Personalized recruitment plans, target program lists, and structured coach outreach — for U14–U20 players and the families guiding them.
From a former captain of Princeton men's hockey.
I'm Noah de la Durantaye, the former captain of Princeton men's hockey. Before that, I was a kid sending cold emails to coaches, recording highlights on a parent's iPhone, and trying to figure out where I fit in the recruiting puzzle.
I built Backcheck because the system today is broken. Hockey families are stuck choosing between $3,200 advisors they can't afford and spammy lead-gen platforms that promise the world and deliver junk mail. Most just figure it out alone — and miss opportunities they earned.
Backcheck is the tool I wish I'd had: real Ivy and D1 expertise, structured into a clear roadmap, with zero of the upsells. Just the path.
Built around how college coaches actually evaluate players — not a generic sports template.
Tell us your age, position, league, stats, GPA, and where you want to play. Takes 6 minutes. Honest, hockey-specific questions — no fluff.
Backcheck generates a personalized 12-week roadmap, a tiered list of realistic schools, and ready-to-send emails to specific coaches.
Weekly digests tell you what to do next. Ask the Captain anything. Update your profile as your season progresses — your plan adapts.
Six tools, one platform — built around how college coaches actually evaluate players.
A week-by-week action list calibrated to your age, grade, and where you sit in the NCAA timeline.
Tiered "reach / target / safety" programs that fit your level, academics, and preferences. With reasoning.
Personalized intro emails to specific coaches. You review and send from your own email — no spam, no automation.
What footage to capture, how to edit it, how to caption it. The blueprint coaches actually want to see.
Direct, on-demand answers grounded in NCAA rules, junior hockey paths, and Ivy/D1 specifics. Ask anything — no marketing fluff.
Every Monday: this week's three most important tasks. Drives momentum and keeps the family aligned.
If you're reading this, you already know the math. Hockey is the most demanding youth sport in North America — financially, logistically, emotionally. Six-figure family investments. Dinner-table conversations about tryout politics. Weekends spent in rinks 200 miles from home. And underneath all of it, the question every parent carries quietly: is any of this actually working?
We built Backcheck for the families in the middle of that question.
Too many kids miss opportunities they earned because nobody taught them when to email a coach, what to put in a highlight reel, or how to navigate the gap between U16 and college. Too many parents invest tens of thousands of dollars a year and still feel like they're guessing. Too many families learn the recruiting playbook the same week their child becomes too old to use it.
That gap is what we're closing. Not with promises. Not with sales pitches. With a clear, structured, honest plan — the kind of guidance every hockey family should have access to.
We've lived this. We know what's at stake. And we built Backcheck because the families who give this much to the game deserve a fair shot at the answer.
A third the cost of a human advisor. Less than what most families spend on a single travel weekend. Cancel anytime.
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