AUGUSTA, GA -- The Peach Belt Conference and commissioner David Brunk are pleased to announce that the league has entered into a corporate partnership with FanWord to help PBC student-athletes utilize their brand and NIL potential.

"NIL opportunities are on the mind of every student-athlete," said commissioner Brunk. "What FanWord has been able to do is create a platform that enables athletes to tell their stories and optimize their brands. This will not only create those sponsorship avenues for the student-athletes, but allow fans and businesses the opportunity to know these players on a more human level and drive sponsorship potential for our member institutions."

FanWord created several tools to enable student-athletes and athletic departments to maximize brand and NIL potential. FanWord Stories provides custom-built storytelling content told from the student-athlete perspective. FanWord Coach is an educational service that offers courses and online workshops from industry leaders to help student-athletes and other stakeholders navigate the world of NIL opportunities. FanWord Boost is a free online directory where student-athletes can market their brands to a large audience and show fans, businesses, and other supporters all of the different ways they can find, connect, and collaborate with them.

"This partnership with the Peach Belt Conference is a very special one to us," says FanWord CEO, Christopher Aumueller. "Not only is this our first DII conference-wide partnership, but we also get to deploy our entire product suite — FanWord Stories, FanWord Coach, and FanWord Boost. By providing unique NIL resources to its member institutions and student-athletes, the Peach Belt Conference will continue establishing itself as one of the most innovative conferences in DII athletics. The Peach Belt Conference greatly aligns with our mission of helping every athlete regardless of sport, gender, background, or social media audience size, and we're beyond excited to get started."

For more information about FanWord's solutions, please click here.