What Is Athlete Development Tracking and Why Does Your Club Need It?
What Is Athlete Development Tracking and Why Does Your Club Need It? If you run programs at a sports club, you are already doing some version of athlete development. Your coaches are teaching skills. Athletes are improving. Programs are running season after season. The question is not whether development is happening. The question is whether […]
How to Set Up Online Registration for Your Sports Club in Under a Week
How to Set Up Online Registration for Your Sports Club in Under a Week Running a sports club takes a lot of work. You have programs to manage, coaches to coordinate, and families to keep happy. The last thing you need is a registration process that creates more work instead of less. If your club […]
Why Did Checklick Trademark ADTS and What Is It?
Why Did Checklick Trademark ADTS and What Is It? Most software companies build a product to fit a category that already exists. Checklick did something different. When Checklick looked at the sports club industry in 2018, we did not find the category we were looking for. So we created it. That is the story behind […]
Olympic Inspiration to Spring Season: Is Your Sailing Club Ready?
Every couple of years, a major international sports event does something that money cannot easily buy for community clubs: it makes people want to participate. The 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina generated exactly that kind of energy. Families watched. Young people watched. And some percentage of those viewers – more than clubs often realize – […]
Behind Every Olympic Medalist Is a Club That Got the Admin Right
When you watch an Olympic athlete perform, you see the result of years of training, sacrifice, and coaching. What you do not see is everything that made that training possible: the administration that ran smoothly enough to stay out of the way. The registration systems that got athletes enrolled on time. The certification records that […]
What the 2026 Olympic Hockey Tournament Teaches Us About Player Development Tracking
The 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics brought NHL players back to the Olympic stage for the first time since 2014, and the hockey tournament delivered exactly what fans had hoped for. The United States defeated Canada in the gold medal game, Finland took bronze over Slovakia, and the world was reminded of what the sport looks […]
Your Club Could Be Training the Next Olympian – Are You Tracking Their Development?
Somewhere in a sailing club right now, there is a twelve-year-old who just figured out how to tack without losing momentum. They probably do not know it yet, but that moment is the beginning of something. What happens in the years that follow – whether their progress is tracked, whether their achievements are recognized, whether […]
What the Olympics and Your Sports Club Have in Common: Standards
Every athlete who competed at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics earned their spot through a qualification process. Not through reputation, not through a coach’s opinion, not through a general sense that they seemed ready. They qualified because they met specific, documented, verifiable standards. Their results were on record. Their credentials were not in question. The […]
How Olympic Athletes Are Made: The Role of Structured Skill Tracking
How Olympic Athletes Are Made: The Role of Structured Skill Tracking The 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina gave the world something it always loves: watching the best athletes in the world make the impossible look effortless. Whether it was a skier carving a near-perfect run down the Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre or a speed skater […]
2025 Checklick Non-Monetary Coach Compensation Insights – Beyond the Paycheck
While hourly pay and wages are often the first thing coaches look at when considering a position, compensation does not stop with salary alone. Many organizations provide additional non-monetary benefits that help coaches grow professionally, stay connected to the sport, and feel valued by their clubs. The 2025 Checklick Coach Compensation Survey, with 234 responses, […]