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MaxPreps Advantage: 5 Reasons It's a Program-Wide Athletics Analytics Solution

Your varsity football team isn't the only program that deserves data-driven coaching — and with MaxPreps Advantage, it doesn't have to be the only one that gets it. Rising costs and shrinking budgets are forcing programs to cut costs at the JV and...

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The Parent Onboarding Playbook: A Checklist That Will Save Your Fall

It's week one of the season and your inbox hits triple digits before first period ends. The same three questions again and again: Where do I buy...

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MaxPreps Flag Football Showdown to Put 350+ of Nation’s Top Girls’ Flag Football Players on National Stage

Leveraging its national reach, ranking authority and deep ties across high school sports, MaxPreps brings together 18 elite programs for inaugural...

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PlayOn Sports Brings the Nation’s Top High School Football Games to Fans Nationwide with 2026 MaxPreps Game of the Week

Game of the Week kicks off today with No. 1 St. John Bosco vs. No. 2 Bishop Gorman, streaming free nationwide on the MaxPreps YouTube channel and...

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California Interscholastic Federation and NFHS Network Partner to Bring More Championship Moments to Fans Across the State

New 10-year agreement broadens access to CIF Regional and State Championship events, connecting more student-athletes, families and communities...

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Dave Bottoms CPO and Celia Poon CFO PlayOn

PlayOn Sports Appoints Dave Bottoms as Chief Product Officer and Celia Poon as Chief Financial Officer

Leadership additions to accelerate growth of PlayOn Sports, the company behind GoFan, MaxPreps and the NFHS Network

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How to Build a Packed Student Section: 6 Strategies That Work

A loud student section is one of the biggest home-field advantages a high school has, and it doesn't happen by accident. It happens because an AD or...

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What Audit-Ready Ticketing Actually Looks Like for School Bookkeepers

It's three weeks before your audit, and someone asks for a full year of event revenue, broken out by event, with payment records attached. For most...

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