ONESporter, six years of sports, data and vision: "Visible performance comes from invisible work"
ONESporter turns six years old and does so with the knowledge that it has grown from the intuition of one coach to a platform used by thousands of athletes and coaches. Launched June 9, 2020, the app designed by Andrea Lazzaro was born in the world of alpine skiing, where performance management is often a patchwork of information scattered among notes, files, messages and personal memory. Lazzaro, a coach and sports manager, had identified a simple problem: there was a lack of a single place where planning, training, feedback and technical data could dialogue.
From that need came a project that over the years has broadened its scope, while maintaining a clear root in winter sports. “ONESporter was born from a dream,” Lazzaro says. “We often use that word because, in the end, that’s exactly how it all started: from my desire to improve a world that has always been part of me. At first it was a strong ambition and a leap into the unpredictable. Then, through continuous connection with coaches and athletes, the project took shape, became structured and built the right process. To them goes our sincerest thanks: with their feedback, their trust, and the value they have given to the platform, they have contributed in a fundamental way to what ONESporter has become today.”
Today ONESporter has about 6 thousand registered users, 2 thousand active coaches, 3 thousand athletes, and more than 12 thousand downloads, with a presence ranging from Italy to North America, via Japan. The platform has also been used by world-class athletes such as Mattia Casse and Lucia Dalmasso, as well as by clubs and teams involved in alpine skiing, snowboarding and other winter sports.
“Performance is not just the time scored, the final result or the ranking,” the creator of ONESporter further explains. “Performance is the visible manifestation of invisible work. It is built every day through preparation, continuity, communication, and the ability to integrate different areas of the athlete’s development.”
The new phase of development looks at an even more integrated ecosystem: manual data, wearables, discipline-specific metrics, physical testing, and advanced analytics will have to talk to each other in a single stream. The goal is to offer tools that will help coaches and athletes make more informed decisions, especially in disciplines such as alpine skiing, where video, GPS, workloads and the athlete’s feelings often live in separate environments.
“Of course, we can’t say we’ve arrived,” Lazzaro points out. “In a world that moves so fast, the work to be done is enormous. But with the head, heart and people who make up this team, the journey will continue to be an adventure. Future developments have a very clear vision, a lot of important new features for the platform and the ski/physical preparation-data system will be coming out soon.”
