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Background checks
Check and clear coaches without the hassle
Run clear, defensible background checks for your coaches and volunteers and seamlessly track their progress.
Trusted by 500+ programs around the country
One platform built to help you keep kids safe and organizations protected
Ankored provides a comprehensive solution that helps you automate youth sports compliance by cutting out the sprawl of papers, spreadsheets, and email threads.
Requirements library
Assign, track, and monitor requirements
Leverage our purpose-built library to assign what you need from coaches, parents, and players to run your season.
Age verification
Easily verify players and promote fair play
Stop chasing paperwork by automatically verifying players ages and collecting health forms and waivers.
Training and certifications
Keep coaches certified and informed
Access SafeSport, abuse-prevention training, concussion awareness, and more to get cleared and keep kids safe.
Built for every kind of sports organization
From a single club to a national governing body, Ankored keeps every coach, volunteer, and staff member cleared to work with kids.
Families notice when a club takes safety seriously
Ankored handles the background checks and training requirements without your operators having to chase down papers and email chains. That's efficiency for you and peace of mind for parents knowing coaches and volunteers have been properly vetted.
Real-time compliance for your parks programs
Ankored eliminates the spreadsheets and email threads you're manually updating. Local and state requirements are aggregated, tracked, and monitored across every civic facility, program, and season.
Build a culture of safety in your community
Ankored gives your volunteers a quick way to finish background checks, training, and waivers from wherever they are, so paperwork isn’t the reason they don’t come back. You get one place to keep it all, with reminders before anything expires.
Helping programs around the country build a culture of safety
By automating the day-to-day of compliance, Ankored ensures teams spend less time chasing paper and more time on what matters.
Seth Gaines
Executive Director, City of Oxford Park Commission (MI)
Ankored is the single most important software investment I’ve made in my 23-year career. With hundreds of people in the system, everything is managed in just a few clicks, no more searching through spreadsheets or paper files.
Ankored is a great software and I am looking forward to working with your company in the future.
Shannon Loso
Director of Recreation and Community Education, Huron Valley School District
Read their storyAnkored has truly transformed how we manage our coaching education program and compliance tracking. The system's user-friendly design and exceptional support from Ankored’s staff have made a significant difference.
Jace Robinson
Senior Marketing Director, Elkhorn Athletic Association
Watch the videoAnkored is a really big part of our families knowing that competing at EAA is safe for their kids, and that's very important to us.
All of our health inspections and everything that we had went probably the best they've ever gone.
Read their storyWith Ankored, background checks were seamlessly integrated with our registration system, processing automatically and reducing the risk of errors.
Ankored has been awesome! It's simplified a few things for us, and most coaches have bought in.
Courtney John
Community Recreation Director, St. Paul Parks & Recreation
Read their storyWe used to manage everything on paper. Now, everything we need is automated and in one place, it’s been a game changer. Ankored checked all the boxes, it’s streamlined, simple, and saves us time while protecting our coaches’ privacy.
The digital trail vs. the paper trail to ensure volunteer coach compliance is pivotal for cities operating many programs with many volunteers.
Kevin Barney
Executive Director, Massachusetts Youth Lacrosse
Read their storyBy partnering with Ankored, we’re providing our local programs with a modern, user-friendly platform that simplifies compliance while strengthening confidence among parents, coaches, and communities.
Man, it's such an easy tool to use. The software is so easy, user-friendly. Just being able to put the email of the volunteer coach, and [Ankored] does all the rest of the work.
Read their storyPartnering with Ankored can ease your compliance needs and make everything automated and streamlined.
One connected ecosystem that simplifies everything
No more jumping between registration, training, and background check systems. Ankored connects to your existing sport management tools, centralizing coach and player data for a unified view.
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Registration & Team Management Data
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RSO Databases
Sex offender screening
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Training & Education
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Background Checks
Screening & clearance
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- Volunteers
Verified source of truth
