Latham, NY –January 6, 2009– The National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA), the leading resource for professional and student development, education and research in collegiate recreational sports, has announced that it will utilize SportsSignup’s online registration services to streamline the registration process for their National Campus Championship Series soccer, tennis and volleyball programs.
“With more than 390 tournament registrations each year, we’ve seen incredible time savings by utilizing SportsSignup to handle all of our registration services online,” said Valerie McCutchan, national sport programs director of NIRSA. “SportsSignup’s system has been very easy to adapt to and it has really allowed us to simplify our registration process.”
SportsSignup’s online registration service platform was designed to meet the specific needs of NIRSA’s National Campus Championship Series programs. The system allows team managers to register and pay for their tournament entry online, along with entering full player rosters. All submitted rosters are automatically validated based on NIRSA’s rules and guidelines such as the minimum and maximum capacity required for each sports program.
"SportsSignup’s services are a great match for NIRSA because it allows them to continue offering their well-recognized championship tournaments without the hassle of handling registrations manually,” said Anthony Bruno, CEO of SportsSignup. “Sports registration can be a complex task, especially when you are dealing with thousands of individuals and/or hundreds of teams. Our online registration services are focused on eliminating complexity for organizations like NIRSA by providing a secure and easy registration process that is updated in real-time and accessible to multiple users and administrators.”
For more information, please visit http://www.sportssignup.com or http://www.nirsa.org
About SportsSignup
SportsSignup, a division of League Sports Services LLC, provides sports organizations with fully-integrated online registration, roster management and coach and volunteer background checking solutions. Since 2002, the company has been dedicated to operating a secure, affordable, and hassle-free online registration platform that enables administrators from hundreds of soccer, baseball, lacrosse, hockey and many other youth sports organizations to spend more time on the playing field by automating many aspects of their duties.
About National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association
NIRSA is the leading resource for professional and student development, education, and research in collegiate recreational sports. Headquartered in Corvallis, Oregon, NIRSA was established in 1950 at a meeting at Dillard University of 22 African-American men and women from 11 Historically Black Colleges and Universities. NIRSA now includes nearly 4,000 highly trained professional, student and associate members throughout the United States, Canada and other countries. Serving an estimated 5.5 million students who regularly participate in campus recreational sports programs, NIRSA members are actively engaged in many areas of campus life: student leadership, development, and personnel management; wellness and fitness programs; intramural sports; sport clubs; recreation facility operations; outdoor recreation; informal recreation; and aquatic programs.
About National Campus Championship Series (NCCS)
Under the direction of the NIRSA Services Corporation, a wholly-owned taxable subsidiary (C Corporation) of NIRSA, all NIRSA extramural events, sport club championships, and sponsored and endorsed activities are marketed and identified under the umbrella of the National Campus Championship Series (NCCS). The NCCS is the only campus non-varsity sports series that supports NIRSA’s dedication to fostering student development, commitment to the larger learning community, and emphasis on leadership and excellence in events of this type.
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Media Contacts
For SportsSignup
Megan Reisig, Public Relations Account Executive, Canyon Communications
mreisig@canyoncomm.com
Tel. (877) 888-3312
For NIRSA
Katherine Otten, Editor & Assistant Director of Marketing
katherine@NIRSA.org
Tel. (541) 766-8211
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