The Pipeline · South Carolina
South Carolina Football Players at D-II Programs
515 South Carolina kids are on D-II football rosters right now. The high schools feeding them, the programs recruiting them, and the seven-step playbook to put your kid on next year's list.
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South Carolina Athletes On D-II Rosters
39
D-II Programs Recruiting South Carolina
309
South Carolina High Schools Feeding D-II
How many South Carolina high school football players actually land on D-II college rosters? Real numbers, not guesses. Right now, 515 South Carolina kids play D-II football across 39 programs, coming out of 309 South Carolina high schools. Kyle Monangai went from Don Bosco Prep, overlooked by Power-4 programs, to Rutgers Big Ten captain to the 2025 Chicago Bears. His older brother Kevin walked the same kind of road first, Villanova to the Eagles and Vikings as a player, then the Giants as a coach. Kevin coached his own brother through that road; that is why we built RawRecruit. These counts come from current 2025 D-II football rosters. Below: the South Carolina high schools sending the most kids, the D-II programs recruiting hardest here, the methodology, and the questions parents ask us most.
“The athletes most services don't build for. The kids and parents nobody is calling first, who still want their kid on a roster like the ones above.
Kevin Monangai, Founder, RawRecruit
Former NFL running back (Eagles, Vikings)
Former NFL coach (Giants)
The Feeders
Top South Carolina High Schools Feeding D-II Football
- 01Gray Collegiate Academy7Players
- 02Dutch Fork HS6Players
- 03Midland Valley HS6Players
- 04Cane Bay HS5Players
- 05Sumter High School5Players
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See All 25 South Carolina HSsThe Destinations
Top D-II Programs Recruiting South Carolina Football
Newberry
126
South Carolina Players
Dennis "The Legend" Swygert
Special Assistant to the Head Coach
Verified
Erskine
102
South Carolina Players
Shap Boyd
Head Football Coach
Verified
North Greenville
47
South Carolina Players
Jerricho Cotchery
Assistant Head Coach / Passing Game Coordinator
Verified
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Real Outcome
One Brother, The Same Road
The 515 number above is not theoretical. Kevin's younger brother Kyle ran the same road out of South Carolina, walked into Rutgers, captained a Big Ten roster, and got drafted in the seventh round of the 2025 NFL Draft.
- 01
Don Bosco Prep
Overlooked by Power-4
- 02
Rutgers
Big Ten captain
- 03
2025 NFL Draft
Round 7, Pick #233
- 04
Chicago Bears
Active roster
The Methodology
How We Count
Numbers come from publicly available 2025 D-II football rosters. We count any current player whose listed home state is South Carolina, school by school, season by season. The decision a family makes here is too big to plan around guesses, so we put the rosters in front of you.
The Conversation
Parents Ask Us
- How many South Carolina high school football players are currently on D-II rosters?
- Right now, 515 South Carolina kids play D-II football, spread across 39 programs and sourced from 309 South Carolina high schools. Counts come from current 2025 rosters.
- Which D-II programs recruit the most from South Carolina?
- Newberry leads with 126 South Carolina players on the current roster, followed by Erskine (102) and North Greenville (47). The top three are listed above with the head coach for each program when verified. A free account opens the rest of the top ten.
- Which South Carolina high schools send the most players to D-II football?
- Gray Collegiate Academy sits at the top with 7 current D-II football players, followed by Dutch Fork HS (6), Midland Valley HS (6), Cane Bay HS (5), Sumter High School (5). The full top 25 is on the page above.
- Is D-II football a realistic path for a South Carolina high school player?
- Yes. With 515 South Carolina kids currently on D-II rosters across 39 programs, the path is busy and well worn. Scholarships at D-II are partial in football, so families plan around stacking academic aid on top of athletic aid.
- How does RawRecruit count South Carolina to D-II pipeline numbers?
- We pull current 2025 D-II football rosters from public school athletics sites and count any player whose listed home state is South Carolina. Coach names show up only when verified inside our 35-day freshness window.
- What does my kid actually do with this list of high schools and programs?
- The list is the input. The seven-step playbook is the action. Profile your kid's real numbers, build a target list off the programs above, send the email coaches actually read, and run the visit on full information. The full playbook lives at /guides/football/diy-recruiting and was written by Kevin from the same road he walked his brother Kyle through.
- We are not in South Carolina. Does the same playbook still apply for our state?
- Yes. The seven-step playbook is sport-specific, not state-specific. The cohort and program list above are the South Carolina cut; the work a kid and parent do to reach D-II coaches is the same in every state. State pipeline pages for the rest of the country roll out next.
- What happens when a coach leaves a D-II program mid-cycle?
- Coach names on this page only show up when our pipeline has verified them inside the last 35 days. When a head coach leaves, the slot reads as a transition note instead of a stale name; the program count and player numbers stay intact because those come from the roster, not the staff page. The list refreshes monthly.
- Why is RawRecruit giving away the rosters and coach contacts for free?
- Because the data is the easy part. The hard part is keeping a school list current, filtering programs by your kid's real fit, and tracking coach records as staffs turn over every cycle. The free profile saves the work; the paid tiers exist for families who want deeper fit analytics. The free profile is enough for most.
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