The mission of Kansas Athletes, together with its partners, including KSAthletics.com, is to provide high quality photographs and news coverage of Kansas athletes and athletic events to our nonprofit partners for the public good. Our name Kansas Athletes reflects our focus on the dignity of athletes as people to be supported and represented, rather than the sadly more common media view of athletics as an entertainment industry to be exploited for profit. Kansas Athletes will never be a partisan supporter of only one side at a competition, or of only one institution at an event. All athletes competing in Kansas, including athletes from elsewhere, as well as athletes from Kansas competing elsewhere, are all equally included. The job of each of our media people and photographers is to work for every person in each event they cover and to capture them not only with quantity but also and even more so with quality.
Kansas Athletes provides its absolutely free news agency services exclusively to those truly nonprofit organizations and entities who do not receive any revenue at all and serve only the public good. We operate in the greater community of media resources by providing links, news content, and photography to a comprehensive network of fellow Kansas press providers—from large publications like VYPE to hometown newspapers like the Norton Telegram, all the way to national publications like Rand McNally road atlases and nonprofit charitable photography for Walmart. Our talented photography staff also contribute to a variety of out-of-state and national publications, from Florida to California, published from the Wichita Eagle to the Chicago Tribune.
Most importantly, every year for many years Kansas Athletes provides over 3,000 completely free licenses to its content at absolutely no charge completely for the public good, within the Kansas borders.
KS Athletes intentionally operates just as a good non-profit press service should—primarily in the background, meeting needs without being noticed. Annually, however, we also share directly our most important and, as always, completely free contribution to the public good, our annual complete analysis of the world's largest track and field meet. We cooperate with other national and international nonprofit organizations such as the IITCF and Historic Images to occasionally provide popular photo highlights and/or photo galleries with human-interest value to the Kansas community.
The content-delivery network of KS Athletes, gameday.solutions, is powered by a 40 Gbps backbone of multiple Linode.com, Atlantic.net, and HiVelocity servers with 4x-redundancy or better for pure game-day reliability.
