By PATRICK MEEHAN, Centenary Sports Information Director
Keeping an eye on Centenary sports has never been easier than it will be in the 2024-25 athletic year.
The Gents and Ladies will be sharply in focus as part of a Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference multi-year, seven-figure media rights agreement with FloSports, a global sports media company.
The SCAC becomes the fourth Division III conference to be featured on the upcoming FloCollege platform. The agreement will also fuel productions for the new SCACtv Network beginning in the 2024-25 academic year.
The SCAC is coming off one of its most successful seasons in league history as seven of the conference’s nine institutions placed in the final 2023-24 Division III LEARFIELD Directors’ Cup standings. This season also marked the third consecutive year the SCAC has placed five or more schools in the final rankings, the first time such a feat has occurred since the league posted a streak of six straight years from 2007-2012.
The SCAC follows the Landmark Conference, the New England Men’s and Women’s Athletic Conference and the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference to land on FloCollege, which will be the essential media platform for D-II and D-III athletics.
Over the length of the five-year partnership, FloSports will stream all live and on-demand SCAC events from participating members Centenary College, Colorado College, Concordia University (Texas), University of Dallas, McMurry University, University of the Ozarks, Schreiner University and University of St. Thomas, including the conference’s 18 championships on FloCollege. On-demand access will last for a period of 72 hours following each contest, after which video will be archived on the SCACtv Network and member institutions will be able to provide access free-of-charge through their institutional platforms. FloSports will also leverage the local, national and international brands of SCAC member institutions by producing original content and social media programming.
With 100 percent of revenue generated from the partnership being reinvested into SCAC member institutions, the agreement promises to create a more equitable standard across the conference for all broadcasts and further enhances production capabilities and quality of coverage across all sports.
FloSports college programming reached more than 38 million people in 2023 with more than 51 million live minutes watched for NCAA conference partner events in the 2022-2023 season. The company has committed $50 million into supporting its FloCollege platform, which will debut with more than 10,000 total NCAA events in 2024 in partnership with leading national conferences including the BIG EAST, Coastal Athletic Association, Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, Landmark Conference, New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference, South Atlantic Conference, Gulf South Conference, California Collegiate Athletic Association, and Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, with more on the horizon.
FloSports is available on the web and for download on mobile devices (iOS and Android) as well as smart TVs and streaming devices Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and more. Founded in 2006, FloSports is a global independent sports media company delivering live events, award-winning original content, always-on social experiences, and comprehensive sports data solutions to passionate and underserved sports communities interested in more than 25 different sports.
Contact Patrick at pmeehan@centenary.edu