BALTIMORE - In partnership with Influencer, Coppin State University Athletics has launched the Coppin State Eagle Xchange to connect student-athletes and businesses for name, image, and likeness (NIL) opportunities.
Free to both student-athletes and commercial enterprises, the Coppin State Eagle Xchange provides a customized portal for communicating with student-athletes to fulfill NIL transactions. Interested parties and businesses can register through the online portal and partner directly with CSU student-athletes.
"Coppin State Athletics has been consistent in our goal to provide the facilities and resources necessary for our student-athletes to maximize their academic and athletic potential," said Director of Athletics, Derek Carter. "The Coppin State Eagle Xchange supported by the Influencer platform now positions all our student-athletes to work toward maximizing their Name, Image, and Likeness potential.
"The Coppin State Eagle Xchange is a significant milestone for CSU student-athletes," said Influencer General Manager Sean Kelly. "We are excited to see the NIL opportunities they will have within the Exchange and play a small part in fostering these connections."
After being approved, registered businesses can search, filter, and initiate conversations directly with student-athletes regarding NIL opportunities. Student-athletes can view all businesses in the exchange and negotiate terms on any NIL deals they would like to pursue, and they can also initiate conversations with registered businesses themselves in the Coppin State Eagle Xchange.
Once the NIL deal between a registered business and a student-athlete is completed, the business will use the Coppin State Eagle Xchange to create a transaction that will produce a direct payment to the student-athlete and automate a disclosure to the CSU Compliance Office.
Coppin State and Influencer do not get involved in the deal, and all transactions within Coppin State Eagle Xchange are consolidated into one 1099 at the end of the year for easier tax reporting purposes for registered businesses and student-athletes.
About Influencer
Influencer, available on Teamworks' Operating System for Sports™, is the leading athlete brand-building and NIL business management app for over 270 elite collegiate and professional sports organizations. The Influencer Athlete app educates student-athletes, coaches, and staff for the NIL era in a safe and compliant environment, all powered by best-in-class content delivery for student-athletes to access and share content to their social media channels. The Influencer platform also includes the impactful Influencer Local Exchange, a school-customized NIL exchange where schools can direct businesses, collectives, and fans seeking to find, communicate with, pay, and report NIL transactions with student-athletes. The Influencer Local Exchange maximizes the student-athlete wallet share while streamlining compliance and tax reporting responsibilities. To learn more about the Influencer Local Exchange, please visit
teamworks.com/Influencer
