Fixes, features, and the rationale behind them. We write these so families, coaches, and orgs always know what changed and why — not just what shipped.
Reliability work on our internal operations tools, plus clearer details on our Florida compliance services.
Everything else keeps working as before.
We put our promise in writing: no ads, no data sales, ever. Plus clearer, more accurate pricing.
Everything else keeps working as before.
Tryout and placement rosters now keep only a child's birth year instead of a full birth date, plus tighter access to kids' photos, reinforced messaging approval for under-13, and no individual analytics on young children.
A follow-on to our recent children's-privacy work, focused on collecting and exposing less:
As always, the app works exactly as before. We are simply holding onto, and showing, less of your child's information.
Pilates instructors can now create a profile and manage their athletes, and Pilates shows up everywhere you choose a sport.
Pilates is now a supported activity on RateMyCoach.
Pilates does not use the game-day stat tracker or the tryout and placement tools, since it is not a competitive, scored sport. Everything else works the way it does for any other activity.
Search now understands typos across coaches, gyms, clubs, and teams, and free members get a clear one-tap upgrade button.
Everything keeps working as before. Finding the right people and places is just faster and more forgiving.
We encrypted children's birth dates, made kids' profile photos private, added verifiable parent consent for organizations, and now purge deleted records on a schedule.
A child-safety and privacy release. Most of it is behind the scenes, but it meaningfully strengthens how we handle children's data:
Everything in the app keeps working exactly as before, your family's information is just better protected.
Several coaches can now score every athlete from their phones — even offline — and the scores combine into one weighted ranking. Lock it to send families a report card and place athletes onto teams, with the scores carrying onto each athlete's profile.
Tryouts and evaluations now run as a real, multi-coach event instead of one coach with a clipboard. From a tryout or placement event, press Score to open a session.
First, build a template: the skills you're judging, how each one is scored (a 1–10 or 1–5 scale, pass/fail, a timed run, reps, or a distance), the category each belongs to, and how much each one counts. You build the skills, so the same engine works for any sport.
Then invite your evaluators. Each coach opens a link, signs in, and scores from their own phone — with big tap targets built for the gym floor, one athlete at a time. It keeps working offline: score through spotty WiFi and everything syncs the moment you're back online. Every coach's scores are kept separately and combined, so no single opinion carries the whole decision.
As scores come in, you get a weighted ranking — a 0–100 cut list. Drag the category weights (more stunting, less dance) and the order re-ranks live, so you can see your team take shape before you commit. An analytics view shows how much coaches agreed on each skill and flags an evaluator who scored far from the group.
Lock the session and the rest follows:
and any coach notes.
with an optional note, instead of a phone tree.
certified milestones (landed a standing tuck), and coach endorsements that strengthen their resume.
It builds right on top of Tryouts & Placement — the same athletes, the same place — so nothing is re-entered.
Create a recurring practice one time — say Monday and Wednesday at 6, all season — and every date lands on the calendar automatically. Plus a new Master Calendar that puts every team you coach, and your private lessons, in one view.
Stop creating the same practice over and over. When you add a practice, turn on Repeat, pick the days (Monday and Wednesday), set a time and a season end date, and we generate every occurrence onto the team's calendar in one step. Set it once in September, see it through to playoffs.
Plans change, so the series bends without breaking:
If you run more than one team, you no longer have to hop between them. The new Master Calendar on your Sideline shows every team you coach in one place, with your private lessons alongside, color-tagged by team. Toggle a team on or off to focus, and create a practice or game for any of them without leaving the page.
It reads from the same calendar your families already see, so a practice you set here shows up on the team's calendar right away — nothing is entered twice.
Recurring events now create cleanly across the platform: each repeating date is a single entry on the calendar, with no stray duplicates.
A team parent can start a private hub for their team's families — group chat, a shared calendar, a bulletin board, and a team photo — and invite everyone to join free. Plus, you can now add your child's first name to your name in chat so other parents know who you are.
Parent Circles give a team's families one organized place instead of a sprawling group text. A parent on a paid plan starts a Circle, names the team, and adds a photo. Inside there's a group chat, a shared calendar, and a bulletin board for announcements that stay put.
Inviting the rest of the team is the point. Share a link or send email invites, and any family can join for free — no plan required — and they're in the chat right away. The host can manage members and reset the link any time. Circles are for adults only; children are never added to the hub.
We also made chats easier to follow. You can now turn on an option to show your child's first name in your chat name — so you appear as, for example, "Stephanie (Emma's parent)" — and your uploaded photo now shows across every chat, not just some. It's off until you turn it on, in Settings → Chat handle, and it applies everywhere you message: direct messages, team chats, and Circles.
Editing a high-school cheer season now works, messaging no longer surfaces email addresses, founding members and adult-athlete accounts see the right options, and we tightened account security behind the scenes.
A round of reliability and privacy improvements:
These are mostly behind-the-scenes, but they make the app safer and the plan options clearer.
Cheer athletes get a color-coded skill tracker with USASF level and readiness, season history shows team, level, and division, and every sport now records its seasons in a single timeline where the newest one is current. Plus support for high-school cheer.
