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Live streams help widen audience of high school sports

Technology helps grow trend that took off during COVID

By Meg Wochnick, Columbian staff writer
Published: November 24, 2022, 6:00am
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Prairie High School's first-round state volleyball match, which took place in Yakima last week, broadcast by the NHFS Network, shown on a laptop and iPhone.
Prairie High School's first-round state volleyball match, which took place in Yakima last week, broadcast by the NHFS Network, shown on a laptop and iPhone. (Meg Wochnick/The Columbian) Photo Gallery

As busy as home-event days can be for high school athletic directors, hands-off technology is the least of Paul Huddleston’s worries at Woodland High School.

“That’s what I love about it,” he said. “I literally do nothing. They run themselves.”

Huddleston, the school’s AD since 2010, is talking about the new automated cameras mounted atop Woodland’s gymnasium and Beaver Stadium that live stream events without a need for a human operator or a push of a button.

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