DRIVN, a mobile sports and fitness startup, has recently partnered up with the region’s top men’s hockey programs including national champions Providence College, Boston College, Boston University, and Harvard. These teams are using the new mobile coaching app to enhance their 2015-2016 NCAA Championship performance
DRIVN is a mobile app with aims to improve team performance through data visualization and improving communications. The platform is online and provides coaches, administrators, and players with ways to maintain communications, track progress, and create insights into team performance from data analytics. This new app is modernizing coaching methods in the sports world since most coaches used to rely on excel spreadsheets and whiteboards.
DRIVN hopes to eradicate the stresses of student athletes who are struggling to balance their athletic, academic, and social lives. DRIVN aims to create better forms of communication between coaches, administrators, and athletes to help lessen these stresses.
“The gap in communication between coaches, teams and administration is something that can make or break a team. Our student athletes’ schedules are jammed so having a mobile app that allows us to communicate quickly with our athletes to help them stay on top of all of their commitments and put their best foot forward whether that be on the ice or in the classroom is essential to the team’s success,” added John Hegarty, BC’s director of hockey operations.
The app will also promote individualized performance. “In the time we have been using DRIVN, the app has been a valuable tool in improving our all-around communications and ability to coach beyond the rink,” said Boston College Hockey’s Associate Head Coach Greg Brown.
The app improves accessibility to performance data as it combines travel schedules, meeting times, conditioning programs, message boards and player notifications all in one on the app. The coaches are then able to set customizable trackers through DRIVIN that enable them to make data-driven performance decisions. The individualized trackers allow coaches to track conditioning activities, sleep, hydration, and extracurricular reps. In addition, the video feature allows users to upload, manage, and distribute game and training videos that athletes can watch right from their phones. They can also send notifications and pointers after they watch the videos.
Overall, DRIVN aims to centralize the main goal of accomplishing better athletic performance by making training and feedback easier and more accessible. DRIVN connects an entire organization of so many different members through one central application. “The stakes have never been higher for coaches and administrators of college and professional teams yet they rely on antiquated communications tools to get the most from their athletes,” said DRIVN CEO Chris Heidelberger.
