MINNEAPOLIS, MN--(Marketwire - February 16, 2010) - DigitalTown, Inc. (
F5-SIM (Sports In Motion) is an innovative developer of animation and software tools providing cutting edge 21st century solutions combined with sports expertise filling the needs of players, parents, spectators and coaches. F5-SIM provides teams, organizations and youth leagues sport-specific tools to visually engage players, coaches and fans to better understand and teach the game.
The three year agreement calls for F5-SIM to deliver software on a revenue share basis for DigitalTown 27,000 high school spirit sites and will work with DigitalTown on its related 43,000 town site development.
Each sport or activity has notable content experts, who provide the leadership, content design, credentials as well as access to all levels of players, coaches and suppliers of sports equipment and industry leaders in creating F5-SIM products.
Experts include:
| Football: | Dean Dalton, NFL & NCAA Coach 20+ years | |
| Basketball: | Trent Tucker, NBA Champion & NCAA All Big Ten player | |
| Hockey: | Lou Nanne, Olympic Champion & NHL player, coach and GM | |
| Soccer: | Alan Merrick, UK & USA professional player, coach and owner | |
| Recruiting: | Jimmy Gonzales, NCAA major college recruiting coordinator/director of football operations - 25 years | |
| Dance: | Tami Krause, Coach of Minnesota Vikings Cheerleaders -11 years | |
| Sailing: | Gordy Bowers, 5 time Olympic medalist | |
| Lacrosse: | John Danowski, Head Coach Duke University | |
| MMA: | Mark Waters, Klint Klaas & Dave Camarillo, founders MMA Faestro | |
| Softball: | Jenni Finch & Natasha Watley: Team USA Olympic Gold Medalists | |
| Human Movement: | P. Charles Williams, PhD, Athletic Performance expert |
"Not until the DigitalTown network of 27,000 hyper-local websites, have coaches and players been afforded the opportunity to have interactive access to world class sports experts. This is an exciting time." says, Dean Dalton, Chief Development Officer of F5-SIM.
Starting in mid 2010, F5-SIM will roll out with football, basketball, soccer, softball and lacrosse then expanding to 30 plus activities.
About DigitalTown
DigitalTown, Inc. in Burnsville, MN is developing a nationwide network of more than 27,000 local online communities for high school students, alumni, boosters and local citizens.
About F5-SIM
F5-SIM, LLC 10340 Viking Drive, Eden Prairie, MN. Sports In Motion aims to provide paradigm shifting technologies and original content that visually engage to improve how coaches teach, how players learn and how spectators enjoy the game. www.f5-sim.com
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Contact Information:
DigitalTown Company Contact:
info@digitaltown.com
(952)890-2362 (office)
F5-SIM Contact:
info@F5-SIM.com
(612)524-5624 (office)