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.

Among the other important people who provided early inspiration through their mentorship, knowledge and dedication were former UConn coaches Bill Kelleher and Bob Kennedy, former coach Bob Haddad of Windham HS, Bill Baron of East Catholic/East Hartford high schools and longtime CIAC meet director, and Irv Black, the founder of NorthEast Sports Timing and former coach at New Britain HS. 

Before there was Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), Snapchat, Tik Tok, RunnerSpace or MileSplit and after the launch of DyeStat in the mid-1990s MySportsResults.com was launched. The first 1999-2000 Indoor season of reporting results and meet photos on a CompuServe-hosted website included only five meets from the 57th HPHS Invitational through the season to the CIAC State Open as pictured on the archived page below. One of the most difficult challenges was trying to keep in-step with the constantly changing internet technology for website production. Over the years the website would eventually progress through several web technologies and hosting platforms. With our recent move last January to hosting on RunnerSpace (which also hosts Dyestat), MySportsResults has come full circle in achieving a long term goal of presenting the achievements and stories of Connecticut athletes as part of a national platform. 

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The companion EZ Meet Services website followed later in 2006 to provide meet management services for a few invitational and conference meets. The new service provided meet management services for meet directors that allowed easier meet registration for coaches. The first online system for meet entries used hand-coded HTML pages where coaches entered names and seed marks after which the data was transferred to the timing service. The service that even included online scratches replaced the old standard of using fax and small index cards for event entries.

After a few years, EZMS replaced the HTML forms by using the NSAF HeadCount online system for more meets over the three seasons that continued until its demise prior to the 2017 Outdoor season. EZ Meet Services then started utilizing the Athletic.net event entry system for all the Featured Meets in Cross Country, Indoor and Outdoor Track & Field. The push to use their entry system ultimately led to the CIAC to transition to use it for their championship meets for all three seasons that started with the 2022 XC season.

The EZ Meet Services mission continues with a focus on providing quality and timely meet management services by keeping the best interests of the athletes in mind while making things easier for coaches, meet directors and timing services.

The continuation of operating over the next several years with freely accessible content has been made possible with the funding by Marathon Sports that also sponsors the three other companion sites of the State Running Network (BayStateRunning, OceanStateRunning & NHXCTF). The MySportsResults.com relationship with the owners and employees of our sponsor is built on the same philosophy for promoting the achievements of our athletes and teams. The recent addition of HOKA Athletes of the Week continues this trend to spotlight track and field athletes.

Just like in the early years, the constantly changing technical landscape and sponsor support provide us with new opportunities to share our content with you. An important change occurred in 2019 that included the addition to our staff of Senior Correspondent Marty Ogden. 

As the de facto ‘Voice of CT cross country’ with his numerous interviews of athletes and teams Marty is always prepared with the latest stats of those appearing in the next meet. His respect for the accomplishments of our athletes and coaches is evident in his insightful writing as well as his spoken commentaries. Marty was recently awarded the CHSCA Friend of Cross Country in November.

Additional changes included the MySportsResults YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh6qAvJ8PPTsJsPplHRIuTg that provides video content of our meet coverage. 

The videos are in addition to the hundreds of MSR Finishline photo galleries hosted at https://mysportsresults.smugmug.com/ 

Another archive of event and meet pics prior to 2015 are available at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mysportsresults/collections/ .

As owner and operator of MySportsResults.com, I’ve had the honor and pleasure to attend many of the State Class and Open Championships, several New England meets, many national meets and dozens of invitationals watching our state athletes compete. Each season I am amazed by the dedication and hard work of our state athletes and coaches as they strive for excellence. 

My children, Dave and Liz, former track athletes and now adults, often remind me of our shared favorite movie quote from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off “Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” Hopefully, MySportsResults.com helps you to pause and recognize our athletes and teams without missing a beat during your day.

It has been my pleasure for the past 24-years to offer MySportsResults.com as your local site to the latest in Connecticut high school Cross-Country, Indoor Track & Field and Outdoor Track & Field including upcoming events, results, records and photographs. 

The home of CT T&F/XC you can call your own since 2000!

To all the fans, athletes and coaches in Connecticut - Thanks for Your Support!

THEN: Site Owner Ron Knapp with the late Lindy Remigino

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