By Ron Knapp
Welcome to MySportsResults.com where we are now celebrating the start of our 25th year of coverage for Indoor Track & Field, Outdoor Track & Field and Cross Country in Connecticut! Since its inception in the winter of 2000, MySportsResults.com is the oldest continuously published website providing comprehensive coverage of Connecticut high school meets, records, athletes and teams.
As of today, MySportsResults.com has been up and running approximately over 12.6 million minutes or over 6 million 2-minute 800m races or about 2.5-million 5-minute mile races.
The continued in-depth coverage of Connecticut high school track and field and cross-country is dedicated to my life mentors; my wife Betty Remigino-Knapp and her father, the late Lindy Remigino, two-time U.S. Olympic Gold Medal winner and former Hartford Public HS Track & Field coach.
MySportsResults.com originated as a modest idea at a Christmas Eve birthday party in 1999 at the former home of my in-laws, Lindy and June Remigino. While talking to my family and relatives, I introduced how the new internet technology I was using in my career as an IT-specialist could replace the hardcopy distribution of State Records, as well as for promoting Connecticut athletes and our sports that were typically underreported in our state’s media outlets.
After the 1999 State Open Cross-Country meet, the impact of steadily rising print costs gave birth to this idea to migrate the record books to the internet by creating a website. What had started as an idea to easily distribute records grew steadily into the current statewide coverage of cross-country and track and field, on a meet-by-meet basis for all three seasons.
For many years while he was actively coaching at Hartford Public High School, Lindy had maintained the overall State Record books for track and field. After he retired, Lindy continued to maintain the records but asked me to begin helping with publicizing and distributing them. It was a natural fit since I could combine my publishing experience with my love for the sport as a former runner and coach at the high school and collegiate level. Since the 2004 cross-country season, I assumed all the record-keeping responsibilities and administration of the state Track & Field Records while the CIAC maintains their meet records through their meet reporting. MySportsResults.com provides a copy of the CIAC Meet records as a courtesy to our viewers.
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