SSTracker · Built to train youth athletes
Kids who quit sport stop at about 13 on average, and “I’m not good enough” is the part former players liked least. SSTracker puts the coach, the parent and the player on one team around what research links to staying: fun, friends, growth they can see against their own past, and adults who show up.
Team and club tools free, always · Player training free for 30 days · No card needed
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SSTracker · Scintillation Skills Tracker The spark that ignites a love of youth athletic training.
What you get
Rosters, schedules, team messages and registration cost nothing, always. Families pay the listed price and nothing on top.
Drills for the child's own sport, planned by the coach, with growth charted against their own past. Free weekly workouts for the off-season.
A parent consents before a child's data is collected, no adult messages a child one to one, and coaches are cleared before families join. No ads, no tracking, and no one's data is sold.
Private trainers pass a background check before a family can book them, and families pay the listed price by card.
Why SSTracker
The research on why young athletes stop is clear about a few things. We built every tool around them.
Source: Aspen Institute Project Play, national survey of youth and sports (fielded 2025).
Answers parents who show up (86% · 58%)
The coach sets the week, the player trains at home, and the parent has a real part in each drill: feeder, target or timer, never contact. Nobody trains alone.
Answers “not good enough” (29%)
The coach says “Seen it” with one specific line about the effort, and the parents get the same words. Put-downs and comparisons are refused before anything is saved.
Answers “not good enough” (29%)
Progress charts show each child against their own last month and last season. No screen ranks one child against another.
Answers fun and friends (48% · 47%)
What practice works on leads the homework, with rest days and the time limits for the age built in, so training at home supports practice instead of piling on.
Answers fun and friends (48% · 47%)
About one home session in three is a game the player picks, and some have a version to play with a parent or a friend.
Answers fun and friends (48% · 47%)
One bar the whole team fills together. Every session counts, nobody is named, and the team sees only its total.
Answers parents who show up (86% · 58%) and “not good enough” (29%)
One short idea at a time for the ride home, like “I love to watch you play”, each with its source, and an invitation to come and watch that a parent can turn off.
Answers “not good enough” (29%) and parents who show up (86% · 58%)
No leaderboards between children, no advertising or trackers on any screen a child sees, and a child’s data is never sold, to anyone.
No study has yet shown that any app, ours included, keeps kids in sport. SSTracker is designed around the factors research links to staying, and it leaves out the ones linked to leaving.
The training triangle
Real improvement happens between practices, when the three people around a young athlete pull the same way. Tap, click or hover a corner to see what each one does in the app today.
Player
Recorded in the real app with made-up test families. No real child appears. Captions are in the player menu. Share or download the film.
In the app now
Young athletes keep training when the people who matter notice the work. In the app, the coach sees what a player did at home, says what they saw, and the parents see it too.
Step 1 · Player
Logs a session or homework, or records a few short takes of a drill and sends the best one as a “show me” clip, only to their coach and their own parents.
In the app now
Why SSTracker
Most clubs juggle one app for the schedule, another for drills and a group chat for parents. SSTracker is one place where the coach, the player and the parent pull the same way, and running the club costs nothing.
Rosters, teams, schedules, registration with card payments, and the coach and parent portals cost nothing, ever. You pay only if you want player training.
Real drills for their own sport, XP and streaks with rest days built in, and a sticker book and player card earned only by training. Nothing to buy, no random prizes.
Complete workouts by position and age, timed from the drills, with a focus a coach can choose, like weak foot or first touch. Off-season workouts keep players ready without pressure.
Alerts on their phone, the coach’s exact words for each drill and a part to play at home, and a note when their child beats their own best.
Send a session in a minute, give a Coach’s pick for effort, and excuse an injured player so their streak waits for them.
Consent before any data, no private staff messages to a child, background-checked coaches, game stats held after a match, no heading in soccer plans for young players, no ads, and player data never sold.
For everyone around the player
Club directors
Coaches
Parents
Players
How it works
A director adds teams, invites coaches and families, and sees who still needs a background check or a consent. Running the club costs nothing.
Plan the season once in the Planner: each week gets a focus, each practice its drills from the built-in library, and the homework that matches practice comes first.
