The problem
Camps outgrew the tools running them.
Registrations, families with questions, schedules that change by the hour - all held together by a signup link, a personal inbox, and a stack of spreadsheets.
Train at university
Every camp is run by the head coach and staff at the university. Choose by skill, position, or age - then register in minutes.
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Camp registration
You'll get a confirmation and receipt by email - no account needed.
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Summary
Secure online registration · Camps fill on a first-come basis
Under the head coach
The head coach
Every camp is run by the coaching staff families are signing up to learn from - bios, records, and playing history on the program's own page, not a third-party listing.
What we build
One system instead of a dozen spreadsheets - less administration, more coaching and recruiting.
The backstory
Luke and Zach Carrell both played Division I baseball - Luke at Oklahoma and Ohio State, Zach at UC Davis and Oklahoma. Running their programs' camps from the inside, they saw the same barriers every season: registration scattered across emails and spreadsheets, payments tracked by hand, and camp day held together by a clipboard.
They built SideCoach to solve that problem - one system that replaces the disconnected tools college athletic programs have been working around for years.
The founding insight
The problem
Registrations, families with questions, schedules that change by the hour - all held together by a signup link, a personal inbox, and a stack of spreadsheets.
The solution
Registration, payments, communication, records, and scheduling in one place - built for how camps actually run.
Watch it solve
Set your rules once - positions, pitch counts, playing time. The lineup builds itself, and every player gets even playing time.
*Currently only baseball, more sports coming soon
How we got here
SideCoach was validated and funded stage by stage through university pitch competitions.
Recognized among the top student-built companies in Texas.
Runner-up against the conference's best student ventures.
National finalist in Houston, Texas, competing with companies from all across the world.
More national competition, more pressure-testing.
Second place in Ohio State's Best of Student Startups competition.
Back-to-back runner-up at Best of Student Startups.
Recognized in the student-athlete track at Best of Student Startups.
First place at Ohio State's Boost Camp.
Private investment moves SideCoach to full-time.
The company
Division I athletes who lived the problem. Engineers who ship the fix.
Luke Carrell
Co-Founder & CEO
MBA from Ohio State and a former private-equity analyst who played Division I baseball at Oklahoma and Ohio State. He leads SideCoach's product direction, investor relations, and its relationships with athletic programs.
Zach Carrell
Co-Founder & COO
MBA from Baylor and a former Bank of America modeler who played Division I baseball at Oklahoma and UC Davis. He built the optimization engine behind Scheduler Software and runs day-to-day operations.
Nirmit Dagli
Cloud Engineer
Master's in computer science from Quinnipiac and a Certified Cloud & AI Architect who built multi-tenant cloud platforms at Zycus and State Street. He leads infrastructure at SideCoach, building the secure, reliable systems the platform runs on.
Mehul Mangave
Full Stack Engineer
Master's in computer engineering from San Jose State and a software engineer at Syngenta and State Street. He builds the product interfaces and services that programs and families rely on.
Lead Engineer
Computer engineering degree from the University of Lagos and more than seven years of software engineering experience. Three years with SideCoach, where he leads the engineering team and owns the platform's architecture.
Less camp admin. More coaching.