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Sporting KC adopts Teamworks to streamline internal communication and operations

Sporting KC and Teamworks announce partnership - March 21, 2018
Sporting KC adopts Teamworks to streamline internal communication and operations -

Teamworks, the industry leader of mobile collaboration and communication software for athletic organizations, is pleased to announce a new partnership with Sporting Kansas City, a Major League Soccer team. Teamworks will streamline communication for coaches, athletic trainers, advisors and administrators while centralizing player and staff information. Sporting Kansas City, one of the ten charter MLS members, is the first MLS team to capitalize on Teamworksā€™ mobile technologies.


ā€œTeamworks ensures there are no logistical headaches amongst coaching staff, athletes, trainers and more,ā€ said Jake Reid, Sporting Kansas City President. ā€œWe are excited to be the first team in MLS to adopt Teamworks and bring a mobile software to our players and staff to provide them information on their preferred method of communication, their mobile device. As a forward-thinking club, we are enthusiastic to implement the software in our club so our players have more time to focus exclusively on the game.ā€


Delivering Sporting Kansas City many timesaving management solutions, Teamworksā€™ platform modernizes previously paper-driven processes and centralizes information sharing. Teamworksā€™ messaging will revamp communication methods, ease file sharing processes, eliminate inefficiencies and allow for more seamless collaboration, resulting in significant time and hard cost savings for front office, staff, coaches and players. The platform is effectively tailored to each new clientā€™s operations and workflows, evident as Teamworks continues to implement its offerings across several professional sports. 


ā€œWe are pleased to welcome Sporting Kansas City as the first Major League Soccer franchise to join the Teamworks family,ā€ said Zach Maurides, founder and CEO of Teamworks. ā€œItā€™s important for teams to leverage technology to connect their players and staff, and Teamworks is quickly becoming the standard for professional sports organizations to run their teams, keeping all parties informed and operating efficiently.ā€


Teamworks has quickly become the industry standard for athletic operations in professional sports, adding 20 franchises across the NHL, NBA, NFL and MLB in the last year alone. Teamworks also serves the United Soccer League, Minor League Baseball, and the MLS league office, as well as USA Baseball, USA Track and Field, USA Cycling. In collegiate athletics, Teamworks streamlines information for over 1,500 NCAA Division I teams. Other major partners include the NCAA, which has enhanced its Championships such as the College Football Playoffs and March Madness tournamentsā€™ experience for staff, participating teams, officials and game-site representatives through Teamworks, as well as the National Football League Players Association, which uses the software to communicate and share information with every active NFL players. Additional athletic-related businesses and governing bodies applying the software include the Big Ten Officiating, the Atlantic Coast Conference, and adidas Team Sales. 


For more information about Teamworks, please visit www.teamworks.com.


About Teamworks
Teamworks is the leading provider of mobile collaboration software for athletic organizations based in Durham, NC. Founded in 2004, Teamworks has helped athletic teams, departments, and organizations across the country improve the way they share information and communicate. More than 2,000 clients utilize Teamworksā€™ products including more than 1,500 NCAA Division I programs; more than 95 Football Bowl Subdivision programs at over 90% of the Autonomous Conferences institutions; 36 Power Five department wide institutions such as Alabama, Texas, Stanford, Notre Dame, Purdue and Duke; the Big Ten Conference, the Mountain West Conference, and the NCAA; the NFLPA; United Soccer League; USA Baseball; the San Francisco 49ers, Arizona Cardinals, Detroit Lions, Washington Nationals, San Francisco Giants, Nashville Predators, Calgary Flames and Pittsburgh Penguins.  For more information about Teamworks, please visit www.teamworks.com