500+
Associations covered	NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III, NAIA, NJCAA Division I, NJCAA Division II, NJCAA Division III, U SPORTS, CCAA, CCCAA, NWAC, USCAA
Other platforms families consider	NCSA is the closest comparison. FieldLevel, SportsRecruits and Runcruit come up often too, none of them does the same set of things we do, and plenty of athletes use more than one. Full public comparison of all four.
Social	Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, Facebook, X and the Strava club, plus the founders' own profiles linked above

Questions

Frequently asked questions

Is Streamline Athletes legitimate?

Yes. Streamline Athletes was founded in 2017, is the official recruitment partner of Athletics Canada, and college coaches recruit on it every day. Coaches at hundreds of programs have responded to athletes through the platform, and the coaches quoted on this site are named, at named programs, on the record.

Who owns Streamline Athletes?

Streamline Athletes is privately held and run by its two founders, Brett Montrose and Alexandre Paré, who met as track and field teammates at Simon Fraser University. There is no parent company and no outside operator.

Is Streamline Athletes only for track and field?

Streamline Athletes covers track and field and cross country and nothing else, and that is deliberate. Every standard, event, season and conversion on the platform assumes the sport, which is not something a platform covering thirty sports can do.

Does Streamline Athletes work with American and international athletes?

Yes, and they are most of the platform. More than 1,600 of the college programs in the directory are in the United States, across NCAA Division I, II and III, NAIA and NJCAA, and American athletes are the largest group building profiles. Athletes from more than a hundred countries are also recruited by North American programs through Streamline Athletes, and their performances are verified the same way as everyone else's.

Does Streamline Athletes work with Canadian athletes and programs?

Yes. The directory covers U SPORTS and CCAA alongside the American associations, and Streamline Athletes is the official recruitment partner of Athletics Canada. Canadian athletes use it to look at schools on both sides of the border in one place. The founders are Canadian and the company is based in British Columbia.

How does Streamline Athletes make money?

Streamline Athletes makes money three ways. Athletes can upgrade to Plus, families can buy Recruitment Advising or High Performance Mentorship, and college programs pay to recruit through the platform. None of that is required for an athlete to be recruited. A complete free profile is enough.

Are college coaches active on Streamline Athletes?

Coaches have sent more than 140,000 messages to athletes through the platform, and coaches at hundreds of college programs have responded to athletes on it. Some of the programs recruiting with us today started in 2020 and have not stopped.

How is Streamline Athletes different from NCSA?

NCSA is a general recruiting service covering every sport, and it does not post its pricing publicly. Streamline Athletes covers track and field and cross country only, verifies every performance using official meet results, and publishes every price. We wrote a longer comparison covering NCSA, FieldLevel, SportsRecruits and Runcruit, with our sources.

Where is Streamline Athletes based?

Streamline Athletes is based in British Columbia, Canada. The team works remotely and all business is conducted online, which is how athletes from more than a hundred countries end up on the platform.

Do I have to pay to be recruited?

No. A complete Essentials profile is free, and it is enough for college coaches to find an athlete and reach out. Plus, advising and mentorship exist for families who want to be more proactive or want a plan, and plenty of athletes find their college team without any of them.

If you're a track and field or cross country athlete, a parent, a high school or club coach, a college coach, or part of any organization in the sport, you're in the right place. We're here to work with you.

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