PILLAR 1

Seamless Integration With Sports Management Platforms

Ankored partners with the leading sports and team management platforms to ensure safety and compliance data flows seamlessly in both directions—minimizing administrative time and eliminating duplicate work. Through deep, real-time integrations, organizations can sync rosters, track coach and volunteer eligibility, and surface compliance statuses directly within the tools they already use. This bidirectional connection ensures that safety data is always up to date, accessible, and actionable—reducing risk while saving valuable time for administrators, coaches, and families.

• Sync rosters and automatically assign compliance tasks and requirements.
• View athlete, coach, and volunteer compliance statuses alongside registration and program data.
• Create a seamless experience through single-sign on.

Featured Partner: LeagueApps

PILLAR 2

A Network of Background Check Providers

Ankored connects all your background check providers into one system, so coaches, staff, and volunteers can easily get compliant, your compliance stays consistent across jurisdictions, and administrators have one streamlined workflow - not multiple vendor portals and requirements to juggle.

• Ensure background check compliance by automatically assigning the right provider and check type based on role and jurisdiction—all through one admin workflow.
• Stop gaps in coverage by automatically alerting and tracking incomplete and expiring statuses.
• Minimize chasing by providing applicants one seamless experience for background checks and all other requirements.
• Enable additional safety features, such as ID Verification, DMV checks, and continuous sex offender monitoring, all in one platform.
  

Key Background Check Partners: Yardstik, JDP, LiveScan, and NCSI.

PILLAR 3

Safety and Compliance Training

With Ankored, your coaches and volunteers can access government-required and organization-specific education courses from multiple leading safety providers all in one platform. Administrators can easily assign, track, and verify training completion across their entire staff and training library through one unified system.

• Access nationally recognized training on topics like abuse prevention, concussion protocols, emergency response, and youth development.
• Assign role-specific training requirements all in one go, greatly improving the trainee experience
• Keep training current with content that gets updated regularly to cover new safety issues.
• Make compliance easy by automatically tracking who finished training and communicating when renewals are due.

PILLAR 4

Coaching for Coaches

Ankored partners with industry leading coaching education and skills development organizations to ensure every coach is properly credentialed and equipped to help young athletes grow. Ankored makes it easy for organizations to standardize coach development and track progress, while creating a great coach experience. 

• Boost coach retention with streamlined onboarding and everything they need in one convenient platform.
• Create a safe and positive environment by improving coach training resources and compliance
• Assign sport and age specific training requirements as a pre-made package, ensuring training is relevant, and impactful, without extra admin work.

Key Training Partners: Positive Coaching Alliance