ESPN HS(2011-2012)
RISE(2006-2011)
SchoolSports(1997-2006)

Categories	Sports
Frequency	Monthly
Total circulation (2011)	1,005,422[1]
Founded	1997
Final issue	September 2012
Company	ESPN
Country	United States
Based in	Boston
Language	English
Website	espn.go.com/high-school/

ESPN HS was ahigh school sportsmagazine published monthly during the school year in 25 markets around the United States. Founded asSchoolSports magazine in 1997, the publication changed its name toRISE in 2006 and was purchased byESPN in January 2008. In 2011, the magazine's title was changed toESPN HS.

The magazine ceased publication in September 2012 after ESPN decided to close its high school sports unit.^[2]

Sensing the high school sports market was being undercovered by local newspapers and television stations,SchoolSports was founded in 1997^[3] in the Greater Boston area. In addition to being one of the first publications dedicated to covering high school sports, SchoolSports also gave student-athletes a voice by allowing them to submit articles for publication in the SchoolBeat section. The magazine's distribution model was also unique, as the publication was sent directly to area high schools free of charge.

Over the next 10 years, the magazine expanded to 25 markets and was published in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Miami, Detroit, Houston, Colorado, Arizona, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Central Florida, St. Louis, Minnesota, Oregon, San Antonio/Austin, Indiana and New Jersey. All told, the magazine had a peak monthly circulation of more than 1,000,000.

In conjunction with the magazine's 10th year of publication in 2006–07, the name was changed fromSchoolSports toRISE to reflect its emergence as the nation's leading teen lifestyle magazine in addition to its top-notch prep sports coverage.

The magazine's name was changed again toESPN HS in 2011, but that name lasted only one year before the publication was discontinued.

In the summer of 2006, RISE first put on a groundbreaking high school basketball showcase called the Elite 24. The game brought together the nation's top 24 high school basketball players, regardless of school year, for a game at Harlem's historicRucker Park. The game's official name is theBoost Mobile Elite 24 Hoops Classic.

Beginning during the 2006–07 school year, RISE teamed withGatorade to continue Gatorade's long-standingPlayer of the Year program.

Beginning during the 2007–08 school year, RISE began publishing GIRL, a first-of-its-kind magazine dedicated solely to girls' high school athletics. Now-WNBA starElena Delle Donne, then attending and playing forUrsuline Academy inDelaware, was the first cover subject of GIRL in the fall of 2007.^[4]

• ESPN Acquires SchoolSports Inc. - Publisher of RISE Magazine
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• https://web.archive.org/web/20080501094410/http://playeroftheyear.gatorade.com/playeroftheyear/

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• Defunct teen magazines published in the United States

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