R1 gives organisations the first upstream signal for why athletes disengage – before they leave. Youth sport costs are up 46% since 2019. Boys’ participation has dropped 9 points in a decade. The dropout isn’t random. It’s measurable.
Your dropout numbers tell you what already happened. They never tell you what’s coming. What’s absent isn’t effort, it’s a signal. By the time a child appears in those numbers, the signal was there months earlier.
R1 gives every level of your organization visibility into something that has never been measured: whether your athletes are ready to sustain their sport. A read on what’s coming, not a report on what already happened.
The Aspen Institute’s Project Play Playbook has shaped participation strategy for hundreds of organisations across the country. It built the road. R1 is the infrastructure that keeps children on it – measuring the developmental conditions that determine whether a child stays. Pre-participation physicals were once optional, then standard. Readiness is the next layer.
See readiness patterns across your membership before dropout happens. Move from reactive to preventive.
Demonstrate to your board that you’re actively building sport with your athletes – not just measuring participation numbers.
When athletes are supported across Mind, Body, and Energy, they stay. Families investing $1,000+ a year who see their child growing, not just competing, renew. Readiness visibility is a retention strategy, not just a welfare one.
R1 reaches athletes through the organizations they already belong to. No new registration systems. No separate apps for clubs to manage.
One endorsement from a governing body reaches every club in their network. R1 scales through trust, not marketing.
Built to work for your athletes — and for your organization.
Organizations see the shape of readiness across their membership – proportional breakdowns, not individual athlete data.
What proportion of your athletes are in Rebuilding, Rising, and Ready states – across the whole organization.
Collective gaps across Mind, Body, and Energy. If a pattern emerges across your membership, you’ll see it before it becomes a trend.
Evidence for board reporting, grant applications, and strategic planning. Data that supports decisions, not just intuitions.
Readiness distribution across all athletes
Domain health: Mind, Body, Energy
Club-level patterns and trends
R1 is currently in pilot and preparing for the national study. Here’s the picture of what exists today and what we’re building toward.
First cohort of athletes using R1 with a live coaching team. The app, check-in system, and coaching prompt architecture are in production. In conversations with national governing bodies across multiple sports.
Up to 100,000 families across a variety of sports. Organizations that participate gain early access, contribute to the national dataset, and help validate the first readiness visibility standard.
The study produces the first longitudinal readiness data at national scale. Participating organizations receive aggregate insights for their membership throughout.
Three answers every governing body needs before presenting R1 internally.
The Ready Collective owns the aggregate dataset. Individual child data is private and controlled by parents at all times. Organizations see aggregate patterns only – never individual records.
The national dataset is published and made available to the research community. R1 transitions to a sustainable model at $50 per child per year, embedded in existing membership fees – no new line items for families.
Nothing during the two-year study – R1 is funded entirely by philanthropic gifts. Post-study pricing is $50 per child per year, designed to sit within existing registration and membership structures.
For a full picture of governance, data privacy, and study methodology – see the FAQ or start a conversation.
Nothing. During the national study, R1 seats are funded entirely by philanthropic gifts. Your organization and its families pay nothing.
Yes, always. R1 is opt-in at registration. Parents can withdraw their child at any time, and all individual data is deleted upon withdrawal.
Only the parent and the coach (with parent permission). Organizations see aggregate patterns only – never individual child data. R1 is architecturally designed to prevent use as a talent identification tool.
Individual data stays under parent control. The aggregate, de-identified dataset supports ongoing research. Participating organizations retain access to their aggregate insights.
The Children’s Bill of Rights in Sports – endorsed by 500+ organisations, athletes, and governments – defines the right to developmentally appropriate play as a standard for every child in sport.
Aspen Institute Project Play
It sets the standard. R1 is the measurement infrastructure that tells you whether your athletes are meeting it. The organisations that move first won’t just be ahead of the curve – they’ll have shaped it.
Every R1 partnership begins with a direct conversation with the founder. No forms, no sales process – just a conversation about what readiness visibility could mean for your organization.
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