Gametime Hero

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How did Gametime Hero start? With two coaches, a new city, and one simple question: how do you find your people?

Our co-founder, Brittany Bell, joined the Dawn of Sports podcast to tell the whole story. If the show is new to you, it's a weekly podcast hosted by Dawn Mitchell, a four-time Emmy-winning Fox 9 sports anchor and former Minnesota Broadcaster of the Year, alongside veteran columnist Jim Souhan. Being a Minnesota-rooted team, sharing our story with them meant a lot.

How we went from organizing pickup games to building one place for organizers to run registrations, payments, scheduling, and communication without the chaos.

Take a listen: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3fVG9QNVPphZWKq4pV4TUR

As the 2026 World Cup gets closer, LGBTQ+ advocates are launching Pride Houses across every host city.

The spaces are intended to give LGBTQ+ fans, athletes, and allies safe, welcoming places to gather during the tournament. With matches taking place across 16 host cities in North America, the initiative will create dedicated community spaces outside of the stadiums and official match venues.

Beyond serving as fan hubs, Pride Houses are expected to host community programming, local partnerships, and resources connected to LGBTQ+ inclusion in sports. The goal is to make sure the tournament experience extends beyond the matches themselves, giving supporters a place to connect, access information, and take part in events built specifically around visibility and belonging.

57% of adults are lonely. Community changes that.

Adult communities give people something most adults slowly lose: a reason to show up somewhere regularly, with the same people, for something that feels bigger than another calendar invite.

That does not happen because a game or event exists.

It happens because someone organizes it.

Someone builds the league, opens registration, handles the schedule, manages the teams, sends the updates, collects payments, deals with the changes, and keeps the whole thing moving.

That work turns interest into attendance.

Attendance into routine.

Routine into familiarity.

Familiarity into community.

Gametime Hero is built for the organizers making that happen.

57% of adults are lonely. Community changes that.

Adult sports give people something most adults slowly lose: a reason to show up somewhere regularly, with the same people, for something that feels bigger than another calendar invite.

That does not happen because a game exists.

It happens because someone organizes it.

Someone builds the league, opens registration, handles the schedule, manages the teams, sends the updates, collects payments, deals with the changes, and keeps the whole thing moving.

That work turns interest into attendance.

Attendance into routine.

Routine into familiarity.

Familiarity into community.

Gametime Hero is built for the organizers making that happen.

Most pro sports teams answer to an ownership group.

Minnesota Aurora FC answers to 5,337 fans, many of them sitting in the stands every week.

In 2021, a group of Twin Cities locals had a bold idea: what if a women’s soccer team was owned by the fans?

That idea became Minnesota Aurora FC.

They raised $1 million through equity crowdfunding from 3,080 community owners at $50 a share. Those owners helped shape the club from day one, voting on the name, crest, colors, and identity.

Four years later, Aurora has:

- 5,337 owners across 19 countries
- 4 straight Heartland Division titles from 2022 to 2025
- Undefeated regular-season runs
- 5,000+ fans per game on average at TCO Stadium, more than some NWSL clubs

What would your team look like if the fans owned it?

Only 1 in 5 U.S. adult women meets recommended weekly physical activity guidelines.

We talk a lot about getting girls into sports. We talk a lot about pro leagues finally getting their flowers. But there’s a huge group in between that gets overlooked: adult women, ages 18 to 81, who still want sport in their lives but don’t always know where to find it.

Play Gap is a Cleveland nonprofit built for that gap.

They don’t run leagues. They vet and connect existing ones, looking at accessibility, inclusion, and culture so women know what they’re walking into.

And so far they have made quite the impact…

40+ partner orgs. Nearly 5,000 women reached. 7,000+ volunteer hours. Still 100% volunteer-run.

⚽️🏀 Follow . And If you know a woman who’s been quietly missing the team she used to play on, send this her way.