Prep Sportswear’s Partnership with Alumni Channel Targets Core Market of Nostalgic High
School Alumni

SEATTLE, WA, May 1, 2009 – Prep Sportswear, the largest school and team sports marketplace for high school apparel and merchandise, announced an alliance with Alumni Channel. Prep Sportswear will provide print-on demand high school gear for their hosted online communities. Alumni Channels clients consist of small colleges, high schools and special interest membership groups throughout North America seeking an official alumni web site.

Alumni Channel was founded in 1998, with a platform that contained a simple guestbook and links to photos. Today, they’ve grown to hosting and creating dynamic alumni communities and building better alumni relations programs.
Prep Sportswear offers the ability to customize t-shirts, hoodies, sweatshirts, caps and hundreds of other sportswear and apparel items with an individual’s sport, activity, class year, number, or name. While maintaining a focus on schools and teams, Prep Sportswear is rapidly growing into the collegiate, corporate, and recreational sports markets.
Kelly Holmes, Business Development Manager of Prep Sportswear, said, “Alumni Channel is such a great fit for us as a partner. The company’s database of registered alumni and group members allow us to directly target one of our core markets with product images that are completely customized to what that user is looking for.”

About Prep Sportswear
Prep Sportswear is the leader in the school and team sports marketplace for customized school apparel and merchandise. We’ve supported more than 4.3 million teams and 1 million custom web stores, encouraging participants, coaches, students, parents, alumni, and fans to create, design, and buy personalized products. Prep Sportswear offers more than 1,200 high-quality items from a variety of premium brands, including Nike, Adidas,
Champion, OGIO, and American Apparel.

The company helps schools, teams, booster clubs, and community service organizations improve fundraising capabilities, increase revenues, and reduce the cost and complexity of managing and marketing apparel and uniform purchasing.   Prep Sportswear is privately funded and located in Seattle, WA.

Media Contacts:
Leslie LaRue
Prep Sportswear
206.876.2800 x127
llarue@prepsportswear.com

Michigan City, Indiana –– Alumni Channel, a web provider of online alumni communities for schools and other non-profit organizations, announced that Marquette Catholic High School of Michigan City, Indiana, is relying on the company’s online community solution to develop closer relationships with its alumni.

Jennifer Quinlan, Marquette’s Director of Advancement, made a commitment to begin implementation of the Alumni Channel for their online alumni community. Continue reading →

With the addition of two communities for the Somerset County Vocational & Technical Foundation, Alumni Channel is now hosting over 60 communities for elementary and high schools, colleges, alumni groups, and other non-profits.  This milestone has come after two and a half years of working with school and non-profit leaders to develop a program that helps them reconnect with their constituents.   Attractive features to alumni of all ages draw alumni back to the site for reunion updates, message board conversations, member searches and more.  The data collected is then available to our clients in the way of reports and downloads, as well as reaching alumni through our e-mail blast technology.

This year we plan to develop further relationships with many more schools and education foundations.  Alumni Channel is exhibiting at the National School Foundation Association conference in March, and the National Catholic Education Association conference in April.  We also look forward to our presentations at many regional and area events in the areas of development and alumni relations.

As January comes to a close I am ever mindful of what an exciting year this will be.  With history’s most exciting presidential inauguration behind us, and new strategies for connecting with alumni emerging every month, we are sure to have many exciting opportunities in front of us all.  As our alumni populations get smarter with technology each and every day we here at Alumni Channel will be concentrating on the latest trends in on-line strategies, such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and SchoolTube, e-mail marketing/communications, MySpace, LinkedIn, and more. Continue reading →

CHERRY HILL, N.J. – Alumni Channel, a web provider of online alumni communities for schools and other non-profit organizations, announced today that Institute of Audio Research of New York, New York, is relying on the company’s online community solution to develop closer relationships with its alumni. Continue reading →

CHERRY HILL, N.J. – Alumni Channel, a web provider of online alumni communities for schools and other non-profit organizations, announced today that Mater Dei Catholic High School of Breese, Illinois, is relying on the company’s online community solution to develop closer relationships with its alumni. Continue reading →

CHERRY HILL, N.J. – Alumni Channel, a web provider of online alumni communities for schools and other non-profit organizations, announced today that Houston Christian High School of Houston, Texas, is relying on the company’s online community solution to develop closer relationships with its alumni. Continue reading →

Alumni Channel will be attending the following events in October and November.  We welcome you to stop by and visit us at any of these four upcoming events. Continue reading →

CHERRY HILL, N.J. – Alumni Channel, a web provider of online alumni communities for schools and other non-profit organizations, announced today that DeSales High School of Geneva, New York, is relying on the company’s online community solution to develop closer relationships with its alumni. Continue reading →

CHERRY HILL, N.J. – Alumni Channel, a web provider of online alumni communities for schools and other non-profit organizations, announced today that Mater Dei High School of New Monmouth, N.J., is relying on the company’s online community solution to develop closer relationships with its alumni. Continue reading →