Sportsyou FAQs

what is sportsyou?

sportsYou will be used to organize our team(s) around practices, races, and other events as well as condense all team communication in one place.

why aren’t we using teamsnap?

We received feedback that most people did not care for our Teamsnap experience last year. Areas that we hope sportsYou improves upon over Teamsnap

  • Consolidated views of Chats and Calendars - no more having to constantly switch teams to find the information you are looking for.

  • Annoying Ads - sportsYou’s interface is not filled with Ads like Teamsnap’s was.

  • Cost - Teamsnap was going to significantly increase our subscription cost in 2024. sportsYou is much more affordable and allows us to spend this money elsewhere for our riders and coaches.

  • Feed - sportsYou has a Facebook like feed allowing anyone in Driftless to Post messages to the group which everyone will be able to see and/or respond to.

how do i install sportsyou?

Refer to the sportsYou User Guide on our website for installation and configuration instructions.

who should use sportsyou?

sportsYou should be used by everyone in Driftless; riders, coaches and parents/families can all use SportsYou.

which teams/Groups should i join?

There are a number of Teams and Groups in sportsYou; your role and interests in Driftless will determine which groups to join. For Access Codes to the teams/groups, refer to the User Guide.

Everyone should join…

  • Driftless MTB

  • One of…

    • Middleton/Waunakee MTB

    • Mount Horeb MTB

Additionally, coaches should join…

  • Driftless Coaches

  • One of…

    • Middleton/Waunakee Coaches

    • Mount Horeb Coaches

i am getting to many notifications/emails? How do i reduce the noise?

See the Notifications section in the SportsYou User Guide for details on how to configure your notification settings.

whAT DO i have permissions to do in sportsyou?

Posting

Anybody can post and respond to posts in the Driftless MTB channel this will allow for communicating out to the whole team?

Only admins can post to the School channels. We have set it up this way so users can setup their notification preferences to not alert on new posts on the Driftless team, but can subscribe to notifications on the school teams so they get notified for important or timely communication from Head Coaches and Directors.

Chatting

Chatting is disabled from within the Driftless and School teams. NICA puts an emphasis on protecting our student athletes from abuse and by disabling chat, we are putting all online communication done through SportsYou in a public forum where everyone can see it. The one exception to this is anybody can chat to a Head Coach and/or Team Director.

Chatting is enabled from within the Driftless and School Coaches teams. Because these teams should ONLY have adults, we have allowed for adult-to-adult private communication for coaches to directly communicate with one another.