MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. / March 11, 2020 – Benefitting children nationwide, it was announced today that SportsEngine, Inc., an NBC Sports Group company and the leading provider of Sport Relationship Management software, is the official provider of abuse prevention training for USA Football. In addition, SportsEngine’s subsidiary, National Center for Safety Initiatives (NCSI), is a new and preferred USA Football provider of youth football volunteer background checks. 

USA Football is the sport’s national governing body and a member of the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee. Since 2012, more than 700,000 coach certifications have been completed through USA Football, spanning all 50 states and 10 foreign countries across four continents.

 Abuse prevention training by SportsEngine will form part of USA Football’s comprehensive coach certification curriculum, which is the only football-specific educational program to earn national accreditation by the U.S. Center for Coaching Excellence. 

Certified coaches are a key part of USA Football’s Football Development Model and League Excellence Program, delivering fun and positive youth experiences across America’s favorite sport. Nearly four million kids ages 6-17 enjoy the fun and physical fitness of football nationwide. 

Background screening will be managed through National Center for Safety Initiatives (NCSI), a SportsEngine, Inc. wholly-owned subsidiary and leader in youth-centered background screening solutions. NCSI provides the “Gold Standard” in background screening, serving youth sports organizations and national governing bodies across the country. Additionally, SportsEngine’s safety program is integrated with the third-party provider, Abuse Prevention Systems, to offer sexual abuse prevention training that fulfills the federal Safe Sport Act requirements. 

“When imagining what great youth sports look like, non-negotiables are gold-standard player safety, accredited coach education and coaches who serve as mentors and care about their kids,” said USA Football CEO and Executive Director Scott Hallenbeck. “Adding SportsEngine and NCSI to the USA Football family places all of this in youth football. The biggest winners are our children and their parents who love the fun, friends and fitness found in football.” 

 “We are thrilled to partner with USA Football in support of their efforts to improve youth sports safety,” said Brian Bell, CEO, SportsEngine, Inc. “Helping to provide safe, positive youth sports experiences is at the core of why we do what we do at SportsEngine, and we are excited to see organizations like USA Football set higher standards for other organizations around policies and best practices for athlete safety.”  

More than one million teams, leagues and clubs use SportsEngine to run their tournaments, leagues, online registration, websites and mobile apps. Through these applications, sports teams, clubs, leagues and national governing bodies are able to drastically reduce the time they spend on administration and communication, allowing them to focus more time on developing their athletes and furthering the love of sport.  

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About SportsEngine, Inc.

Helping the world play smarter and live more, SportsEngine, Inc., an NBC Sports Group company, is the leading provider of sport relationship management software serving millions of coaches, parents, athletes, clubs, leagues, governing bodies, and associations through its software platforms.  National Center for Safety Initiatives (NCSI) is a youth safety advocacy group and leading background screening provider. A wholly-owned subsidiary of SportsEngine, Inc., NCSI provides the “Gold Standard” in background screening, serving thousands of youth sports organizations, over 60 national governing bodies and city and county civic and recreation departments across the country.  NCSI is accredited by the Professional Background Screening Association (PBSA) and is the only background check provider endorsed by the National Council of Youth Sports. For more information, please visit SportsEngine.com/corp or NCSISafe.com.  

About USA Football

USA Football designs and delivers premier educational, developmental and competitive programs to advance, unify and grow the sport. As the sport’s national governing body, member of the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee and organizer of the U.S. National Team for international competition, USA Football partners with leaders in medicine, child advocacy and athletics to support positive football experiences for youth, high school and other amateur players.

Media Contacts:

Jenna Soule, SportsEngine, Inc. | Phone:  612.799.3542 | Email: press@sportsengine.com

Steve Alic, USA Football | Phone: 703.973.6182 | Email: salic@usafootball.com

MINNEAPOLIS, MINN / February 14, 2019 – SportsEngine, Inc., an NBC Sports Group company, and the leading provider of Sport Relationship Management software is partnering with USA Hockey to promote participation in youth hockey across the United States during USA Hockey’s Hockey Week Across America (HWAA), February 17 – 24, 2019 and USA Hockey’s Try Hockey for Free Day, February 23.

Now in its 12th year, Hockey Week Across America is designed to engage the hockey community in celebrating the sport of hockey at all levels and exposing the sport to new audiences.

Beginning on February 18, SportsEngine will feature youth hockey programs on its youth sports directory, SportsEngine.com, will dedicate its homepage to Hockey Week Across America, and will feature all USA Hockey affiliated organizations, enabling families to quickly and easily find youth hockey programs in their area. During the entire week of Hockey Week Across America, SportsEngine encourages hockey families to post photos or videos of hockey firsts such as the first day on skates or first hockey goal with the hashtag #FirstDayOnSkates.

