More sports. More bios off the to-do list. More time for other things.

May 13, 2026

The year ends. Student-athletes all across the country head home.

And somewhere on your to-do list, waiting patiently — or maybe not so patiently — are rosters full of player bio pages that need to be updated.

It’s time-consuming and often exhausting work. But student-athletes, their families, and your community care about seeing accurate information on the school’s roster pages. It’s a standard part of the job, and most communicators treat it that way — chipping away at it in the weeks after the season wraps, working through each athlete one by one.

The process has mostly been the same: pull the stats from a player’s results, decide what’s relevant or noteworthy, format it to match your school’s style — paragraph, fragments, bullet points — and add it to the bio page. Then repeat. For every athlete. Across every sport. At programs with hundreds of student-athletes, it’s a significant time investment measured in hours, not minutes.

FanWord Assist already automated that process for XML sports, saving college sports communicators hours in player bio creation. Now, the team at FanWord is at it again.

Introducing: Player Bios for Non-XML Sports. Live inside FanWord Assist.

Another industry first from the leader in AI-powered solutions for athletic communication teams.

What’s New

This update extends player bio generation to sports without structured player-level stat files — a category that covers a wide range of programs and a significant chunk of most departments’ rosters:

• Track & Field
• Cross Country
• Gymnastics
• Wrestling
• Golf
• Swimming & Diving

FanWord Assist takes the non-uniform, non-XML data from these sports and does the parsing for you — identifying what’s relevant, building the narrative, and delivering a clean draft in the format your school uses.

We’ve also added tennis and beach volleyball to the list of supported sports for player bios. While technically XML/XTG files, these sports without player-level data took a little longer, but they are now live as well.

How It Works

The best part: the workflow is the same as it is for XML player bios.

Upload your roster and game files, select your preferred format — bullet points, paragraph, or fragments — and generate. FanWord Assist returns an editable bio for each athlete, so you can choose to exercise your editorial judgment, or if you’re ready to post, simply export the bios and seamlessly add them to your roster pages.

No new process to learn. The same platform, now covering your full list of sports.

What You Do With the Time

When bio updates for an entire program used to take days, and now they take a fraction of that, the question becomes: what do you do with what’s left?

For some communicators, that’s finally getting to the summer projects that always get pushed — updating record books, getting a head start on next season’s content, building out features that never made it off the whiteboard during the year.

For others, it might just mean logging off earlier. Spending more time with family. Letting the end of the season actually feel like the end of the season.

Our goal at FanWord has always been to give college sports communicators time back in their day. We’re excited to add another industry-first feature that helps you do exactly that.

Available Inside FanWord Assist

Player Bios for non-XML sports is live now.

If you’re not yet a partner and want to see it in action, but can’t make the webinar, use the contact form below to get in touch.

Player bios are just the beginning. See what FanWord can do for your communications team: 
➡️ Request a demo using the contact form below
➡️ Reach out to our CEO directly to talk through your team’s workflow
➡️ See how Tulsa saves 5 hours per person per week for their team with FanWord Assist