Every session earns XP in a skill and opens harder drills. The player sees only their own progress; the parent sees the week.
Player safety
Nothing is collected from a child until a parent says yes. A parent can take it back at any time.
Children's privacyCoaches and staff write to the team, with a copy to parents. Never one-to-one to a child.
SafeSportA coach sees player information only after a verified background-check report, or an association or league clearance that the club director has looked up in the association’s own records. An association clearance ends on its date, and the account locks again.
Clearance policyA child's match numbers stay hidden for 15 minutes after a session ends, so the ride home is about the child, not the score.
After a matchNo ads, no sponsor placements and no ad trackers on any screen a child sees.
Privacy policyNot to anyone, ever. A child's information is used only to run the service.
Privacy policyThe research
Each choice below comes from a published finding. Open any source and read it for yourself.
29% of former players
Feeling “I’m not good enough” was the part of sport former players liked least, ahead of bad coaching.
So no screen ranks one child against another, goals count effort, and each player’s progress is measured against their own past.
Source: Aspen Institute Project Play, national survey of youth and sports (2025 survey)25% of girls who quit
said their parents compared them to other players, against 9% of boys who quit.
So the parent’s weekly card shows only their own child, and goals and prizes count that child’s effort.
Source: Aspen Institute Project Play, national survey of youth and sports (2025 survey)86% of players still playing
had parents who attend their games or practices, against 58% of players who had stopped. It is a link, not a cause: the survey cannot say which comes first, and some families cannot always come.
So a parent has a part in each homework drill, and the app invites a parent to come and watch a game or practice, once each, an invitation they can turn off and never a reminder.
Source: Aspen Institute Project Play, national survey of youth and sports (2025 survey)138 randomised studies
Keeping track of progress helped people reach their goals, and it helped more when progress was written down and shared.
So every session is logged, the coach sees the homework done, and the parent sees the week.
Source: Harkin et al. 2016, Psychological Bulletin128 experiments
Rewards people expected just for doing a task lowered their own motivation for it; rewards that came as a surprise did not.
So a parent’s prize is a surprise by default, a sticker says thank you for training rather than paying for it, and there is never cash.
Source: Deci, Koestner and Ryan 1999, Psychological Bulletin7,769 youth soccer players
Across five European countries, players whose coaches supported their own choices enjoyed soccer more, and players who enjoyed it more were less likely to plan to quit.
So the coach sets the plan and the player picks their focus and drills inside it, and coaches praise effort with a Coach’s pick.
Source: Quested et al. 2013, International Journal of Sport PsychologyHow other kinds of training apps treat young athletes“I built SSTracker after a coach told my daughter, new to sports, that she wasn’t good enough. My daughter hadn’t played many sports and was struggling to practice, and I wanted her to see that with steady effort she could go from knowing nothing about a sport to becoming a skilled athlete.”
Every sport
Each sport has its own drills and skills, written for young players: the steps, a coach's cue, the space and what to bring. Rain or a late practice? Switch on training inside and get a warm-up first, then drills that fit a living room.
Pricing
Player OS training is the paid part: from $29 a month for a club, after a 30-day free trial, or $7.50 a month per player for a family on its own.
See pricingGood questions
Yes. Rosters, teams, schedules, registration and payments, and the coach and parent portals cost nothing, with no seat limits. A card payment to the club carries one fee that includes card processing; the family pays the listed price. It is on the pricing page.
A club adds Player OS from $29 a month, after a 30-day free trial with no card. A family on its own can add it for $7.50 a month per player. Running the club stays free whether you add it or not.
A session takes about a minute to send, and the Workout Library has ready-made workouts for every position and age. Players see the steps on their phone; coaches see who did them.
Keep it while you try SSTracker. Import your roster from a spreadsheet, start with training homework, and move the rest when you are ready. Club tools stay free either way.
A parent consents before anything is collected. There are no ads, player data is never sold, staff never message a child one to one, and a parent can download or delete their child’s data at any time.
Talk to the founder
Evan Waechtler built SSTracker and answers every message personally. Send your club, your sport and your age groups, and you get a walkthrough that shows your coaches, parents and players exactly what they would get.
Ready when you are
Set up your team in a few minutes. Running it is free; add player training when you want it.