El Dorado Hills, CA - The Oklahoma Coaches Association (OCA) and MaxPreps, the high school sports digital media leader, have announced a multi-year partnership agreement that will enable the OCA to provide a customized sports information platform for its member coaches.
MaxPreps and the OCA will offer a publishing platform across desktop, tablet and mobile that will streamline the process of managing sports information for its member coaches. The partnership enables all box score information published on MaxPreps.com to be automatically provided to the OCA for use in managing various initiatives, including Player of the Year selections in multiple sports.
Beginning with the fall season of the 2024-25 school year, coaches will be encouraged to submit statistics to MaxPreps after each game to create statewide leaderboards and accurately track the accomplishments of the Oklahoma's high school athletes, as well as provide state and national recognition.
"The Oklahoma Coaches Association is excited to partner with MaxPreps to promote players' statistics in Oklahoma," OCA Executive Director Wayne Dozier said."This is something that has been missing in the state, and we appreciate MaxPreps for helping us provide this service to our coaches."
"Oklahoma has long been one of the top states for high school sports nationally, and MaxPreps is excited to partner with the OCA," said Gerry Valerio, Senior Director of Association Partnerships for MaxPreps. "We are thrilled to be able to more easily share the accomplishments of Oklahoma student-athletes with the entire nation."
MaxPreps.com is the nation's most-visited digital media site for high school sports coverage and is partnered with 27 high school state associations and seven state coach associations. MaxPreps also is an official partner of the National Federation of State High School Associations and the NFHS Network.
About MaxPreps.comMaxPreps is the leading high school sports media destination, offering fans the most comprehensive coverage with the latest news, analysis, rankings, photos and more. MaxPreps aspires to cover every high school team, game and player by partnering with more than 100,000 coaches throughout the country. A CBSSports.com site, MaxPreps was founded in August 2002 and is headquartered in El Dorado Hills, Calif. For more information about MaxPreps, and for the latest high school sports news, please visit www.maxpreps.com.
About the Oklahoma Coaches AssociationOCA, founded in 1934, is a non-profit organization with a membership of more than 9,300 coaches, representing 470 Oklahoma public schools, private schools and colleges. Its mission is to provide professional development for coaches, honor and reward student-athletes and coaches, and support high school and junior high athletic programs. The OCA awards 46 scholarships totaling $23,000 to Oklahoma high school athletes each year. For more information, visit
http://www.oklahomacoaches.org/.
