The Ascension Story
More opportunities.
Less guesswork.
Ascension Football was created to remove the guesswork from the game, so players can focus on maximizing their potential.
- Negotiated in contracts for our players
- $7M+Negotiated in contracts for our players
- Additional snaps played in 2025
- 2,052Additional snaps played in 2025
- Athletes who transferred up
- 22Athletes who transferred up
Why We Exist
World-class clients deserve world-class service
We’re committed to being the most trusted, innovative, and dynamic sports service company in the world.
Ascension provides access to real answers in real time, and is prepared to mitigate the real-world challenges our clients experience, allowing them to concentrate on being the best athlete possible.
Making Champions. Forging Legacies.
The Ascension Solution
What we do
Athlete Representation
Full-service athlete representation. Guidance through opportunities, contracts, negotiations, and major career decisions.
Revenue Share Negotiations
Helping clients achieve exactly what they are worth in an ever changing market. Expert guidance on compensation structures, university agreements and athlete rights.
Wealth Management & Financial Planning
Preserve, Protect & Grow. Leverage our preferred network of experts. We work hard to provide innovative solutions to make the most of your financial future.
Brand Development & NIL Strategy
Build a recognizable personal brand that creates opportunities off of the field. We help athletes grow their visibility, influence and marketability.
Legal & Contract Review
Through our legal partnership, Ascension athletes receive experienced guidance on NIL agreements, Rev Share contracts, 3rd party endorsement opportunities and legal counsel in order to protect and maximize opportunities.
Mental & Physical
Cutting edge training and health strategies for optimal performance on and off the field.
Career Planning
Our Life Beyond The Game speaker series provides a network of educational resources to prepare our players for professional opportunities, networking and life after the sport.
Our Team
You don’t just get an agent.
A career is won and lost off the field as much as on it. Our clients get a coach who has recruited at the highest level, plus the specialists most players never get access to until it’s too late.
Meet the team- A lawyer to read the contract before you sign it, not after
- A nutritionist who builds around the demands of a full season
- A sports psychologist for the part of the game nobody coaches
- A financial planner, because the first real money is the easiest to lose
In Their Words
Trusted by players and their families
“Having guidance through the portal process is something lots of players seek. What was important to me was the knowledge and expertise with which Ascension Football was helping players. My success as a college football player depends so much on opportunity and reps. Coach Burnham told me we’re playing chess not checkers and he was so right.”
“I’ve known Shane since he was a coach in the college space. He was honest through and through, even when he was recruiting me out of high school, so when he became an agent it was a no-brainer. I trusted him, I knew his network was super strong, and there was never a doubt. When he started Ascension, it was something I wanted to be a part of, and he helped place me at my school.”
“Once we decided to enter the transfer portal, we had multiple agencies wanting to represent Cody. Shane was very personable, energetic, and truly seemed to love the game of football and wanting to help young men. There’s only so many days in the portal, so communication and logistics are very important, which Shane did a great job with. At the end of all this Cody had multiple offers throughout the ACC, Big 10 and SEC. We really appreciate what Shane has done.”
“High school season was over and there were no offers. One month later, eight offers.”
Let’s Get to Work
If you’re ready to maximize your potential, let’s get started
Timing is everything. We believe in striking early and often. Tell us where you are and we’ll tell you what’s possible.