Compete for your school.
Create a Player Profile, pick your position and get on a roster. Every team represents a single college or university.
Registration accounts are coming online — profiles, drafts and submissions are being wired up now.
Positions
Pick your position
Or register as a Free Agent and be recruited into the position that best fits a team's needs.
Owns Team
Establish priorities, make decisions, coordinate players and represent the team's collective case.
Owns Solution
Design the solution and make it tangible.
Owns Evidence
Understand the problem, users and market and gather supporting evidence.
Owns Resources
Determine what the team needs, how to get it and how the solution becomes viable.
Open
A Free Agent is open to being recruited into the position that best fits the needs of a team.
What to expect
From registration to the Final Whistle
Who can participate
Any enrolled college student can play. Every team is four students from the same institution. Cross-school teams are not supported.
The D1 Captain requirement
Every team is built around and led by a Division I college athlete who serves as Captain. The other three positions are filled by athletes or non-athlete students, who join the team through pre-registration or by being drafted from the talent pool.
Player Profiles
Every participant creates a persistent Ballathon Player Profile — including players arriving with a complete team. Your profile carries your university, sport, major, year, position, skills, history and results.
Know Your Game assessment
Before the event you complete a behavioral/team assessment. The objective is development and self-awareness: how I naturally operate, where I'm strongest, where I get in my own way, what I need from teammates.
Bring Your Team
Captains invite specific students from their university to pre-register and fill Product Manager, Growth Manager and Operations Manager.
Draft Your Team
Captains browse the Draft Pool at their own institution and send Draft invitations. Players accept or decline. When all four positions are filled: Roster Complete.
Leadership development
You won't sit through workshops. You develop and demonstrate leadership, followership, communication, prioritization, resourcefulness and coachability while trying to win.
Postgame feedback
Every participant eventually receives a Postgame Report: here's how you showed up, here's where you helped your team, here's where you can improve.
Prizes & resources
$25,000+ in prizes & resources
Working placeholder. Prize architecture is configurable by event and may include cash, technology, development resources, expert services, sponsor resources, pilot opportunities and venture development. Winning earns recognition. Evidence earns resources.
Register
Upcoming Ballathons
October 2026
Ballathon 002
Austin, TX · Example State — Innovation Center
- Host
- Don Davis
- Challenge Partner
- Challenge Partner TBA
- Teams
- 16
- Prizes & Resources
- $25,000+ in prizes & resources (working placeholder)
November 2026
Ballathon 003
Atlanta, GA · Example Institute — Student Center
- Host
- Host TBA
- Challenge Partner
- Challenge Partner TBA
- Teams
- —
- Prizes & Resources
- $25,000+ in prizes & resources (working placeholder)