MaxPreps.com will track over 250,000 teams & 2.5 million athletes
during the 2010-2011 school year
CAMERON PARK, CA, Sept. 3, 2010 – MaxPreps.com, the high school sports source for CBSSports.com and one of the fastest growing sports sites on the Internet, today announced they have extended their reach in local communities by covering Junior Varsity and Freshman high school sports teams. The expanded coverage will include schedules, scores, statistics, video, photos, and editorial articles for thousands of Junior Varsity and Freshman teams. Additionally, MaxPreps.com has added national coverage of six new sports, including boys and girls soccer and softball. (see full coverage list below)
MaxPreps.com covered over 1.1 million high school games during the 2009-10 school year and with the expansion of coverage, that number will increase to over 2.5 million games during the upcoming school year. In total MaxPreps.com will track over 250,000 teams and 2.5 million athletes during the 2010-2011 school year.
"The passion around high school sports isn’t just about the varsity level but extends to the junior varsity and freshman teams," said
Andy Beal, President, MaxPreps.com. "By expanding our coverage to include these levels and adding additional sports we’re catering to the coaches, student-athletes and fans around the world who are involved in and avidly follow these sports."
MaxPreps.com now covers the following 14 sports on the varsity, junior varsity and freshman level:
Boys Baseball Girls Volleyball
Boys Football Boys & Girls Basketball
Boys Wrestling* Boys & Girls Ice Hockey*
Girls Field Hockey* Boys & Girls Lacrosse
Girls Softball* Boys & Girls Soccer*
* New for 2010-11 school year
About MaxPreps.comMaxPreps.com is the leading online high school sports destination, offering the most comprehensive high school sports coverage, with the latest news, analysis, rankings, and streaming content. MaxPreps.com aspires to cover every high school team, game, and player by partnering with nearly 30,000 varsity coaches throughout the country.
Founded in August 2002, MaxPreps.com is headquartered in Cameron Park, California and is a unit of
CBS Interactive. For more information about MaxPreps.com and for the latest high school sports news, scores, and expert analysis, please visit maxpreps.com. More information about CBS and its businesses is available at
www.cbscorporation.com.
Media Contact: Alex Riethmiller, 954.689.3334,
ariethmiller@cbs.com
