The app for youth volleyball and mini volleyball coaches

It depends what you need: for scouting and stats there’s specialist software; for organising the week, meaning halls, team selections and parents, simplicity matters. Ugo lives on WhatsApp and works with your calendar and sheets: you organise everything with a message, and families don’t need to install anything.

It’s the way younger children are introduced to volleyball: small courts, small teams such as 2v2, 3v3 or 4v4, a lower net and simplified rules, with formats that progress as players develop. Up-to-date programmes and rules are on Volleyball England’s website and those of the regional associations.

Keep a record of sets played and check it before each selection: it’s the simplest way to share out court time without relying on memory. Explain your approach to families at the start of the season. Ugo updates the record from a voice note after every game and tells you who has played least, so you rotate selections fairly.

Set out the programme, times, staff and helpers, parental consents and kit list well in advance, and put it all in writing in one document. With Ugo you work out travel times, create the document from a template on Drive and send families the summary from your WhatsApp Business, after you confirm.

If they arrive by email, yes: Ugo finds the email, sums up your team’s dates and halls and creates the events in your calendar. If they’re published on a web page, it can read it with Company websites. It doesn’t, however, log into governing body systems with the club’s credentials.

€50 a month or €550 a year, excl. VAT, per person, with every skill included. The price is the same for professionals and volunteers. If several coaches at the club use it, you create a single team, where Maps and Company websites are shared.