Wisconsin Sports Network is an integrated publishing company with a focus on student athletes, their communities, families, friends, fans and coaches within the Wisconsin prep scene. It was created in 2002 by Nicholas Kartos, who was joined soon after by Rick Hamilton. The company currently publishes three websites: WisHoops.net, WisFootball.net and WisSports.net. Wishoops.net launched on November 18, 2002 and quickly became a top resource for high school basketball information in the state of Wisconsin. The following year WisFootball.net, a high school football site, and WisSports.net, a general sports message board, were added.
Since its inception, WSN has also added coverage for boys and girls hockey, boys and girls track and field, baseball, softball, wrestling, and boys and girls swimming. Beginning in 2008, WSN published the official boys track and field honor roll for the Wisconsin Track Coaches Association.
In 2007 TDS Telecom purchased a majority ownership of WSN. In February of 2012, TDS completed a sale of the company to TST Media, a company best known for its NGIN website platform, which powers more than 3,000 leagues and sports organizations around the country, including WisSports.net.
Since 2002 WSN has accumulated:
- over 300 million page views
- 1,000,000+ unique IP addresses
- Bookmarked over 2,000,000 times
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