DrillStreak

What DrillStreak does

DrillStreak helps young athletes get better between practices. Players follow guided drills, build daily streaks and log their games. Parents see the growth from the work their kids put in, and coaches can assign drills to a team.

Record the game, tag it, and the moments to work on become drills on the player's list. It works for nine sports in one family account: basketball, baseball, softball, volleyball, soccer, football, track, golf and tennis. Game video stays on the phone.

A companion app, DrillStreak IQ, covers the mental side of the game and is rolling out now.

Jay Watkins

Jay Watkins is a Utah dad and coach who played college basketball at the Division I level. He started 23 of 30 games as a freshman at the University of San Francisco and was named to the All-West Coast Conference freshman team. He ended up transferring to the College of Southern Idaho, a junior college in Twin Falls. After redshirting a year, he finished third in the conference in scoring and fifth in rebounding and earned all-conference honors. That led him to sign with Utah.

Things did not go the way he planned. At Utah he missed games with a hip stress fracture, lost his stepfather, John Smith, to a brain aneurysm during his first season, and then degenerative disc disease in his back ended his senior season in 2010-11 after 13 games. He stayed on as team captain and was the only senior honored on Senior Night.

What he took from it is what he tells his team every day: some things happen the way they happen, and that is just life. How you respond makes the difference. Accept where you are now, grow from there, and you can still live a full and fulfilling life no matter what happens.

Then. Now.

A 45-second spot that sets old photos and clips of Jay’s own kids beside who they are now, cut to an original beat Jay made himself. Free to embed or share with credit to DrillStreak.