LA Extra: MaxPreps Widget Carries Weight in San Gabriel

The San Gabriel Valley Tribune, based in West Covina, Calif., faces a daunting task every day in trying to cover all of the pro teams in the Los Angeles area, plus a variety of colleges and 30 high schools.

To make it's job easier and more comprehensive in the latter category, this Media News Group newspaper uses the MaxPreps widget to maintain a robust flow of prep data in five core sports:

http://www.sgvtribune.com/preps

Booster Club Backs Teams With MaxPreps Widget

The Clayton Valley Boosters Club of Concord, Calif., has long served as an advocacy group to support the student-athletes of Clayton Valley High School. The CVHS booster's organization believes that a significant part of the high school experience involves the ability to participate either as a player or a fan in prep athletic events. It believes that high school sports programs do more for a school than simply provide an outlet for youthful enthusiasm. They build teamwork, enhance self-esteem and provide a focus for pride in the school.

To help show its pride in CVHS athletics, the booster club is showing off the MaxPreps data widget on the home page of its web site:

http://www.cvhsboosters.org/

Texans Tab Cushing; Bergen Catholic Tabs MaxPreps Widget

Bergen Catholic High in Oradell, N.J., had plenty to celebrate recently, when one of its former players, Brian Cushing, was selected in the first round of the NFL draft by the Houston Texans.

Cushing, a 2005 Bergen Catholic graduate, is a 6-foot-3, 245 pound outside linebacker from Park Ridge, N.J., who played his college football at USC. He was the 15th pick overall.

Bergen Catholic, a 16-time state champion, also has a new football website to help consolidate team news. To help deliver data on the team and over 100 other football teams in North Jersey, the web site utilizes the MaxPreps.com data widget:

http://www.bergencatholicfootball.com/

Taking the MaxPreps Widget to School

Due to popular demand, here’s a snap shot from around the nation of high schools that are using the data widget on their home sites:

Barron Collier High, FL

http://www.collier.k12.fl.us/bch/

Valencia, CA High

http://www.collier.k12.fl.us/bch/

Northern Virginia Christian Academy

www.nvchristianacademy.org (select athletics)

Bath County, KY High

http://www.bath.k12.ky.us/

Evangel Christian, Shreveport

http://www.evangelacademy.com/Athletics/index.php

Gold Beach, OR

http://www.ccsd.k12.or.us/goldbeachhs/site/default.asp

Estero, FL High

http://est.leeschools.net/

Black River High, Holland, MI

http://www.blackriverpublicschool.org/sports.shtml

Lowry NV

http://www.humboldt.k12.nv.us/lhs/

Wayne, NY

http://wayne.k12.ny.us/football/

PIAA Rolls Out Record MaxPreps Widget

One of our newest state governing body partners, the sprawling Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association, has just set up the largest MaxPreps.com data widget on record, over 850 schools covering seven sports:

http://www.piaa.org/news/details.aspx?ID=1666

Records, however, are made to be broken. Ohio is next in line. That should move the needle past the 900 school mark shortly. Stay tuned.

MaxPreps Widget…Twice as Nice in Kansas City

The Greater Kansas City Football Coaches Association brings a unique element to the business of regional high school sports promotion and management; that is, it operates in two states.

It also operates with the power of a 112-school MaxPreps.com data widget, one that went live today and features teams from both the Kansas City, Missouri, and Kansas City, Kansas, areas.

Many thanks go to the head of the GKCFCA, Brian Johnson, who helped make this association deal possible. Terri Wible of the Marvel Group, LLC put the final touches on the data feed for the GKCFCA web site.

Johnson, when he is not helping promote high school football in the Greater Kansas City area, is the Sponsorship Sales Manager of the Kansas City Chiefs.

http://www.kcprepfootball.org/

http://www.kcprepfootball.org/stats.html

Chicago Football League Remakes Itself

The 70-member Chicago Public League Football Coaches Association has a new address, a new web design and a sparkling new MaxPreps’ data widget on its home page, thanks to the work of Illinois territory manager Frank Steele:

http://www.cplfca.com/

MSABC Endorses MaxPreps Data Feed in Big Way

You could say the Maryland State Association of Baseball Coaches has stepped to the plate and swung for the fences concerning MaxPreps' Widget deployment.

The MSABA, headed by DeMatha coach Sean O'Connor, has installed a widget on its web site that includes all 213 baseball-playing members, public and private. What's more, O'Connor has sent out a letter to membership that encourages coach participation in the stat program:

http://www.marylandbaseball.org/max.htm

The purpose of MSABC and its web site is to improve the game of baseball in Maryland. Among the association’s featured activities this season is the MSABC Classic, two nine-inning all-star games scheduled for May 24 at Thomas Stone High. The games will be used to select the two teams that will compete in the Brooks Robinson Senior All-Star game, sponsored by the Geier Financial Group, June 10 at Camden Yards, following an Orioles’ game.

Kansas Takes a Unique Approach to Data Service

It’s good to have people in high places.

MaxPreps.com Kansas territory manager Randy Walling is presently serving as executive director of the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association. Through Randy’s work and the work of a former coach in the state, KBCA web content manager Tom Smith, the association is developing MaxPreps’ syndication service covering every basketball team in Kansas, both boys and girls.

In a unique approach to implementing the data feeds, the KBCA will deploy a total of 12 MaxPreps.com content widgets, one for each of the six size classifications (times two) in Kansas:

http://www.kansaskbca.com/2008%3A09/maxwidgets.html

Spring into Spring: Mid Valley Oregon Adding Service

The Albany Democrat-Herald is a Lee Enterprise publication that serves the Mid Valley region of Oregon, boasting a daily circulation of 17,500. Online editor Graham Kislingbury had a 16-school MaxPreps data feed in play during the basketball season (select basketball from the pulldown) http://www.democratherald.com/sports/prep/# and is currently working on the development of a spring module.