Court Track

Inspiration

Last year, during a tennis tournament, we watched our coach struggle with a pinboard covered in loose papers. The wind kept blowing away the brackets, and he resorted to using players' water bottles just to hold everything down. Parents crowded around trying to find their child's match time, players missed warm-ups because schedules were unclear, and our coach spent the entire day managing chaos instead of coaching. After ten years as competitive tennis players, we realized this was not unique to our team — it was the reality for tennis coaches everywhere. Coaches juggling group chats, spreadsheets, handwritten notebooks, and endless text threads, with nothing connecting any of it together.

What it does

Court Track is an all-in-one platform purpose-built for high school tennis coaches, small clubs, and private coaches. It delivers four core capabilities:

Smart Scheduling — Simplifies logistics from practice sessions to lesson bookings to match reminders, with automatic notifications that eliminate endless group texts.
Player Development — Session planning, goal setting, and drill libraries that help athletes improve systematically over time.
Progress Tracking — Coaches and players can visualize improvement with concrete data; coaches gain insights that inform training decisions and lineup choices.
Centralized Dashboard — Consolidates team management, training schedules, communication, player data, attendance, and match records into a single dashboard accessible from any device. Includes a tournament bracket builder that transforms what used to take days into minutes.

How we built it

The platform is built on React, Next.js, and Supabase, enabling reliable performance and scalability. The mobile application is complete, providing coaches with full sideline functionality. We leveraged our deep insider knowledge as competitive tennis players to design tennis-specific features like tournament builders and lineup generators that generic tools never offer.

Challenges we ran into

The biggest challenge was designing for coaches who are often teachers volunteering their afternoons — they need simple, intuitive tools, not enterprise software. Every feature had to pass a "would a busy coach actually use this?" test. We also had to build for three different customer segments (high school programs, clubs/academies, and private coaches) with overlapping but distinct needs, all without over-complicating the interface.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

50+ verified coaches and 500+ student-athletes actively using the platform
4 organizational partnerships secured in just 4 weeks since launching
Tournament bracket feature described as a "game-changer" by Varsity Tennis Coach Brittany Fredrickson at Cypress Ranch High School
Co-hosting a major tennis tournament projected to raise $250,000 for local tennis programs
Mobile app fully completed providing real-time sideline functionality

What we learned

We learned that founder-market fit is real. Being embedded in the tennis community gave us direct access to coaches that outside competitors cannot replicate. We also learned that the best products come from deeply understanding your user's daily frustrations — not just their wish list.

What's next for Court Track

With 25,000+ high school tennis teams in the US alone and tennis participation growing 46% since 2019, the market opportunity is substantial. We plan to expand our tiered subscription model, present at the CMAA Show, and continue growing our partnership network to become the standard platform for tennis team management nationwide.