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SWAC to partner with SportStat
for wireless technology of games
January 26, 2006
Detroit, Mich.— SportStat is
partnering with the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC)
to implement the company’s patented SCORE (Statistics Created Online Real-time Everywhere)
technology. The move will allow instant access via mobile phone
or website to real-time play-by-play video clips, scores and
statistics from select SWAC athletic contests.
SportStat is a Detroit-based sports technology company run
by founder Johnny Richardson and former Detroit Lions All-Pro
receiver Herman Moore.
“The SCORE wireless application package provides schools,
parents, students, alumni, coaches, scouts, and sports enthusiasts
the ability to capture and access real-time information from
any game at the professional, college, high school or league
levels,” explained SportStat CEO and SCORE brainchild
Johnny Richardson. “The Southwestern Athletic Conference’s
adoption of SCORE will provide a new tool to assist coaches
in evaluating team and individual performance throughout the
Conference. To be able to provide parents with real-time video
clips of their kids’ performance through their mobile
phones when they can’t attend the game in person, is
huge.”
SWAC officials will beta test the technology with member universities – Alabama
A&M, Alabama State, Grambling State, Jackson State, Mississippi
Valley State and Southern – during their current college
basketball seasons and during the Conference Basketball Tournament
in Birmingham, Alabama that runs from March 8 – 11, 2006.
SportStat and SWAC officials will work closely with each university
as this ramps-out across the Conference to ensure a graceful
transition.
“Our goal is to make this a long-term relationship,” said
SWAC Commissioner Robert Vowels. “We plan to introduce
the SCORE technology league-wide for all SWAC sports, beginning
with the 2006 football season. All in all, SCORE provides a
highly-sophisticated and time-saving vehicle to access important
information for all involved in a team’s success.”
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