Stack (magazine)

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox magazine | title = Stack | logo = | logo_size =  | image_file =  | image_size =  | image_alt = | image_caption = | editor =  | editor_title =  | previous_editor = | staff_writer = | photographer = | category = {{hlist|Sports|lifestyle}} | frequency = Three Times Per Year | format = | circulation =875,000 | publisher = | paid_circulation = | unpaid_circulation = | circulation_year = | total_circulation = | founder = Nick Palazzo and Chad Zimmerman | founded = | firstdate = {{Start date|2005|02}} | finaldate = | finalnumber = | company =STACK Media, Inc. | country = United States | based = Cleveland, Ohio | language = English | website = {{URL|http://www.stack.com|Stack.com}} | issn = | oclc = }}

'''''Stack''''' is a sports performance and athlete lifestyle publication targeted at high school student athletes.<ref name=GlobeNewswire>{{cite press release|url=http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?d=132308|title=Stack|work=GlobeNewswire, Inc.|date=2007-12-03|accessdate=2009-11-08}}</ref> Double issues of ''STACK Magazine'' are distributed free of cost three times per year to 13,500 high schools nationwide (about 75% of all U.S. high schools with sports programs),<ref name=Cleveland>{{cite web|url=http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20091109/SUB1/311099986/1005&Profile=1005|title=For the sport of it|author=Chuck Soder|work=Crain’s Cleveland Business|date=2009-11-09|accessdate=2009-12-04}}</ref> resulting in a readership of 5.4 million athletes.<ref name=reuters>{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS65914+21-Sep-2009+PRN20090921|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130202004934/http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS65914+21-Sep-2009+PRN20090921|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-02-02|title=LeBron James Chooses to go 'Back To School' With STACK Magazine|work=Reuters.com|author=Scott Cianciulli|date=2009-09-21|accessdate=2009-11-08}}</ref>

==Content== The magazine covers a wide variety of topics, including training, nutrition, sports skills, athlete lifestyle and motivation. The articles are often sport-specific in nature, covering nearly all sports including football, basketball, baseball, track, soccer, volleyball, swimming, wrestling, softball, lacrosse, tennis, and hockey.

==History== STACK Media, Inc. was founded by Nick Palazzo and Chad Zimmerman, both former collegiate athletes, in Cleveland, Ohio in February 2005.<ref name=GlobeNewswire /> STACK Magazine's premier issue featuring a young LeBron James on the cover was printed and distributed shortly thereafter. STACK was originally financed privately, helped by a $15,000 win from a 2003 competition organized by Northeast Ohio's Council of Smaller Enterprises. Further financing has come from its current Chairman and from private equity firm CapitalWorks LLC of Cleveland.<ref name=Cleveland /> The extensive readership, mostly males in the age range 12–24, has attracted major Blue Chip advertisers including Nike, Inc., Reebok, Gatorade, ASICS, New Balance, Under Armour, Milk, Navy and the United States Army.<ref name=automobi>{{cite web|url=http://www.auto-mobi.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9508&Itemid=50|title=STACK Media Grows Relationships with Blue Chip Advertisers Nike, Gatorade, and the U.S. Army|date=2009-11-26|work=auto-mobi.info|accessdate=2009-12-04}}</ref>

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