Our effort to provide the girls with the same coverage NHsportspage has brought to boys basketball over the last eight years has stalled. To date we have received support from several parents & coaches from programs including;

Lebanon
Souhegan
Hollis-Brookline
Merrimack
Kennett
Windham
Kingswood
Milford
Merrimack Valley
and Epping

 We will begin coverage of girls basketball next season with standings, box scores & scoring leaders (I have already brought someone on to cover this role for NHsportspage) but with the level of support girls basketball has received that is all we can provide for coverage unless the support begins to come in.

 Our hope was that if one out of every two programs in the state was able to register for $50 we could provide video highlights, comprehensive previews and game of the week coverage beginning next season. To date we have not gotten the support to bring on four people for girls coverage.

 My hope is that this article, which I will email to every coach in the state, will draw enough support to make this a reality. We would love to bring girls basketball coverage to you beginning next season but in order for that to happen we need the support for it today.

As we wrap up our 8th year of boys basketball coverage on NHsportspage this week I think it’s time we start including Girls Basketball in our coverage. In fact it’s long overdue.

 A quick story…

 While I was interviewing the Winnacunnet basketball team after their first round win over defending champion Londonderry four members of the girl’s team stood to the side watching the team-wide interview.

 As soon as we were done the girls approached me and our videographer Jennifer Chick (a former point guard at Coe-Brown) and asked us why we weren’t covering girls’ basketball like we do the boys?

 That’s a question I have been asked in person, over email, text, Twitter and Facebook. I even think someone randomly yelled it to me once at UNH. ‘Why aren’t the girls getting the same coverage the boys do?’

 The answer is pretty simple; we are a team of five people who bring high school boys basketball scoring leaders, extensive previews, weekly columns and of course our video highlights to our audience every day.

 In 2016 we had an average of just over 2,200 "unique visitors" to the site every week (meaning if you logged on from your phone, IPAD or computer every day for a week, you still only register as a single "visitor" for that week). The highlight videos we post on YouTube are nearing 300,000 total views; those are views from people from all over the state(and outside of NH too) watching our coverage of of New Hampshire High School Basketball & Football. All this makes NHSportspage.com the largest website of it's kind in New England...and we do this as a part-time, second job. 

 To answer those girls and every other person who has reached out to me in one way or another; we cannot possibly do more than we are now.
 
 What we can do is hire four people to join our team and begin our coverage in November of 2016.

 Previews, scoring leaders from all four divisions, three to four featured games of the week all the way to the four championship games in March and we cover every team from Colebrook to Pinkerton.

 To do that we need every person that’s wants to see the girls get the same level of coverage the boys get to come forward.

 I have pledged on Twitter and our weekly radio show that if we get 100 registrations in support of Girls’ basketball I will bring on four people to begin coverage.

Right now we have four people in support of these girls getting wall to wall coverage, we need 96 more. With over 90 high schools competing in the four girls divisions that basically breaks down to a single person per school.

 Now if that means the boosters support this initiative, the coaches or the parents, that will be determined. If you would love to see Girls basketball coverage begin in 2016 but plan to sit back and let others support the coverage it won’t happen.

 I’m answering all of those emails, texts and questions. Yes we can cover the girls; we just need to see they have the support.

 We want this to happen; we know the girls do and the coaches as well. We are ready to begin. We need you to show the girls your support.

 A one-time $50 registration gets you full access to NHsportspage through the 2017 season (the price will be increasing to about $150 after this push) and your registration will count towards the number to give girls basketball the most comprehensive coverage of high school basketball in all of New England.

 If you are a player, a parent or a coach who would like to see the girls covered at the same level that we have brought to both football & basketball, please register today.
 
Thank you,
David Haley
Owner NHsportspage