The College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) has announced that ASAP Sports, Inc, the industry leader in providing quick and reliable transcripts of press conferences and interviews throughout the world of sports, has become a corporate sponsor and partner for the 2,500 member national organization.
ASAP Sports, Inc., whose FastScripts are produced remotely and on-site for more than 70 clients world-wide, including all of this nation's professional sports leagues as well as numerous colleges, universities and conferences, will begin its new sponsorship and partnership agreement at this June's annual CoSIDA Convention in San Antonio and it will continue throughout the entire 2009-10 academic year.
“We are excited to welcome ASAP Sports into CoSIDA’s growing corporate partner program,” said 2008-09 CoSIDA President Nick Joss, Senior Associate Athletics Director/External Affairs at Baylor University. “ASAP Sports is an industry leader and offers outstanding services to the sports communications field. We look forward to working with them to advance our membership’s knowledge of their services.”
“ASAP Sports is proud to partner with CoSIDA, which has quickly recognized the ever increasing role of athletic websites in the SID’s communication arsenal,” notes company president Peter Balestrieri. “We hope our newest product, WebScripts, streaming text of press conferences onto a university or college’s athletic website will help Sports Information Directors meet this new demand, and we thank SIDs for the support they’ve shown ASAP Sports throughout the years.
ASAP Sports, Inc. joins Lowe's Senior CLASS Award and Collegiate Images as first-time CoSIDA corporate partners. They join ESPN, Internet Consulting Services (ICS), CollegeFanz Network, DigiPix Art, CBS College Sports TV Network, the NCAA, TRZ Sports and Sports Systems, Inc. as organizations that have renewed their CoSIDA corporate partnerships for the 2009-10 year.
About ASAP Sports, Inc.
Founded in 1989, ASAP Sports’ objective is simple: to instantly deliver a sport organization's message to its media, fans, students, and alumni. They do that with instant text of the spoken word--streamed onto athletic websites or delivered to target media.
www.asapsports.com ASAP Sports Products:
WebScripts™ Real-time and on-demand streaming text of audio and video onto athletic websites
FastScripts®-- Instant Transcripts delivered in many formats
MobileScripts TM--FastScripts on-the-go, through iPhones, BlackBerrys, PDAs, and the web.
They also provide streaming text of play-by-play action for stadium and arena fans, on Jumbotrons or internal visual monitors.
About CoSIDA
Chartered in 1957, CoSIDA is the nation’s largest organization (over 2500 members) for intercollegiate sports communications and public relations professionals. CoSIDA, which founded the "Academic All-America” program, aims to build value and understanding for public and media relations, communications and information presentation within the intercollegiate athletics community. Among its primary overall objectives are to advance the standards, image and role of the sports public relations profession within the intercollegiate athletics community, to provide members with professional development opportunities through initial and continuing education programs, and advance the organization’s profile and image on the national, regional and campus levels. For more information visit
www.cosida.com