Physics teacher Nathan Dorsch uses the app in his AP physics class as well. We now have offices in 16 countries and I work with engineers in Lincoln, Omaha, Boston, London, and Sydney on a regular basis,” Wirtz said. Now that we have grown globally, I get to travel to some great places. I’ve gotten to meet some of the best coaches in the world and see some of the most amazing sports venues in the world. “I’ve definitely spent a lot more time with coaches and athletes after graduating college than I ever imagined. Wirtz now gets to spend a lot of time traveling to other countries to expand the app further. The app has grown with the number of teams, athletes, and coaches using the app. It’s a non-stop battle to keep innovating and serving our athletes and coaches better,” Wirtz said. “It took us a year to get something in the hands of Nebraska Football, about two more years to adapt the app to work for high school and small colleges, and we’ve been constantly tweaking and enhancing our apps for all nine years of the apps existence. As they watched players and coaches use the beta version, they learned a ton about what they got right and all the bad decisions they’d made, and started tweaking things. After a year of development, they launched a beta version to the Nebraska Cornhuskers Football Team in July of 2007. They just started building a prototype of the system, and reviewing it with the coaching staff at Nebraska. When they first started designing the app, Wirtz said that they were pretty naive. That is where he met the two guys who helped him create the app. Wirtz went to the University of Nebraska, where he was offered an academic scholarship. Over 50 different sports, 125,000 teams, and over 4 million users use the app to do all sorts of things with sports video,” Wirtz said.
HUDL APP SAYS IM NOT ON TEAM SOFTWARE
It was 2006 and early days for online video but as soon as we saw what they were trying to do with the DVD, we felt confident we could build software that let them share video through the web a lot more easily and track which athletes watched it, add voice overs and drawings to the video to make it more valuable, and tie the video into their playbook and deliver those through the same system. They were burning hundreds of DVDs a week and handing them out, and most players weren’t really watching them. “David Graff, one of my co-founders at Hudl, worked in Sports Information in the Nebraska Athletic Department and got to see first hand how inefficient a lot of things were for the football team in terms of getting opponent scouting video, their game video, and their practice video out to the team. South alumni John Wirtz got the idea for the app nine years ago from a friend. The newest app- Hudl Technique- lets anyone, whether you are on the team or not, record video, watch it in slow motion, draw on it, and learn from it. Athletes can also make highlight reels off the video to share with their family, friends, and recruiters. Hudl is a sports app that allows teams to record and upload their videos to a private place where they can share it with each other, cut out the most important clips, and add drawings and comments to help make the video a more powerful teaching tool. Many sports at Blue Springs South use the app Hudl, but not many know that a South alumni invented the app.
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