As part of a long-standing partnership between SportsEngine and USA Hockey SportsEngine has been named presenting sponsor of USA Hockey’s Try Hockey for Free Day, taking place on Saturday, February 23. Participating locations across the country will encourage kids, ages 4 to 9, to come try youth hockey as part of Hockey Week Across America. All locations will have limited equipment available for use. Families can find the closest Try Hockey event near them on SportsEngine.com.

SportsEngine.com is the country’s largest youth sports directory, featuring over 110,000 youth sports organizations representing over 70 sports across the U.S. and Canada. Parents and athletes can search by sport and geographic location to find a comprehensive list of youth sports organizations, programs, and events in their area. Administrators may also access SportsEngine.com to claim their organization or event, enabling them to promote programs, collect registrations, and ensure their listing appears in search results.

“As a proud partner of USA Hockey, we are thrilled to support programs like Try Hockey for Free Day, which encourages kids to try the sport in their local communities,” stated Travis Shives, SportsEngine Vice President of Sports. “By sharing Hockey Week Across America on our platforms and sponsoring a day that provides sport opportunities for kids, we will ultimately see more youth hockey participation across the U.S.”

About SportsEngine

Helping the world play smarter and live more, SportsEngine, Inc., an NBC Sports Group company, is the leading provider of Sport Relationship Management software for more than 1MM clubs, leagues, governing bodies and associations. SportsEngine helps sports organizations around the globe reduce the time they spend on administrative tasks, and enables them to focus more on developing their athletes, providing safe experiences and furthering the love of sport. Learn more at: http://www.sportsengine.com, Facebook.com/sportsengine, or twitter.com/@sportsengine.

Media Contacts:

Jenna Soule

Director of Integrated Marketing and Communications

Phone: 612.799.3542

Email: press@sportsengine.com

The member management system will provide a new way for Ontario Soccer to interact, manage, and engage with member clubs, academies, and districts.

MINNEAPOLIS, MINN / January 31, 2019 – SportsEngine Inc., an NBC Sports Group company and the leading youth sports technology provider, announces that it has launched a new registration management system for Ontario Soccer to provide added benefits to their long term partnership.

The launch of their new registration system, Ontario Soccer Club and Academy Registry (OSCAR), will help districts, clubs, and academies within Ontario Soccer streamline the process of submitting registration data for approval and allow real-time access to the critical data organizations need to run their operations efficiently and effectively.

“This is a big step for our soccer membership and infrastructure in Ontario. By bringing together the registration data of participants across the province, whether community club or private academy, we have, for the first time, real-time data reporting to a centralized location,” said Johnny Misley, Chief Executive Officer of Ontario Soccer. “The challenge for Ontario previously had been that Clubs and Academies were utilizing a number of different technology solutions to run their organizations. OSCAR now allows Ontario Soccer and its Districts to connect with its members directly in an ever-changing sport environment.”

Ontario Soccer members will experience a brand new system that will transform the way they interact with Ontario Soccer. OSCAR will help clubs and academies not only get their players registered for the season but will also allow them to send that data up to their district for approval and get real-time access to reporting, which improves an outdated paper submission process.

“Over our long-term partnership with Ontario Soccer we realized that the organization’s registration system wouldn’t work with a one-size fits all approach,” said Lee Zukor, SVP of Product and Engineering, SportsEngine. “Working hand-in-hand with Ontario Soccer and their districts, we were able to create a leading-edge management system that sets both parties up for ongoing success. We’re excited to continue innovating together.”

More than 1 million teams, leagues and clubs use SportsEngine to run their websites, tournaments, leagues, online registration and mobile apps. Through these applications, sports teams, clubs and leagues are able to drastically reduce the time they spend on administration and communication, allowing them to focus more time on developing their athletes. United Soccer Coaches joins the SportsEngine enterprise roster of clients which includes other professional league partners and national governing bodies.

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About SportsEngine

Helping the world play smarter and live more, SportsEngine, Inc., an NBC Sports Group company, is the leading software provider of sport life management solutions for 35MM coaches, parents, athletes, and sport relationship management applications for more than 1MM clubs, leagues, governing bodies, and associations. SportsEngine helps sports organizations around the globe reduce the time they spend on administrative tasks, and enables them to focus more on developing their athletes, providing safe experiences, and furthering the love of sport. Learn more at: http://www.sportsengine.com, Facebook.com/sportsengine; or twitter.com/@sportsengine.

