What’s new at FanWord
May 22, 2026
It’s Chris with FanWord, and it’s time for another edition of The Highlight Reel! 🎉
Many of you have asked to stay informed on what we’re doing here at FanWord. These emails are short in nature and designed to keep you in the loop on:
- ✅ Product updates
- 🤝 New partnerships
- 🚀 New features
- ℹ️ Other noteworthy info
With that said… let’s jump into edition number five! 🎬
And as always, if you have any questions or want to chat further, reach out through the contact form at the bottom of the page — I’d love to connect.
What is FanWord Assist?
If you need a quick refresher, FanWord Assist is the leading AI-powered storytelling platform in college sports. We help college sports communicators at more than 200 schools across every level of the industry reclaim 7-10 hours every week by streamlining workflows and making high-quality content both faster and easier to produce. (i.e. game recaps, weekly nominations, feature stories, player bios, transcriptions, news stories, online interviews, etc.)
🧠 College Sports Trivia Night — It’s Back at CSC!
Come flex your competitive muscles and win some awesome prizes at the FanWord College Sports Trivia Night in Vegas.
When: Sunday, June 7 • 7:30pm
Where: South Pacific CD in the Mandalay Bay Convention Center
*This event is only open to CSC members and space is limited.
🆕 Get to Know: Non-XML Player Bios
An industry first — player bios for sports without structured XML files.
You can use FanWord Assist to create season summaries for your athletes’ roster pages — now, for the first time ever, that includes sports that don’t use XML files as well. (i.e., Track & Field, Tennis, Golf, Wrestling, Gymnastics, etc.)
We have been relentlessly testing this to give you another time-saving feature that takes one more task off your plate — and it’s going to change the speed you write player bios at the end of the year.
📚 Case Study: Hamline University
Haley Jung is a first-year SID at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, and is tasked with solo coverage for 20 teams. Read more about how she saves 30 hours per month doing it with FanWord Assist.
🆕 Get to Know: Draft Modifications
Draft Modifications give you direct control over your Assist-created drafts, using plain-text prompting to adjust your written content to the perfect tone, story angle, or preference.
📚 Case Study: Kansas City Kansas Community College
Charlie Martin is a solo SID at KCKCC, a two-year program in NJCAA Region 6. Since adding FanWord Assist, he’s produced nearly 200 game recaps for seven sports and has created 20 feature stories.
🏆 In The News
- Santa Clara Athletics Partners with FanWord on Three-Year Deal to Advance Storytelling Through AI
- Lipscomb Athletics Signs Multi-Year Agreement with FanWord to Power AI-Driven Storytelling
- Hendrix College Athletics Partners with FanWord on Three-Year Agreement to Elevate Storytelling
🔜 Coming Soon…
A sneak peek at what we’re actively building.
- We’ll see you in Vegas — Click here to learn more about where we’ll be during CSC Unite 2026.
- New Feature: Summaries — We’re working on a solution to help you quickly create weekly summaries for upcoming and past games.
- New Feature: Forms — We’re building a time-saving form feature that gathers student-athlete information in one place and converts it into a usable format across our suite of features. One of the most popular use cases — incoming freshmen bios.
That’s it! 🎉
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