Teamworks has a comprehensive set of features that are unmatched elsewhere in athletics.
Sarah OteyCommissioner, University Athletic Association
The University Athletic Association (UAA) has announced a four-year Elite partnership with Teamworks, unifying member institutions on Teamworks Compliance + Recruiting and Teamworks Hub. The partnership adds Brandeis University, Carnegie Mellon University, and Case Western Reserve University as new Teamworks partners while extending existing relationships with Emory University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Rochester.
Together, Compliance + Recruiting and Hub give UAA member institutions a connected foundation for compliance, recruiting, and day-to-day team operations, making the UAA among the first conferences in Division III to adopt Teamworks Elite.
An Aligned Conference
The path to this partnership began with a shared set of needs across UAA campuses. Athletic Directors were looking to modernize compliance record-keeping, improve how their departments organized and communicated with student-athletes, and find more manageable workflows for large-scale projects that had traditionally required significant coordination across staff.
“We wanted to ease the burden on institutional compliance administrators through enhanced efficiency and organization,” said Sarah Otey, Commissioner of the University Athletic Association. “And we wanted to ensure all student-athletes have access to the same level of organization and communication, as opposed to every team handling these things differently.”
That consistency across institutions was a driving factor in pursuing a conference approach, rather than leaving each program to solve these challenges independently.
Choosing the Right Partner
When evaluating technology partners, the UAA was looking for a platform comprehensive enough to serve the full range of institutional needs while still allowing each campus to customize its implementation.
Teamworks has a comprehensive set of features that are unmatched elsewhere in athletics. The variety of options available allows each institution to customize to meet their own greatest needs — so it allows us to have a conference-wide approach while still allowing each institution to address their own issues.
Sarah OteyCommissioner, UAA
That flexibility made the Elite structure a practical fit for a conference whose member institutions, while unified in mission, each bring their own operational priorities to the table.
For the UAA, the decision to invest in shared infrastructure reflects a broader institutional commitment, one that its member schools take seriously regardless of division level.
“UAA institutions are committed to continually enhancing the student-athlete experience and to providing their staff with the resources necessary to be successful,” Otey said. “Partnering with Teamworks allows our institutions to best support their student-athletes and staff.”
The Future of UAA
Otey’s definition of success looking towards the length of this partnership is straightforward: better resources, less bureaucracy.
“I hope we can get to the end of the four years and say we’ve improved resources for UAA staff while reducing burden and bureaucracy,” she said. “If we’ve accomplished that, this will have been exactly the right investment for our membership.”
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