Creating a Sports Team Handbook: The Ultimate Guide
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In the realm of competitive sports, where teamwork and discipline play pivotal roles in achieving success, a sports team handbook emerges as an essential tool. Through this blog, we will explore what a sports team handbook is, its importance, the key elements it should contain, and best practices for crafting an effective handbook.
How to Juggle Practice Schedules for Sports Clubs
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Managing your sports club’s team practice schedule isn’t easy, especially if you are coaching multiple teams. If you’re not careful, you may find yourself in over your head, feeling like you’re constantly juggling various tasks. We get it. Though there’s no secret formula to make it all simple, these tips can help you better undertake all of your tasks at once.
5 Tools Every Sports Coach Needs
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As we dive deeper into sports coaching, staying ahead of the game requires strategic thinking, leadership skills, and the right tools to streamline operations and enhance overall efficiency. Whether coaching a youth soccer team or managing a professional basketball squad, having the right tools at your disposal can make a significant difference in your team’s performance and success. In this article, we’ll explore five essential tools that every sports coach needs.
2023 Wrapped UP: Upper Hand Year in Review
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And just like that, another year has come and gone. As we look back at the past 12 months, we saw a lot of growth, innovation, and development. And, we saw a lot of intention behind the changes that you implemented. Both in your athletes, and in your businesses. At Upper Hand, we’re excited to have made quite a few innovative changes of our own.
Why We Built This: Introducing Sports Team Management
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We heard a lot of feedback from both current and prospective customers that they loved the Upper Hand app when it came to managing their lessons, camps, clinics, and other programs. But, they would appreciate an easier way to manage their sports teams. That’s why we combined all of the tasks associated with running a team into one new feature.
5 Roster Management Tips for Busy Coaches and Administrators
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There are many challenges when coaching and managing youth sports. Not only do you coach the future generation of athletes, you spend hours facing challenges such as planning programs, communicating with parents, scheduling practices and games, collecting payments, and the list goes on. However, there are tools and practices that make these challenges well, less challenging.
Top 5 Challenges of Youth Sports Team Management (and How to Overcome Them)
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There are many challenges when coaching and managing youth sports. Not only do you coach the future generation of athletes, you spend hours facing challenges such as planning programs, communicating with parents, scheduling practices and games, collecting payments, and the list goes on. However, there are tools and practices that make these challenges well, less challenging.