With mid-August now upon us, the summer rush of recruiting and camps is subsiding.

We had a great summer here in Sausalito, CA, with seven talented and industrious interns joining us from Washington University in St. Louis, University of Denver, St. Mary’s College in California, Middlebury College, and Santa Clara University.

During Summer 2015, like all previous summers, we had some “firsts”:

• Northwestern University became our first legitimate football camp customer, using SportsBoard to collect testing data on the field and then delivering data to athletes using our new digital evaluation.


• We integrated SportsBoard with sensor technologies from Zepp and Diamond Kinetics. Meaning….the sensor measured a swing and the data immediately and automatically landed in SportsBoard without any manual data entry.
  
  Result: Stanford Baseball Camps, Top 96 Baseball Camps, and Premier Girls Fastpitch Softball distribute digital evals and combine reports showing performance data for their athletes more easily and quickly than ever before!


• Rocky Mountain Hockey School, Minnesota Hockey Camps, and Okanagan Hockey School took advantage of our new Performance Locker, using it to deliver digital evals to their athletes.


• We partnered with All Star Girls Report (ASGR) to launch the first app-based scouting service for girls’ basketball. The App, ASGR Scout, enables college coaches to look up scouting data and read the ASGR blog on their iPad or iPhone anytime, anywhere. More than 100 D1 women’s basketball college programs are now subscribing to ASGR Scout.


• We partnered with Diamond 9 Softball, our first East Coast softball operator, to help them collect objective testing data at some of their camps and distribute that data to athletes via digital eval.

The common theme through all of these “firsts” is the thirst for performance data, whether it is subjective (opinion) or objective (fact, like a 40-yard dash time).

Broadly speaking, measurement and data collection are part of our everyday lives more than ever. Those who wear FitBits are being told how many steps they take each day, those posting on Instagram or Facebook are being told how many “likes” their post receives within seconds. Data is immediate, and is here to stay.

The real question is “What data matters?” In amateur sports, performance data is a critical element of an athlete’s resume, which is why SportsBoard is so committed to giving coaches at all levels ground-breaking technology to collect and distribute that data more efficiently than ever. Now that’s exciting!