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School Sports Network · Athletics · Early access · 2026

The official, privacy-safe digital home for school athletics

School Sports Network puts the school in control of its own athletics: the official schedule, the consent-audited media vault, the game-day ticketing engine, and the local sponsor inventory all run on one platform the athletic director owns. Every athlete photo, every sponsor placement, and every event record carries a consent state the family controls — not a post-processing filter, but a data-layer lock. Early access — no pricing commitment, no signup, no live payments today.

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School-ownedthe official schedule, roster, and media vault belong to the school — not the vendor
Consent-firstevery athlete photo and sponsor placement carries explicit, revocable, per-use-case consent
Fail-closedunconsented photo excluded at the data layer; no-oversell enforced at the engine
No recruitinglight stats only; no public athlete rankings, no NIL, no social feed attached to minor students

The game night — the athletic department’s biggest operational event

One night, one platform — the consent layer that runs underneath every ticket, photo, and sponsor placement

A Friday night home football game involves four moving pieces at once: tickets sold and a gate to scan, a concessions stand to run, a school photographer uploading game-day photos to the media vault, and a local sponsor whose ad rotates on the team hub during the game. In most schools those four pieces live in four different places — a ticketing app, a spreadsheet, a shared drive, and an email inbox. And none of them carry the consent state of the 60 minor athletes whose images are about to enter a public gallery.

School Sports Network runs all four pieces with the consent layer underneath every one. The box-office engine manages ticket types, capacity, and gate-scan check-in. The concessions POS records sales per item per shift at the stand. The media vault locks photos of any athlete without a media-publication consent record before any public surface can reach them. The sponsor inventory rotates contextual ads — positioned on the football schedule page, not targeted from a behaviorally profiled audience. The athletic director sees all of it in one console, not in four tools after the fact.

The box-office engine, gate-scan foundation, and concessions POS are built and production-ready. The charge rail that moves money is honest-off: not enabled for live transactions today. When it is enabled, the operational picture described here is what the platform delivers, because that is what the code does.

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How it works

The athletic season in four stages

School Sports Network runs on a season rhythm: team setup and consent intake before the season, ticket configuration and photographer briefing at the opener, game nights and media vault updates through mid-season, and a clean year-end archive and yearbook export. Every stage is described as it is built today.

Step 1 · Pre-season — team setup, roster, and consent intake

Before the first game, the athletic director and coaching staff configure each team’s hub: the schedule, roster, venue details, and staff permission levels. Consent intake runs at this stage: every family on the roster receives a consent form covering each distinct use case — team hub roster photo, game-day gallery, yearbook export, and sponsor placement adjacency. An athlete with no consent record is excluded from every media surface until consent is recorded. The photographer receives the team roster with per-athlete consent flags before arriving to shoot — so a student who has not consented is not photographed for gallery publication, reducing post-session culling and consent exposure. Consent is set before the season opens, not scrambled at the end of the year after photos have already circulated.

Step 2 · Season opener — first events, ticket configuration, and photographer briefing

The first event of the season is configured in the box-office engine: ticket types, capacity, pricing, and gate layout (reserved gym seating or general-admission stadium). Season passes and multi-game packages go live alongside single-event ticket types in the engine. The concessions POS is configured for the first stand shift. The sponsor inventory shows which packages are active for the season opener. The box-office engine and gate-scan are ready for door check-in at the first event. The live checkout interface that creates the ticket in the first place is honest-off until the payment rail is enabled — gate-scan is available for manually issued passes and comp tickets in the meantime.

Step 3 · Mid-season — game nights, media vault updates, and sponsor rotation

Gate-scan handles entrance check-in at each event. After each game, the school photographer uploads the gallery to the media vault; the consent layer automatically locks photos of any athlete without a media-publication consent record before any public view can touch them. A family can update their consent state at any point mid-season; a one-click takedown request removes the photo from the vault within the same session. Score updates are entered by staff and appear on the team hub. Sponsor placements rotate on the configured schedule with impression tracking logged per event. The concessions POS records sales per item per shift for each home event.

Step 4 · Year-end — archive, yearbook export, and consent record handoff

At year-end the media vault holds the full season’s gallery in consent-audited state. Yearbook staff export game-day galleries and senior banners with captions directly from the vault — only photos with an active yearbook-export consent record are included. The consent audit log export delivers a complete record to the athletic director: every consent event, every takedown request, every photo locked or released, timestamped. The school owns this data and can export it to a portable format at any time. Photos are retained for 12 months post-season unless the school archives them; a family can request removal at any point and the photo is purged within the same session.

