Congratulations to the Fowlerville Gladiator Wrestling team for winning February's Takedown Takeaway! Their prize, an iPad Bluetooth Keyboard/Case combo, is on the way to Fowlerville, Michigan.
We asked the coach, Sean Harvey, to tell us about his experience with Takedown. Here's what he said:
My role with the high school team is asst. coach. I was in charge of all paperwork and doing all stats for the team.
This is the first season that we have used the app. We have looked around for a couple of years for a decent stat app and I just didn't like how any of the others ones worked.
Then one day I came across Takedown while searching for new stat apps prior to the season starting. I liked how it flowed and how easy it was to put in match details.
I talked to the head coach about using it this season and he was fine with trying it out this season. I think he enjoyed me using it as it made tracking things much easier for him.
It has made it so much easier to get stats out to the kids quickly (not having to go home and hand figure everything out). I would print out a scoring detail report after every match so the kids could see how they did that night/day.
I would also print out a season scoring detail report every week and it created a lot of competition on the team as the wrestlers could see where they ranked in certain categories and worked harder to move up the rankings!
The app also made it easier for me as an Asst. Coach as it is my responsibility to get the match info out to the local papers. At the end of the night, I emailed all the box scores to 3 different newspapers and received many compliments from them each about how nice it was to have something like that emailed to them vs. called in to them and left on a voice mail.
It has made it easier for me as the head coach of the junior high team to see where our deficiencies are thru the scoring reports and to be able to let the kids know what aspect they need to work on in the room (ie. td's, escapes).
It has also saved me a ton of time with the seeding meeting report, especially coming into our junior high league meet this weekend. I don't have to go back thru the scorebook and retype all of the opponents out.
I also loved how easy it was to get support for problems I had as I was beginning to learn how to use the app. My concerns were attended to promptly and with professionalism from the Takedown staff.
I love the tweets that are sent out from the app. A lot of our fans look forward to tweets every dual during the season so they can keep up with how the team is doing.
Congratulations to Fowlerville wrestling!