Community broadcasts content material partnership with The Washington Submit, considerably expands DMV area highschool basketball protection for upcoming season
Washington, D.C. (December 5, 2024) – As a part of Monumental Sports activities Community’s (MNMT) purpose to raise native sports activities in any respect ranges, the community introduced at this time plans to stream seven prestigious D.C.-area highschool basketball tournaments throughout the 2024-25 season.
The seven tournaments function each girls and boys video games and can happen at numerous areas all through Maryland and Virginia, starting with a number of video games from the Capital Invitational on Thursday, December 12 at Sidwell Buddies Faculty’s campus in Bethesda, MD. Different tournaments on MNMT embrace the Champions Basic at South Lake Excessive Faculty (Dec 21; Reston, VA), Christy Winters Scott Invitational at The Saint James (Dec 31; Springfield, VA), Basketball Day within the DMV at DeMatha Excessive Faculty (Jan 12; Bethesda, MD), St. James MLK Basic at The Saint James (Jan 20; Springfield, VA), and the Maryland Personal Faculty State Basketball Event (Mar 5 and seven; location TBD). In complete, MNMT will air almost 30 highschool basketball video games this season.
“Monumental Sports activities Community is elated to additional its dedication to offering top-of-the-line native sports activities protection by bringing the joy of highschool basketball to followers throughout the DMV and past,” mentioned Friday Abernethy, Normal Supervisor for Monumental Sports activities Community. “Our area has a wealthy basketball custom in any respect ranges, and by streaming seven main highschool tournaments this season, we’re offering an unimaginable platform for these athletes to showcase their expertise on a significant stage. We’re excited that followers nationwide can expertise the power and keenness of DMV highschool basketball with knowledgeable broadcast really feel.”
The highschool video games will function a number of nationally ranked girls and boys basketball groups from all through Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia (the DMV), in addition to outstanding groups from Florida, Illinois, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and extra.
Taking part in on Monumental Sports activities Community represents a particular alternative for highschool athletes to showcase their talents on a significant regional sports activities platform. Notably, the video games will likely be accessible to stream all through the nation. Basketball followers from coast to coast can watch the video games on their most popular streaming gadget through monumentalplus.com or by downloading the Monumental+ app on iOS, Android, Apple TV, Roku, and Amazon Fireplace TV and utilizing an eligible log-in. Followers enthusiastic about viewing MNMT’s highschool basketball protection should buy annual memberships priced at $199.99 per yr at monumentalplus.com (financial savings of $39.89 per yr in comparison with twelve months of a month-to-month subscription). Month-to-month memberships are additionally accessible at $19.99 per thirty days.
Monumental is producing and airing the video games without charge to the faculties and every sport will embrace knowledgeable broadcast workforce, together with on-air play-by-play and coloration commentary. Play-by-play announcers embrace MNMT expertise Bijan Todd, Tyler Byrum, and Shaun Salehi. Colour commentators embrace MNMT personalities and DMV basketball insiders Christy Winters Scott, Jimmy Patsos, and extra.
As a part of MNMT’s highschool basketball protection, the community has partnered with The Washington Submit to function its famend All-Met highschool sports activities content material and branding as a part of the reside sport broadcasts and different MNMT programming. This dynamic collaboration will have a good time the legacy of previous All-Met basketball gamers and amplify the legacy of the DMV’s wealthy highschool sports activities panorama. Followers can anticipate to see co-branded content material throughout quite a lot of platforms and programming, together with the reside highschool basketball streams on MNMT, pre- and postgame segments for Wizards broadcasts, articles and video content material on the Monumental+ app, and MNMT social media platforms.
Final month, MNMT introduced a sturdy 2024-25 faculty basketball schedule, that includes 67 DMV area video games via partnerships with HBCU GO, George Washington College, College of Richmond, Hampton College, George Mason College, and Towson College. That complete represents essentially the most faculty basketball video games to air on the community throughout a single season and contains 31 girls’s video games and 38 video games that includes HBCUs.
Along with the community’s faculty and highschool basketball protection, Monumental Sports activities Community is the unique native tv media rights holder for the NBA’s Washington Wizards, NHL’s Washington Capitals, WNBA’s Washington Mystics, and NBA G League’s Capital Metropolis Go-Go. It additionally proudly boasts a complete schedule of unique programming and reside faculty soccer, faculty volleyball, and esports, in addition to Washington Spirit (NWSL), Outdated Glory DC (Main League Rugby), Washington Freedom (Main League Cricket), and Annapolis Blues (NPSL) video games. In complete, MNMT will air near 500 video games throughout the 2024-25 season, an all-time excessive.
The present broadcast schedule for the primary 4 highschool basketball tournaments on MNMT will be discovered under, with a chance of extra video games to be added. Video games featured on MNMT for the ultimate three tournaments will likely be introduced at a later date.
2024-25 Excessive Faculty Basketball on Monumental Sports activities Community
Capital Invitational – December 12 (Women)
4:00 PM – Whitney Younger (IL) vs. St John’s Faculty HS (DC)
5:30 PM – Palm Bay (FL) vs. Sidwell Buddies (DC)
7:00 PM – Central Level Christian (FL) vs. Bishop McNamara (MD)
8:30 PM – IMG Academy (FL) vs. Bishop Ireton (VA)
Champions Basic – December 21 (Boys)
12:00 PM – Woodgrove (VA) vs. Patriot (VA)
1:45 PM – Frederick (MD) vs. Sandy Spring (MD)
3:30 PM – Wesleyan Christian (NC) vs. DeMatha (MD)
5:15 PM – Penn Constitution (PA) vs. Jackson Reed (DC)
7:00 PM – Mt. St. Joseph (MD) vs. South Lake (VA)
Christy Winters Scott Invitational – December 31 (Women)
10:30 AM – Lake Braddock (VA) vs. South Lakes (VA)
12:00 PM – Charles Herbert Flowers (MD) vs. Maret Faculty (DC)
1:40 PM – Rosedale Christian (MD) vs. Virginia Academy (VA)
3:20 PM – Japanese (DC) vs. Governor Thomas Johnson (MD)
Basketball Day within the DMV – January 12 (Boys)
10:30 AM – Cardozo (DC) vs. Good Counsel (MD)
12:15 PM – Springdale Prep (MD) vs. 1 Of 1 Academy (NC)
2:00 PM – Mt. Zion (MD) vs. Christ Faculty (NC)
3:45 PM – Georgetown Prep (MD) vs. Highland (VA)
5:30 PM – Friendship Tech Prep (DC) vs. Bishop McNamara (MD)
7:15 PM – Miller Faculty (VA) vs. St. Andrews (MD)
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About Monumental Sports activities Community
Monumental Sports activities Community is wholly owned and operated by Monumental Sports activities & Leisure (MSE). The community holds unique native tv media rights for the NHL’s Washington Capitals, NBA’s Washington Wizards and WNBA’s Washington Mystics video games. MNMT can also be the TV and digital house to the NBA G League’s Capital Metropolis Go-Go and the NBA 2K League’s Wizards District Gaming in addition to unique behind-the-scenes content material and unique sports activities and leisure programming. The community additionally boasts essentially the most complete regional highschool and collegiate sports activities programming within the larger Washington D.C. metro space. For extra, go to: www.monumentalsportsnetwork.com.
