Female SoCal Soccer Coach Launches Startup Helping Parents Find Sports Teams for their Athletes
Britt Hildebrand is an ex-semi-professional player from the WPSL. After tearing her ACL and meniscus 2017 she had to step away from the game. Determined to stay in the Soccer world Britt turned to coaching to help shape and guide young girls into seasoned athletes.
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Now Britt coaches a 2007 CDA Slammers girls team and specializes in injury prevention and focuses on techniques and strength conditioning, so girls can be as protected from ACL injuries as possible. Britt is a huge role model to young female soccer players, in an industry that is still very male-dominated with players, but especially with coaches.
Now using her expert knowledge of the game and coaching Britt has Co-Founded a new, first of its kind, online marketplace for youth sports, allowing parents to easily find a new sports team for their children armed with more-than-ever information about each team, like coach gender, coach qualifications and more.
Sports Bridge helps parents have more insight into a team that they are interested in, parents can see an abundance of useful information right on a teams profile. Things like, training location, team flight, a welcome video, photos and more! They can also see some really useful coach information like coach gender, coach license type, and a series of tags that highlights the areas the coach specializes in.
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Sports Bridge helps coaches have a much better online presence. Currently, individual teams are hidden or buried deep in the club’s directory and coaches rarely have customizable assets for these directories, with Sports Bridge individual coaches can put their best foot forward with their team profiles.
Recruiting is a big task, all coaches need to recruit players, players in the youth world move on to High School or want to move up a flight, it’s constantly changing and evolving, keeping that roster fresh is so important. We’ve all become de-sensitized to the sea of social media tryout flyers, all a different design (some better than others) which can make it difficult to quickly compare information for a parent and time consuming to create for the coaches.
What can be done with Sports Bridge?
With Sports Bridge coaches can create their teams in minutes, post a recruitment listing and sit back and watch their requests come in. Once those requests start coming in, coaches can manage them in the dedicated requests tab in their dashboard. They can add notes, change tags, and see all the parent information, no more scanning through messages trying to remember who’s interested in a tryout or not.
Parents with the help of useful filters have the ease to simply search for what they are looking for not what Google thinks they might be interested in, or what the Facebook algorithm deems useful for them. With Sports Bridge, parents can truly do their due diligence on teams they are interested in before enquiring about a tryout. They can open a side-by-side comparison view of up to three teams for at-a-glance viewing.
Never before have we seen coach information for a youth sports team. A coach can make or break a youth sports team and there’s so little information about individual teams’ coaches and what little information you can find is either outdated or not relevant.
Parents care about who’s coaching and interacting with their child, if you only want to see teams that have female coaches it shouldn’t be a difficult time-consuming task, with Sports Bridge it’s as simple as adding a filter to your search. You should know what type of coaching qualification a coach has before deciding to spend thousands of dollars a year with them.
For coaches, it’s equally as important. Every coach has a ton of reasons that make them unique and great, these individualities should be proudly displayed.
Learn more about Sports Bridge
Website: www.thesportsbridge.com
Instagram: @thesportsbridge
Facebook: @sportsbridge
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