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CAREGD for Sports

Me 1st Then Sports™

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The person
before the performance.

CAREGD brings Human Infrastructure™ into sports through Me 1st Then Sports™ — creating repeatable ways to check in with athletes, coaches and the people behind performance.

Athletes · Coaches · Sports Parents + Families

Bring CAREGD to your programSee how it works

People > Performance.

A volleyball player sitting alone on a gym bench before competition

Sport measures almost everything.

Speed. Strength.
Stats. Wins.
Then what about the person?

Sports environments are built to measure performance.

  • Minutes
  • Times
  • Scores
  • Reps
  • Rankings
  • Recovery
  • Results

What can be harder to see is what the person behind those numbers is carrying.

CAREGD adds a human layer.

  • Pressure
  • Connection
  • Hope
  • Support
  • Readiness

One CAREGD System

Check in. Connect.
Continue. Understand.

  1. 01

    Check In

    Create a meaningful moment for the athlete, coach or participant to pause and respond.

  2. 02

    Connect

    Help reflection lead to intentional human connection — with teammates, coaches, family or the people who matter.

  3. 03

    Continue

    Build repeat behavior so checking in does not disappear after one event, meeting or difficult moment.

  4. 04

    Understand

    Where appropriate, help organizations understand aggregate Human Signals and patterns across participating groups.

  • Check In
  • Connect
  • Continue
  • Understand

Same CAREGD System.
Built for the culture of sport.

How the CAREGD System works

For the athlete

You are more
than what you produce.

A CAREGD sports Check-In creates a brief space for the person behind the athlete to pause, notice what they are carrying and stay connected to the people around them.

  1. Pause

    Take a short Check-In.

  2. Notice

    Pay attention to what may be carrying weight.

  3. Connect

    Think about who you trust and who may need a check-in too.

  4. Continue

    Keep checking in beyond the first moment.

People > Performance.

A coach crouching beside a seated athlete at the edge of a practice court, listening closely as she talks

For the coach

Check in
before you correct.

Coaches are trained to notice performance.

CAREGD introduces another useful habit: notice the person too.

A brief check-in can create context before instruction, correction or assumptions about what someone is carrying into the room, practice or competition.

Check in before you correct™

C.A.R.E.™ gives coaches and sports communities a simple way to check in, ask again, listen and stay connected.

Coaches carry pressure too.

CAREGD can also create Check-In Experiences for coaches themselves — because Human Infrastructure™ should include the people responsible for leading everyone else.

For the program

See more than
the scoreboard.

Where appropriate, CAREGD can help athletic organizations understand aggregate Human Signal patterns across participating groups.

Human Insight Reports™ can help leaders better understand the human conditions surrounding a team, program or participating population without presenting private individual responses.

Our data principles
  • PressureAggregate pattern
  • ConnectionAggregate pattern
  • HopeAggregate pattern
  • SupportAggregate pattern
  • ReadinessAggregate pattern
Illustrative only. No individual responses are shown and no real data is represented.

Me 1st Then Sports™

One sports platform.
Different human doors.

Different athletes, coaches and communities may need different language.

The CAREGD System underneath remains consistent.

  1. 01

    Her Headspace First. Then Sports.™

    For girls and women in performance environments.

    Before the world tells her who she should be.

    Her Headspace First™ creates culturally relevant Check-In Experiences that help keep the person visible inside the pressure, expectations and identity of sport.

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    • A Me 1st Then Sports™ application.
  2. 02

    Coach, Are You Good?™

    Checking in on the people who carry the team.

    Coach, Are You Good?™ creates a simple cultural door for recognizing that coaches carry pressure, responsibility and life beyond the role too.

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  3. 03

    Sports Check-In Experiences

    Check-In Experiences for athletes, teams, coaches and sports communities.

    CAREGD can create Check-In moments for athletes, teams, departments, coaches and sports communities inside existing practices, meetings, events or activations.

    • team Check-Ins
    • athletic-department activations
    • student-athlete experiences
    • coach Check-Ins
    • event Check-Ins

Built for the environment

Sport isn't one culture.

Track athletes walking together through a stadium tunnel after practice
  • A Division I athletic department does not feel like a youth club.
  • Girls volleyball does not feel like men's basketball.
  • A coach's room does not feel like an athlete's locker room.

CAREGD should not force each environment into the same language.

The underlying system stays consistent.

The expression can fit the people participating.

Different sport.
Different culture.
Same CAREGD System.

Checking in does not have to be another thing added on. It can live inside the moments a program already has:

  • before practice
  • after practice
  • team meetings
  • coach meetings
  • travel
  • training camp
  • orientation
  • leadership development
  • athlete events
  • parent gatherings
  • department-wide initiatives

How to start

Start with a moment.
Build from there.

  1. 01

    Moment

    Add a brief CAREGD Check-In to something already happening.

    Examples

    • team meeting
    • coach meeting
    • athletic event
    • department gathering
    • parent meeting
  2. 02

    Activation

    Create a focused Check-In Experience for a specific population or sports community.

    May include

    • custom context
    • facilitated experience
    • digital participation
    • aggregate Human Signals
    • Human Insight Report™
  3. 03

    Ongoing

    Build repeat checking in over time.

    May include

    • recurring Check-Ins
    • follow-up behavior
    • reminders where appropriate
    • aggregate longitudinal insight where supported

Privacy + trust

The athlete is a person.
Not a data point.

  • CAREGD is not therapy.
  • CAREGD is not clinical care.
  • CAREGD is not a crisis hotline.
  • CAREGD is not athlete surveillance.
  • CAREGD does not replace coaches, athletic trainers, clinicians, counselors or existing care resources.

CAREGD is not designed to monitor private conversations. CAREGD organizational Human Insight is designed around appropriate aggregate patterns rather than presenting private individual responses.

Patterns, not people.

Our data principles

The bigger check-in behavior

Sports can help make checking in normal.

America Checks In™ is CAREGD's flagship national human-connection movement. The same simple behavior can travel into sports.

Explore America Checks In

Bring CAREGD to sports

Who is checking in
on the people
behind the performance?

Tell us about your athletes, coaches, program or sports community. We'll explore the right way to start.

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