What's New

Meet us at the 2010 US Youth Soccer Workshop, February 25-27, Forth Worth Convention Center, ActiveSports Booth #637

ActiveSports heads to the Lone Star State for the USYS conference at the end of February. Stop by booth #637 to meet Active's traveling troupe of Brett Harris, Sue Hinkle and Jared Norris. If you're in town and want to get some expert advice and personal attention from our team, schedule a consultation now. Brett, Sue and Jared are technology crackerjacks and are prepared to answer any questions you might have.

Our prize drawing will also be held at Booth #637. Fill out a short survey and you will be entered to WIN – prize details will be on display in our booth!

Back to Top

eMarketing Center

Free stuff to help you spread the word

The award for “Most Popular” in the category of our eMarketing Center has been given to the graphic template free downloads! Get your name out there by sending postcards, posters, flyers and emails to your players and families that look professionally designed. Choose from a variety of styles and formats to spread the word about your next registration, event or fundraiser. And did we mention these templates are free? If you haven't tried them yet, log in now and check them out.

The templates have been created so they can be customized by you to include your images and logo. You don't need fancy design skills or a professional artist—we offer an array of online video tutorials to take you step by step through every detail of building a template that suits you.

Seeing is believing — log in now and watch how you can edit and change the colors of a template.

Back to Top

Product Tips and Tricks

How to send a Broadcast Email to Past Participants

A past participant list is a ready-made marketing database, full of friendly prospects. You have access to a list of people who not only indicated an interest in your event, but had a personal experience with it! Sending an email to past participants is a golden ticket to keeping registration numbers up. Don’t be shy about it—emailing past participants has become an industry standard and your athletes have come to expect it. If you don’t contact them when registration opens, fees increase or registration closes, they will forget and your deadlines will pass by unnoticed.

You can send an email to all of your past participants or just a portion of them. Click here to find out how.

Back to Top

In The Sportlight

California Youth Soccer Association

League Name: California Youth Soccer Association
Location:Pleasanton, CA
Website URL: http://www.cysanorth.org/
Active Client Since: 2006

The California Youth Soccer Association (CYSA) serves over 200,000 registered players in 128 leagues and 350 clubs, within nine districts throughout Northern California. A non-profit organization with the motto “Kids First!”, CYSA has introduced children to the game of soccer for more than 40 years.

For all of their popularity, CYSA was mired in antiquated processes that reached a tipping point in 2006. The growth of the organization was being hampered by ill-fitting processes—CYSA realized they needed to upgrade their former systems in order to better serve their players and improve their administrative efficiency.

In 2006 the CYSA Board of Directors asked a special committee of league presidents to look into modernizing the registration process with a Web-based system. One year and 15 vendor proposals later, the committee decided Active Network’s LeagueOne system was the best fit. Featuring Web-based tools and a centralized database to facilitate smooth and instantaneous communication between state and local associations, LeagueOne had all of the elements the committee was looking for.

CYSA was ready to fully invest in the new system and took steps to prepare its coaches, registrars, referees and other constituents for the LeagueOne launch. After the training and implementation, CYSA rolled out the LeagueOne product to manage registration and membership online, roster submissions and approvals, and risk management. Local leagues can also integrate online registration and fee collection to parents, which links directly to the state database.

Over three successful years later, CYSA is still sure they made the right decision by choosing Active:

“The speed at which we can now get kids into the system and onto the field has been the biggest benefit to me. The whole point of our existence is to get kids playing soccer. We know at any given moment how many kids are registered and, if there’s an injury, we can immediately verify the child’s registration. Active’s support team has just been excellent in working with us and adding new resources to ensure our issues are always addressed in a timely manner. It’s definitely been the right decision on our part to work with Active and put this new Web-based system in place.”

Marc Pinnell, District IX Registrar
Chair of CYSA Software Selection Committee

Back to Top

Team Corner

Jared Norris, Technical Account Manager, LeagueOne

I have been at Active for nearly three years, providing technical support to National Governing Bodies such as Pop Warner, Wisconsin State Soccer, California Youth Soccer Association and other state soccer programs using our LeagueOne product. When these programs need to make adjustments to their rules and regulations in LeagueOne, I am their primary contact. As changes are implemented, I am responsible for making sure no detail goes unnoticed and acting as a liaison between our clients and our development team. I also provide technical training on the functionality of LeagueOne to ensure that our clients are comfortable with every aspect of the technology.

My new Vizsla puppy, Nala, has recently been monopolizing my free time, but I am normally very involved in adult sports teams—baseball, flag football and softball. I’m a bit obsessed with professional sports and follow my Eagles and Padres religiously! During baseball season, I’m also a staff writer for fantasybaseballgeeks.com.

Contact Jared at Jared.Norris@ActiveNetwork.com.

Back to Top