Co-Founder, Partner - Head of Operations

Nick Spina was born in Chicago, IL and grew up in Chicago, Augusta (GA), and Charlotte. Nick grew up playing soccer and basketball from a young age before discovering his passion for swimming in middle school. Nick swam competitively for SwimMAC and Ardrey Kell High School before swimming for Villanova University in 2016.

Outside of swimming, Nick has a deep passion for technology, coding, and business. Nick graduated from Villanova in 2020 with two business degrees in Management Information Systems and Data Analytics. Since Graduation, Nick has worked for Ally Financial and is now currently with Grant Thornton as a Senior Associate within the Organizational and Operational Transformation Advisory team.

Why I am passionate about Spotlight Sports LLC: After spending countless hours trying to research universities, I was able to discover Villanova and its great undergraduate business school. Having to go through the entire recruiting process was stressful and tiring and I wished I had someone that had gone through the process to help me. This is why my team and I believe Spotlight Sports LLC will truly help a multitude of student-athletes and parents with the college recruiting process.

Nick’s Academic and Athletic Accomplishments include:

2020 Villanova Business Ethics Case Competition Champion

2019 Villanova Business School Undergrad Case Competition Champion

2019 Villanova Mobile App Competition Champion

2018 2 time Big East Champion

2016 Scholastic All American

2015 NISCA All American

Co-Founder, Partner - Head of Sales

Connor McCourt was born and raised in Huntersville, NC. From an early age, he found a love for sports, eventually choosing to focus on swimming. Connor swam for SwimMAC and for Hough High school before graduating and attending Emory University in the Fall of 2016. Connor balanced life as a full-time student-athlete, was voted Team Captain his senior year, and graduated from Emory’s Goizueta Business School dual concentrating in Finance and Strategy and Management Consulting.

Since graduation, his professional experience has included time as a Financial Advisor at Merrill Lynch and as an Enterprise Transformation Consultant at Capgemini Invent.

In his free time, Connor spends weekends outside staying active, watching sports, playing golf, and volunteering to coach youth football.

Why I am passionate about Spotlight sports LLC: Finding Emory through my own extensive recruiting efforts served as a huge accelerator to land me in an engaging and exciting career. Emory also introduced me to so many amazing people, both swimmers, and non-swimmers. I’d love to replicate this experience for other young athletes at their own target schools.

Connor’s Academic and Athletic Accomplishments include:

2017 NCAA Champion (Team Title)

4x UAA Conference Champion (Team Title)

2020 Team Captain

Undergrad Career Management Coach at Emory’s Goizueta Business School

Co-Founder, Partner - Head of Public Relations

Caroline Neil currently works as a change management consultant at Grant Thornton in Charlotte, N.C.

Previously, Neil worked in student-athlete development for three Division I athletic departments, which included the University of South Carolina, Florida State University and Wake Forest University. At these schools, Caroline spearheaded the professional and personal development for student—athletes across all sports, enhancing their success while in school and beyond sports.

Caroline graduated from Florida State University with a B.S. in marketing in 2017 and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in 2019.

While at Florida State, she competed on the swim and dive team and competed at the 2012 Olympic Trials. She still reigns in the FSU's All-Time Top 10 list. She grew up swimming in Winston-Salem for Star Aquatics/Enfinity Aquatic Club. She specialized in 400IM, 200 BR, and 100BR.

Neil also currently serves on the College of Business' Recent Alumni Board. In her free time, she enjoys co-hosting the Heart Take Podcast, traveling, spending time with family and friends, and creating moments for others.

Why I’m passionate about Spotlight Sports LLC: What Spotlight Sports LLC brings to the table is something that I wish I had had access to you when I was beginning the recruiting process. There are so many unknowns in recruiting and ultimately selecting a university. Having an edge in knowing what to expect, what to prepare for, and what coaches are looking for, is leverage with unrivaled value. The choice of a university is not a four-year commitment to compete in sports and get a college degree. It is a lifelong commitment that will continue to influence and impact your life every day after graduation. A decision in high school has a long-term impact on your future and we are here to help equip you with the tools to make a well-thought-out decision.

Co-Founder, Partner - Head of Data and Information

Dylan Fleischman was born in Syracuse, NY and grew up in the Jamesville-DeWitt school district. Dylan grew up playing football and lacrosse competitively from a young age through high school before deciding to pursue lacrosse at the collegiate level. Dylan played lacrosse competitively for United Lacrosse, Orange Crush, and Jamesville-DeWitt High School before committing to Skidmore College in 2016.

Outside of lacrosse, Dylan has a deep passion for both technical and cultural fields of international business, linguistics, and data analytics. He graduated from Skidmore in 2020 with a degree in Asian Studies with a minor in Chinese. Fleischman spent 2 years in Shanghai, China studying Chinese at the prestigious East China Normal University then working as an Intern at Fortune 500 Flex LTD.’s Shanghai office. He gained both significant real-world experience and professional-level fluency in Mandarin Chinese. Dylan also helped grow lacrosse in China by working with the Chinese National Lacrosse team as a positional coach and assisting with creating and developing local youth teams. Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, Dylan left Shanghai and found his way to the Charlotte area working for Premier INC.’s S2S Global business unit as an Operations Analyst.

Why I’m passionate about Spotlight Sports LLC: Data-driven decision-making has always been something I’ve liked to apply to my life. When I was going through the recruiting process, there wasn’t any data to help me feel more comfortable making a decision. Ultimately, this lead me to transfer schools after my first year. Being able to leverage data to help drive informed decisions in the recruiting process will help student-athletes and their guardians feel better about a major life decision.

Dylan’s Academic and Athletic Accomplishments include:

Chinese National Honor Society 2014-2020

HSK-5 Certified Chinese Fluency

2015-2016 All-CNY Football team

2016 ALL-CNY Lacrosse 1st team

2016 US Lacrosse Magazine Player of the Week (06/18/16)

2018 Liberty League Lacrosse Honorable-mention