GREEN BAY, Wis. - The Green Bay Athletics Department has announced that it will be launching a redesigned Web site, complete with a new domain name, with its new online partner, Jump TV, in July. The Web site launch coincides with the department's decision in April to become one of the nation's first Division I universities to eliminate the production of all printed media guides effective this fall.

"Our new web site will offer fans, media and prospective student-athletes the most up-to-date information in the most user-friendly and high-tech ways," Athletics Director Ken Bothof said. "The elimination of media guides is a great cost-saving measure, is environmentally friendly and is the wave of the future in college athletics. We are proud to be on the cutting edge."

"When we met in April, our staff and our coaches were in 100 percent agreement that we needed to upgrade our Web site, and at the same time, discontinue our printed media guides," Bothof said. "We now are seeing several other schools coming to the same conclusion. Our sports information office will be shifting its focus from print materials to video, while still servicing the needs of media members with the same dedication as it has in the past."

The new Web site will be video-based, with the athletics department partnering with the UW-Green Bay campus' award-winning student-run television station to produce high-quality, timely programming, including coaches' shows, weekly updates, features and more. The elimination of media guides will save the department roughly $20,000 annually.

Green Bay is the first Horizon League institution, and one of fewer than a dozen schools nationally to announce its decision to eliminate media guides.