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Wisconsin

Wisconsin athletic departments run schedules, forms, facilities, gate, and community rec through five vendors that don't talk. Bound runs all of it in one platform, with conference affiliation and co-ops tracked the way the WIAA actually assigns them.

Illinois

Illinois never had a statewide platform, which means nobody told you what to use — you picked what worked. The problem is you picked five times. Scheduling here, facilities on paper, registration in your SIS, a website someone else bills you for... Bound is the version where those decisions stop costing you duplicate work, built for the way Illinois conferences actually operate.

Illinois

Illinois never had a statewide platform, which means nobody told you what to use — you picked what worked. The problem is you picked five times. Scheduling here, facilities on paper, registration in your SIS, a website someone else bills you for... Bound is the version where those decisions stop costing you duplicate work, built for the way Illinois conferences actually operate.

    

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"We had a big filing cabinet up here with registrations and physicals and all that stuff. Now that's gone. Everything's digitized."

Jim 0'Brien
Joliet Catholic High School, Activities Director
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We know that in Illinois...

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Facility Management

Your scheduling tool has never heard of your gym.

Practices, games, community groups, and building use compete for the same spaces, and your scheduling platform has no idea any of it is happening. So the requests come by email, the conflicts get caught by whoever notices first, and the facilities office and the athletic office maintain two versions of the same week. Bound puts facility requests and approvals on the same calendar your events already sit on — districtwide, across every building.

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Activity Scheduling

The conference should schedule itself once.

Illinois runs on conferences, and right now every school in yours is entering the same contest separately, then reconciling when someone's version disagrees. Bound handles conference scheduling as one operation — a game entered once is correct for every school, coach, and family attached to it. Add non-conference dates and fine arts to the same calendar, and there's one place where Friday lives.

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School Sites & Calendar

You shouldn't have to pick one or the other.

Illinois departments end up in one of two places: a simple tool that publishes a clean schedule but can't run your operation, or a premium website that costs real money and doesn't know what your admin system is doing. Bound was built for both audiences on purpose. The school site and calendar are part of the platform, populated by the work you're already doing — no second update, no separate contract, no maintaining a website as a side job.

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Activity Registration

Registration is already somewhere. It's just not connected.

Plenty of Illinois schools handle registration in their student information system, and that works right up until eligibility, rosters, and fees need to reach the athletic side. Then it's re-entry. In Bound, a registered athlete is already a rostered athlete — eligibility status, contacts, and paperwork attached to the team, the schedule, and the coach who needs them. Nothing gets typed twice because two systems don't know each other.

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Activity Scheduling

One schedule, connected to every detail.

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Ticketing and Passes

Less work for you, more convenience for your fans.

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Activity Registration

Register, clear, and roster, all in one system.

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Facility Management

Take ownership of your space.

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Mobile App

Give your community one app for instant information.

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Concessions

Your comprehensive solution for selling, tracking, and reporting concessions.

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School Sites & Calendar

It's never been easier for your fans to find exactly what they're looking for.

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Officials Management

Assign, contract, and pay officials with one connected platform.

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Program Management

Create consistency across all sports and activities with software that works as hard as you do.

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Team Communication

Connect with your athletes, parents, and staff like never before.

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Camps

Solve camp management headaches with unified registration, financial reporting, and communication.

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Fundraising

Raise thousands for your program in 30 minutes or less.

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Fan Engagement

Give your community an ESPN-like experience without the extra work.

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Stores

Sell booster memberships, school gear, and manage it all like a pro.

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Sponsorship

Discover your athletic program's untapped revenue potential.

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The Stages of Your Bound Journey

The Stages of Your Bound Journey

Bound vs. the others

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Illinois AD of Influence:
D'Wayne Bates, CAA

Bound is proud to recognize D'Wayne Bates, CAA, director of athletics at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, as the Bound Athletic Director of Influence for Illinois.

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Calendar of Events

Bound's Conference Tools Training Series, Part 1: Build the Schedule Oct 6 Webinar

October 6, 2026

Bound's Conference Tools Training Series, Part 1: Build the Schedule

Virtual

This three-week series walks through the Bound tools built for conferences, one piece at a time. It's for ADs, assistant ADs, conference commissioners, and anyone who schedules, runs results or keeps stats for a conference.

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Bound's Conference Tools Training Series, Part 2: Beyond the Schedule Oct 13 Webinar

October 13, 2026

Bound's Conference Tools Training Series, Part 2: Beyond the Schedule

Virtual

This three-week series walks through the Bound tools built for conferences, one piece at a time. It's for ADs, assistant ADs, conference commissioners, and anyone who schedules, runs results or keeps stats for a conference.

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Inside the AD Playbook: 5 Things High-Performing North Carolina ADs Do Differently, with Brian Carver Oct 13 Webinar

October 13, 2026

Inside the AD Playbook: 5 Things High-Performing North Carolina ADs Do Differently, with Brian Carver

Virtual

Join Bound's Scott Garvis for a live conversation with Brian Carver, the NCADA's Athletic Director of the Year.

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Inside the AD Playbook: 5 Things High-Performing Illinois ADs Do Differently, with John Woods Oct 19 Webinar

October 19, 2026

Inside the AD Playbook: 5 Things High-Performing Illinois ADs Do Differently, with John Woods

Virtual

Join Bound's Scott Garvis for a live conversation with John Woods, 2026 NHSACA Athletic Director of the Year and Athletic Director at Libertyville High School, on rebuilding department culture from the ground up.

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Bound's Conference Tools Training Series, Part 3: Managing and Paying Officials Oct 20 Webinar

October 20, 2026

Bound's Conference Tools Training Series, Part 3: Managing and Paying Officials

Virtual

This three-week series walks through the Bound tools built for conferences, one piece at a time. It's for ADs, assistant ADs, conference commissioners, and anyone who schedules, runs results or keeps stats for a conference.

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WADA Annual Conference Nov 8 Conference

November 8, 2026

WADA Annual Conference

Wisconsin Dells, WI

Meet us at the Wisconsin Athletic Directors Association annual conference, Nov. 8-10!

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National Athletic Directors Conference (NADC) Dec 11 Conference

December 11, 2026

National Athletic Directors Conference (NADC)

Phoenix, AZ

The premier conference for the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS). Visit us at NADC Dec. 11-15 in Phoenix, Arizona.

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