The full platform

Five engines — honest about what is built and what is coming

Every feature is labelled honestly: Built means the underlying engine is production-ready. In development means the surface, wire-up, or carrier integration is in active build. We do not claim otherwise.

Official team hubs — schedules, scores, rosters, and coach-approved announcements

Each team gets its own hub on the platform: the official schedule (home and away, venue, start time, cancellations), staff-entered score updates, a roster with coach-approved player information, venue details and directions, and a coach-approved announcements feed. The athletic director controls which information is visible at each permission level and which staff members can update each team’s hub without touching another program’s records. Stats are light and school-controlled: final scores, team milestones, and seasonal records. There are no public athlete rankings, no recruiting indexes, and no algorithmic popularity scores attached to minor students. The team hub engine and the consent-aware roster are built and production-ready.

Team hub built · coach and AD-controlled

Game-day ticketing — box-office engine, gate-scan, and concessions POS

The box-office engine manages ticket types, capacity, and pricing for every event on a team’s schedule. Season passes and multi-game packages let families commit before the schedule publishes. Reserved-seating configurations support an indoor gym with assigned rows; general-admission capacity limits support a stadium gate. A no-oversell rule is enforced at the data layer — a ticket type with a set capacity cannot sell one beyond that limit by refusing the transaction at the engine, not by disabling a button. Gate-scan handles entrance check-in at the door, marking each ticket admitted in real time. The concessions POS manages items, per-item pricing, and inventory per event; a volunteer-run stand shift opens and closes the till for that game. Cash is the base payment method at the stand. The box-office engine, gate-scan foundation, and concessions POS are built and production-ready. The live checkout interface that accepts payment from ticket buyers is honest-off — present in the platform, not enabled for live transactions today. Card payment at the concessions stand is honest-off for the same reason.

Box-office engine & gate-scan built · live checkout honest-off

School-approved local sponsor inventory — program ads, banners, and season packages

The sponsor inventory engine lets an athletic director or booster club configure school-approved advertising packages: program ads, scoreboard banners, team-page placements, and season sponsor packages for local businesses. The school approves every sponsor before any ad content appears on any surface. Sponsor assets are managed through the admin console; impression tracking and rotation are built into the inventory layer. No student or family data is used to target sponsor placements — contextual placement only (positioned on the football schedule page or the team hub, not built from a behaviorally profiled audience). Revenue reporting shows what each package generated and how it flows to the school or booster. The sponsor inventory and catalog management engine is built and production-ready. The live payment processing rail for sponsor purchases is honest-off — present in the platform, not enabled for live transactions today.

Sponsor inventory built · sponsor payment honest-off

Athletic department admin console — all teams, media approvals, and consent audit

The athletic director console shows every team’s hub, event schedule, media vault state, consent records, sponsor inventory, and revenue report in one place. Staff permissions are scoped: a head coach can update their team’s hub and approve media from their team’s events without touching another program’s records. The consent audit log shows each athlete’s consent state per use case — team hub photo, game-day gallery, yearbook export, and sponsor placement adjacency — with the timestamp and method of each consent event. A district communications officer can review all pending media approvals in one queue without logging in to each school separately. The admin console and consent audit log are built and production-ready.

Admin console built · consent audit log included

Who it’s for

Built for athletic directors, coaches, families, sponsors, and school photographers

Athletic directors

The athletic director sees every team’s hub, consent records, media vault state, and sponsor inventory in one admin console. Staff permissions are scoped so a head coach can update their team’s hub without touching another program’s records. The consent audit log makes any media-related compliance question answerable in minutes: who consented, to what, and when — with timestamps. A district communications officer can review all pending media approvals in one queue without logging in to each school separately.

Coaches and teams

Coaches manage their team’s hub directly: the schedule, roster, venue details, and coach-approved announcements. Stats are light and school-controlled: final scores, team milestones, seasonal records. There are no public athlete rankings or recruiting metrics. The photographer receives the team’s consent-flagged roster before media day, so the coach never has to intercept an unconsented photo after the fact.

Families

Families control their athlete’s consent state per use case: team hub roster photo, game-day gallery, yearbook export, and sponsor placement adjacency. Each consent is distinct and revocable independently of the others. A one-click takedown removes the photo within the same session. Families see the consent audit log for their student: every event, every timestamp, every currently active state. No account is required to submit a consent response or a takedown request.

Local sponsors

Local businesses reach the school’s athletics audience through school-approved, contextually placed ad packages: program ads, scoreboard banners, team-page placements, and season packages. Every sponsor is vetted and approved by the school before any content appears. No student or family data is shared with or used to target sponsors. Impression tracking and rotation are built into the inventory layer; revenue reporting shows what each package generated.

