Prep Ticket

Prep Ticket (abbreviated PTO) is a website that offers professionally produced video, photos, and news of high school and college athletics from across the United States. Prep Ticket is also a video and photo sharing website where users can upload, view and share content. Along with localized and national high school and college sports news, PTO offers individual school pages where users can become a "favorite" of.

Primarily, PTO has done extensive coverage of Texas high school athletics over the past fifteen years, and is known as the leader in aggregation of video and photos from Texas high school football and basketball games.

PTO is partnered with Sports Stars of Tomorrow (and its cable counterpart, Future Phenoms), a nationally syndicated high school sports television show hosted by Pat Summerall featuring the top prep athletes in the country.^[2] Video clips from the show are featured in the national section of site.

Prominent athletes that have been featured on Prep Ticket are: Matt Barkley, Garrett Gilbert, Tyreke Evans, Michael Beasley, Greg Oden, Tim Tebow, Andrew Luck, and Aundre Dean.^[3]

Contents of a Prep Ticket profile

PTO's online social community is based on the Ning platform. Users are offered an interactive way to communicate with other members through personal profiles, blogs, video and photo commenting. Prep Ticket allows users to customize their user profile pages through HTML. Members can also upload personal music playlists for their profile page.

History

Prep Ticket was founded by GameDay Productions, a private television production company based in Fort Worth, Texas. The site was launched as a test in 2006 with most high school sports coverage coming from the Beaumont, Texas area. Since 2007, high school and college sports coverage has expanded to nationwide.

References

1. ↑ "Prepticket.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2012-08-02. 
2. ↑ Pursell, C. (2008, January 13).TargetVision Add 2 Series
3. ↑ (2007).CBS 2 SST video player.