Sports Connect Tutorials

Team Page Overview 

Team Personnel Pitch Count Report

Inputting Scores by Team Personnel

Creating Team Events as Volunteer - Other (Pizza Party)

Adding another parent/family member as an additional user

Using Your Team Page

You can communicate with your team, set practices, save files, and more from your Team Page.

Remember, you must be logged in to the Sport Connect website before you can access your page. 

Managers and coaches can access their Team Pages in two ways:

1) Click on TEAM CENTRAL > TEAM DIRECTORY > TEAM NAME > TEAM HOME 

or 

2) Click MY ACCOUNT > VOLUNTEER > VISIT TEAM PAGE

You can also access your page and communicate with your team via the Game Changer mobile app, which you can download here.

For a full list of functionality available on the team page, please see this article.

GameChanger App

GameChanger is an app for your phone that integrates with SportsConnect. 

Importing Your Team from Sports Connect to GameChanger
Before importing your team, you must download the GameChanger app from the Apple App Store (iOS) or Google Play (Android). 

Additionally, make sure that:

You are using the same email address for GameChanger that you use for Sports Connect

Your team's roster is live on the Sports Connect website.

You are an allocated volunteer for your team on the Sports Connect site. 

(MANAGERS ONLY) How to import your Sports Connect Team (MANAGERS ONLY)

1. Sign in to GameChanger with the same email address you use with Sports Connect

2. Tap Create Team or the "+" sign to create a new team

3. Choose the option to Import Sports Connect 

4. If you haven't already confirmed your email address, click Open Email App which will direct you to your email. Select Confirm Email Address, and you'll be redirected back to the GameChanger app.

5. Select the team(s) to import. Make sure the team(s) you want to import have a check next to them, and then tap import in the upper corner of the screen. You will see the status of teams importing at the bottom of the screen. 

This feature will import player/schedule information into the mobile app. Schedule and Roster updates made (in Sports Connect) after the team import will automatically sync within the mobile app. 

Note: You can only import your team from Sports Connect to GameChanger one time.

IMPORTANT: PLEASE MAKE ALL SCHEDULING CHANGES THROUGH THE WEBSITE AND NOT THE APP.through the site will automatically update to the GameChanger app. However, events that are listed as "Rescheduled" or "Postponed" on Sports Connect will not appear in GameChanger.

If you see DUPLICATE games in Gamechanger, do the following:
1.  Tap on your team
2.  Tap on settings (top right corner)
3. Tap "schedule sync"
4. Tap "reimport team schedules"

Game Reporting

Reporting Scores

The home team manager is responsible to update the game's final score.  You input it in GAMECHANGER and/or SPORTS CONNECT.

Majors and Minors AAA should be scoring their games in GAMECHANGER.

Minor AA/A, please just add your final score.  You can do this by:
1. Tapping on the game you want to update
2. Tap score game.
3. Tap Menu (top left corner)
4. Tap Manual Overrides
5. Change the score (tap each team's score and modify)
6. Tap Save (top right corner)
7. Tap Game Over (in red)

To input your team's score in Sports Connect:

1. Navigate to your team page and click the Calendar tab.
2. On the calendar page, click on Results.
3. Enter the run totals and click Enter.

Reporting Pitch Counts

After each game, the visiting manager is responsible for each team's pitch counts.  (Majors and Minors AAA will be automatically documented in GAMECHANGER).