FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 18, 2002

DARTFISH NAMED OFFICIAL SUPPLIER OF
VIDEO ENHANCEMENT TRAINING SOFTWARE TO ISF

Dartfish, a worldwide company that develops the latest digital imaging applications for sports, was named today as the "Official Supplier of Video Enhancement Training Software to the International Softball Federation (ISF)." The agreement runs through 2005.

"This partnership has tremendous potential," explained ISF President Don Porter. "It not only provides us with the latest technology which has been proven successful as recently as on the 2002 Winter Olympic broadcasts, but it makes an extremely helpful resource available to our member federations/associations to help develop the sport within their countries. This is just one more demonstration of our continued attention to helping grow the game of softball."

As part of this agreement, a softball instructional CD will be created using Dartfish's state-of-the-art technology to analyze all softball skills, in addition to a special Dartfish educational page being added to the ISF website.

"We are very pleased to partner with the International Softball Federation as we share the same vision of improving the performance of athletes worldwide," said Victor Bergonzoli, US General Manager for Dartfish (USA), Inc. "The staff at the ISF has shown a great interest and drive that will help both of our organizations to achieve our common goal."

Dartfish will have the opportunity to display and sell its product in the merchandise and official sponsor sections of the ISF website. The ISF will promote and market Dartfish's DartTrainer software to the sport of softball worldwide. Dartfish will make DartShare freeware available to all ISF members so they can easily share video clips with other members. Members who use the free DartShare video player will be able to watch clips that are created with DartTrainer by their pre-defined categories such as player's name, date, tournament, etc.

The International Softball Federation, celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2002, is the governing body of softball internationally as recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the General Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF). The ISF organizes and conducts world championship competition in women's and men's fast pitch, junior women's and men's fast pitch, women's, men's, and coed slow pitch, and women's and men's modified pitch. Softball (women's fast pitch) made its Olympic debut at the 1996 Games in Atlanta. There are 125 affiliated countries in the ISF and over 40 million participants in the sport worldwide.

For more information, please contact ISF Director of Communications Bruce Wawrzyniak at brucew@internationalsoftball.com or (813) 864-0100, ext. 229, or Dartfish Communications Manager Dejah Meldem at 1-404-685-9505 or dejah.meldem@dartfish.com.

 

 

 

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