Shelia McBride's company really started to take off when it came to Detroit's
TechTown in 2005. Since then GradeCheck.net has expanded to a staff of four and plans to hire two more by next year.
"That's when
GradeCheck.net really started to take off because TechTown had the support in place to move my company forward," says McBride, the company's founder and CEO.
The firm specializes in making sure student athletes keep their academics up and don't slip through the cracks. McBride was inspired by her son who was "thinking more about the sport than the academics" in the mid 1990s.
Not wanting her son to become academically ineligible, McBride laid his academic record out to him on paper and showed him where he needed to improve so he could go to the next level. He ended up with a college scholarship.
Now with GradeCheck.net she does the same for others. The company has 700 student-athletes signed up nationwide and hopes to have up to 5,000 within five years.
"We're growing every day," McBride says.
Source: Shelia McBride, founder and CEO of GradeCheck.net
Writer: Jon Zemke
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