SWINK

Ladies and parents: if we can get three girls to sign up for swink then we can make this happen.  Basically, it is 7.50 per game per player and they take our game film and create highlight tapes for each game.  You can search within “Amy Martin, ground balls” and it will show you every ground ball that Amy has.  Or you can search “lucy barton saves” and every save is captured. 

Here’s what his company does…..

Swink is a video company  that is unlike many I’ve seen out there and it is a player paid service, not a school or team service, so there is no additional burden on our athletic department.

Here’s what happens:

·         I upload a game film to their server overnight, their staff reviews the film, breaks it out to video clips of goals, saves, offense, defense, etc. 

·         Within 72 hours of upload, the clips are then available for viewing or editing.

·         ANY player that subscribes to Swink, that is associated with our program ONLY, can go in and arrange the clips, lay in music from their computer, do some editing, etc. 

·         You can then email highlights of you, your team, anything off to family out of town, college coaches, or even upload to Facebook.

·         You can’t burn to DVD, and you don’t need to since everything is stored on the cloud.  Their online editor is pretty slick too.  You get unlimited use of the film and can save your own personal Swinks.

I’m very impressed with what Christopher has developed and he’s already working with a number of local schools, including our soccer team

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If you would like to see more on this, please go to:  www.swink.tv  click on the login button.  demo@swink.tv and “demo” are your user id and password.  It’s very intuitive and easy to understand.   You should be able to get it in less than 5 minutes, or I can walk you through it over the phone.

Here’s the BEST part….it only cost $7.50 per kid, per game for lacrosse (football is $10.00 per game per kid)  If you have MORE than 3 kids subscribe, starting with the 4^th player, they will refund the athletic program back 50% of the fee for every player above that. 

3 Kids @ $7.5 per game x 18 games = $135.00 per kid for the season for professional editing of our game films.

Starting with kid #4, we (the team) will receive 50% of the season fee for every additional kid.  10 more kids would = a rebate to the OLB of $675.00

If you are a young JV girl or even a varsity girl, this is a great service to utilize for college recruiting.   I’m pretty much convinced that if a kid wants to play in college, or she wants to watch himself on film, or if she wants Granny in Augusta to see her play, THIS is the absolute way to go!!!

So convinced in fact, that I’m thinking we ONLY upload video to SWINK and have our players and families subscribe.  Takes A TON of work off my desk and puts the kids and their families in control of their own videos.

Let me know if you are interested and we can get the ball rolling!!!

Angela