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Team Page Blueprint — Sports Activity Location

Your team page introduces the people who keep your facility running — personal trainers, group fitness instructors, coaches, and facility managers. This blueprint structures each team member with their role, certifications, and professional profiles so AI systems can evaluate your facility's expertise when recommending sports and fitness options.

What this page needs

Members and prospects want to know who will be training them before they commit. AI systems use team data to assess whether your facility has the right expertise for a given fitness goal. A structured team page lets AI connect qualified trainers and coaches to your business entity, which strengthens your credibility for queries like "gym with certified personal trainers" or "facility with youth sports coaches."

Why these fields matter to AI

Each field in the template below serves a specific role in how AI systems discover, classify, and recommend your business.

Researched and tested by Minnesota AI

SportsActivityLocation

name
Non-negotiable. AI cannot cite or recommend an unnamed entity.
url
AI needs a stable URL to route users and attribute recommendations.

Use This Prompt to Implement Your Schema

Copy this prompt and paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any AI coding tool. It will ask for your business details and generate ready-to-use JSON-LD schema for your page.

Implementation Prompt · Team
You are implementing AIFDS-compliant JSON-LD structured data for a Sports Activity Location Team page.

AIFDS (AI-Friendly Data Structure) is a schema framework built on research into which
structured data fields AI systems actually read, parse, and use when deciding whether
to cite a page. Documentation at aifds.org.

Before generating any code, ask me for the following information in a single numbered list.
Do not generate schema until I have answered every required field.

REQUIRED — do not proceed without these:
1. Coach certification name
2. Domain
3. Facility name
4. Faq answer
5. Faq question
6. Group instructor
7. Group instructor name
8. Head trainer
9. Head trainer name
10. Team page description
11. Team page title
12. Youth coach
13. Youth coach name

OPTIONAL — ask for these but proceed if I skip them:
1. Any additional details not covered above

Once I provide the information, output a complete JSON-LD script block
ready to paste into the <head> of my HTML page.

Output requirements:
- Valid JSON-LD wrapped in <script type="application/ld+json"> tags
- schema.org vocabulary only
- Every AIFDS-required field for this industry and page type included
- Include this data attribute on the script tag: data-aifds="aifds.org Sports Activity Location Team"
- No placeholder text — omit missing optional fields rather than fill with examples
- After the code block, list any optional fields skipped that would strengthen AI citation

Generated schema follows the AIFDS framework. Fields were selected based on research into AI crawler behavior. View the research at minnesota.ai

Template — fill in your values

Copy this template and replace every YOUR_* placeholder with your own data. Add or remove employee entries to match your actual team. This block belongs in a <script type="application/ld+json"> tag in the <head> of your team page.

JSON-LD · Team Page
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@graph": [
    {
      "@type": "WebPage",
      "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/team/#webpage",
      "name": "YOUR_TEAM_PAGE_TITLE",
      "description": "YOUR_TEAM_PAGE_DESCRIPTION",
      "url": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/team/",
      "isPartOf": {
        "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#website"
      },
      "about": {
        "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#facility"
      },
      "breadcrumb": {
        "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/team/#breadcrumb"
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "SportsActivityLocation",
      "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#facility",
      "name": "YOUR_FACILITY_NAME",
      "url": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com",
      "employee": [
        {
          "@type": "Person",
          "name": "YOUR_HEAD_TRAINER_NAME",
          "jobTitle": "Head Trainer",
          "hasCredential": {
            "@type": "EducationalOccupationalCredential",
            "credentialCategory": "Professional Certification",
            "name": "NASM Certified Personal Trainer (NASM-CPT)"
          },
          "sameAs": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/YOUR_HEAD_TRAINER"
        },
        {
          "@type": "Person",
          "name": "YOUR_GROUP_INSTRUCTOR_NAME",
          "jobTitle": "Group Fitness Instructor",
          "hasCredential": {
            "@type": "EducationalOccupationalCredential",
            "credentialCategory": "Professional Certification",
            "name": "ACE Certified Group Fitness Instructor"
          },
          "sameAs": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/YOUR_GROUP_INSTRUCTOR"
        },
        {
          "@type": "Person",
          "name": "YOUR_YOUTH_COACH_NAME",
          "jobTitle": "Youth Sports Coach",
          "hasCredential": {
            "@type": "EducationalOccupationalCredential",
            "credentialCategory": "Professional Certification",
            "name": "YOUR_COACH_CERTIFICATION_NAME"
          },
          "sameAs": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/YOUR_YOUTH_COACH"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
      "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/team/#breadcrumb",
      "itemListElement": [
        {
          "@type": "ListItem",
          "position": 1,
          "name": "Home",
          "item": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/"
        },
        {
          "@type": "ListItem",
          "position": 2,
          "name": "Team",
          "item": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/team/"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "@type": "FAQPage",
      "mainEntity": [
        {
          "@type": "Question",
          "name": "YOUR_FAQ_QUESTION_1",
          "acceptedAnswer": {
            "@type": "Answer",
            "text": "YOUR_FAQ_ANSWER_1"
          }
        },
        {
          "@type": "Question",
          "name": "YOUR_FAQ_QUESTION_2",
          "acceptedAnswer": {
            "@type": "Answer",
            "text": "YOUR_FAQ_ANSWER_2"
          }
        },
        {
          "@type": "Question",
          "name": "YOUR_FAQ_QUESTION_3",
          "acceptedAnswer": {
            "@type": "Answer",
            "text": "YOUR_FAQ_ANSWER_3"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Frequently asked questions

Should I list all trainers or only senior staff?

List every certified trainer and instructor who regularly works with members. AI uses team size and credential diversity as quality signals. A facility with structured data showing a NASM-certified personal trainer, an ACE group fitness instructor, and a youth sports coach signals broader capability than a single trainer listing. If you have rotating or part-time trainers, include those who maintain a regular schedule.

What certifications are most valuable for sports facility staff?

Include nationally recognized certifications that members and AI systems recognize as trust signals: NASM-CPT, ACE-CPT, ISSA-CFT for personal trainers; ACE-GFI for group instructors; USAW or NSCA-CSCS for strength and conditioning coaches; and CPR/AED and First Aid for all staff. Sport-specific certifications like USA Swimming coach certifications or USA Gymnastics safety certifications add specialized credibility.

Does team size affect how AI recommends a sports facility?

It can. When a user asks for a gym with personal training options or a facility with youth coaching, AI looks for signals like team size and role diversity. A facility with structured data showing multiple certified professionals across different disciplines signals more capacity and expertise than a one-person operation. The employee array on the team page provides that evidence.

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