The Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference and MaxPreps.com, the nation’s largest and most comprehensive provider of high school sports content and information, have agreed to a three-year partnership.
The contract commences with the 2009-10 school year.
The designation of MaxPreps.com as the CIAC’s “The Official Statistician and Media Partner” was established to give Connecticut schools a single platform on which to report scores and game statistics, while providing them with prominent regional and national recognition through a variety of MaxPreps.com content mediums.
MaxPreps.com’s nationwide blend of editorial, photo and video content provide hard-earned recognition for the countless hours that both student-athletes and coaches dedicate to their high school athletic endeavors.
“The CIAC is extremely excited about our new partnership with MaxPreps.com, the online leader in high school sports,” said Michael Savage, Executive Director of CAS–CIAC. “Within Connecticut there are so many extremely talented high school teams and well over 100,000 high school athletes. The exposure that MaxPreps.com brings will provide maximum recognition of our high school athletic programs and student athletes throughout the state.”
MaxPreps.com, a Cameron Park Calif.-based company that was purchased by the CBS Corporation in 2007, will provide every CIAC member school with its own free and easy-to-use schedule and statistical program for football, volleyball, boys’ and girls’ basketball, baseball and fast pitch softball.
The MaxPreps.com data system will automatically generate league and conference standings in Connecticut, while compiling state statistical leaderboards in a wide variety of categories. Connecticut leaders, in turn, will populate on MaxPreps.com’s national leaderboards.
MaxPreps.com also specializes in the digital export of its data content, partnering with hundreds of newspapers and TV/radio stations across the country.
The CIAC has made it a requirement that all teams participating in state tournament play have their stats entered with MaxPreps.com.
“Most importantly,” Mr. Savage continued, “MaxPreps.com provides our coaches with the tools to make their job easier and more productive.”
MaxPreps.com’s National Association Director is former New York Jets quarterback Al Woodall.
“The Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference is one of the most innovative and proactive state associations that MaxPreps.com has dealt with. We appreciate their energy and their forward thinking when it comes to the promotion of all the tremendous high school athletic events being held in their state,” Woodall said.