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Every coach in your program, ready for practice.

Every team’s schedule loads from a calendar you already have. Coaches build practices from a ready-made library and your program’s own drills, run them live with a clock that keeps score, set game-day rotations, and talk in a coaches-only chat. Built by a youth basketball coach and program director.

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A half-court whiteboard play: the 1 passes to the wing and cuts to the basket, the 3 dribbles toward the top, and the 5 screens for the 4. 1 2 3 4 5 X1 X2
TodayThe team’s next practice with its plan ready

Works with your schedule

Keep the schedule you already publish

Paste the calendar link from TeamSnap, GameChanger, SportsEngine, LeagueApps, Google Calendar or any other calendar. Your practices and games show up with their real dates and gyms.

  • Checked before it’s savedThe app reads the link first and tells you what it found.
    Found 26 events: 18 practices, 8 games
  • No schedule to import?Skip it and plan without dates.
Link checkWhat the app found in the calendar link
The link check
PracticesReal dates and gyms from the schedule
Practices, on your real schedule

How a week works

Load it. Plan it. Run it.

  1. 1The week’s schedule

    1 Your schedule loads

    Every practice and game, from the calendar your program already keeps.

  2. 2A plan fit to the practice

    2 Build the plan

    Start from the library, a template or a shared weekly plan, and fit it to your practice length.

  3. 3The practice clock

    3 Run practice

    Follow the clock block by block, and take attendance.

Plan the week

A plan for every practice on the calendar

  • Tied to your scheduleEach plan sits on a real practice, so coaches open the right one at the gym.
  • Built from what you haveThe app’s library, your program’s drills, templates and shared weekly plans.
  • The real practice clockHuddle, break and conditioning blocks, and a time bar that shows how the minutes add up.
  • Fit to 90 minutes in one tapA longer plan shrinks to your practice length.
Loop 1Drills added from the library, then Fit to 90 min

A library that comes ready

The essentials a coach needs to teach

More than 40 drills, 50 concepts and 30 constraints and scoring formats, written for any program. Mostly competitive drills that work the whole player, plus the basics for younger grades. Drills lay the foundation. Players build the skill in live play.

  • Find the right drill fastFilter by focus, format (1v1 to 5v5) and level (Basic or Advanced).
  • Make it yoursYour program turns off what it doesn’t use and edits any item into its own version.
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LibraryFiltered to Defense and 3v3
Filtered to Defense, 3v3
Drill pageDiagram, teaching points and constraints
A drill’s diagram, teaching points and constraints

Your drills, drawn

From whiteboard to diagram in about 15 seconds

Describe a drill or snap a photo of your whiteboard and get a court diagram. Then finish it by hand, with edit tools to dial it in just the way you want.

Loop 2A whiteboard photo becomes a diagram, then a player gets dragged into place

Run practice

A clock that runs practice with you

  • One block at a timeA full-screen clock with the drill’s diagram, teaching points and constraints, and a chime (or whistle) before the next block.
  • Adjust as you goAdd or cut a minute, keep score in a drill (Team 1 vs Team 2), and open a shot clock for timed drills.
  • A record of what you ranPractice ends on time by itself. A coach fixes any minutes and signs off, and the record stays with the plan.
  • Plans that get more realisticAfter two practices, the app suggests how much time to leave between blocks.
  • Attendance and notesTake attendance and jot post-practice notes in the same place.
Loop 3The clock counting down, two taps on Keep score, then the shot clock

Run a practice in the demo. Real plans, the clock and scoring, no signup.

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Game day

Rotations made easy

Build rotations to a playing-time minimum or equal time. Swap any spot, and save it for the next game.

RotationA saved rotation’s five lineups

Your staff

Every coach on the same page

  • A coaches-only chatOne chat for the whole program, plus team chats and private messages.
  • Assistants suggest, the head coach decidesAssistants can suggest plan changes, and the head coach accepts or dismisses them.
ChatA coaches chat thread
The coaches chat
SuggestionAn assistant’s change with Accept and Dismiss
An assistant’s suggestion

For directors

Your program’s library, on every team

A library that stays when coaches leave, and weekly plans every team can pull onto its practices.

  • Bring your own libraryYour program’s drills, out of the binder and the Google Docs and into the palm of every coach’s hand.
  • Or start with oursNo library yet? Coaches start right away with the ready-made library and drills other programs share in Community.
  • Clear rolesHead coach, assistant, view only, and sees every team.
  • Your lookYour logo and colors across the app.
  • Set up with youWe load your teams, schedules and library together.
Program drillsThe program’s own drills in the library
Your program’s own drills
OrganizationLogo and colors preview
Your logo and colors

Coaching on your own?

Start with your own team

Bring your schedule link and use the app’s library, practice plans, the clock and rotations. Nothing needed from your program.

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TodayOne team, one coach

Privacy built in

Only what a coach needs

  • Player names onlyNo contact details, birthdates or schools.
  • Adult accounts onlyPlayers and parents never sign in.
  • Private chats stay privateOnly a program admin can review one, and every review is recorded.

Built by a coach

From a youth basketball coach and program director

I built this for the youth basketball program I oversee and for my own coaching. It started as a handbook from our high school coach that I was adapting for our coaches. I wanted something I could pull up easily while I prepped and again at practice, so I put it in an app.

I liked it so much that I decided to share it with everybody.

NickFounder, Next Shot

“Next shot’s your best shot.”
— Dad(Hated it at 12. I say it to my son now.)
In beta, by invite

Join the beta

Next Shot Coach is in beta and invite-only. Tell us about your program or team and we’ll set it up with you.

Founding programs

Founding programs use Next Shot Coach free for their first season, and we set up your teams, schedules and library. After that, founding programs keep a founding rate.

Coaches on their own

Free during the beta.

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Questions

FAQ

Do we have to change our schedule or registration system?

Keep it. Next Shot Coach connects to the calendar link your system already publishes (TeamSnap, GameChanger, SportsEngine, LeagueApps and most others), and registration, payments and parent messages stay there.

What phones does it work on?

Any iPhone or Android phone. Coaches add it to their home screen from the browser. Store apps are planned for early 2027.

Who sees our players’ information?

Coaches see their own team and your admins see every team. Rosters hold names and positions only, and players and parents don’t have accounts.

Can we use our own drills and weekly plans?

Yes. Start from the app’s library, turn off what you don’t use, edit any item into your own version, and add your own drills. Send us an existing library and we load it, diagrams included.

How do we get started?

Next Shot Coach is in beta and invite-only. Request an invite and we’ll set up your program with you: teams, schedules and library. Coaches then get an invite email, set a password and add the app to their phone in about five minutes.

Is the AI drawing accurate?

Generally, yes. It drafts a diagram in about 15 seconds. If it’s close but not perfect, you finish it on the whiteboard in a few taps.

Do I need my program to sign up?

No. Request an invite for just your team, with your own schedule link and the app’s library.

What does it cost?

Founding programs use Next Shot Coach free for their first season, and we set up your teams, schedules and library. After that, founding programs keep a founding rate. Coaches on their own use it free during the beta.

See it on your phone.

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