SportsEngine Play adds streaming video for parents and pros

There’s a good chance that if you’re a parent and your child is in a youth sports program, you’ve at some point encountered SportsEngine, a software used to manage teams and leagues. Is. Today, the NBC Sports Next-owned unit is announcing SportsEngine Play, bringing a new era of streaming video to the service.

SportsEngine Play can be thought of in a few ways. It can be used to record and share video of any sporting event, whether taken from a parent’s cell phone or a dedicated system installed at the venue. Those videos can be shown live, or made available on demand later. In addition to games and other live events, Sports Engine Play will be home to all types of on-demand developmental and training content from beginners, world-class athletes including Michael Phelps, Larry Fitzgerald, Shaun White, Maria Sharapova, Kerry Walsh Jennings, and more. , and Justin Jefferson.

“We are thrilled to introduce SportsEngine Play to the more than 30,000 youth sports organizations and millions of players and families served through our NBC Sports Next technology platforms and applications,” said Brett MacKinnon, senior vice president and general manager of youth and entertainment. ” The game will air on NBC Sports Next, a press release said. “Given our sports and media DNA, we are uniquely positioned to deliver this product to the sports community – a premier streaming platform for all youth and amateur sports, featuring personalized video content, the best instructional and player development videos and there is too much. Come as we continue to grow.”

There are three levels of access.

• The free plan lets you capture and view live-streamed content.
• The Premier plan costs $10 per month or $80 per year for live and on-demand games (this is a 20% discount from its regular annual price), plus the ability to create highlight videos.
• The All Access plan costs $10 per month (that’s 50% off) or $80 annually (60% off) and you get all this, plus hundreds of hours of content from the pro athletes above, plus other instructional and developmental content from the athletes themselves. Materials are also available. and organization, as well as access to major amateur sporting competitions.

“Creating opportunities to learn, grow and inspire within a worthy community like youth sports is a powerful thing,” Walsh Jennings said in the press release. “I am proud of the work my fellow champions and I have done with The Pros and are thrilled that our content has found such a great home. My goal is to forever inspire and empower as many people as I can, and this partnership will make a great and positive impact.

Other content will be offered from organizations such as USA Hockey, Diamond Allegiance Baseball and the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency’s TrueSport program.

It’s not going to be anything like Netflix’s live sports streaming — at least not until these kids grow up and become professionals.