Thank you for your interest in YouthSportsFan.com. Our ultimate goal is to provide
a place where Kids, coaches, parents, and fans can come together and collaborate
to provide the best coverage of youth sports anywhere. We want to build a site where
you can view all your childrens sports schedules, scores, and standings on one site
as well as down the road view and share photos, stories, and video. At the moment
there is no one else out there who is attempting to do this and as people who are
passionate about sports we see this as a serious oversight.
We here at YouthSportsFan.com have assembled a small, first-class team with the
experience, connections and passion to get the job done right. What we don't have
is a lot of time and money, yet. We all currently have day jobs and young families
and are working together at our own expense and without compensation in our free
time to bring you what we believe will be a unique and incredible experience on
the web.
IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME
Nothing could be closer to how we feel about YouthSportsFan.com. We believe there
is a need for a place where coaches, players, parents and fans to come together
and share their passion for the young athletes of today who we believe are learning
great life lessons through sports today. And we want give them a place to revisit
their cherished memories tomorrow.
WHO ARE WE?
Over the last year Jason Jennings (our illustrious leader) has been working
to develop the connections with coaches, leagues and sports clubs to determine what
their needs are and how we can meet those needs.
Mark Miller (our tech guru) has been developing the database and application
infrastructure to ensure that YouthSportsFan.com can meet the demands of our users
as the site grows.
Ben Savage (our artist extrordannaire) was brought on this summer to provide
the site with the eye candy to impress the socks off you and our other visitors.
WHERE ARE WE?
We are starting our beta test in the Folsom, CA market (just east of Sacramento,
CA) with a few volleyball and flag football teams this fall and by spring we plan
to be covering hundreds of Little League baseball teams in the Sacramento valley.
Over the next 2-3 years we will continue to expand to new markets and sports until
we cover the entire U.S.
GET THE WORD OUT
But we need your help. First and foremost we need people to know about us.
Coaches get your free account, give us your schedules and enter your game
results. Then we need you to tell your parents and athletes that they can find team
schedules and results here. We have lots of tools we?re working on to make highlighting
your team and communicating with your athletes and families easier.
Athletes, get your parents, relatives and friends on the site and show them
your team page where they will be able to view your accomplishments (we have big
plans for more than just schedules and results).
Parents YouthSportsFan.com will be a place to highlight the accomplishments
of your favorite athlete(s). Word of mouth is very important to getting the word
out in your community. We hope you enjoy talking about your athlete(s) because we
plan on giving you a place where you can share with others the accomplishments of
your favorite super star.
Tell people you know about us, if you have a blog or are responsible for a team
or company website show your support by posting links to www.youthsportsfan.com
and encouraging your visitors to check us out.
FINANCIAL SUPPORT
Just as important as getting the word out, we need the financial means to support
the site as we grow. It costs money to support the number of visitors to our site
who will come because of your efforts to promote us. We need the means to market
ourselves to coaches in new areas. Until we get enough traffic to draw in the kind
of ad revenue needed to support us we need your help financially as well.
SPONSOR
Are you a local business who's interested in sponsoring our efforts? We are
looking for advertisers in local markets where we have content. If you are interested,
contact Jason Jennings at jjennings@youthsportsfan.com about being a public sponsor.
DONATE
You're an individual coach, parent or fan? We are accepting small donations
in any amount you like: $5, $10, $20. You can donate as much or as little as you
like, we appreciate donations of any denomination. Just click the "Donate" button
on this page, you can donate using most major credit cards or even your PayPal account.
Don't want to make a financial contribution? You can still help us out finacially.
Support our sponsors and advertisers by visiting their sites and purchasing their
goods and/or services. We're only able to earn money advertising if our advertising
effors are successful.
Thank you,
Jason Jennings
Mark J. Miller
Ben Savage