CIF Announces Multi-Sport Partnership with Rapsodo
SACRAMENTO, CALIF. — Playfly Sports Properties and Rapsodo announce the signing of a three-year strategic partnership through June 2024. Since its founding in 2010, Rapsodo has grown to become a leading sports data and technology company with the vision to help athletes reach their full potential.
“We are pleased to welcome Rapsodo to the CIF family,” stated Brian Sandy, General Manager of CIF at Playfly Sports Properties. “As the sports landscape continues to emphasize the importance of analytics in all sports, we’re excited to partner with a company like Rapsodo that will empower our coaches and student-athletes to take their golf, baseball, and softball games to the next level.”
“We are very pleased and excited to partner with an organization like CIF that strives to better its athletes through data and technology,” said Batuhan Okur, founder, and CEO of Rapsodo. “This partnership will allow us to continue our mission of helping athletes reach their full potential and allow CIF to set up each of their 1,600-plus member schools for data-driven success throughout the year."
About Rapsodo
Rapsodo develops data-driven sports technologies designed to empower athletes and coaches to cost-effectively analyze and improve their game, which is used by thousands of professional and collegiate teams, including all 30 MLB teams. Founded in 2010, the company developed the first affordable golf personal launch monitor, distributed in the USA under SkyTrak. Rapsodo, operating globally in four countries, continues to focus on delivering a variety of sport training and simulation technologies that allow users to better understand performance through reliable statistics. This ultimately translates into Rapsodo's motto of "Measure to Master." To learn more, visit Rapsodo.com.
About the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF)
Created in 1914, the CIF is the governing body for high school sports in the state of California. CIF is uniquely positioned to foster student growth in values and ethics. CIF’s ideal of “Pursuing Victory with Honor,” provides the opportunity to influence the actions of the athletic community. CIF strives to promote equity, quality, character, and academic development. CIF is a nonprofit federation and the state office, located in Sacramento, Calif., represents the interests of its member Sections. The 10 Sections represent geographic regions within the state: Central, Central Coast, Los Angeles City, North Coast, Northern, Oakland, Sac-Joaquin, San Diego, San Francisco, and Southern. CIF represents 1,609 public and private member schools and more than 838,000 student-athletes. CIF conducts Regional and State Championships in badminton, baseball, traditional competitive cheer, cross country, football, volleyball, tennis, wrestling, basketball, soccer, softball, swimming & diving, track & field, golf, and water polo. CIF Sections conduct championships in more than 26 sports. Visit CIF at CIFState.org and follow on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @CIFState.
About Playfly Sports
Playfly Sports is the full-service, leading sports marketing and media company that enables brands to engage with sports fans on a local, regional, and national level through scaled linear, digital, and experiential assets. Playfly Sports drives outcome-based solutions into 90-million households via more than 7,800 live U.S. broadcasts of MLB, NBA, and NHL games; and influences sports fans of all ages through the management of high school and college multimedia rights, uniform branding, and high-profile sports sponsorship platforms. The company introduces high school and college students to career development opportunities in esports through CSL Esports, operators of North America's largest college esports league. Playfly Sports has the unique ability to partner, innovate, and advance the aspirations of athletes, brands, academic institutions, and sports fans across the U.S. Playfly Sports is Powered by Partnership. Visit Playfly Sports online at playfly.com and follow Playfly Sports on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook: @PlayflySports.