Irish Company Marks Tight on Contact Tracing, as Sports Bodies Required to maintain Electronic Records

With renewed optimism for the resumption of many sporting activities this year, an Irish software company is poised to become the go-to for sporting bodies who are now required to maintain electronic records of players.

Under Phase 2 of reopening Ireland, the expert group on Returning to Sport has recommended that sports organisations are obliged to facilitate speedy contract tracing in the event of participants contracting Covid 19.

SURPASSPORT, is an App that allows sports coaches and managers track and share crucial information on their players from a secure data platform, devised by Scientist and Software Engineer, Adrian Geissel. 

The company has just released an update to its’ powerful team management platform, allowing authorised persons to instantly generate player-specific contact-tracing reports, perfect as sports teams emerge from lockdown.

The Naas based inventor says that

“SURPASSPORT is a connected team management App combining sports science and best practice for player-centred coaching, and has attendance tracking at its core. This now offers a practical and easy means for clubs and organisations to keep all records necessary for efficient contact-tracing. Recording attendance is a 1-tap action, easily completed by a coach or designated administrator as they are greeted to the session.”

“Our contact-tracing report examines all training and competitive events that the report subject (a player or a coach) attended over the previous 14 days, identifying all coaches, players / athletes and recorded guests who were present at the same events. For each of these persons, the report automatically extracts dates, times and their email and phone details, or in the case of Under-18s, their parent’s details, ready to be passed to the HSE Contact-tracing Unit”.

“Assuring security and GDPR compliance, this report can only be accessed online or downloaded by authorised users, which include the team coaches (for players), the club registrar, the children’s officer, and the newly added role of Covid Officer. Additionally, SURPASSPORT maintains an audit trail of when such reports were generated.”

“Our software exceeds contact tracing and other return to sport protocol requirements, for sporting bodies in Ireland and internationally. We are very excited about its prospects”. 

“Overall, SURPASSPORT helps clubs provide added security and reassurance for players, coaches and parents, essential as we all try and get back to our sporting lives”. 

In response to the Covid-19 crisis, SURPASSPORT aims to support children in their return to sport and offers any team or club FREE use of the platform, for as long as restrictions or contact tracing remain in force. 

As a connected team App, SURPASSPORT provides an efficient means for every coach to understand each of their players, in clubs and in school. Proudly supporting Basketball Ireland’s underage international squads to monitor player workload and wellbeing, additionally helping to keep these talented players’ club coaches ‘on the same page’ for injuries and over-playing.

Clubs considering summer camps will also find that SURPASSPORT simplifies registration, medical information & parental consent, coordinator delegation and, of course, Contact-tracing.

Our managed setup service, makes getting started even easier, whether for a single team or for a large club, with free setup offered to the first 50 clubs registered on www.surpassport.com during June 2020.

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Notes to Editors 
SURPASSPORT provides player-centered team management solutions, ideal for coaches whose players play on multiple teams and represent multiple clubs and school.

Founded in 2018, SURPASSPORT is the current Best Startup / New Business in South County Dublin Chamber , working with teams from multiple sports and used by Basketball Ireland’s underage international squads, and in pilot with academies in the UK.

SURPASSPORT’s 1-Touch attendance for coach and player at training and matches, serve as a record for Safeguarding, to measure workload (especially for children), and to trigger a post-activity request to each participant asking how they enjoyed the session. 

SURPASSPORT innovates to provide timely information to coaches on players, providing a safe and nurturing digital environment, and facilitating secure and appropriate team communications, especially for Under-18s. 

Our mission is to “keep kids involved” in sport, for sustained long-term physical, mental and social wellbeing