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Totaltearns.com tracks Kâ€"W athletes and their statistics Local talent the focus of new website ~eeping track of upâ€" B andâ€"coming athletes is getting easier with the help of a local internet and multimedia company and the sportsâ€"related webâ€" site they launched in May called Totalteams.com. The website, dedicated to compiling league statisâ€" tics, player statistics and improving communication between players and their coaches, was the brainâ€" child of Weâ€"Create Inc. The company, made of local computer technology grads from the University of Waterloo, Guelph and Ryerson University, was trying to create an Internet portal that would demonâ€" strate some of the abilities of its brain trust at work and thought creating a netâ€" work for the local sports community was a natural place to start. It was particularly a natâ€" ural evolution for the comâ€" pany‘s chief operating offiâ€" cer, Bill Waters (no relation he insists with the Toronto Maples assistant general manager of the same name), who has both played and coached minor sports locally. That includes coaching his son Mitchell‘s Waterloo Minor Baseball team, the Wolverines, and serving as a proud parent supporter of his daughter Jessica‘s Waterloo Minor Soccer club. "We had highly qualified guys building small sites," said Waters. "We needed to show the world what we could do. "I‘ve been coaching in local minor sports for the past seven years, and have been playing for a whole lot longer, and 1 recognized that there has always been a communication problem with local leagues." So that‘s where the idea of starting a website dediâ€" cated to local sports got its germination. ...alddoua‘uu-ybufifid ‘ em soas .feruuty .fpa:‘ SAMAKA DOLS & SPAS 490 Weber St. N., Waterloo Phone 884â€"5295 Fax 884â€"8641 INDEPENDENTLY OWNED AND OPERATED, BROKER Do i))( 11 ROYAL LEPAGE Do |) )10 1011 SCHARF REALTY 50 WESTMOUNT RD. N. WATERLOO 747â€"2040 By Bos VrRBANAC Chronicle Staff Members of the Weâ€"create Internet and Multimedia company have launched a web portal for local minor sports leagues and athletes called Totalteams.com. The idea was the brainchild of Bill Waters, pictured at the computer, with the rest of the Weâ€" Create team, from left to right, chief technology officer David Bean, Cameron Turner, Jeffrey Sambells and the company‘s CEO lason Panda. Waterloo Minor Soccer has also climbed on board and will have a full presâ€" ence on the site by next year. The site was officially launched May 6 and already features teams from the Waterloo Minor Baseball Association and the _ Kitchener _ Minor Baseball Association. An updating of the site in August also hopes to feaâ€" ture the two local minor hockey associations and other sports groups interâ€" ested in having an outlet where coaches can post messages to teams, and players can keep track of their season statistics. This is not your simple little website, featuring a team photo and some staâ€" tistics, said Waters. It is constantly updated For all your real estate needs call Royal LePage â€" Scharf Realty, Ted Scharf, Broker "Once leagues saw it they said, Wov§, we have to be involved," said the local minor sports : booster. eesere It has also become _ a (D[TJEJD motivational F tool with Wl L emerging RMLLETE players able to track their lliiis im prove â€" ment, while giving coaches selected access to players to offer tips and encouragement. It has brought the local sports community to one stop location and allows for communication that would have been restricted and even allows kids to trade electronic playing cards of themselves and their most recent statistics. SPORTS "The Name Friends to the sidelines or through followâ€"up phone calls. _ "We were asked by sports teams if we could develop a simple little webâ€" site," said Waters. "That doesn‘t cut _ it anymore. "That costs too much for nonâ€"profit organizaâ€" tions so I came up with this idea for a site for all leagues. "It gives them the opportunity to create their couldn‘t afford. "We had to put in the database, the _ manâ€" agem en t and the communiâ€" cation a team or a league realâ€" ly needs but own web page, create their own presence and create their communication between _ players _ and coaches." Totalteams.com _ will allow them to follow the players upâ€"toâ€"date statisâ€" tics, allow for communicaâ€" tion and will also tell scouts what venue the players will be performing at next. Waters is also trying to partner with sports teams like the Toronto Blue Jays and the Kitchener Rangers A central portal has also sparked interest in the scouting community trying to track prospects through the local minor sports sysâ€" tem. "It gives rep teams and rep players the opportunity to showcase their stats," said Waters. [The Uiscuvery NeveT Ends _ 53 9 6; Sun |1â€"6 181 King St. S., Waterloo For more information about the site and how to find your favourite teams, or sponsor a page or a league, contact info@totalâ€" team.com or info@weâ€"creâ€" ate.ca., or . visit â€" weâ€" create.com ot Totalteams.com. to build interest in both the site and in the organizaâ€" tion. The Waterloo Senior Tigers baseball club is already on board and allows kids to collect elecâ€" tronic player cards online through the site. "But we know that a lot of coaches, parent and grandparents will also be interested in the site so that‘s why we built it as simply as we could, and we‘ll continue to make modifications to make it even easier." The kids could also folâ€" low the exploits of their favourite players, tracking their stats while circling future games they want to attend. "It gives the kids the ability to trade eâ€"cards, and creates more interest," said Waters. "And we‘ll be adding more fun stuff as we go along." ~ Since the website was launched in May it has already had 98,422 hits, and most of that has been by word of mouth. The cost of the site is picked up through a state of ‘the art promotional campaign that allows locat advertisers to target selectâ€" ed audiences, like boys under 14 who log on first thing in the morning. _ "These kids had a Nintendo control in their hand when they came out of the womb so are familiar with this technology. An expanded pitch to interest the Blue Jays and the Rangers is being frontâ€" ed by intern Geoff Cheek, who â€" pitches for the Tabbies. "By and large it is the kids that are driving this," said Waters. 7 DAYS A WEEK Monâ€"Fn 10â€"8; BEER STORE