Business News: Travel Ball Organization Lady Dukes Inks 5-Year, Potential 7-Figure Deal with Texas-Based Company Teamwatch

Uniting expertise with the fast-growing world of softball.

That’s the grand plan of James Lamar, the founder and CEO of the Girl Dukes softball membership, and Rob Rogers, the group’s Vice President of Company Partnerships, as the 2 fastpitch figures signed a deal Thursday evening with Eric Clemons, the founder and CEO of Teamwatch, a tech firm headquartered in Austin, Texas

Teamwatch, because it describes itself on its website, is an answer for “the way in which individuals handle sports activities and group actions. Coaches, directors, gamers, and oldsters everywhere in the nation depend on Teamwork’s highly effective however easy-to-use options for communication, scheduling, and real-time recreation sharing.”

Lamar, who oversees the aggressively increasing Girl Dukes program that now fields groups in 21 states, shared his ideas with Further Inning Softball shortly after inking the five-year deal.

“I’m extraordinarily enthusiastic about this new enterprise for our group!” he started. “It will broaden past the sport of softball. We have now a advertising group able to hit the bottom operating and consider this seven-figure alternative will change the whole lot for us going ahead. In 12 months, we gained’t look the identical—this can change the whole lot and I can’t wait to get to work!”

The group head additionally sees the partnering with Teamwatch as a technique to tie all parts in his softball group collectively.

“Our new Teamwatch product is a cross-functional expertise platform that gives full in-house infrastructure—from organizational operational administration, livestreams, in-game scoring and a soon-to-be launched recruiting platform–that can marry a number of of our different expertise platforms into one chassis,” the 18U head coach defined.

Accessible on iOS and Android, Teamwatch covers greater than 24,000 video games a month on its platform and the app’s dwell streaming and group administration expertise is offered for greater than 12 completely different youth sports activities, together with deep stats and scorekeeping functionality for baseball and softball.

Importantly, the framework of the settlement will present NIL funds to Girl Duke athletes as they transfer into the subsequent chapter of their careers.

“Teamwatch has dedicated to investing in faculty athletes,” Lamar stated. “Offering assets that result in alternatives and persevering with success for our feminine athletes is important within the present local weather of ladies’s and total sports activities as we speak. In our sport alone, we’ve seen super progress over time, and we wish to do all that we are able to to guarantee that progress stays a precedence and is constant.”

The tech firm’s CEO echoed his new associate’s enthusiasm for getting the deal finalized and the connection began.

“We’re thrilled to be partnering with James Lamar and his high-powered Girl Dukes Softball group,” Clemons said.

“James brings a real devoted strategy to the event of his athletes, and we hope that our partnership may help join extra coaches and athletes to our new platform across the nation, making a aggressive benefit for our Girl Duke athletes and their households.”

“It’s an unimaginable alternative and we’re excited to be partnering with such a forward-thinking group.”

— Brentt Eads, Further Inning Softball