Sports Program Press · the game-day program booklet · rosters, ads, and photos
Lay out and print the game-day program — rosters, schedules, and player photos, with the booster ads that pay for it, all correct by kickoff.
The program a family buys at the gate is a small publication with a hard deadline: the roster, the schedule, player photos, and the booster or sponsor ads that pay the print bill, all correct by kickoff. Sports Program Press is where it gets built. The roster and schedule pull from the team list instead of being re-typed, sponsor ads sell and place onto a patron page without emailing files back and forth, and a print check refuses a broken job before it ever reaches the printer.
Free to start; the booster club prices the program and keeps the proceeds. No card is charged on this page.
Rosters, schedules, and photos
The team roster and the season schedule pull straight onto the page, so a name or a game date is typed once and is right everywhere it appears in the book.
Sponsor and booster ads
Sponsor and booster ads sell and place onto a patron page without a back-and-forth of emailed artwork files. The ad-sales side of the book, built in.
A print check with a real deadline
A game-day program has one shot at going right: kickoff. The print check catches a broken job before it costs a reprint that cannot happen before Friday night.
What Sports Program Press is
It is a press for one small, deadline-driven publication: the printed game-day program, and nothing more grand than that. A program is four things stitched into one booklet -- the roster, the schedule, the player photos, and the booster or sponsor ads that pay the print bill -- and all four have to be correct by one fixed date: kickoff.
It is deliberately narrow. It does not keep the official student record, it does not run the athletic department’s scheduling system, and it is not a season-long fundraising platform. Its job starts when someone sits down to lay the book out and ends when the box of programs arrives at the gate. Because it is only the press, a coach, an athletic director, or a booster-club adviser can hand the book to a volunteer without handing over anything beyond the roster and the ads the program actually needs.
Honestly, where this page stops: it describes the roster-and-schedule layout, the sponsor-ad workflow, and the print check, because those are the pieces this program is built around. It stays narrow on purpose rather than padding itself out with a neighboring program’s features.
One roster and schedule, tied into every page
The team list a coach already keeps is what the program is built from. Player names, numbers, and positions pull onto the roster pages; the season schedule -- dates, opponents, home or away -- pulls onto the schedule page. A name fixed once in the roster is fixed everywhere it appears in the book, so a volunteer is not re-typing the same list into four different spreads and hoping the spellings agree.
The roster is the team’s, not the press’s. It reads the list the coach or the athletic office already maintains; it does not become a second, drifting copy that has to be reconciled by hand before the book goes to print. When a player is added or moves up, the roster changes in one place and the program follows.
Sponsor and booster ads that sell and place themselves
The ads are what pay for the book, and selling them is usually the most tedious part: an advertiser emails a logo, someone resizes it, someone else tries to remember which patron page it was supposed to land on. Here, a sponsor or booster ad sells and places directly onto its patron page -- no email thread of attachments to track down the week before the game.
A sponsor supplies its own artwork for the size it bought, and the ad drops into the layout on the page it is meant for. The booster club or the ad-sales volunteer can see, at a glance, which pages are sold, which are still open, and which ad is sitting where -- instead of piecing that together from a spreadsheet and a folder of logo files.
A print check that refuses a broken job before kickoff
A game-day program does not get a second Friday night. If the box arrives with a blurred photo, a caption trimmed off the edge, or a page missing the bleed the printer needs, there is no time left to fix it and reprint before the gate opens. So the press runs a print check before a job goes out the door.
The check is plain and it is strict. It flags a photo whose resolution is too low to print sharp at the size it is placed. It flags text or a face sitting inside the trim margin, where a print run could cut it off. It flags a page missing the bleed a printer needs at the edge. When a page has a problem, the print check does not shrug and send it anyway -- it refuses the job and points at the page and the problem, so the fix happens with days to spare, not after a box of unusable programs shows up on game day.
Player photos, handled honestly
A program is full of player photos, so the press is careful with them by construction. A player’s photo is placed in the program only when a permission on file allows it, it is never sold, and it is never fed to any outside AI service. Finding a player for the layout is a roster lookup, not a face scan -- the page matches a name and a number against the team list the coach already keeps.
Facial recognition is off by default. Where a school or a program does turn it on for a related picture-day feature, a face template is school-owned, has no outside recognition service connected, and sits under a limited window of about 365 days that marks it due for destruction; withdrawing the opt-in stops the matching. The step that destroys the stored template is not finished, and we would rather say so here than claim a deletion we cannot show -- not an absolute claim that no such data ever exists, but the narrower, honest guard. A minor’s photo placed in this program is not sold and is not handed to an outside company to mine; it is a page in a book a family bought at the gate, printed for the team it is about.
How the money works, honestly
The press is free to start: a coach, an athletic director, or a booster-club adviser can begin laying the program out, sell sponsor ads, and run the roster and schedule pages without a card on file. That is why the honest call to action here is to look at how the program comes together or talk to us -- not to check out. There is no live checkout and no charged card on this page.
The booster club prices the program and keeps the proceeds. That is the plain pricing model this press is built around: the booster club (not this page, and not a third party) sets what the program sells for at the gate and what a sponsor page costs, and the proceeds are the booster club’s. Describing that model here is a description of how pricing works, not a live transaction happening on this page.
Common questions
What does Sports Program Press actually build?
One booklet: the printed game-day program. The roster and schedule pull from the team list, sponsor and booster ads sell and place onto their own patron pages, and a print check catches a broken job before it reaches the printer.
Do we have to re-type our roster and schedule?
No. Both pull from the team list a coach or the athletic office already keeps, so a name or a game date is entered once and stays right on every page it appears on.
How do sponsor and booster ads work?
A sponsor supplies its own artwork for the size it bought, and the ad sells and places directly onto its patron page -- no email thread of attachments to chase down the week before the game.
What does the print check catch?
A photo too low-resolution to print sharp at its placed size, text or a face sitting inside the trim margin where a print run could cut it off, and a page missing the bleed a printer needs. It refuses the job and points at the page, so the fix happens with days to spare, not after a broken box arrives on game day.
Are player photos handled safely?
A player’s photo is placed only when a permission on file allows it, it is never sold, and it is never fed to any outside AI service. Finding a player is a roster lookup, not a face scan, and facial recognition is off by default.
How much does it cost, and who sets the price?
The press is free to start, with no card charged on this page. The booster club prices the printed program and the sponsor pages, and the booster club keeps the proceeds -- this page describes that model; it does not run a checkout.
What this page is and is not claiming
Sports Program Press lays out and prints the game-day program: a roster and schedule pulled from the team list, sponsor and booster ads that sell and place onto their own patron pages, and a print check that refuses a broken job before it reaches the printer. This page stays narrow on purpose and claims only what this one publication does. Money is honest-off: the press is free to start, the booster club prices the program and keeps the proceeds, and this page runs no checkout. Player photos are placed only with permission on file, are never sold, and are never fed to any outside AI service; finding a player is a roster lookup, not a face scan, and facial recognition stays off by default. This is a for-profit vendor, not a charity, so nothing here is dressed up as a gift to a nonprofit. There are no invented stats, quotes, or named schools on this page, and no competitor is named.