Second Half Network helps student-athletes prepare for life after sport while they are still on the roster: mentors from the industries they want, a plan, and progress that is on the record.
December 13
0 spots remainingJanuary 8, 2027
Every place in this beta is taken. Hold yours for the Spring 2027 cycle, free to the athlete.
A week of sport plus school. A full-time job, and then a second one, every week.
NCAA GOALS, March 2026Questions in federal athletics disclosure about what happens to an athlete after the last season.
US Dept of Education, September 2024Are satisfied with the career counseling their athletics department already provides.
NCAA GOALS, April 2026Each one is a short form. Nothing you enter is public.
A sample of the fields our current mentors work in. No mentor is ever named publicly.
Every figure links to the primary source it was read from.
Share of men, and of women, who agree they feel ready for life after sport, counting the top two boxes of the NCAA's six-point scale. The remainder is not the opposite: most of it sits on 'somewhat agree', and outright disagreement is closer to one in seven.
Career preparation is the single topic athletes want staff to discuss more, ahead of every other subject offered.
Share of Division I athletes who have ever connected with a mentor. The demand above has no supply behind it.
Share satisfied with the career counseling their athletics department already provides. The service exists. It is not landing.
Top projected NIL package for one athlete in one year, which goes to zero the day eligibility ends. Income is not a career.
One career office already proved athlete outcomes can be tracked almost completely. Nobody made it comparable between schools. That is the record we are building.
Second Half Network was founded by business students at Tulane University who saw how little support athletes get for the part that comes after sport. Its founders study at the A.B. Freeman School of Business.
You already know how to be coached. Use it one more time, on the part nobody trained you for.
