Answers to the most common questions about the Second Half Network.
The Second Half Network is a private mentorship program built on one idea: college sports measures everything about an athlete until the final whistle, then nothing. We measure what comes next, pairing student-athletes with professional mentors and real goals so the next chapter starts before the last game ends.
Student-athletes of any class year, using your school (.edu) email address. Request access through the Join as a Student-Athlete form, or our team may invite you directly. We take it from there.
Yes. The program is completely free for student-athletes.
Athletes are matched one-on-one with professional mentors through a structured, semester-long program built specifically for student-athletes. Most matches come out of an interview the athlete books through the platform, and when interviews close our team pairs any student-athlete still without a mentor. Both of you are asked to set goals for the cycle, and our check-ins measure progress against them.
Privacy is a core requirement. No mentor or athlete names or private details ever appear on the public site, and your documents are never publicly reachable. We never sell your information and never share it with advertisers. The services that run the platform, including our host, database, email and meeting providers, process your data on our behalf, and the optional AI tools send what you have written to our AI provider to produce your review. The Privacy Policy names every one of them.
Accomplished professionals across a wide range of industries, many of them former athletes.
Meetings are scheduled through the platform. A video slot gets a meeting link from us; for a phone slot the two of you arrange the call in your message thread. We are adding formal background screening through an accredited screening provider, and we will describe exactly what that screening covers here once it is in place.
Fill out the Become a Mentor form. The program team reviews every application and reaches out with next steps.
Email the Second Half Network team at SHN@secondhalfnetwork.com.