Universal Speed Rating V3: Custom Testing, Smarter Reports, and the USR Mobile App

Coach smarter. Grow faster.

This idea is being put into action all over the country inside the Speed Lab Community.

With more than 200 Speed Labs, 100,000 athletes, and over 750,000 assessments inside the Universal Speed Rating platform, coaches have shown us exactly how speed data needs to work in the real world.

And it’s led to something even more powerful…

Introducing Universal Speed Rating V3.

It’s the culmination of thousands of training sessions, speed camps, and real-world coaching reps, all shaping how the platform drives insight, business growth, and athlete results.

What is the Universal Speed Rating?

Universal Speed Rating is a speed testing and analytics platform built for performance coaches by elite speed coach Les Spellman, alongside co-founders Todd Buchner and Drew Zwiers, and is now used by some of the top performance facilities and industry leaders in the country, including Spellman Performance, New Athlete, Kula Sports Performance, Tony Holler, & more.

It helps coaches measure what matters, track athlete progress, and make training decisions from real data, while giving their business a system to prove results.

It’s powered by the Speed Lab Partnership, a network of performance businesses that use the Universal Speed Rating system inside their daily training environments.

Speed Labs are recognized as leaders for speed development in their local markets, using standardized testing, shared benchmarks, and data-driven training to separate themselves from guesswork-based coaching and build businesses that last.

Each Speed Lab is USR Level 1 Certified and supported by coaches committed to ongoing education and performance mastery within the USR system.

Universal Speed Rating V3 is built to enhance how Speed Labs use data every day to improve athletes and grow their business. Let’s find out what’s inside…

What’s New in Universal Speed Rating V3?

Universal Speed Rating V3 makes it easier to deliver faster feedback that builds buy-in and trust. With more control, flexibility, and a simpler workflow, V3 introduces features like:

• Customization across assessments, reports, and entire speed communities
• Easier access to data via the brand new Universal Speed Rating Mobile app
• More intuitive dashboards to identify athlete trends, weaknesses, and training deficiencies

Here’s a recap of the biggest updates and how they help the community coach smarter:

Test What Matters: Custom Assessments & Reports

Universal Speed Rating provides a standardized way to evaluate athletes, but the way testing is implemented should reflect the environment it lives in based on your training business.

Coaches can now create custom assessments specific to their athletes' needs. Choose from our ready-to-serve categories like Max Velocity, Acceleration, Change of Direction, Power, Endurance, and Strength, or create your own.

Each report can be branded with logos and colors and shared directly to social media with our ready-to-post social graphics to share athletes’ wins publicly.

Progress in your Pocket: USR is now Mobile

At the end of the day, sustainable athlete success starts with great, empowered coaches. That’s a belief shared across every Speed Lab in our community.

And with the Universal Speed Rating Mobile App, coaches can now deliver athlete data quicker, cleaner, and easier than ever before.

Get feedback and view leaderboards right after a session. View benchmarks and measure progress with one tap.

The Universal Speed Rating Mobile App strengthens the connection between the work athletes do and the results they see.

We know that when athletes see progress, compare benchmarks, and get feedback immediately, they understand the value of the work. The Mobile App allows users to build trust, motivation, and long term buy in, at the fingertips of every athlete and parent in the program.

Real-Time Feedback: Session Recaps and Smart Dashboards

With session recaps, coaches get instant feedback on each athlete’s increase or decrease from their sessions.

These results can be shared instantly through the Mobile App, giving athletes clear, actionable feedback immediately after each session.

That leads to smart dashboards, where we’ve introduced top results charts, historical comparisons, and the ability to spot strengths and weaknesses fast by filtering your athlete data across your community and benchmarks.

That means less guessing in programming, faster adjustments, and more confidence that the training is moving the needle.

Coaches can now make smarter training decisions from real data, in real time.

Join the Speed Lab Community

Universal Speed Rating V3 was built for you, Coach. With big things in store in 2026, it’s important that each update we make to the software allows you to coach smarter, grow faster, and get the results your athletes deserve.

Want to see how Universal Speed Rating V3 would fit into your facility or training business? Book a free strategy call with our team and we’ll walk through how to apply the new assessments, reports, and mobile app inside your environment.