SOURCE: Rivals.com
Riddell Footwear and Rivals.com have teamed up to present the first ever Riddell Footwear High School All-American Football Team.
The Riddell Footwear High School All-American Football Team, formerly known as the
Rivals.com High School All-America Team, shall consist of the best football players in the entire country. Additionally, the team will bestow seven special coaching awards - one to the national high school coach of the year and six more to regional coaches of the year throughout the country.
?Rivals.com is excited to join together with Riddell Footwear for this endeavor,? says Bobby Burton, director of network development for Rivals.com. ?The All-America team is one of our most popular features. And we have set up a way for the fans and players alike to track the progress of the team throughout the season,? he adds.
Nominations for the 22-member All-America team will begin to be announced next week, with in-depth profiles and background information about each candidate. The first position nominations to be covered will be the quarterbacks, and other positions will follow on a bi-weekly basis.
Then in January, the actual team members will be announced, along with the Riddell Footwear National Coach of the Year and six Riddell Footwear Regional Coaches of the Year.
?This partnership is a perfect fit for us,? says Chip Walther, regional sales manager at Riddell Footwear. ?The heritage of Riddell Footwear really is in football and these awards are specifically designed to recognize the best of the best the elite high school players and coaches in the country.?
The nominations and award winners can be found on both RivalsHigh.com and Rivals100.com. A special section of the pages will be dedicated to the Riddell Footwear High School All-American Football Team. The nominations and award winners can also be found on the Riddell Footwear homepage, which can be found at http://www.Riddellfootwear.com.