PlayOn Sports

Athletic directors, this one's for you. Every new school year brings a new wave of parents — and the exact same inbox-flooding questions: Where do I buy tickets? When are physicals due? Can I drive my athlete home from away games? You don't have to answer these one by one all season long. We put together a checklist of the top fall parent questions—and a step-by-step guide to addressing them before the season picks up. 📲 Read the guide & build your own parent onboarding playbook: https://hubs.li/Q04xngJp0

The inaugural MaxPreps Flag Football Showdown kicks off Sept. 11–12 at the Chula Vista Elite Athlete Training Center! Featuring top-ranked teams and national standout players, this invitational is celebrating the incredible growth and competitive talent in girls’ flag football. Catch live games, athlete profiles, and behind-the-scenes coverage as these student-athletes showcase the future of the sport. 📺 Stream Fields 1 & 2 live for free on MaxPreps & The NFHS Network 🔗 Learn more & see the full schedule: https://hubs.li/Q04wW_j30

Wishing all our hardworking staff and partners a well-deserved, relaxing Labor Day!

A round of applause for our August Playmakers 🎉 Peer-nominated for their dedication, teamwork, and commitment to excellence, these individuals show what it truly means to live our values. Congratulations to this month’s winners: Vanessa Huang – Ownership Over Participation Lauren Russell – Team Over Stars Ian Moore – Growth Over Comfort Dohnny Iszard – Fairness Over Popularity Drop a comment below to congratulate this month's winners!

We're hiring a Marketing Operations Manager to help build the operational engine behind PlayOn's B2B demand generation, sitting right at the intersection of martech, analytics, automation, and AI. PlayOn powers ticketing, streaming, fundraising, and more for high school athletics through GoFan, NFHS Network, and MaxPreps. As we continue to scale, we're looking for someone who can turn our marketing tech stack, CRM integrations, reporting, and emerging AI tools into a system that gives Sales and Marketing real visibility into pipeline, campaign performance, and ROI. This is a builder role for someone who gets energized by messy operational problems. Fixing lead routing. Building reporting people actually trust. Improving processes. Finding ways to automate repetitive work and use AI to make the team more efficient. If you've spent years in B2B marketing ops, revenue ops, or marketing analytics and want the opportunity to help shape how a growing company uses data, automation, and AI, we'd love to hear from you! 📍 Alpharetta, GA | 🔗 https://hubs.li/Q04tVQxw0

PlayOn Sports today kicks off the second season of MaxPreps Game of the Week, a season-long series that takes some of the country’s biggest high school football games beyond their local communities and broadcasts them to fans nationwide. Through MaxPreps Game of the Week, select high school football matchups are streamed nationally, giving fans across the country the opportunity to watch top teams and athletes regardless of where they live. The 2026 season kicks off tonight with one of the biggest matchups in high school football: No. 1 St. John Bosco (Bellflower, Calif.) at No. 2 Bishop Gorman (Las Vegas, Nev.). The game begins at 7 p.m. PT at Bishop Gorman High School and will stream free nationwide on the MaxPreps YouTube channel, with additional access through MaxPreps.com and The NFHS Network. Full release: https://hubs.li/Q04tHKVn0

NEWS: The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) and PlayOn Sports today announced a new 10-year agreement naming the NFHS Network as the exclusive content distribution partner for CIF Regional and State Championship events beginning with the 2026–2027 school year. The partnership between the CIF and PlayOn expands access to California's premier high school championship events, making it easier for families, alumni and fans to stay connected to the student-athletes and school communities they support—whether they're in the stands or watching from afar. The collaboration underscores a shared commitment to expanding access to education-based athletics, increasing visibility for student-athletes and ensuring California's biggest championship moments can be experienced by more fans and communities than ever before. Read the full release: https://hubs.li/Q04s_wrW0  

Congratulations to this year's Ultimate Playmakers! Nominated by their peers, these four team members show up for their teams, take ownership when it matters, choose growth even when it’s uncomfortable, and do what’s right -- even when it isn’t the easiest or most popular choice. They remind us that our values aren’t just words, they’re the choices we make every day. Pictured from left to right: Dorcas Morgan - Fairness Over Popularity Brett Marbut - Growth Over Comfort Dan Bednarczyk - Ownership Over Participation Alexa Guerra - Team Over Stars

Every game generates an advantage if your program is set up to see it. MaxPreps Advantage takes your NFHS Network footage and turns it into organized stats and clips within hours of the final whistle, with unlimited storage included. As school returns and games start being played, make sure your coaches have every tool necessary to compete this year. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/d24R52HV

We’re excited to announce that PlayOn made the 2026 #Inc5000 list for the fifth consecutive year! This milestone reflects the dedication of our incredible team and the continued trust of the schools, state associations, and communities we serve. Learn more: https://hubs.li/Q04sB1C70