What is A Front Row Seat?

A Front Row Seat is a Skool community that helps student-athletes and their families with NCAA eligibility, reclassification and recruiting. It is led by Shanay Howard, an educator and NCAA eligibility consultant who founded Shanay Howard Consulting LLC.

How much does A Front Row Seat cost?

A Front Row Seat was free to join on Skool when last read, 28 Sept 2026; its listing showed no charge.

How many members does A Front Row Seat have?

A Front Row Seat lists 828 members, read 31 Oct 2026.

How has A Front Row Seat's membership changed?

From 804 members on 6 Sept 2026, our first reading, to 828 on 31 Oct 2026: up 24, or 3%.

How does A Front Row Seat compare with other sports and athletics communities?

A Front Row Seat is free to join, where the median priced sports and athletics listing charges $27 a month. The niche median is 476 members. Pricing benchmarks by niche.

What do you get inside A Front Row Seat?

A Front Row Seat publishes 8 course modules, 5 courses, 116 posts, 1 admin. Communities with the most course content.

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A Front Row Seat review

A Front Row Seat is listed on Skool. It was free to join at our last price reading, on 28 Sept 2026.

A review on the numbers, not an opinion: nobody here has joined A Front Row Seat, and nothing below is a verdict.

A Front Row Seat is a Skool community that helps student-athletes and their families with NCAA eligibility, reclassification and recruiting.^[1] It is led by Shanay Howard, an educator and NCAA eligibility consultant who founded Shanay Howard Consulting LLC.^[1]^[2]^[3] The group was created on Skool in August 2025.^[1]

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Members: 828
Published price: Free to join; no paid tier published here, last read 28 Sept 2026
Members, last 29 days: +9; 2 Oct 2026 to 31 Oct 2026
Rank by members: #2,035; of 6,074 sellers listed here
Size rank in niche: #74; of 268 sellers listed in sports and athletics, by published members
Check the Course score: 76; B, above average
Niche: Sports and athletics; 278 listed here
Created: 9 Aug 2025; Skool publishes this date
Readings: 17; since 6 Sept 2026

About A Front Row Seat

Members get live virtual events with Howard, step-by-step plans covering NCAA rules, academic planning and strategy for reclassing, and workshops on recruiting strategy, how transcripts are evaluated and warning signs to watch for.^[1] Bonus material includes a three-part MADE for College webinar replay, tutorials on the NCAA Eligibility Account and on recruiting apps, and a reclassification eBook.^[1]

Howard helps families through the process of earning a college athletic scholarship and has worked with Team Durant AAU and Nike EYBL.^[2]^[3] In a Charlotte news report from July 2026 that quoted Howard as an education consultant, she said reclassifying has been happening for decades but has become more widespread since the COVID-19 pandemic.^[2] She added that reclassing is not for everyone, that the likelihood of earning a scholarship is slim, and that reclassification should advance the student.^[2] A March 2026 profile credits Howard with helping more than 3,000 students through academic and eligibility requirements.^[3]

Sources

Skool listing: skool.com/afrs, as collected 28 Sept 2026
Press: spectrumlocalnews.com, retrieved 30 Sept 2026
Press: elitesportsconnect.com, retrieved 30 Sept 2026

Compiled by Check the Course from the sources listed, to the best of our ability.

What the listing describes

NicheSports and athleticsFormatCommunity

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What is inside

Course modules

Courses

Posts, all time

116

People running it

Counts published by A Front Row Seat on its own page, read on 28 Sept 2026: how much is included, never how good it is. Listed as run by shanay-howard-1929.

How we knowSourced & dated

Observed on 31 Oct 2026 from Skool source page archived copy 7f3ca82a5712.

Observable monthly ceiling

monthly price, read 28 Sept 2026

819

published members, read 28 Sept 2026

theoretical ceiling per month, as at 28 Sept 2026

This community is published as free, so the figure is zero. Its members are an audience, not customers. Nothing here estimates what that audience might be worth, and no price is applied to it anywhere on this site.

Against the sports and athletics niche

Percentile among the other 277 sports and athletics listings here, each seller counted once for size.

Size73rd

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Check the Course Score

76BAbove average

Ahead of 76% of the 13,588 Skool communities we track, including ones without a page here, on the measures below, each read from a figure A Front Row Seat published itself.

Size 53% of the scoreahead of 78%
Growth 27% of the scoreahead of 51%
Track record 20% of the scoreahead of 52%

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Evidence and signals

Listed on 828 members.

Evidence: measured.

First recorded: 6 September 2026our first reading, not its launch

Tracked over time

Member change

No changeover 1 day+9+1.1%over 29 days

Price change

One reading with a price so far

17 observations over 55 days.

Member count

Observation log

Observation log
Observed	Members	Change	Price	Ceiling / month
31 Oct 2026	828	0	Not recorded	Not calculated
30 Oct 2026	828	+1	Not recorded	Not calculated
27 Oct 2026	827	+3	Not recorded	Not calculated
26 Oct 2026	824	0	Not recorded	Not calculated
23 Oct 2026	824	+1	Not recorded	Not calculated
22 Oct 2026	823	0	Not recorded	Not calculated
19 Oct 2026	823	0	Not recorded	Not calculated
18 Oct 2026	823	0	Not recorded	Not calculated
15 Oct 2026	823	0	Not recorded	Not calculated
14 Oct 2026	823	0	Not recorded	Not calculated
10 Oct 2026	823	+4	Not recorded	Not calculated
6 Oct 2026	819	0	Not recorded	Not calculated
5 Oct 2026	819	0	Not recorded	Not calculated
2 Oct 2026	819	0	Not recorded	Not calculated
28 Sept 2026	819	+15	Free to join	Not calculated
7 Sept 2026	804	0	Not recorded	Not calculated
6 Sept 2026	804		Not recorded	Not calculated
Average per week, last 29 days2 Oct 2026 to 31 Oct 2026		+2
Average per week, since first reading6 Sept 2026 to 31 Oct 2026		+3

Course content readings

Course content readings
Observed	Posts	Modules	Courses
28 Sept 2026	116	8	5
13 Sept 2026	116	8	5
Added per week13 Sept 2026 to 28 Sept 2026	0	0	0

Common questions about A Front Row Seat

What is A Front Row Seat?: A Front Row Seat is a Skool community that helps student-athletes and their families with NCAA eligibility, reclassification and recruiting. It is led by Shanay Howard, an educator and NCAA eligibility consultant who founded Shanay Howard Consulting LLC.
How much does A Front Row Seat cost?: A Front Row Seat was free to join on Skool when last read, 28 Sept 2026; its listing showed no charge.
How many members does A Front Row Seat have?: A Front Row Seat lists 828 members, read 31 Oct 2026.
How has A Front Row Seat's membership changed?: From 804 members on 6 Sept 2026, our first reading, to 828 on 31 Oct 2026: up 24, or 3%.
How does A Front Row Seat compare with other sports and athletics communities?: A Front Row Seat is free to join, where the median priced sports and athletics listing charges $27 a month. The niche median is 476 members. Pricing benchmarks by niche.
What do you get inside A Front Row Seat?: A Front Row Seat publishes 8 course modules, 5 courses, 116 posts, 1 admin. Communities with the most course content.