Seamless Registration for a World Champion’s Skating Camp
Overview
World Champion and three-time Olympic medalist, Kaetlyn Osmond, grew up skating competitively in Newfoundland and Labrador. Informed by her own coaching and competitive experiences, Kaetlyn decided she wanted to give back and inspire young skaters in her province. To achieve this, she formed Off The Rock; a skill development camp aimed at helping young skaters reach their full-potential. Balancing a very busy schedule, Kaetlyn and her team needed a figure skating registration system that was flexible, easy to setup, and user-friendly for her skaters. Uplifter met all these needs with a scalable solution.
Using Uplifter for online registration
About Off The Rock Skating
Off The Rock aims to inspire young skaters to reach their full potential by giving them Olympic and World Champion caliber training. Launched in 2019, coach Kaetlyn Osmond and her team travel across Newfoundland and Labrador to provide elite skill development camps for the province’s youth. From these development camps, two skaters are selected to travel to Edmonton where they receive one week of additional training from Olympic Team Coach Ravi Walia and his team of coaches.
The Situation
Kaetlyn Osmond is a retired Olympic and World Champion figure skater who has since spent time performing across Canada in the Rock the Rink tour, and is now preparing to study Journalism. With Off The Rock, she wanted to offer three camps throughout the year, giving young skaters an opportunity to train and improve upon their skills between each session. These camps would be held in multiple locations across the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Holding camps across multiple locations, and tracking skater progress while balancing the busy schedules of Kaetlyn and her team is a lot to coordinate. With all of these elements in play, Kaetlyn knew she had to focus on training and skater development which meant Off The Rock needed a figure skating registration system that would effectively support administrative tasks in the background. Off The Rock needed a system that was flexible, easy to learn and user-friendly for their skaters.
Kaetlyn had seen Uplifter help grow the Ice Palace Figure Skating Club while she was training there with Olympic Team Coach Ravi Walia, and her team had hands-on experience using Uplifter at other skating clubs. So, when it came time to choose Off The Rock’s skating registration software, she knew what was needed. “After seeing how well Uplifter worked for Ice Palace and other skating clubs, we knew it was going to be the best choice for Off The Rock,” Kaetlyn said. Now Kaetlyn and her team are able to focus on delivering exceptional skill development and training to the province’s youth while Uplifter supports registration, skater tracking and administrative efforts in the background.
The Solution
Off The Rock quickly setup their Uplifter account, created their camp programs and launched their registrations. The result was a seamless online registration with no in-person registration required. This meant Kaetlyn and her team could focus solely on skill development and training at each location, with no need for time-intensive in-person administrative tasks.
With Uplifter, Off The Rock also found a solution that skaters were familiar with.
“Uplifter allowed us to offer an easy registration process that many people understood already,” Kaetlyn explains.
By choosing software that Skate Canada and numerous Sections (Provincial Skating Associations) use for competition registration, Kaetlyn and her team were able to give their skaters a trusted registration system that they were already used to, and one tailored specifically to figure skating.
Soon Kaetlyn was training eager and happy skaters at multiple locations across the province. Managing skaters of various ages and skill levels at multiple locations has the potential to become challenging, but Off The Rock found that skater tracking and organization in Uplifter was simple from session-to-session. Kaetlyn says, “Knowing the skaters ages and competition results was very beneficial because it helped in choosing skaters. It was all very organized so it was easy to keep track of the successes.” Under the guidance of Kaetlyn and her team, Off The Rock has already seen numerous talented, hardworking and successful skaters, with plenty more to come. With Uplifter, Kaetlyn has chosen a scalable solution that serves clubs of all sizes so the camp can continue to grow with the same software solution.
When Off The Rock returns to training, there will be hundreds of young, eager skaters ready to work hard and develop their skills. With administrative tasks taken care of, Kaetlyn can focus on doing what she loves best; inspiring the young skaters of Newfoundland and Labrador with her expert training and skill development.
Favourite Features
Online registration:
By leveraging Uplifter’s online registration, Off The Rock has been able to offer their skill development camps to young skaters across the province without the need to setup in-person registration at any location. This saves dozens of hours of administration time that would otherwise be spent organizing and coordinating in-person registration sessions.
Waitlists:
Thanks to Kaetlyn's Olympic and World Champion-level talents and experiences, Off The Rock has attracted many eager young skaters. Using waitlists, Off The Rock can easily keep interested skaters in the loop if a new spot opens up in camp.
Communication tools:
Communicating with skaters and parents from across the province requires quick and easy communication tools. Using Uplifter, Off The Rock has been able to coordinate camps and manage skater communications with built-in email tools. Whether reaching out to an individual skater or an entire group, Off The Rock can target exactly who they need to update and send their email from within the Uplifter platform.
