SPIN started on the sideline. We were at the games, covering players and teams the national outlets never reach.
Season after season we have gotten to know these athletes. We follow careers from a first varsity snap, shoot the plays ourselves, and keep the scores and rankings every week. Nobody else out West was keeping that record.
Being that close showed us the other problem. Coaches were running programs out of spreadsheets, group chats and three different apps. Nobody had one place for the roster, the schedule and the film, so we built it.
None of this is secondhand. Everyone here played their own sport. Our CEO spent over a decade as a head football coach. Our product team includes a former US national team volleyball player who has coached at the college level and now runs a youth academy. Our engineers build and maintain all of it in house: the app, the web version, and this site. Nothing in SPIN was designed by someone who has not had to run it.
