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How to transform your sports program to teach positive life lessons

Register Now for this Free Webinar! Space is limited.

As our valued customer, you’re first to be invited to our next webinar! ActiveSports is teaming up with the Positive Coaching Alliance to present a free webinar on May 6: How to transform your sports program to teach positive life lessons. Register today!

No matter what your role, you can help the youth athletes in your organization get all they can from sports: wins and life lessons, on and off the field.

Join us for a one–hour webinar that includes interactive Q&A and covers:

We’re pleased to host this webinar, featuring the founder of Positive Coaching Alliance, a non–profit organization based at Stanford University with the mission to transform youth sports so that all athletes have a positive, character–building experience.

Join us for the education and inspiration that will help you help the youth in your community. Attendance is limited, so please be sure to register as soon as possible.

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On April 14, ActiveSports hosted a webinar on Facebook Tips and Tools to Increase Awareness & Participation. Whether you attended or missed the live presentation, the recorded webinar is now posted on our Web site and available for you to view anytime.

Don’t miss your chance to learn from Justin Ramers, Director of Social Media for Active Network, about how Facebook can be leveraged as a powerful tool to connect with your players and organizations.

The webinar topics you’ll learn about include:

Click here to view the recorded webinar.

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eMarketing Center

New! Easy cut–and–paste templates for tennis, lacrosse, volleyball, basketball and swimming

We have added NEW "plug and play" templates for tennis, lacrosse, volleyball, basketball, swimming to Active’s eMarketing Center. Plug and play means that you won’t need graphics skills or special software to use these templates—they don’t require any knowledge more complicated than a simple cut and paste click of the mouse. The templates are easy to use, they look great, and best yet—they’re FREE! Without hiring a designer or using any custom images, you can efficiently reach out to your participants with appealing, professional designs.

Take a look at the new templates now.

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One of the key principles of Positive Coaching Alliance’s live Double–Goal Coach® workshops and Double–Goal Coach Online Course is Redefining "Winner." Youth sports parents and coaches can use this script to help youth athletes look beyond the scoreboard and define winning in terms of effort, learning and bouncing back from mistakes. This script addresses relatively young baseball players, but with just a few adjustments based on sport and your players’ ages, you can deliver the core message in your own voice.

Read More on the Positive Coaching Alliance Web site

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Product Tips and Tricks

League Registrars: What are your tips and tricks? We want to hear from you!

Are you a league registrar? Here’s your opportunity to weigh in on our latest development ideas and give us feedback on how we can do better. We want to know what you think and now’s your chance to tell us.

Active is currently looking for customers to provide feedback on our product functionality, as well as help us perfect our next generation league management solution for local sports leagues and clubs. As part of our customer advisory group, you will share your opinions, give us insight as to how you use our products, tell us what your needs are, and get a sneak peak at enhancements we are making to our league registration software.

Our goal is to make Active’s software the best and easiest–to–use technology in the market. We understand that communicating directly to our clients will help us better understand your needs, issues and concerns. Using your valuable feedback, we can continually develop products that fit your needs while giving you an opportunity to see what we’re building for the future.

Sign up here to be a part of Active’s customer advisory group.

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In The Sportlight

Lexington Youth Soccer Association

League: Lexington Youth Soccer Association
Location:Lexington, KY
Website URL: https://www.lysa.org
Active Client Since: 2005

Located in Lexington, Kentucky, the Lexington Youth Soccer Association (LYSA) offers recreational and competitive soccer to adults and children, as well as a new program for children with disabilities. On average, there are between 2000 and 2500 athletes playing in 2 seasons annually. The LYSA has a 16–member working board and one registrar, Lois Stephens and Nina O’Leary serves as Office Manager. Lois is responsible for processing all registrations and relies on Active’s LeagueOne and ClubReg software to help her accomplish this large feat.

Before Active’s software was implemented, LYSA processed up to 5,000 handwritten registrations manually. It was time–consuming, frustrating and impossible to organize. "We would have stacks of checks piled up, waiting to be deposited," noted Nina. We fielded phone calls at all hours with requests for late entries and excuses for missing checks. We needed a change."

LYSA teamed up with ActiveSports five years ago and implemented the LeagueOne and ClubReg systems to organize their players and financials. Nina recalls that they immediately saw a drastic reduction in time spent on administrative tasks and no longer had to chase down payments. There were no more stacks of checks to deal with and parents were efficiently notified about important dates or outstanding paperwork and fees with the ClubReg email reminder tool. Parents enjoy the convenience and control of being able to access their online account to update personal information, which is a huge time–saver for LYSA staff. It’s also much easier for Lois to reconcile her data and report to the state on players and pay fees. Because Kentucky Youth Soccer uses LeagueOne, they have real–time access to player data and reporting is more accurate.

Currently, registration for adult programs is now at 90–95% online and children’s programs are at 80–85% online. Lois now has time to help Board members with team creations, communicating team assignments to coaches and league directors, and other tasks that wouldn’t be possible without Active’s system. "When I think back to what we did, and all the paperwork… we don’t have to do any of that anymore," says Nina. "It’s all electronic now."

Advice for other leagues from Nina O’Leary

• When searching for a software solution provider, look for a company with longevity and check their references.
• It was immediately evident to us that online registration was an improvement for everyone. It is worth investing in!
• The player transaction costs are minimal when compared to the staff hours (and salaries) you will have to increase to process registrations manually.

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Team Huddle

Kirstin Hartos, Technical Account Manager, Team Lead

I began my career with Active in July 2006 and have spent the majority of my time helping state soccer association customers get up and running in our LeagueOne software. I started playing sports at a young age, and it has been a great privilege to meet and work with so many state and national staff and volunteers that make youth sports programs possible.

After years of playing soccer and basketball, I finally found my passion in college: rugby. I spend the vast majority of my time, energy and disposable income training with my San Diego club team and traveling to our games across the country. Aside from the enjoyment I get being a volunteer administrator for my rugby club, it also helps me relate better to my clients and really understand their needs. I am so thankful for all of the wonderful career opportunities and great friendships that sports have afforded me, and am excited about how much potential rugby has to grow here in the U.S.

I have been fortunate enough to be a part of some very successful teams—the highlight definitely came this fall when we won the Division 1 National Championship! I consider Active to be another successful team that I am a member of. There is a strong sense of teamwork and pride here at Active and I really appreciate the unique opportunity to work with so many like-minded and passionate people every day.

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