Marla Oldfield

Marla Oldfield, founder and president of Future Collegiater Athletes, has had a lifelong passion for the life-lessons that can be taught and learned through youth athletics. Marla is a popular speaker, consultant, trainer and author specializing in youth athletics, navigating the college recruiting process and identifying success factors for all students preparing for the college experience. She has worked with over 500 students representing 8 recruiting classes.

In addition, she has had an interesting career in the corporate IT world as a software developer, relationship manager, IT recruiter, trainer, and manager. She has also taught a number of courses at the University of Colorado, Metro State College, and University of Colorado at Denver.

In 2003, Marla was introduced to the idea of counseling families as they navigate the college athletic recruiting process. Attracted to this concept because of her own regret over her 3-day college athletic career, she leveraged her software development background to develop a better system to help families identify and pursue the “right fit” colleges for their student athlete. Marla works closely with students and their families to help them choose just the right college situation which will provide them the best opportunity to truly succeed in every aspect of college life and spring-board into the rest of their life. Marla provides important information tornstudent-athletes and their families in an entertaining, enjoyable, and insightful manner. Marla and her husband, Tom, are raising four active children. They enjoy traveling the state, and the country, watching them pursue their passions and athletic pursuits.