Cheer profiles got a real upgrade. Skills are now grouped and color-coded by category (tumbling, stunting, jumps, and more), with a USASF level and readiness badge that reflects what an athlete has demonstrated and the level they're working toward. The resume now carries it all the way through, including a season history that shows the team, level, and division for each year.
Seasons are simpler everywhere. Instead of a separate "current season" and an archive, every sport now uses one Seasons timeline: the most recent season is automatically the current one, and older seasons sit beneath it. You can edit any season in place, and stat entry is structured per sport so the right fields show up for the right game. Stats and seasons are available at every age group, with strength numbers appearing once an athlete turns 13.
We also added high-school cheer. Record the school in the team name (for example, "Lakeside High School"), set the tier to Prep, and choose the new "High School" age division.
Founding members now have unlimited athletes and storage across the whole app, and every paid parent sees the correct option when adding another athlete.
Founding members get what they were promised, everywhere. Lifetime access now means truly unlimited athletes and unlimited family storage, reflected consistently on the dashboard, the add-athlete flow, and the subscription page (which now reads "Unlimited" with a founding-member note instead of a cap).
We also fixed the add-athlete experience for paid parents. Adding another athlete now reads your real plan, so a paying parent at their included limit sees the simple add-an-athlete option, and a free parent sees the upgrade, instead of the wrong prompt. The subscription page and the add flow now draw from the same source of truth, so what you see in one place matches the other.
A redesigned digital sports resume, on the web and as a polished PDF, with stats, season history, academics, achievements, coach endorsements, and a QR code to the live profile.
Every athlete now has a recruiter-grade resume, both on the web and as a clean one-page PDF. It brings together measurables, sport-specific season stats, a season-by-season history, academics and school, film links, and a QR code that opens the live, verified profile.
Two new sections help an athlete stand out: Achievements & Awards (add all-conference honors, records, and selections from the Highlights page) and Coach Endorsements (a coach on the athlete's team can vouch for them, and it appears right on the resume). Fill in a graduation year, school, and GPA and they show up in the header.
Diamond, court, pitch, and rink boards join the gridiron, so you can place athletes by position for baseball, softball, basketball, volleyball, soccer, lacrosse, and hockey.
Player Placement now spans team sports, each with its own field. Spin up a placement event for baseball or softball (a diamond), basketball or volleyball (a court, with the net for volleyball), soccer (a pitch), lacrosse (a field), or hockey (a rink), then drag athletes onto position with the right markings for that sport. Football's gridiron is still here too, with its Offense, Defense, and Special Teams formations.
Run a football combine, get position and team suggestions, then drag athletes onto a digital field by offense, defense, and special teams.
Player Placement brings the tryout-to-roster flow to football. Import your interest-form responses, record a quick combine (height, weight, 40 time), and see suggested positions and age-group team fits. Open the field and drag athletes onto the gridiron by position, with one-click Offense, Defense, and Special Teams formations that save as you go.
Also in this release: more reliable access to protected athlete documents, and a smoother, steadier app launch.
Organizations can now run tryouts end to end — import interest-form responses, evaluate athletes, get team and position suggestions, place athletes onto teams, and lay out formations on a drag-and-drop mat.
Tryouts & Placement turns your interest form into a placed roster, in one place. Pull in athletes by pasting a spreadsheet, uploading a CSV, or connecting a published Google Sheet. Evaluate each athlete on the skills tracker, see suggested top-3 teams and positions, then place them with a click. Placing an athlete invites their parent to confirm, and the tryout evaluation carries straight into the team's skills tracker — nothing is re-entered.
Drag athletes onto a digital Formation Mat to see your team in position. Flip between a competition floor and a blank canvas, and save several named formations (Opening, Pyramid, Ending, and more). Your layout saves automatically as you move athletes around.
Full walkthrough: Tryouts & Placement guide.
New families can choose Free, Monthly, Annual, or 3-Year directly on the signup form. Google and Apple signups honor the same choice, and the June launch discount applies automatically on annual plans.
Picking a plan is now part of signup. After choosing whether you're a parent, athlete, or coach, you'll see the plan options (Free for parents, plus Monthly, Annual, or 3-Year). Once you confirm your email, paid signups land on checkout directly with the right plan and price selected.
The same flow works the same way for Google and Apple signups, so you don't have to redo any choices after authenticating.
A new public index at /reviews lets families search every published review across coaches, teams, organizations, gyms, and leagues. Plus a few quality-of-life improvements to how reviews get written.
The new /reviews page is a public, searchable index of every published review on the platform. Filter by source, sport, rating, or city / state. Sort by most recent or highest rated. Visitors who aren't signed in see structured cards with the body blurred behind a sign-in prompt.
When you go to write a review and the coach isn't in our directory yet, there's a new "Add a new coach" option so you can submit your review without hitting a roadblock. The coach can later claim and verify their profile.
Honest disclaimers in review text ("I'm an assistant coach on this team") are now treated as transparency rather than a conflict of interest. Reviews flagged for human review move through approval faster.
When a parent syncs a private coach's skill assessments into a team tracker, the team coach now sees the update right away on their roster.
When a parent merges a private coach's skill assessments into a team's tracker, the team coach now sees the update appear on their roster as it happens. Before, the merge worked but the team coach's notification feed missed it.
This closes a gap that affected cheer and other sports using the multi-coach skill tracker.