About AlmanacSports.com

AlmanacSports.com is the collaboration of two brothers, Dan and Joe Engler, who love and have an interest in the promotion and history of Indiana high school sports, with an emphasis on Southwestern Indiana. AlmanacSports.com is owned and operated by Almanac Sports, LLC.

Joe, a computer programmer for IBM, lives in Evansville, Ind. with his wife Jen and their two daughters. Joe, who has coached soccer for several years, won two state championships during his time living in North Carolina and now coaches in the Evansville area. He played soccer for Reitz High School and graduated in 1997.

Dan, who lives in Millersville, Tenn. with his wife Melissa, has refereed, coached and covered football since 1994, when he worked on the Reitz Mirror high school newspaper. Dan, who also played football for Reitz High School, was nicknamed 'Rudy' by his teammates and graduated in 1996.

History of the Site
The site's beginnings go back to the fall of 1996, when on Dan's Reitz Football website, he began covering the football standings for schools in the Big Eight, PAC and SIAC.

In late 1996, this section was separated into its own site, called "District 5 Football." (At the time, the IHSAA divided Indiana into five districts, the fifth covering the southern portion of the state.) The site was renamed "Southern Indiana High School Football" in September 1998.

In November 1999, Dan was courted by the Rivals Sports Network to cover football and several other sports throughout Indiana. After agreeing to join, Dan created the name "Hoosier Preps" and his site became a part of Rivals' national network of pro, college and high school sports websites.

Rivals folded in April 2001, and, as the national network fell apart, the site again became independent. At that time, the original version of AlmanacSports.com was started and became the home page for the Almanac Sports Network, which consisted of a redesigned "Hoosier Preps" (focusing only on football) and ReitzFootball.com.

In 2002, "Hoosier Preps" was subdivided and became "Southwestern Indiana High School Football" and "Statewide Football."

In 2003, "Statewide Football" was renamed "Hoosier Prep Football;" both it and "Southwestern Indiana High School Football" saw major redesigns.

Toward the end of 2004, Joe had begun to work on a soccer site that would cover area schools. It was then that he and Dan realized that they should combine their efforts and merge their sites into one, building a brand new AlmanacSports.com, covering football, soccer and much more!

On July 1, 2005, the new site went online. Now, boasting alliances with key partners throughout the state, AlmanacSports.com has become the premier site of its kind in Indiana!