You can barely go anywhere in the Southlake area without seeing the familiar Dragon sticker. Now, one of the most followed high school programs in the state just got easier to follow.
Southlake Carroll's varsity baseball team is a third of their way through the regular season and just seconds after one of the Dragons gets a hit, their parents and grandparents can read about it on their phones and computers.
"My parents are not able to get to every game," said Dragons pitcher Kyle Bailey. "My dad's out of town a lot, he travels a lot, so whenever he wants to keep up with the game, he gets on that in the airport."
It all starts here in the dugout at the field and instead of using the ole pencil and scorecard, the official scorer grabs their iPhone and logs into a new application called GameChanger.
"I tell ya, I'm the biggest fan of GameChanger" says Caroll head baseball coach Larry Hughes. "It's a less fancier version of the college game tracker and it just allows several things, improtant to me as a coach. Real time scoring updates, stats and box scores
Hughes is sold on this new way of scoring a game, in fact he's having coaches from all the teams in the program score the games this way so that he can keep instant tabs on some of his soon to be varsity players. "I can keep up with JV and Freshmen teams when we're finished and getting on the bus, I love it," Hughes said.
Right now, you can view the real time game updates on mobile phones and on the web and soon this program will even send e-mail and text alerts and even send updates to a Twitter page.
"My whole family lives in Chicago and my Grandpa is a huge fan of Carroll and follows the football games on line," said infielder Tommy Avers. "He's been checking it out looking at the game updates. It's such a cool thing what technology has been doing for us. You plug numbers in a phone and people can look at it."
During this beta testing period, its all free, but eventually the company will charge fans a small fee to watch the live play by play and pitch by pitch updates.
The GameChanger iPhone app can be downloaded on the company's website, www.gamechanger.io/. Only the person that scores the game needs the iPhone ap, everybody who wants to monitor the game on a mobile web phone or computer, just signs up for an account and finds the team they want to follow.
Right now there are 40+ high school and little league teams in the Dallas-Fort Worth area using GameChanger.
Southlake Carroll's varsity baseball team is a third of their way through the regular season and just seconds after one of the Dragons gets a hit, their parents and grandparents can read about it on their phones and computers.
"My parents are not able to get to every game," said Dragons pitcher Kyle Bailey. "My dad's out of town a lot, he travels a lot, so whenever he wants to keep up with the game, he gets on that in the airport."
It all starts here in the dugout at the field and instead of using the ole pencil and scorecard, the official scorer grabs their iPhone and logs into a new application called GameChanger.
"I tell ya, I'm the biggest fan of GameChanger" says Caroll head baseball coach Larry Hughes. "It's a less fancier version of the college game tracker and it just allows several things, improtant to me as a coach. Real time scoring updates, stats and box scores
Hughes is sold on this new way of scoring a game, in fact he's having coaches from all the teams in the program score the games this way so that he can keep instant tabs on some of his soon to be varsity players. "I can keep up with JV and Freshmen teams when we're finished and getting on the bus, I love it," Hughes said.
Right now, you can view the real time game updates on mobile phones and on the web and soon this program will even send e-mail and text alerts and even send updates to a Twitter page.
"My whole family lives in Chicago and my Grandpa is a huge fan of Carroll and follows the football games on line," said infielder Tommy Avers. "He's been checking it out looking at the game updates. It's such a cool thing what technology has been doing for us. You plug numbers in a phone and people can look at it."
During this beta testing period, its all free, but eventually the company will charge fans a small fee to watch the live play by play and pitch by pitch updates.
The GameChanger iPhone app can be downloaded on the company's website, www.gamechanger.io/. Only the person that scores the game needs the iPhone ap, everybody who wants to monitor the game on a mobile web phone or computer, just signs up for an account and finds the team they want to follow.
Right now there are 40+ high school and little league teams in the Dallas-Fort Worth area using GameChanger.
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