The magazine ceased publication in September 2012 after ESPN decided to close its high school sports unit.

[2] Sensing the high school sports market was being undercovered by local newspapers and television stations, SchoolSports was founded in 1997[3] in the Greater Boston area.

Over the next 10 years, the magazine expanded to 25 markets and was published in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Dallas/Ft.

Worth, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Miami, Detroit, Houston, Colorado, Arizona, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Central Florida, St. Louis, Minnesota, Oregon, San Antonio/Austin, Indiana and New Jersey.

Now-WNBA star Elena Delle Donne, then attending and playing for Ursuline Academy in Delaware, was the first cover subject of GIRL in the fall of 2007.