Breakthru - For Students 12+

Social media’s impact on sports has grown a lot in recent years as it becomes a more common aspect of people’s lives. Social media allows people to connect with others on a scale that was previously unknown. You can talk about games, watch and share highlights, have meaningful discussions with others, and all from the comfort and safety of your own home. The reason SportsHi is such a great app is that it allows players to connect with each other, their coaches, and provides them with various opportunities, and is dedicated to exclusively sports. Other, more popular social media apps can be helpful, but they’re all flooded with an abundance of other content as well. By creating an app exclusively for sports content, targeted towards student athletes, it gives these athletes a means of communication that is focused on their specific interests, and makes it easier to find relevant content. Not only is it an incredibly helpful form of social media for players, but it is also a useful tool for communication and organization for coaches by streamlining their job. In addition, the app is free, meaning that it is available to almost anyone with access to a phone, with no extra barrier of needing to pay. Overall, this app is an extremely effective and useful form of social media for student athletes and I’d highly recommend anyone interested in high school sports to download and try it out!

This app is great, it has everything a high school revolving college. It aids students in their scholarship search and putting their name out there for schools. The app has five main sections: home page, discover page, create, chat, and profile. The home page is a great spot for the SportsHi community as a whole, allowing every user to check out others posts, in a similar manner to Instagram. Next is the discovery page which is an area full of opportunities, both college and job related. Following that is the create section where users can make their own post, their post likely to pop up on the home page for others to see. This section is important because you can put yourself out their with the create option. Next is the chat section which plays into the app’s groups. The groups being any group you want, from a group related to your school or to a group you created. The app allows you to chat with these groups in the chat section. Lastly is the profile section which is really important for student athletes and people in groups. Your profile can tell someone everything about you from your school to your achievements. It tracks what you want it to track and you can private the information you don’t want public. All of these sections making for an overall amazing app thats the best of both worlds, academics and sports.

Since quarantine, communication has definitely taken a hit– especially in groups such as athletic teams. When I found this app, I was surprised. SportsHi does a great job at connecting high school student athletes, fans, coaches from across the nation. It’s such a healthy and friendly environment on the app. It allows students to post highlight videos, information about their schools, daily workouts and motivation, and much more. A feature that really caught my eye was the ability for athletes to contact college coaches. Having this opportunity is immensely beneficial to not only colleges seeking recruits, but also athletes who would like to pursue sports in college.
Aside from these features, SportsHi is also very easy to navigate. It allows users to filter between different athletic activities, see others post, browse top posts, and directly message others. Users can also post their player information, such as their school, sprot, position, height, and more in their profiles.
All in all, SportsHi is an incredible forum for student athletes. With its positive environment and ability to connect players, it does a great job of providing high school athletes a community and numerous opportunities, including scholarship opportunities. Now, more than ever, staying connected is important, and SportsHi does an excellent job of that.
I highly recommend student athletes to download it and incorporate it into their daily athletic activities!