WELCOME TO THE NEW HOME OF NORTHBRIDGE YOUTH LACROSSE
Welcome to the new home of Northbridge Youth Lacrosse
We were contacted by the Mass Bay Youth Lacrosse League at the end of the season that they were leaving the League Athletics platform and transitioning to a new partner in 2023. This new partner Demosphere, has over 30 years of experience providing web services and management for leagues of all sizes. While we were not required to switch over to the new platform, members of the board were invited to a webinar hosted by Demosphere in June. The ability to customize the content, control our registration process better and the ability to integrate payments for our families was a big selling point to make the change. Demosphere has been extremely helpful in this transition and has provided our website designer with help 24/7 when he has needed it. As far as our families are concerned there are three major changes that the board thinks will make everything much easier for all of us:
The ability to create a 'family account' is a huge benefit to the Demosphere website. We heard from many families that they were not getting our emails. We figured out that this was due to the fact we were sending out emails to families and it was only going to the person who registered the child with the league. With the new family account option we can add entire families to email chains so both parents (and anyone else you add to the family account) will get emails about the league or your child's team.
The league is now able to accept money for registration into other programs we offer online. In the past we could only accept Mass Bay and Founders leagues registration payments. With the old system, we had to accept payments for our winter clinic from parents in-person or via mail. Demosphere allows us to create a registration and payment collection for our winter league online.
For our boys teams parents, here is the best news, YOU DON'T HAVE TO REGISTER TWICE ANYMORE! With the integration of our website with the new MBYLL platform, you only have to register with the league from now on, no more going and getting a MBYLL registration number and coming back to our page.
With any new program, the site will grow and options will be added and changes will be made to better suit the league. If you find any errors (missing links, sent to the wrong page, wrong contact info) please reach out to Mike Haslam on the contacts page. Please provide him with as much info as possible so he can fix the problem.