How to create a sports highlight video

Want to play college sports? You need an athlete highlight video to showcase your skills to future college coaches and recruiters. If you don’t have one, you are falling behind your competition. 

Pliable has extensive experience in working with young athletes who want to play college sports. We can help you stand out and make sure your video is seen, including helping you post it to your recruiting page, YouTube channel and more! 

A great high school highlight video can make an important first impression on coaches and recruiters at the top Division 1, Division 2 and Division 3 colleges in the country.  We produce athlete highlight videos for baseball, basketball, ice hockey, field hockey, football, golf, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track and field, volleyball and more!

High school athlete recruitment videos should include:

• Isolation video footage
• Athlete identification arrows
• Energetic music
• The athlete’s personality
• Headshot photo and bio
• Athlete contact information

BASIC RECRUITING VIDEO

• Professionally produced athlete recruiting video up to 5 minutes in length
• Graphic design for the opening and closing player card with headshot, player profile and stats 
• Identification arrows for wide video clips
• Video editing
• Copyright free music included
• Contact information for the athlete
• The final video will be provided as an .mp4 file

TIMELINE: 5 weeks

COST: $500

*Pricing is based on the athlete providing the video clips. Pliable can record footage if needed (additional cost).

ADVANCED PACKAGE: RECRUITING VIDEO & RECRUITING TOOLS 

Everything from the Basic Package, plus:

• Customized athlete dashboard spreadsheet for prioritizing colleges and universities, tracking school outreach to make it easy for keeping in touch with coaches
• Advice from college coaches about how to reach them
• Social media audit and recommendations
• 1-hour social media meeting to share the best ways promote your recruitment video
• Customized recommendations to improve visibility with colleges

TIMELINE: 6-8 weeks

COST: $1,000 

*Pricing is based on the athlete providing the video clips. Pliable can record more video footage if needed (additional cost).

PREMIUM PACKAGE: RECRUITING VIDEO FOOTAGE & RECRUITING TOOLS 

Everything from the Advanced Package, plus:

• Customized professional video footage shot by a videographer dedicated on only filming the athlete all game. This footage results in a much better impression of the athlete than provided by a wide angle camera 
• Includes four games of footage
• Video shot in 4K

TIMELINE: Based on the athlete's game schedule 

COST: Starting at $2,500 

*Pliable can record more video footage if needed and travel to games as needed (additional cost).