School photographers and yearbook staff

Photographers upload game-day galleries directly to the media vault after each event. The vault enforces consent state automatically: no post-upload culling is needed, because the consent layer blocks unconsented photos from any view before the upload is complete. Yearbook staff export consent-cleared photos with captions in yearbook-ready formats directly from the vault. Senior banners and team composites are part of the vault’s export catalog.

Student data & family consent — the trust layer incumbents skip

Your school’s data. Your athletes’ photos. Consent-gated, never sold, never targeted.

Every photo in the media vault carries the consent state of the athlete it depicts. A minor athlete whose family has not consented to media publication is excluded from every public or shared view at the data layer — not by a post-processing filter that could be bypassed, but by a lock that exists before any surface reaches the photo. One-click takedown propagates the removal across every surface that referenced it within the same session. Face detection on minor athletes is off by default. A family must explicitly opt in for their student’s images to be face-matched.

Student and family data is owned by the school and district — not the platform. No student or family data is sold to or shared with outside companies for profit. No student data powers behavioral advertising. Photos run on our own private infrastructure, encrypted in transit. Ad placements are contextual only: positioned on the football schedule page, not assembled from a behaviorally profiled audience. Consent can be withdrawn at any time. A one-click full export delivers every record to the school in a portable format: consent events, media vault contents, sponsor records, and event history. This guarantee is part of the onboarding agreement, not a footnote.

What is built and what is coming — plainly

The engines are built. The charge rail is not live yet.

Built and production-ready today: official team hubs (schedules, scores, rosters, coach-approved announcements, staff-scoped permissions); the box-office engine and gate-scan foundation (no-oversell at the data layer, season passes, multi-game packages, reserved-seating, admission marking); the concessions POS (per-item, per-event, volunteer-run stand shifts, cash base); the consent substrate and media vault (granular per-use-case, revocable, one-click takedown, face detection off by default); the school-approved sponsor inventory (catalog management, contextual-only placement, impression tracking, revenue reporting); and the athletic department admin console with consent audit log.

Not yet enabled for live use: the payment rail (the part that moves money), live ticket-sale checkout, card payment at the concessions stand, live sponsor payment processing, and live carrier delivery for communications. These are honest-off — present in the platform, not enabled for live transactions. There is no live checkout here. No billing. No subscription. Athletic directors and booster treasurers deserve to know what is production-ready and what is still being enabled.

Connected to the school platform

School Sports Network runs the team hub and the media vault. The booster club runs the treasury. Assembly captures the moment.

School Sports Network manages the official schedule, the consent-safe media vault, the game-day ticketing engine, and the local sponsor inventory. School Booster Network is the sibling platform for the booster club that operates alongside: the no-skim fundraising split engine, the game-night concessions POS treasury, and the volunteer coordination engine for the same events. Assembly is the moment layer: live school events captured, ticketed, and archived — the Friday night game and the spring sports banquet are the same events both platforms serve. Seen is the recognition layer: the programme that ensures every student athlete lands on a real page in the yearbook, the newspaper, or the programme — adviser-approved and consent-verified.

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Early access · Athletic directors, district comms staff, school photographers, booster clubs

Book a conversation to see the current state honestly

School Sports Network is in active development. We do conversations that show the current state honestly: how the team hub configures a season schedule and consent intake, how the media vault enforces consent state and handles a one-click takedown, how the admin console surfaces the consent audit log for an athletic director, how the box-office engine models a game-night ticket sale, and how the sponsor inventory manages school-approved local ad packages. There is no pricing commitment and no signup. If it looks right for your school, we discuss what early access looks like.

To book: email [email protected].

FAQ

Common questions

How is this different from a national high-school athletics statistics or rankings platform?

National statistics platforms are built around public rankings, recruiting indexes, and athlete profiles that aggregate data across schools and sports. School Sports Network is built around the school as the official publisher: the schedule the athletic director controls, the roster the coach approves, the gallery the school photographer uploads, and the sponsor inventory the district vets. There are no public athlete rankings, no recruiting indexes, and no algorithmic popularity scores. The value is in the official, school-controlled, consent-audited local layer — not in competing with national breadth on stats and highlights.

Is ticket checkout live? Can we sell tickets to events today?

