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Big Day For WashingtonPreps.com And Washington Sports Network As Jerry Mercado Joins Rivals Affiliate

We are very excited to announce that Jerry Mercado, in addition to his stellar work at WSN, is now the Head Sports Analyst in Eastern Washington for Rivals.com through his brand new affiliation with WashingtonPreps.com; the Washington Rivals affiliate.

That puts him and the student-athletes of Eastern Washington into the stream of the Nations #1 Network in the Nation with over 300 analysts, hundreds of websites, and Tens of Millions of unique monthly readers. Rivals.com set the bar in the world of collegiate recruiting and

Big Day For WashingtonPreps.com And Washington Sports Network As Jerry Mercado Joins Rivals Affiliate

Let there be no doubt.  This is a day we will look back on and remember as the day that the kids of Eastern Washington landed their greatest asset.  Not that they did not already have him as the lead analyst for WashingtonSportsNetwork.com out of the Tri Cities.  

Today however is special as Jerry Mercado of WSN will be joining forces with WSN and WashingtonPreps.com as the Rivals.com Analyst for Eastern Washington.  We are so proud to have him in our family and to extend our on going relationship with the boys at WSN.  Read more about this big move right here!   Dirk Knudsen; washingtonpreps.com


 

We are very excited to announce that Jerry Mercado, in addition to his stellar work at WSN, is now the Head Sports Analyst in Eastern Washington for Rivals.com through his brand new affiliation with WashingtonPreps.com; the Washington Rivals affiliate.

That puts him and the student-athletes of Eastern Washington into the stream of the Nations #1 Network in the Nation with over 300 analysts, hundreds of websites, and Tens of Millions of unique monthly readers. Rivals.com set the bar in the world of collegiate recruiting and maintains itself as the #1 source in the Nation. Find out more about this incredible company, owned by Yahoo Sports, right here.

Nothing will change with his involvement with Washington Sports Network in fact we are excited to see what the future has in store for us as a Network.

We have been asked by so many all over the State to cover their events and for that we are so thankful to our original supporters for making this possible. Because of you we've gone from being a website to becoming major players in Television, Radio and have expanded our web-base audience to people all over the World.

When Jerry joined WSN a few years back he vowed to get Eastern Washington athletes into the spotlight and on the map as far as recruiting was concerned on the State level. To some degree we feel he's done that, and with the help of Dirk Knudsen, the Editor of WashingtonPreps.com, he can now bring these efforts to a National stage.

Jerry will be breaking a couple of stories here in the next week for WSN, Washington Preps and their partner site at NorthwestPrepReport.com.

We encourage all kids and Coaches on the Eastside of the Mountains who are getting serious interests or inquiries to contact Jerry via email jerry@zsportsmedia.com and let's take this fight to the National stage.

With the help of Dirk Knudson (Rivals.com) and ZenonThornton (WSN Founder) we look forward to extending our coverage of athletes all across this Region.

Jerry Mercado's Bio:

Jerry Played football for the Tri-City Rattlers in 2005 and Tri-City Knights in 2006, started for both teams at DT and won 2 championships back to back for the Evergreen Football League. This league has produced many who have gone on to Coach in High School including my former teammates Scott Biglin(Kamiakin HC) and Brett Jay(Riverview HC) as well as a number of High School Assistant Coaches. In addition, Jerry is also a Youth and HS volunteer coach.

In 2009-current: Head Football and Basketball analyst forWashington Sports Network.  In that time we have produced recruiting tapes and more than 400 live game webcasts. We have also done color commentary for both Webcast and Radio during this span.  In this time Jerry has also conducted thousands of Interviews with High School players, Coaches, and Legends of Football and Basketball.  In 2010 he became the Co-host of WSN's "The Zone" that airs weekly on Fox11(TriCities) and Fox41(Yakima).  He also became Co-host of WSN's The Blitz weekly radio show on KFLD870AM (TriCities).

 

 

I am the Founder of the Northwest Prep Report. For 17 years I have led the way to the best of my ability to promote the best talent from the Pacific NW free of charge. It is my pleasure to continue to serve High School athletes from all over the Pacific NW and beyond. Formerly with Rivals.com my sites have now crossed over 8,000 stories, 7 MILLION Video Views, and 15,000 regular followers. Together with the best football people in the USA we pursue excellence for our NW athletes.

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