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If your youth sports athletic association or league is looking for help on how to convert from paper to an online registration system, you are not alone.  Many associations are still running on paper, yet in today's online world there is little reason for leagues and associations to rely on paper based registrations.  Given that most associations and leagues are staffed by volunteers whose time is precious, anything that can be done to minimize their work load is a huge plus.  The annual team and player registration cycle is one of the most demanding workloads on association staff and therefore an ideal target for optimization.  

Congrats to Team Japan on their comeback win to beat the Lewisberry, Pa team 18-11. Japan has now won 11 Little League World Series titles.

What can youth sports leaders learn from Burger King's sizzling proposal, “Let’s work together to create the McWhopper” to McDonald’s?  It turns out a lot. While seemingly simple on the surface, this proposal is a great example of the value of creative PR, the value of unique promotion and the concept of smaller organizations positioning themselves with larger entities for greater awareness and gain.  These are ingredients that any youth sports leader can use to improve the health and standing of their organization.  

Improving sports association website design can boil down to focusing on just a few critical design elements.  To help sports association and league administrators improve their website design, here are 5 critical mistakes in sport association website design that should be avoided at all cost.    

Following these 5 simple steps will help youth sports association and league administrators improve rule and policy change communications. The result will be smoother rule and policy announcements and improved communication with coaches, staff, and parents.  

In release 4.2, we've added several fixes and improvements - namely to the Broadcast tool.

For how-to articles about the new tools, please visit our knowledge base

Over the past few months, we've worked hard on improving our tools. Specifically, we've focused on those areas where a parent's mistake causes more work for everyone. In release 4.1, we're excited to announce that we've added the ability for a customer to transfer from one event to another. Should a parent register for the wrong event, they can now choose to transfer their registration to another event. This is a self-service feature, just like refunds.

Falcons Lacrosse started with a free website template and where trying to get their banking institution to work with the website to allow for online registration and payment.  But could not get the two to work well together in order to create the experience they wanted.

Over the past month, we've worked hard on improving our Broadcast/Alerts tool. Now simply called "Broadcast," you now have one unified place to send all messaging to your customers. Last month we launched tournament brackets and now we give you the bracket building tool, allowing you to build your own tournament end-to-end.

618 Lacrosse is brand new program offering high quality coaching and training to grow the sport of lacrosse in the St. Louis Metro East area.