SANTA ANA, CA – Santa Ana has claimed the title of Top High School Sports Community in California. Through the efforts of Godinez High School Athletic Director Lisa Treen and her athletic staff, the Grizzlies topped a rankings system designed to measure community engagement.
The accolade was awarded by software company VNN, whose sports marketing platform powers 2,500 high school athletic departments across 40 states including noblesvillemillers.com. By quantifying community support from July 2019 through August 2020 with a unique weighted average, each school received a score that could be compared across VNN’s network. The four main criteria of the average included popularity of content posted about the school’s sports teams (35%), coach involvement (20%), student body and fan engagement (35%) and positive influence within the company (10%). This was designed to level the playing field so schools of all sizes had an equal chance of reaching the top.
See the full list of winners below.
Region winners:
- Midwest: Noblesville High School (IN)
- West: Godinez High School (CA)
- Northeast: Sherwood High School (MD) Category top placers:
- Relationships and development: Northmont High School (OH)
- Coach support: (tie) West Bloomfield High School (MI) and Eastview High School (MN)
- Community interest: Bellaire High School (OH)
- Community engagement: Easley High School (SC)
State winners:
- Alabama: Hoover High School
- Arizona: Scottsdale Preparatory Academy
- Arkansas: Benton High School
- California: Godinez High School
- Colorado: Gateway High School
- Florida: South Fork High School
- Georgia: Parkview High School
- Idaho: Nampa High School
- Illinois: Dunlap High School
- Indiana: Noblesville High School
- Iowa: Grinnell Community High School
- Kansas: De Sota High School
- Kentucky: Henry County High School
- Louisiana: John Curtis Christian High School
- Maryland: Sherwood High School
- Massachusetts: Ludlow High School
- Michigan: Lapeer High School and West Ottawa High School (tie)
- Minnesota: Monticello High School
- Missouri: Jefferson High School
- Nebraska: Millard West High School
- Nevada: SLAM! Charter School
- North Carolina: D H Conley High School
- Ohio: Reynoldsburg High School
- Oklahoma: Blanchard High School
- Oregon: South Salem High School
- Pennsylvania: Ringgold High School
- South Carolina: Easley High School
- Tennessee: Maryville High School
- Texas: Temple High School
- Utah: Maple Mountain High School
- Virginia: Cosby High School
- Wisconsin: Kettle Moraine Lutheran High School
About VNN VNN’s sports marketing platform makes promoting programs easy for high school athletic directors. Now partnered with 15% of the nation’s high schools, VNN’s ‘new digital necessities’ including a collegiate-style website, team coordination app, fundraising tools, and plug-in services like digital tickets helps streamline the administration and promotion tasks athletic departments do on a daily basis, saving them time and connecting local communities closer to their high school sports more than ever before. Learn more at vnnsports.net.
