The NOVA Baseball Magazine relaunches operations with a new format, several new features, and an extended coverage area in 2016.
All magazine content is now available to all of our readers as we have dropped the annual subscription program for premium content, thus enabling our feature stories and other great features such as our ‘Catching Up’ and ‘In the Dugout’ columns to reach everyone in the Northern Virginia baseball community.
We have extended our coverage area to include Fauquier County, Stafford County, Spotsylvania County and the City of Fredericksburg, which will increase our coverage reach to 79 high schools and will add Mary Washington University to our collegiate coverage that already included George Mason University and Marymount University.
We will focus more attention on video features, game highlights and broadcasts, many of which will be submitted by our readers. We have added a message board feature for those in the baseball community to banter about local baseball at the youth, travel, high school and collegiate levels.
Additionally, the magazine will have a more structured editorial calendar: including weekly feature stories on Tuesday and Thursday; editorials on Saturday; ‘Around the Diamond’ notebook updates on Monday, Wednesday and Friday (and possibly Sundays, though even the mag will need a day off); a ‘Player of the Week’ announced each Monday through October; our ‘Northern Virginia High School Top 10 Poll’ announced each Friday until the middle of June; and the e-Magazine release at the end of the month and made available in PDF format and to be ordered in print.
We are starting the year out as a one-man band - editor & publisher Joey Kamide - so will again lean on the baseball community to submit content, photos, Player of the Week nominees, and story ideas. We’re going to seek interns to help broaden our coverage, and will immediately begin prospecting local Northern Virginia businesses with the several advertising opportunities we have.
We are excited about the relaunch of the magazine, and everyone please bear with us as we get the ball rolling and look to build on the momentum we created in 2015.
Below is a list of our new, expanded coverage area:
Colleges: (3)
George Mason University (Fairfax)
Marymount University (Arlington)
Mary Washington University (Fredericksburg)
Arlington County: (4)
Bishop O’Connell High School
Yorktown High School Wakefield High School Washington-Lee High School
City of Alexandria: (4)
Bishop Ireton High School
Episcopal High School
T. C. Williams High School
St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes School
Fairfax County: (28)
Annandale High School Centreville High School Chantilly High School Thomas A. Edison High School Fairfax High School Falls Church High School
Flint Hill School
Hayfield Secondary School Herndon High School
Lake Braddock Secondary School Langley High School Robert E. Lee High School James Madison High School
George Mason High School George C. Marshall High School McLean High School Mount Vernon High School Oakton High School
Paul VI Catholic High School
Potomac School
Robinson Secondary School South County High School South Lakes High School J. E. B. Stuart High School Thomas Jefferson High School West Potomac High School West Springfield High School Westfield High School W.T. Woodson High School
* includes City of Falls Church
Fauquier County: (3)
Fauquier High School
Liberty High School
Kettle Run High School
City of Fredericksburg: (1)
James Monroe High School
Loudoun County: (15)
Briar Woods High School Broad Run High School Dominion High School Freedom High School Heritage High School John Champe High School Loudoun County High School Loudoun Valley High School Park View High School Potomac Falls High School Rock Ridge High School Stone Bridge High School Tuscarora High School Woodgrove High School Riverside High School
* includes City of Leesburg
Prince William County: (14)
Battlefield High School Brentsville District High School Forest Park High School Freedom High School Gar-Field Senior High School C. D. Hylton High School
John Paul the Great Catholic High School
Manassas Park High School
Osbourn High School Osbourn Park High School Patriot High School Potomac Senior High School Stonewall Jackson High School Woodbridge High School
* includes cities of Manassas and Manassas Park
Stafford County: (5)
Brooke Point High School
Colonial Forge High School
Mountain View High School
North Stafford High School
Stafford High School
Spotsylvania County: (5)
Chancellor High School Courtland High School Massaponax High School Riverbend High School Spotsylvania High School
