The MassLive High School Sports team has focused on Western Massachusetts for the past 11 years with coverage of every varsity sport played by Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA) membership schools.
Countless state championship stories, season previews and impactful features have been produced by our team in the region.
Western Massachusetts is where the roots of our coverage were planted over a decade ago, and that will continue to be the case.
But looking ahead to the 2024-2025 academic year, MassLive is excited to spread those roots in the eastern part of the state.
MassLive has hired a new team to cover all the schools and sports in the Bay State and Catholic Conferences starting this fall. Every member of this team will be committed to learning the traditions of all 19 schools across both conferences and being at the games, matches and meets that matter.
MassLive is a statewide digital media outlet and the leading news site in New England with an average of 5 million unique visitors each month*.
MassLive is part of the Advance Local network and has offices in the Springfield, Worcester and Greater Boston areas. The media outlet has a focus on news, sports and entertainment in the commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MassLive pays particular attention to the student-athletes that make up high school sports teams in its coverage area. Every varsity athlete, varsity team and MIAA membership school in MassLive’s coverage area has an individual page with statistics and associated articles.
Along with its statistical coverage of athletes and teams, MassLive produces content in almost every format:
MassLive’s Gage Nutter during a Western Massachusetts boys basketball championship game between Springfield Central and Putnam in 2020.Douglas Hook
Starting this fall, MassLive will bring together the perspectives of high school sports reporters from across the state with the publication of a statewide Top 25 football media poll.
Much like the Associated Press does for college football, reporters from different outlets across the state will contribute their own unique Top 25 rankings every week during the season. Once all rankings have been submitted, an aggregate list will be put together of the rankings from all voters to make an official Massachusetts high school football poll, noting which teams received first-place votes and which teams just missed the cut.
In addition to producing content on Western Massachusetts, Catholic and Baystate Conference programs, MassLive will also cover every state championship in each division across every MIAA sanctioned sport starting this fall. MassLive will also continue its relationship with the MIAA, producing live shows releasing the state tournament brackets each season.
MassLive isn’t taking away any resources from its Western Mass. coverage team during this expansion.
In fact, the region will get more coverage.
The company has hired and elevated more high school sports reporters during this expansion, which means more feature stories, more game coverage and more reporters in the stands and sidelines across Hampshire, Hampden, Berkshire and Franklin counties.
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*According to independent media measurement company Comscore