Not yet. The box-office engine, season passes, multi-game packages, reserved-seating, and gate-scan are built and production-ready — the no-oversell rule, the seating configurations, and the admission-marking logic are all there. The payment rail that moves money from a ticket buyer to the school or booster is honest-off: present in the platform, not enabled for live ticket transactions today. There is no live checkout, no billing, and no subscription. When the charge rail is enabled (a founder-gated decision), schools will be notified. The CTA here is “book a conversation,” not “buy tickets now.”

How does gate-scan work on game night?

Gate-scan is built alongside the box-office engine. A scanner at the entrance marks each ticket as admitted against the ticket record in the engine in real time. The no-oversell rule is enforced at the data layer: a ticket type with a capacity of 500 cannot admit a 501st, not because a form disables a button, but because the engine refuses it. Gate-scan is built and production-ready. The live checkout interface that creates the ticket in the first place is honest-off until the charge rail is enabled. Until then, gate-scan is available for manually issued passes and complimentary tickets.

How does the consent media vault work? What photos can families see?

The media vault holds every photo uploaded by the school photographer after an event. Each photo is associated with the athlete or athletes it depicts; the vault checks the consent record of every depicted athlete before making the photo visible on any surface. A family who has not consented to gallery publication means every photo of that student in the vault is locked at the data layer, excluded from any view. A one-click takedown from the family or the school removes the photo immediately. Face detection on minor athletes is off by default; a family must explicitly opt in for their student’s images to be face-matched.

Can a family control what photos of their athlete are shown, and where?

Yes, and the control is granular per use case. A family can consent to “team hub roster photo” (the headshot on the team page), “game-day gallery” (action photos published to the school event page), “yearbook export” (photos passed to yearbook staff for inclusion), and “sponsor placement adjacency” (whether a photo can appear near a sponsor ad). Each consent is distinct. Withdrawing one does not affect the others. A takedown request on a specific photo is processed within the same session. The consent audit log shows the family every event, every timestamp, and every active state.

How do local sponsors work on the platform?

The athletic director or booster club configures school-approved sponsor packages in the inventory engine: program ads, scoreboard banners, team-page placements, and season packages for local businesses. Every sponsor must be approved by the school before any ad content appears. Ad placements are contextual only — positioned on the football schedule page or the team hub, not targeted using behaviorally profiled student or family data. No student or family data is shared with sponsors. Revenue reporting shows what each package generated. The sponsor inventory and catalog management engine is built. The live payment processing rail for sponsor purchases is honest-off today.

Are minor athlete profiles publicly searchable by default?

No. Athlete information on a team hub is scoped to the school’s own page and is not indexed in a public athlete search database by default. The platform does not build searchable public profiles of minor athletes. The school controls visibility: an athletic director decides what information is on the team hub and what requires a school login to see. There are no public follower counts, no social feed, no DMs, and no popularity metrics attached to minor athletes.

Does the platform include recruiting, NIL, or social network features?

No, none of those. School Sports Network is built to support the school-run athletic program — schedules, consent-safe media, sponsorship, and the game-day operations layer. Recruiting is deliberately out of scope: it creates privacy exposure for minors and shifts the platform away from serving the school as a trusted publisher. NIL features and social-network mechanics (DMs, follower counts, comments, algorithmic virality) are not part of this product and will not be added.

How is student and family data handled? Is it sold or used for advertising?

Student and family data is owned by the school and district, not by the platform. No student or family data is sold to or shared with outside companies for profit. No student data is used to power behavioral advertising. Photos run on our own private infrastructure, encrypted in transit, and are never sent to outside companies for ad targeting or enrichment. Minor athlete photos are consent-gated: a family must opt in before a photo is published on any surface. Consent is not assumed and can be withdrawn at any time.

What can our school use right now?

The platform is in active development. In a conversation we walk through the current state honestly: team hub configuration (schedule, roster, coach-approved announcements), the consent intake workflow for a new season, the media vault with its consent-state enforcement and one-click takedown, the admin console with its per-staff permission scoping and consent audit log, and how the box-office engine models a game-night ticket sale including season passes and multi-game packages. None of those involve live payments today. The conversation is the honest next step: we show what is built, what the charge-rail timeline looks like, and what early access means for your school.

When is the full platform available?

The platform is in active development. Built and production-ready today: official team hubs (schedules, scores, rosters, announcements), the box-office engine and gate-scan foundation, the concessions POS, the consent substrate and media vault, the school-approved sponsor inventory, and the athletic department admin console with consent audit log. The payment rail, live ticket checkout, card payment at the concessions stand, and live sponsor payment processing are honest-off — present in the platform, not yet enabled for live use. The best next step is a conversation where we show the current state honestly and discuss what early access looks like for your school.