University of Oklahoma and Texas Tech University Athletics Streamline Internal Operations through TeamworksLeading Athletic Communication Software Provides Competitive Edge in Connecting Players, Coaches and StaffDURHAM, NC – – Teamworks, the industry leader of mobile collaboration and communication software for athletic organizations, is pleased to announce the athletic departments at the University of Oklahoma and Texas Tech University are the latest Autonomous Conference members to adopt the platform across all sports. As the athletic departments’ Collaboration Software Provider, Teamworks will streamline communication for coaches, athletic trainers, advisors and administrators while centralizing player and staff information. With the addition of the Sooners and Red Raiders, Teamworks now modernizes the internal operations of six Big 12 Conference athletic departments as well as many other prestigious programs in the Southeastern, Pacific-12, Big Ten and Atlantic Coast Conferences.“Our department has taken steps in helping our student-athletes in the area of time management and Teamworks is a tool that will help us perform even better in that area,” said Joe Castiglione, Oklahoma Vice President and Director of Athletics. “With Teamworks, our department can enhance our communication and help student-athletes better balance their efforts both academically and competitively.”Delivering athletic organizations many timesaving management solutions, Teamworks’ tools will allow coaches and staff to spend more time developing student-athletes by eliminating inefficiencies and promoting uniformity across the department. Teamworks will revamp communication methods, ease file sharing, and reduce paper-driven processes through the convenience of mobile devices, resulting in time and hard good savings.“The student-athlete experience at Texas Tech is a top priority. As such, we are pleased to implement Teamworks across all sports to assist with time management, as our Fearless Champions balance both their academic and athletic commitments,” said Jennifer Brashear, Senior Associate AD at Texas Tech. “Adopting Teamworks was an easy choice, as it is designed to help streamline communication across units in addition to providing a calendar for each student-athlete and sport, which will assist us as we implement new NCAA time balance guidelines.”At the forefront of innovation in athletics, Teamworks offers an unparalleled depth and breadth of functionalities to more than 1,000 athletic-related entities around the world including some of the biggest names in sports. As today’s sports organizations and athletic departments become increasingly more complex, Teamworks’ offerings promote a seamless internal operation for those managing untold moving parts over the course of a season or academic year. In collegiate athletics, Teamworks streamlines information sharing for nearly 900 NCAA Division I teams. In the Big 12, other athletic programs adopting the platform department-wide include Iowa State, Kansas State, Texas, and Baylor. In other Power 5 Conferences, Teamworks’ department-wide relationships include Southern California, UCLA, Alabama, Florida, Florida State, Vanderbilt, Duke, Purdue, Virginia, Colorado, Texas A&M, Georgia and Ole Miss. Other major collegiate partners include the NCAA, which has used Teamworks to enhance its March Madness and other Championship tournaments’ experience for all staff, participating teams, officials and game-site representatives; the ACC; the Big Ten; and the Mountain West Conference.“We live in a mobile-first world; athletic departments that do not pivot or make investments in mobile technologies to modernize infrastructure waste time and resources that could be spent improving the experience of student-athletes,” said Zach Maurides, Teamworks CEO. “Teamworks offers the most reliable and consistent way for all sports within an athletic department to operate and remain in sync. We are pleased to be the proven solution for championship level programs, particularly with so many new shifts and regulations administrators and coaches need to be mindful of today.”Teamworks’ footprint continues to expand across professional sports as well. The National Football League Players Association uses Teamworks to communicate and share information with every active National Football League player. The platform is deployed by franchises in the NFL, Major League Baseball and National Hockey League. The entire United Soccer League and Major League Lacrosse organizations also utilize Teamworks. Beyond the traditional team or league environment, Teamworks is used by many other athletic-related entities including adidas and Under Armour.For more information about Teamworks, please visit teamworksstage.wpengine.com.About TeamworksTeamworks is the leading provider of mobile collaboration software for athletic organizations based in Durham, NC. Founded in 2004, Teamworks has helped athletic teams, departments, and organizations across the country improve the way they share information and communicate. More than 1,000 clients utilize Teamworks’ products including nearly 800 NCAA Division I programs; more than 85 Football Bowl Subdivision programs at over 85% of the Autonomous Conferences institutions; NCAA Division I athletic institutions including Southern California, Alabama, Texas, Duke, Florida, Purdue, Vanderbilt, Marquette, Virginia, Baylor, Texas A&M and Ole Miss department-wide; the Big Ten Conference, the Mountain West Conference, and the NCAA; the NFLPA; Major League Lacrosse; United Soccer League; USA Baseball; the San Francisco 49ers, Arizona Cardinals, Detroit Lions, Washington Nationals, and San Francisco Giants. For more information about Teamworks, please visit teamworksstage.wpengine.com.