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Mason High School Uses Website As Digital Newsroom for Athletics
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Mason High School wanted to celebrate its athletic achievements while also empowering journalism students to tell those stories through a professional, public platform.
Earlier attempts to create an athletics website were limited by outdated tools, inconsistent access, and funding challenges. Without a central hub, team news and student work were scattered across multiple channels, leaving families and the community without a reliable source for updates.
Mason needed a modern, student-managed athletics website that combined accessibility, professional design, and hands-on learning for future journalists.
THE CHALLENGE
CREATING A STUDENT-RUN PLATFORM THAT BRINGS MASON ATHLETICS TO LIFE
Mason High School partnered with Legend to develop a digital home that brought athletics, journalism, and community pride together.
The new website had to be easy for students to update, flexible enough to grow with the program, and professional enough to reflect the quality of the school’s athletics and media curriculum.
The challenge was to design a platform that gave students ownership of their content while ensuring long-term reliability, security, and ADA compliance for educators.
THE SOLUTION
A MODERN, ACCESSIBLE WEBSITE BUILT FOR STUDENT STORYTELLING
The result of Mason High School’s collaboration with Legend is gomasoncomets.com, a student-managed athletics website that operates as a live newsroom. Students in the journalism and media program can now write, edit, and publish stories, photos, and videos directly to the site, gaining hands-on experience in digital storytelling.
From the start, the project was guided by student input and teacher collaboration. The site’s design reflects Mason’s green and white color palette, incorporating logos and graphics that celebrate school spirit in a clean, professional layout.
Legend provided direct training and ongoing support to help students manage the site with confidence. The platform also includes ADA-compliant features and built-in safety controls that allow educators to oversee activity while students learn professional publishing standards.
THE OUTCOME
EMPOWERING THE NEXT GENERATION OF STORYTELLERS
Mason’s online presence now reflects the energy, pride, and professionalism that define its athletic programs, strengthening both student engagement and community connection
The new website functions as a real newsroom, giving students professional publishing experience while providing the community with a dependable source for updates, photos, and features. Through every story, recap, and highlight, it prepares students to grow their skills and share their voices with confidence.
Mason High School’s new site not only serves the current class of aspiring journalists but also sets the stage for years of high-quality sports reporting and the continued development of future sports reporters.
KEY METRICS
- Schedules and rosters are updated each season, with new photos added throughout the year.
- Articles are published bi-weekly, often sourced from The Chronicle, Mason’s student newspaper.
- Video content is uploaded monthly through MBC Sports, the student-run broadcast program.
- Three students currently manage the site, with one acting as lead editor and liaison between the journalism teacher and Legend.
- Ten student photographers, three broadcast journalism students, and five print journalists have already had their work published, with participation continuing to grow.
- Administrators and community members now rely on the site as the central hub for Mason Athletics news and updates.
A STUDENT’S PERSPECTIVE
“It’s incredibly satisfying to see the content come together and make the site more user accessible.”
Kallen Hansen, a Mason High School senior who has worked on the site for three years, shared what the project has meant to her:
“I love organizing everything. It’s incredibly satisfying to see the content come together and make the site more user accessible. It’s helped me explore web design and development and understand what it takes to make a website live and successful.”
“I’m proud that there is a dedicated page for our school’s Water Polo team. It helped bring recognition to a program that deserves to be celebrated within our community.”