About Ontario Soccer

Founded in 1901, Ontario Soccer is comprised of more than 650 Clubs and Private Academies servicing over 24,000 teams with 380,000 registered players, 70,000 coaches and managers, and 10,000 match officials, as well as countless volunteers, parents and supporters comprising a direct, multi-cultural community of over 1,000,000 Ontarians.

Media Contact:

Jenna Soule

Director of Integrated Marketing and Communications

Phone: 612.799.3542

Email: press@sportsengine.com

Multi-year agreement will expand the USL Digital Network across all teams and properties

MINNEAPOLIS, MINN / January 17, 2019 – SportsEngine Inc., an NBC Sports Group company and the leading sports technology provider, announced today that it has renewed its partnership with the United Soccer League (USL). SportsEngine was selected by the United Soccer League in 2016 to develop the new USL Digital Network, and after the USL unveiled a new structure and brand identity this past September, the USL and SportsEngine partnered by launching new digital platforms for each of its top three leagues as well as its corporate headquarters.

“As a professional soccer league, we are always very excited when we find partners who align so closely with our goals and mission as an organization,” said USL Senior Vice President of Digital and Content Lizzie Seedhouse. “The mutual focus has been on providing digital innovation and resources for our leagues and teams, and we are excited to continue to build on the momentum we have generated thus far.”

The renewal of the partnership expands the reach of the entire digital network across all USL Championship, USL League One, and USL League Two properties, allowing for engaging digital content across all leagues and teams. The new agreement also extends to the USL Youth Academies, providing a unique opportunity to welcome this growing part of the USL family to benefit from the digital network.

The USL, which oversees the USL Championship, USL League One, and USL League Two, is the largest professional soccer organization in North America and possesses nearly a decade of experience in bringing the world’s game to communities across the United States and Canada. The organization is built on an established model in international football and counts more than 100 clubs in its membership.

“What excites us most about this renewal is knowing that the United Soccer League found value in our last three years working together as partners,” said John Weinerth, Soccer Vice President, SportsEngine. “The USL is the fastest growing professional sports league in North America and we are excited to power a small part of that growth through great technology for years to come.”

More than one million teams, leagues and clubs use SportsEngine to run their websites, tournaments, leagues, online registration and mobile apps. Through these applications, sports teams, clubs and leagues are able to drastically reduce the time they spend on administration and communication, allowing them to focus more time on developing their athletes. The USL joins the SportsEngine Enterprise roster of clients, which includes numerous other professional league partners and national governing bodies.

“It’s been extremely exciting to partner with the USL and work with each of the individual teams on digital strategy,” said Jessie Doig, Enterprise Business Executive, SportsEngine. “The partnership renewal was very focused on building additional value for teams locally as they build out their youth academies, so we are excited about engaging with the teams on a deeper level going forward.”

The USL and SportsEngine continue to expand the digital network into 2019 and beyond with the addition of new franchises – including 14 new professional clubs in the USL Championship and USL League One for the upcoming year – youth academy affiliates and League Two teams being onboarded onto the network.

About SportsEngine

Helping the world play smarter and live more, SportsEngine, Inc., an NBC Sports Group company, is the leading software provider of sport life management solutions for 35MM coaches, parents, athletes, and sport relationship management applications for more than 1MM clubs, leagues, governing bodies, and associations. SportsEngine helps sports organizations around the globe reduce the time they spend on administrative tasks, and enables them to focus more on developing their athletes, providing safe experiences, and furthering the love of sport. Learn more at: http://www.sportsengine.com, Facebook.com/sportsengine; or @sportsengine">twitter.com/@sportsengine.

About the USL

The United Soccer League (USL) is the largest professional soccer organization in North America, possessing nearly a decade of experience in bringing the world’s game to communities across the United States and Canada. Overseeing the USL Championship, USL League One, and USL League Two, the organization is built on a proven and recognized model in international football and counts more than 100 clubs in its membership.

Based in Tampa, Fla., the USL has grown over the past decade into a model organization with strong corporate partnerships, stable organizational leadership, and a dedicated staff that provides outstanding support to member clubs and outside partners. Sanctioned by the U.S. Soccer Federation and Canadian Soccer Association, the USL is #UnitedForSoccer, moving the game forward in the United States and Canada.

USL Public Relations – Ryan Madden / Nicholas Murray – Tampa, FL – 813.963.3909

Media Contact:

Jenna Soule

Phone:  612.799.3542

Email: press@sportsengine.com