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New Release: Box Lacrosse Play Design

As our user base grows, we're excited to be receiving such thoughtful feedback on the main page application, LacrosseLab.com. We want you, our customers, to really drive where we take Lacrosse Lab. We've quietly pushed out a few releases over the last couple of weeks to help improve the ease of your interaction with our lacrosse play designer.

Here's an update on a few of the things you may have missed:

Box Lacrosse

We have a really engaged group of users up in Canada that enjoys our play designer but has been waiting for Box Lacrosse to become available. Ryan really worked hard to include this in our most recent release, but you will now find Box Lacrosse available in the Create Play introduction screen. Thank you for the kind words from our fans up in Canada!



Playbook Views

As a coach, you will now be able to see where your players are engaged. See which plays are being studied and by whom. As a coach, I've loved how much engagement I am seeing from my players and their parents. It always helps to see parents reinforcing the coaching points that we are teaching in practice. Let us help you create an enriching and educational lacrosse playbook experience and save the time that you spend teaching new plays in practice!



Custom Team Branding

We want your team to feel right at home while they're using Lacrosse Lab. You may have noticed in the playbook list up above that there is a custom logo now presented in the background. You can now add your team's logo in the Manage Teams list when you create your new team. 



Simpler Invitation Access

Finally, we want to make the process as easy as possible for you to onboard your players. You will now see links through Lacrosse Lab to share invitation information with your players. Within your team's action drop-down, you will now see a link to ADD MEMBERS. This will present the player and coach tokens that will be needed when they register their accounts.


As I mentioned earlier, Ryan and I have been really motivated by all of the positive and constructive feedback that we have received. Our lacrosse play designer is getting better every day and it's exciting to see that you guys feel the same way. We'll continue to push releases and share updates as they become available. For now, try out our new features at LacrosseLab.com and tell us what you think!

Thanks,
Eric
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