August 16, 2006                                                                                        

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                        

Arapahoe Hockey Selects EasyTeamManager.com for 2006-2007 Season

Local Entrepreneur and Hockey Dad Takes Pain Out of Online Team Management

Lone Tree, CO – The Arapahoe Youth Hockey League today announced that it has selected EasyTeamManager.com as its online team management system for in-house and travel hockey teams.  According to Steve McGrath (BLu), AYHL’s Ice Supervisor, “Easy Team Manager was the best solution that we found in our review of the most popular online team management software tools.”

Coaches or team mangers can instantly get their teams enrolled by visiting http://hockey.EasyTeamManager.com.  Once the team is set up, parents, players and guests can begin using the many features on the site.  The system provides a structured and uncluttered interface for:

·         Rosters

·         Scheduling

·         Team Communications

·         Stats

·         Photos

·         Team Drafts (from season to season)

Why is EasyTeamManager Better than Other Online Services?  

Unlike other team management Websites, the Easy Team Manager site does not require any knowledge of programming or HTML.  We don’t even allow it!  Putting Web development into the hands of ordinary mortals often results in cluttered and difficult-to-use team sites.   EasyTeam guarantees that every aspect of team management is easier to accomplish on EasyTeamManager than on any other team management site you have tried.

EasyTeamManager screens have been battle-tested by parents, coaches and team managers with only basic computing skills.  Its calendar, stats and messaging tools are very simple to use and specific tasks don’t take long to complete.  For example, it takes less than 7 minutes to enter the statistics for an entire game and data entry is accomplished from a SINGLE screen. 

The most fun feature of the service is its robust photo gallery.  Individuals may post photos from their computers directly to the gallery, which automatically resizes them and catalogs them for later look up.  This enables visitors to select an individual player, for example, from a team menu and see all pictures of that player.  The gallery has an advanced viewing interface as well.

Easy Team Manager was created by Michael Kranitz, whose son Matthew has played in the Arapahoe organization since 1999.  Kranitz has been developing Web-based businesses since 1996 and is currently the President and CEO of Kaango.com, an online classified ad marketplace that also provides online classified ad software to newspapers and television stations throughout North America.