As a parent, you’re always looking for the right and trusted team to register your child. As a coach, you’re often looking for an integrated platform to advertise your team to get maximum exposure to breeze through the long, tedious recruiting process.
That’s where Sports Bridge comes in. A platform that provides you (coaches and parents) with the right platform for these purposes.
What is Sports Bridge about?
Sports Bridge is a marketplace that provides an easy way for coaches to promote their teams and for parents to choose a trusted team for their children. It was designed by coaches for coaches and parents.
It’s a platform that connects parents to coaches for their children in their area that meets parents’ unique needs.
Why should you search with us?
Before Sports Bridge was created, it was a hassle and a challenge for coaches to advertise their teams as they had to rely on Instagram and Facebook to promote their teams. Coaches would hope their social media graphics landed in front of parents who were actively looking for a new team, basically a shot in the dark.
For parents, they would have to stumble upon the social media accounts of these coaches or rely on Google to search for teams around them.
What does this mean for parents?
Since coaches spend a huge amount of time with their players, there have been many recorded cases of sexual misconduct of coaches and their players. Sexual assaults are, unfortunately, a common issue between coaches and their athletes in different fields of sports. Some coaches have been known to sexually, emotionally, and even physically abuse children and players on their teams.
In 2000, Canada carried out a survey on their Olympic athletes and it was discovered that 20% of the athletes admitted that they had engaged in sexual intercourse with a sports authority.
In an AUS study conducted by Karin Volkwein, 20% of the female athletes at a certain university experienced sexual conversations and assault from their coaches. These are just a few cases, and there’s no doubt countless that go unreported.
It’s vital that parents see as much information on a coach as possible, age, gender, license, and social media handles help to formulate a vision of that coach which then helps parents make an informed decision on that coach and whether they want to move forward.
As a parent, you deserve to know as much information as possible. Coaches can spend a huge amount of time with your child, and it is important you know as much information on them as possible. Sports Bridge profiles provide you with detailed information on the coach, the coach’s gender, age, license type, social media profiles, team training locations, team flight, and so much more. This is something that has never been done in the sporting world and it’s something that is desperately needed.
Getting started as a parent is free. Start with your zip code and then filter down the results from there. To get connected to a coach you simply need to create your free account with your name and email address. Your child’s information is not needed on the platform, and your personal information is 100% safe with us and never shared.
You don’t have to waste time on Google searching for teams around you, because Google only gives you what they think you might like and not what you actually need. There’s no need to wait until you stumble upon a social media graphic, some of which are poorly designed or links from random club website directories.
What are the benefits to coaches?
Sports Bridge was designed by coaches, so we know all the struggles coaches face. We know how time-consuming it is to recruit players for your team.
Recruiting is very tedious. With Sports Bridge, your dashboard and your team profile is your recruiting center. You create your team profile; from there you can utilize it to share on social media or have interested parents find it right on Sports Bridge. Team profiles look beautiful and require zero coding or customization, they just work and display more information on your team than ever before.
Sports Bridge gives you the platform to showcase your team in the best light. You can showcase your team and your teams’ achievements and stand out as a coach.
Your profile gives detailed information on everything parents need to know about you and your team. We save you the stress of answering the same questions and going through back-and-forth phone calls and text messages with parents.
Parents are already interested in your team as they have already done their research with the detailed information provided on your teams’ profile, so there’s no need to go over that again. All that is left for you to do is to see the player in action at a tryout.
Promoting your team and reaching interested parents is made easier with Sports Bridge.
Conclusion
Since Sports Bridge was designed and created by coaches, we know the struggles and challenges coaches face when recruiting players for their team.
We understand the struggles parents face and how cautious they are when it comes to finding a team for their children. We know how hard it is for parents to find the right team for their children.
We have provided a better and easier way for coaches to promote their team and for parents to choose the perfect team for their children.
