youth sports season planning

Strategic Planning for Youth Sports Organizations

For youth soccer, hockey, lacrosse or volleyball clubs to be successful, it’s important to outline goals and strategize around these initiatives. All successful businesses have strategic plans, and youth sports clubs should be no different. These plans can help clubs … Read More

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How to Present Sponsorship Opportunities

Trying to get a sponsorship for your sports organization can take a lot of effort and diligent work. It requires your club to outline what types of sponsorships are available, how much money it needs to raise, and what types … Read More

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5 Ways Player Evaluations Can Shape Your Season

When youth sports clubs evaluate players at tryouts, the grades they are giving athletes can have a bigger impact than beyond creating rosters. The scores and feedback associated with player evaluations can impact the athlete and the club throughout the … Read More

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Is it Time to Start Building a New Youth Sports Facility?

Are you turning athletes away from your youth sports organization because you don’t have enough space to accommodate the players? Are you limiting how many teams you can form based on the number of available fields, courts or rinks? Are … Read More

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Partner Tryout Spotlight: Skylands Ice World

Skylands Ice World was an organization that needed a hockey player evaluation app to increase its efficiencies during tryouts and the team formation process. Located in Stockholm, NJ, Skylands Ice World is one of the area’s top youth hockey organizations. … Read More

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6 Youth Sports Tryout Tips

It’s easy to get stuck in a bubble when conducting youth sports tryouts. Your club is so focused on getting players registered, evaluated, and placed on teams that it’s difficult to take a step back and assess if there are … Read More

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7 Reasons Why You Might be Losing Players to Neighboring Clubs

Youth sports clubs strive to not only maintain their current participation levels but to also raise athlete numbers. Losing players to neighboring clubs can be hard because more athletes mean more teams and more revenue for the club. According to … Read More

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How to be a Great Youth Sports Club Director of Coaching

To be successful, a youth sports club’s Director of Coaching has to master the ability to multi-task. Directors need to plan and run tryouts, attend clinics, hire and train coaches, create evaluation processes, and still find time to attend games … Read More

New Scoring Options Available!

Now you can customize your scoring criteria beyond numbered scales and sliders – use text labels, buttons, drop down menus and more! Prefer using text labels to numbers? No problem. Now you can create custom scoring labels and choose the … Read More

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How to be a Great Youth Sports Association President

The success of most organizations often depends on their leadership. Quality leaders can motivate their staff to produce results, get buy-in from needed supporters and stakeholders, and elevate the organization. The same is true for youth sports clubs. A youth … Read More