We were the first ones to offer kicking camps to rate one kicker/punter against another but not for just ranking purposes but to offer where one specialists is and where the other needs to get to in order to succeed. We know many of our young specialists enjoy seeing the results of others hearing from them firsthand who have gone on their own “Journey”.
The Kickers Zone also was the first dedicated cloud-based environment, software “Coaching On Demand Video Analysis” (CODVA) services portal serving the niche athlete of college/professional bound football kicker/punter “specialists” and the parents and coaches who support these great athletes.
Marc is the CEO of The KickersZone.com, and the orginator of the leading Youth Podcast Series DONTOUTKICKYOURCOVERAGE. Coach Nolan is the longest serving (and still active) kicking and punting coach in the United States, having his first one-on-one kicking lesson back in 1975. He is a former collegiate D1 punter and kicker, semi-pro soccer player as well as an undrafted free agent punter with The Philadelphia Eagles of The National Football League.
Coach Nolan has worked with thousands of high school, college and NFL kickers and punters throughout the US and is a certified Community Coach and trainer with the Georgia High School Athletic Association.
Coach Nolan has helped thousands of kickers/punters to obtain kicking scholarships at various D1 schools currently and in the past to include kickers and punters with The University of Notre Dame, University of Georgia, University of Florida, University of Tennessee, Auburn University, Georgia Tech University, Georgia State University, Texas A&M, East Carolina, University of Akron, Middle Tennessee State, Memphis, The Naval Academy, The United States Military Academy at West Point, The Air Force Academy, Stony Brook University, Dartmouth University, West Virginia University, Purdue University, as well as many other DI and DII schools.
He has also been a Director of Coaching (DOC) GM and Commissioner, and Board Member at several large soccer clubs in the US, and has written over 200 articles related to the areas of youth coaching, and recently published his third Best Selling Number One book dedicated to the High School and their parents called “COLLEGE ATHLETIC SCHOLARSHIPS". The Path To Recruiting Success In the New Age of NIl, The Transfer Portal and Post-COVID Scholarships
Coach Nolan is a long- standing member of the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) also holds a USSF License, National Youth License, Dutch KNVB badge National Level GK I and II License, and is a member of The National Soccer Coaches Association.
As a soccer coach, he started his first soccer club at the age of 23 (The Barrington Storm Soccer Association, Barrington, New Jersey) and was considered the youngest club President at that time (1978) in the United States. At The Barrington Storm in his first year, he grew the program to 400 kids and over the next three years 700 kids were involved with this youth soccer program, and he expanded this program to bring in less fortunate children from a nearby town to play. Throughout his 51 plus years of “soccer and football coaching journeys” he has worked with youth clubs throughout the US on improving the ways young athletes need to train to get to the next level, and to bring awarness of the ongoing isses within the NCAA as it relates to the High School Athletes. He is a Nationally recognized speaker on the issues High School Parents and the student-athletes who are faced with the challenges the NCAA has placed in front of them post COVID
Please e-mail Marc at mnolan@thekickerszone.com.
Hello, my name is Marc Nolan, and I am the CEO and creator of The Kickers Zone.com For over 51years, I have helped over 4,000 student athletes and their parents obtain over $275,000,000 in college athletic scholarships.
I am an international best-selling author, with my third book COLLEGE ATHLETIC SCHOLARSHIPS the Path to Success in the Age of the TRANSFER PORTAL and NIL, POST COVID!
I am a leading student athlete advocate, speaker, expert, and trusted authority in the hunt for the elusive college athletics scholarships and why I believe the NCAA is ruining the high school athletes’ chances every day with every new destructive legislative changes and policies unlike ever before.
All one needs to do, is look at what is happening with all the NCAA lawsuits and the constant “protections” they are putting on the COLLEGE athlete while offering NO real PROTECTIONS to the HS athletes and their parents!
Heck the Transfer Portal is just one example of this, and the 6th year (and some times 7th and 8th) year COVID rule.
I hold several National Certifications in soccer, to include a National USSF B License, the GK 1 and 2 License as well as the coveted Dutch KNVB License (1 and 2). I am also a certified Community Coach in Georgia.
