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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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Brian Petersen
Former AD & IL Solutions Specialist
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Brian Petersen
Former AD & IL Solutions Specialist
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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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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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