Media Lion
Sports Web Design
Sports Web Design & Development
Media Lion builds high-energy sites for athletics, recruiting, and performance brands — capturing recruits, fans, and athletes with speed and story.
Sports brands compete for attention against the most produced content on the internet. A recruit, a parent, or a fan gives you a few seconds and a thumb-scroll to prove you are the real thing. A slow, generic site loses that moment before it starts.
Media Lion has spent 18 years building websites and custom digital tools for clients across the country. Today we do that work from Travelers Rest, South Carolina, for national brands and Upstate businesses alike — including athletics, recruiting, and performance brands where energy, speed, and story have to land instantly.
Media Lion builds across many industries — see the full range on our Types of Work page.
Why a sports site has to hit differently
The programs and brands that capture recruits and fans are the ones that feel as intense online as they do in person. That means:
- verifiedA first screen that conveys energy and credibility before a word is read
- speedVideo and imagery that load fast instead of stalling on a phone at a stadium
- ads_clickClear paths for the different audiences — recruits, parents, fans, sponsors
- verifiedEvent and schedule moments (signing day, tryouts, game day) that the site can rise to
What we build for sports and performance brands
We scope to the audience and the calendar rather than shipping a template. The pieces we assemble most often:
- ads_clickRecruiting and program sites — built to convert athletes and parents, with the proof and the paths that matter to each
- ads_clickEvent and campaign moments — signing day, showcases, and launches that need a site to match the occasion
- speedPerformance and training brands — membership, programming, and content that keep athletes coming back
- speedFast media — video and photography delivered without wrecking load times
- ads_clickFan and sponsor surfaces — schedules, rosters, and partner placements that carry real traffic
Selected work
national recruiting moments
IMG Academy
IMG Academy is the world’s leading sports education brand. Our work included high-visibility moments like National Signing Day and National Spotlight — campaign experiences that had to carry the intensity of the brand and perform under a spike of national attention.
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DynastyOne
A fantasy football app that pulls a manager’s whole league life onto one screen — it links in under a minute, read-only, and turns Sunday chaos into a clear weekly briefing.
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FranchiseHuddle
The first all-in-one platform for online Madden franchise leagues — an automated EA sync that erases the Discord-bot-and-spreadsheet grind commissioners used to juggle.
View case studyWhat matters on a sports build
Athletics brands have specific pressures. We plan for them from the start:
- speedSpeed under load. Sites tuned to survive a game-day or signing-day traffic spike
- phone_iphoneMobile-first. Recruits and fans are on phones, often on stadium wifi — the experience is designed there first
- speedMedia performance. Video and imagery that hit hard without tanking Core Web Vitals
- verifiedAccessibility. WCAG 2.1 AA so every fan and recruit can use the site
Built in the Upstate, working nationally
We are based in Travelers Rest and build for athletics and performance brands across the country. Eighteen years of high-stakes launch work does not slow down for a small-town zip code.
Talk to us
If you run a program, a performance brand, or an event that needs a site to match its energy, we would like to hear about it. Reach out through the contact form and we will get back to you from a real Upstate area code.