Stream high school sports without an NFHS Network contract.
Friday-night football, midweek basketball, weekend lacrosse, all on your own YouTube channel and the school website. Multi-camera in the browser (sideline + endzone + scorer’s-table), live scoreboard overlay, parents watching in HD from the bleachers. Per-event pricing fits your athletics budget; no annual contract, no revenue share.
Built for the sports workflow
Per-event pricing fits your athletics budget
No annual platform contract. No NFHS Network revenue share. Pay for the inputs and outputs you used at this game, this season. Nothing else.
Multi-camera in the browser
Sideline cam, endzone cam, scorer’s-table cam, all into one studio from one operator. The AV teacher and two student volunteers can run a varsity game.
Live scoreboard overlay
Pull score + clock + period from a connected URL (Hudl, scoreboard JSON, Google Sheet) and layer it on the broadcast. No NewTek + Scoreboard separate-machine stack.
Own the audience + the recording
Stream to your school’s YouTube channel and the athletics-site embed. The recording lives in your archive. You keep the views, the rewatches, and the highlight clips for college recruiters.
Why athletic departments pick TRaX
NFHS Network is a multi-thousand-dollar annual contract and takes a cut of any ad revenue. Local hardware encoders are 5-figure capital purchases that age out. TRaX is browser-based, per-event-priced, and keeps the audience + the recordings on your channel. The athletic budget keeps the views, the booster club keeps the clips.
- Per-event pricing means a small-school AD can stream JV without a contract negotiation
- Live scoreboard overlay turns a fan-cam into a broadcast
- Recordings stay on your YouTube / archive: you keep the highlight rights
What a Friday-night game runs at
Sport is fast, wide and usually outdoors on a connection nobody chose. Every setting here assumes all three.
- Program canvas
- 1080p60
- A ball crossing frame at 30 frames per second judders in a way parents notice and mention. The 60-class rung costs 9 Mbps against 6, and for field sport that is the one increase worth paying for.
- Camera in
- SRT from the press box or the sideline
- Because SRT recovers lost packets rather than dropping them, a stadium circuit or a bonded modem becomes genuinely usable for live sport instead of merely theoretically possible.
- Buffer control
- Receiver latency raised for a poor route
- Latency and reorder tolerance are per-stream values you can raise while the game is running, so a second-half weather problem is something you adjust through rather than something that ends the night.
- Scoreboard
- An overlay composed into the program
- Keeping the score in the program rather than in a platform feature means it appears identically on the school website and on the public channel.
- Rights and revenue
- Your channel, your archive, your ad revenue
- Streaming to a channel the school controls keeps the recording, the audience relationship and any advertising against it with the school instead of with a network that aggregates all three.
Programs run at 1080p as standard, and up to 1440p when every destination you have enabled can accept it — the canvas is clamped to the least capable one in the set.
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How a Friday-night game runs on TRaX
- 1
Pre-game studio set
Two cameras + scoreboard overlay + intro graphic. Built once for the season, reused every game.
- 2
Operator from the press box
The AV teacher (or student staff) opens the studio on a laptop in the press box.
- 3
Multi-cam through the game
Switch between sideline and endzone cams as the play moves. Scoreboard overlay updates from the connected scorer’s URL.
- 4
Auto-archive
YouTube archives the public stream. School athletics site embeds the same URL. Recording downloads to the highlight-clip folder.
What a school athletics programme should plan around
The first item decides your whole evening, and no amount of software changes it.
1080p60 needs about 9 Mbps of real, sustained upload
That is the honest price of smooth sport, and stadium wifi shared with two thousand phones will not supply it. Budget for a wired drop to the press box or a bonded cellular encoder. An uplink that is not there cannot be compensated for anywhere else in the chain.
You can lower bitrate mid-game; you cannot lower cadence
Frame rate is fixed when the stream starts. If the connection degrades in the third quarter the tools available are bitrate and a deeper receive buffer, not a drop from 60 frames to 30. Choose 60 only when you are confident the circuit holds it for two hours.
November is a production problem, not a platform one
Outdoor sport in bad weather is a camera, cable, battery and operator problem long before it is a streaming problem. The parts of this that run in a datacentre will be fine; the parts that fail on a wet Friday are generally the ones standing in the rain, so plan covers, spare power and a warm operator.