NCFCA Adds MaxPreps Data Module

The North Carolina Football Coaches Association was organized and constituted in July of 1990. It has since grown to represent coaches in all of the state’s eight districts, and sports a membership of 357 schools.

Webmaster David Grose of the Cleveland County School system and NCFCA secretary Jim Taylor have added the MaxPreps data widget to help service their members:

http://www.ncfca.net/

MaxPreps Widget Delivers Data for 462 Schools in Central IL

MaxPreps field rep Frank Steele has done it again. When they’re not dodging thunderstorms and tornados in central Illinois, they’re following 462 of Chairman Frank’s schools on SportsRadio1450, WFMB-AM, Springfield:

http://www.sportsradio1450.com/pages/pages.php?page=21

Neighborhood Group Follows Local School With Widget

The Phoenix Central Neighborhood Association in Arizona was created in August, 2008, by Alton J. Jones. His goal was to begin a dialogue with residents, property owners and business owners within the geographical boundaries of Indian School and Thomas Roads and 7th Avenue and 3rd Street about business, crime, education, entertainment, politics, sports and transportation.

To enhance the dialogue about prep sports and its local high school – also named Phoenix Central – the web site has created and activated a one-school, five-sport MaxPreps’ data module:

http://www.phoenixcentral.org/Sports.html

This is the first neighborhood-based web site to use the widget, another example of the expanding role of citizen journalism and reporting.

FCIAC Blog Returns; MaxPreps Widget Joins the Team

The FCIAC Football Blog ( http://fciacfootballblog.com ) was long a staple in Fairfield (Conn.) County prep coverage before its founder and publisher, Tim Parry, opted to shut down his operation last year.

Parry’s entertaining and information-filled blog is back, however, just in time for the first game of 2009, the June 27 Connecticut vs Rhode Island senior all-game in East Hartford. He’ll be working in cooperation with the county’s four Hearst Corporation daily newspapers in Bridgeport, Danbury, Greenwich and Stamford.

To help celebrate the blog’s return and to keep readers up to date with the latest scores, standing and statistics, Parry has deployed a 37-team MaxPreps data widget:

http://fciacfootballblog.com/

Kansas Pregame Transitioning to the Web With MaxPreps Widget

After three years of publishing Kansas Pregame, the state's premiere preseason football print magazine, John Baetz and wife, Bree McReynolds-Baetz, have made the leap to the web with their recently-launched site KansasPregame.com.

The site's goal is to be nothing less than the complete source for football information in the state of Kansas.

What better way to deliver complete data on all 355 football-playing schools in the state than through the commissioning of the MaxPreps data widget:

http://www.kansaspregame.com/web/isite.dll?1220492325951

For more information about Kansaspregame.com, please email john@kansaspregame.com or call them at (785) 524-6019.

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.