We hope everyone is having a good week so far. Here’s a list of some new features we released this week. As always, we appreciate your feedback. Feel free to let us know if there’s ever something you’d like to see improved on PrepChamps.

Added a Featured Partner block to Home and Dashboard pages, linking to [...]

PrepChamps has partnered with BallisLife, a leading grassroots basketball online community, to help basketball players get noticed and showcase their skills. BallisLife.com, which has ties with Slam Magazine, is a site where fans and athletes of all levels of basketball can discuss stories, share and comment on videos, watch highlight mixes, write blogs and talk [...]

Session 1 from the 2008 Colorado Fall Shootout took place on October 25 at Chatfield High School and featured some great talent (click the link for the recap). Session 2 was held on November 1 at D’Evelyn High School. See below for some of the top players from session 2 of the Colorado Fall Shootout.
Session [...]

PrepChamps recently became the official recruiting partner of the 2008 Texas High School Basketball Jamboree. This 6th annual event will be held on November 28-29 in Houston, Texas at the gym at Strake Jesuit College Preparatory. This year’s event features features some of the top players and teams from the Texas and Louisiana area. Past [...]

We released a few new features today that we’re excited about. We hope they improve your experience on our site and help make it more useful for you. As always, let us know if you have any questions or suggestions for new features.
Activity Tracking

You can now track activities of your favorite athletes or friends to [...]

Prep Nation recently released its preseason National Prep Basketball Poll for the 2008-2009 high school basketball season. The Duncanville Panthers, who have won 74 of their last 76 games, are the preseason #1 pick; this is the first time in the poll’s 22-year history that the preseason #1 is from Texas.
Check out the link for [...]

The 7th annual Flyin’ To The Hoop Men’s Basketball Invitational prepares to take flight again in 2009 on January 17-19th at the Trent Arena in Dayton, Ohio. From a talent perspective, this year’s field has more talent than any other event of its kind in the midwest. The event brings together a [...]

FYI Kenny Boynton (#2 SG from Class of 2009 according to Scout.com) will be announcing what college he will attend tonight on ESPNU at 6:30pm. What college do you think he’ll pick?
**Update** I’m hearing that it’s likely that his announcement will be for Florida. He was scheduled to visit Duke this weekend but I guess [...]

Yes.  PrepChamps verifies every college coach who creates an account.
If you are a college coach, when you create, activate and log into your account, you can view and search for any athlete on PrepChamps.com.  However, there are a few things you won’t be able to do, until we can verify you coach for your [...]

We recently rolled out a new feature on our website that we call Challenges. Building on the competitive nature of sports, athletes and fans, Challenges allow users to use their pictures/videos and go head-to-head with their friends’ media. Participants can choose different categories to compete with their friends in, such as:

Best Game Face
Most Athletic
Best Highlight [...]