The COVID “year” to the Transfer Portal and NIL and the loss of the high school athletes’ scholarship chances dwindling down to now LESS than the one percent, along with the increases each year of MORE International Students coming in to play,the field IN EVERY SPORT (currently there are over 36,000 (and growing each year) who I would call "professionals") is becoming harder and harder to obtain athletic scholarships for our children and is my NEW mission to help parents and their high school athletes.
I am also parent to 2 college graduates, with our one child being a First Team All-American in Football. And as the longest active kicking and punting private coach in the US (51 years) I am one of those rare people who know just how much parents want their kids to be successful and happy, both ON the field (and OFF the field), and the pyhsical and mental challenges they face BOTH in High School and College
Like many of you reading to this, I’ve been through this issue with many of the kids and parents I’ve worked with when it comes with college choices and the coaches and admissions staff, and yes those dreaded days of not signing on NSD and thinking all is lost, especially in the D-1 OR BUST Mentality!
My private 1-3-1 NORTHSTAR Consulting practice has been in place for nearly 30 years, and covers the sports of baseball, basketball, football, Lacrosse, soccer, track and field, wrestling, and Volleyball, but it was something I offered for years along with my private lessons, and never just as a service by itself. I thought this was being handled by the HS guidance counselors and HS coaches.
I wanted to be something special to those I trained and different type of a one stop shop (without recruiting- which is an NCAA violation)
But recently, I’ve seen families and the athletes on Social Media trying to get that “5 Star ranking" only to find out it may not be good enough in today’s D-1 or bust mentality, over being successful in landing that NEXT LEVEL college choice!
Again, the NCAA has put so many roadblocks in parents’ and high school student athletes ways and many I speak with just don’t have a clue as to where to begin or even the recruiting process.
They think just slap a few highlights on Social media and they are on their way!! D-1 or BUST!
Back in 2011 I had started a Coaching On Demand Video Analysis application to help athletes to see and hear the issues they faced on the “technical” side of the sport of kicking and punting footballs, when I could not physically travel to them, but offer my expertise through video analysis and feedback of their kicks. Nowadays many a coach has taken on this as a copy cat role- and sadly is not helping train them over our Proven 40 year Framework Series fo the Kickers and Punters
Along the way, and up to COVID, our discussions in follow-up calls many of the athletes and the parents just did not know many of the inside tricks of the recruiting process, or the NCAA process and how to WIN, and even more surprised the guidance counselors were just too overwhelmed with the paperwork and the recent compliance issues from COVID.
I thought with all the local kids I helped surely, they had their own support staff for them, but found out many of these great coaches were just that!
They are laser focused on the coaching side and not wanting to get too deep into the weeds on college selections, they simply didn’t have the bandwidth to help everyone.
So, as I have done for the better part of my coaching career, I set out to solve this MAJOR issue, that I beleive is the ELEPHANT in the room for HS athletes and Parents when COVID STRUCK!
The high School athletes were being shut out and shutdown for college athletic opportunities, and why I wrote my latest book to not only help parents but to expose the NCAA as to the things they do as a $18 BILLION not-for-profit.
I went to high schools and sat down with hundreds of athletes and their parents doing FREE seminars and started doing Podcasts.
My DONTOUTICKOURCOVERAGE Podcast, is the ONLY Podcast dedicated SOLELY to the high school athletes and their parents/guardians and weekly I address many of these issues with student athletes, parents, and guest speakers who are experts in the fields of not just athletics, but the Mental and Physical side of college athletics and beyond!
I’ve expanded our Student-Athlete and Parent Academy as to be that MAJOR bridge for those looking to have a proven expert right alongside them as I have done as a coach on the sidelines when coaching the athletes.
I’ve been humbled and excited that this part-time job I started over 50 years ago, while serving in the US Army and climbing the corporate ladder is something I might be able to help you and your athlete with along your JOURNEY!
I have always tried to help families to have an option that they might not otherwise be aware of, or to be that coach when the clock may have run out on the game clock- but now the recruiting clock is ticking!
Our program is designed to have ALL OF US to include the Student Athlete, Parents/Guardians and high school Administration folks all working towards the goal of that NEXT LEVEL College Experience!
I look forward to partnering with you and your high school student-athlete as you get ready for this AWESOME Journey.
Please feel free to schedule a FREE 30 minute call with me by sending me an email to mnolan@thekickerszone.com or by calling me at 678-200-7540, and I will be more than happy to see how I can help you!
Thanks Coach Marc Nolan