Former MVC Founds Internet Startup

Josan Crawford made the dance team for the Arena Football League’s Minnesota Fighting Pike, while still a senior in high school. That was just the start of her professional cheerleading career that saw her dance for Minnesota Arctic Blast Professional Roller Hockey Team and perform as a member of the WNBA Minnesota Lynx Stunt Team.

Josan spent four seasons as a Minnesota Vikings Cheerleaders over a ten-year span, and this past NBA season was an assistant coach for the Timberwolves Dancers.

She may have finally hung up her poms, but Josan is still keeping busy. She’s mother of twin girls (Adrienne and Isabella). She’s also the owner and co-founder of Splayback.com, a start-up founded by Josan, her husband Wes, and Josan’s brother Billy Hengen, that went live a couple of months ago.

The idea behind Splayback.com was to simplify the process of looking up sports video highlights so that people didn’t have to sort through all of the clutter just to see a short video clip.

And when they say all sports they mean ALL SPORTS. Everything from traditionally popular sports like and football and basketball, to less mainstream sports like squash and badminton are featured. There are instructional and training videos, and even cheerleading and dance.

Splayback.com gives users the very best experience in not only finding and watching sports highlight video clips but it also allows amateur athletes and the parents of youths in all sports to upload their very own videos. And with privacy controls users can share the videos with as few or as many viewers as they like.

So far Josan says they’ve been most successful with high school sports. She’s gotten great feedback how Splayback.com boosts morale by allowing students to watch highlights of events they never got to attend.

Splayback.com has also developed unique partnership deals with high schools, allowing the schools to earn revenues from site advertising.

And it’s really important to Josan that users can be assured that all the videos family friendly. Before any video goes online, it’s screened by Splayback’s staff to ensure it’s appropriate.

Splayback.com has the ability to bring people together when they are miles apart. The goal was to create a safe place where people of all ages could go to watch, enjoy, interact and most importantly share this amazing thing that we all call sport. So no matter what kind, what age, or what level, if it is a sport…it has a home…. And that home is Splayback.com.

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