Riverton High School Basketball - Interesting but true facts about our website.

TRUE FACTS *About the Hawks Website*
1. This site was originally brainstormed and developed by former coach Jeff Koger and his brother-in-law Tim, after Mr. Koger attended an Internet for Educators class at University of Illinois-Springfield in 1996. After an entire summer's worth of research about former team records and the history of the Riverton program, Coach Koger, Tim, and Ray Schroeder (UIS Professor of Communications) put together several record-book webpages on RHS basketball. This was the birthplace of the Riverton Hawks Basketball Website!
2. This site receives over 200 unique visitors a day and visitors find us mostly through search engines like GOOGLE or web directories such as YAHOO. Most visitors enter through Coach Hampton's Welcome Page, but almost 40% enter through various sub-pages from search results or bookmarks.
3. The Hawks website has been accessed by visitors from 121 countries abroad and by over 300 different universities in the United States. In the last four years, 28 foreign high school players have inquired to Coach Koger about playing at Riverton High School, but unfortunately these players must look elsewhere due to a district policy of no exchange or emancipated students in competitive athletics. The Hawks have received over 25 requests to play in large prestigious tournaments outside the state of Illinois from states such as Hawaii, Indiana, Kentucky, California, Florida, New York, Michigan, Missouri, Tennessee, New Jersey, Oregon, Puerto Rico, and also countries such as Mexico, Canada, Brazil, Guam, Italy, and Germany.
4. An overwhelming majority of visitors(77%) live outside the City of Riverton and the State of Illinois. The Riverton High School and Riverton Middle School sites are excellent resources for information on the quality education students are receiving in the Riverton School District.
5. The Hawks website is annually ranked (SuperStats and YAHOO) among the top 20 basketball sites on the net and is linked to over 200 basketball related sites in the US and abroad.