July 13, 2008
SOUTHERN COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC CONFERENCE PARTNERS WITH PRESTOSPORTS FOR NEW WEB SITE
ROCKVILLE, Md. - The Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference, an NCAA Division III conference with 12 institutions, has partnered with PrestoSports to develop a new web site. The new SCAC site will feature all of the latest PrestoSports tools designed specifically for conference offices including complete schedule and standings networking through the Scoreboard Interface, online awards and an efficient content management system.
"The Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference is eager to partner with PrestoSports for a total redesign of our conference's website," said conference commissioner Dwayne Hanberry. "We were one of the first conferences to utilize the D3scoreboard, and by doing so, I had the good fortune of establishing a solid working relationship with its founder Robb Modica. So when we decided to overhaul the league's website, there was no question that we wanted to continue that relationship with Robb at PrestoSports."
By partnering with PrestoSports, the SCAC will continue to take advantage of the nation's largest score and schedule network. A geographically diverse conference with its 12 members scattered across nine states and three time zones, the SCAC has used the PrestoSports Scoreboard Interface to streamline score reporting as part of D3Scoreboard since the 2005-06 academic year.
The new site will incorporate this feature for immediate site updates into scoreboards, schedules, standings and the conference's new mobile scoreboard.
"We're excited to work with the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference on a redesign of its web site," PrestoSports Product Manager and D3Scoreboard founder Robb Modica says. "We've had the pleasure of working with the conference for D3Scoreboard and it's clear that the SCAC membership is committed to the student-athlete experience on and off the field of play. It's our goal to help match that excellence with a unique web site that maximizes efficiency for the conference office."
The new SCAC site will also take advantage of administrative tools for operating the conference awards. Weekly nominations, all-conference and other awards nomination, balloting and voting procedures will be available online through the PrestoSports custom awards system.
The Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) and its member institutions are committed to maintaining high academic standards with the principle that a quality college athletics program is beneficial to the well-being of an institution in that it benefits the entire campus community as well as the student-athletes.
The SCAC boasts some of the most prestigious colleges and universities in the nation. Membership includes: Austin College (Sherman, Texas), Birmingham-Southern College (Birmingham, Ala.), Centre College (Danville, Ky.), Colorado College (Colorado Springs, Colo.), DePauw University (Greencastle, Ind.), Hendrix College (Conway, Ark.), Millsaps College (Jackson, Miss.), Oglethorpe University (Atlanta, Ga.), Rhodes College (Memphis, Tenn.), Sewanee-University of the South (Sewanee, Tenn.), Southwestern University (Georgetown, Texas) and Trinity University (San Antonio, Texas).
Founded in 1962 with four charter members as the College Athletic Conference (CAC), the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) has grown to 12 members and 19 championships, including nine for men and 10 for women. The SCAC currently hosts conference championships in baseball, men's basketball, women's basketball, men's cross country, women's cross country, field hockey, football, men's golf, women's golf, men's soccer, women's soccer, softball, men's swimming and diving, women's swimming and diving, men's tennis, women's tennis, men's outdoor track, women's outdoor track, and women's volleyball.
PrestoSports, founded in 2002, is a leading provider of athletic content management software to colleges and conference offices. It provides web-based solutions for over 40 collegiate conferences. Some of its NCAA Division III conference web site clients include the Capital Athletic Conference, Landmark Conference, Little East Conference, Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference, New England Collegiate Conference, New England Small College Athletic Conference, New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference, North Atlantic Conference and Southern California Intercollegiate Athletics Conference.
The PrestoSports staff features more than 40 years combined experience in collegiate athletics. It includes former sports information directors, conference administrators and experience in collegiate marketing solutions. For more information, please contact Mike Donlin at (301) 841-7327 or via email at mike@prestosports.com.
