About us

One search box for college rosters

Spengine indexes the official rosters of college athletic departments and makes them searchable in one place. Type a school, a name, or a sport — and go straight to the athlete on their school's own page.

Our story

Built to answer one question

Every Division I athletic department publishes its rosters, and almost none of them are searchable together. Finding one athlete meant already knowing which of two hundred–odd school sites to open, then finding the right sport, then the right season.

Spengine is the index that sits in front of all of them. It reads the same pages a fan would, keeps them current, and hands the visitor straight back to the school. That's the entire product — there is no profile to claim, no account to make, and nothing behind a paywall.

Our mission

Make every publicly published college roster findable by anyone — recruiters, reporters, families, and fans — without making them learn where it lives.

What we don't do

We don't host athlete profiles, sell personal data, publish anything a school hasn't already made public, or claim to be the authority on an athlete. The school is, and every result says so by linking there.

How it works

Rosters from the source

Each school's roster is read from its own athletics site and refreshed twice a year, before the fall and spring semesters. Nothing is entered by hand, and nothing arrives from a third-party database.

See the schools we cover

Spengine in numbers

  • 100,000+Athletes searchable today
  • 227Division I schools indexed
  • 18Conferences covered

Division I today. We're working through the rest of it, and Division II and Division III come after that — if a school isn't here yet, it's coming.

What you can search

Three ways to find an athlete

That's the whole product. Nothing else to learn.

01

By school

Search a school by its full name, its nickname, or its mascot — “University of Florida”, “UF”, and “Gators” all land in the same place.

02

By name

Search an athlete directly. Spelling doesn't have to be perfect, and adding a school or sport narrows a common name down to the right person.

03

By sport

Pull up a full team — “Florida football”, “Duke women's basketball” — or browse a school's sports from its roster page.

  • ufnickname
  • gatorsmascot
  • flordaa typo
Resolves to
University of FloridaGators · SEC
A nickname, a mascot, and a misspelling. Spengine resolves all three to the same school — you don't have to know how a school writes its own name to find someone on its roster.
The data

Where every result comes from

What we index, and what we deliberately don't.

Official rosters only

Every athlete comes from a school's own athletics site — the roster the athletic department publishes. No aggregators, no scraped social media, no crowd-sourced entries.

Forgiving search

Typos, nicknames, abbreviations, and voice-to-text noise all resolve to the same place, so you don't have to know a school's formal name to find someone on its roster.

Links straight to the school

Results open the athlete's page on their school's site. Spengine is a way to find people, not a place that hosts their profile — the school stays the authority on its own athletes.

Publicly available information

We index only what a school already publishes publicly — name, sport, class year, position, hometown. Nothing private, and nothing an athlete hasn't already had posted about them.

floridagators.com › roster
Indexed twice a year
spengine
gators
University of Florida
Every result links back
Every athlete on Spengine comes from a school's own athletics site, and every result sends you back to it. We index what schools already publish — the school stays the authority on its own athletes.
In a result

Everything we show, and where it came from

No hidden fields. What a school publishes is what you see.

University of Floridahttps://spengine.com › athlete › jordan-reese
Jordan Reese - Women's Soccer | Florida

A junior defender (5'7", 135 lbs) from Tampa, FL, out of Plant High School.

floridagators.com
  1. The school that publishes the roster
  2. Name, sport, school
  3. Class year, specialty, hometown
  4. Opens the school’s page, never ours
Name, sport, class year, specialty, hometown — every field is drawn from the roster the athletic department already publishes, and the link takes you there. Spengine stores nothing a school hasn't posted itself.

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