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OnBalance inks deal with University of Miami Athletics for startup's first official partnership
OnBalance's platform will be used for measuring, managing and improving student athletes' mental health.
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OnBalance, a startup that has created a mental health management platform for sports teams, has secured its first official partnership with University of Miami Athletics. The news follows a pilot with the University of Alabama last year.
Walt Norley, a longtime entrepreneur and former DI QB for Ohio State and Georgia, founded OnBalance in 2022 to help organizations aggregate mental health data and turn it into insights, with the aim of expediting preventive care and improving performance. OnBalance’s platform includes an empirical mental health scoring system for care providers and a content hub with educational tools for athletes.
Miami will use the platform to support all its student athletes, athletic director Dan Radakovich told SBJ.
“Mental health is very important to us, to our student athletes. We see it as another extension of the things that will allow our student athletes to be successful on and off the field – just like nutrition, or strength and conditioning, or athletic training, athletic support,” said Radakovich, SBJ’s Athletic Director of the Year in 2017 while at Clemson. “We’re excited to work with OnBalance and utilize their platform to make us more efficient.”
OnBalance’s platform is now in its second iteration and planning to beta release its third this year (with a formal launch in 2025). Use of the platform by early adopters is priced at $75 per student athlete on an annual basis, with that population varying from school to school.
“We’re taking data, aggregating it and turning it into intelligence through predictive modeling,” Norley said “That leads to trends, that leads to predictions and that leads, ultimately, to prevention. But if you want to wrap a bow around it, it’s really about improving performance management around mental health care.”
Norley added OnBalance’s focus is on the collegiate space for now but could expand to the “professional world” in the future.
