You can contribute to the Kentucky Track History Initiative by clicking below or mailing a check to the following address. This is ultimately about bringing the past back to life. Thank you for your support.
KYtrackXC.com
330 Golden Gate Drive
Wingo, KY 42088
June 5th UPDATE
Kentucky was all in one Class until 1965. So the years 1939 - 1960 below go to the meet page with the one set of results showing the top five from each event. These times and marks are being added to the database to the actual event. If it was in yards, the time is going in as yards.
Results are being added every day, you can see the immediate updates at https://ky.milesplit.com/updates?type_id=2
1973 - Class AAA Boys
1974 - Class AAA Boys, Class AAA Girls
1975 - Class AAA Boys
1976 - Class AAA Boys
1977 - Class AA Boys, Class AAA Boys, Class AAA Girls
1978 - Class A Boys, Class A Girls, Class AA Boys, Class AA Girls, AAA Boys, AAA Girls
1979 - Class A Boys, Class A Girls, Class AA Boys, Class AA Girls, Class AAA Girls, Class AAA Boys
1980 - Class A Boys, Class A Girls, Class AA Boys, Class AA Girls, Class AAA Boys, Class AAA Girls
1981-1988 were done previously, links below in the chart
1989 - Class A Boys, Class A Girls, Class AA Boys, Class AA Girls, Class AAA Boys, Class AAA Girls
1990 - Class A Boys, Class A Girls, Class AA Boys, Class AA Girls, Class AAA Boys, Class AAA Girls
1991 - Class A Boys, Class A Girls, Class AA Boys, Class AA Girls, Class AAA Boys, Class AAA Girls
1992 -Present are done except 1996
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MAY RELEASE
Kentucky Track History Initiative
Every year across the state of Kentucky the current season's newest crop of results, times, and performances are viewed and often celebrated by athletes, parents, and fans. But what about the athletes of the past? Jonathan Grooms, the Editor of KYtrackXC.com, has had a long-standing goal to publish online the results of the past for the world to see. As one can imagine, keeping up with the athletes of the present on KYtrackXC.com takes up the bulk of the time invested on the site. This is where the new Kentucky Track History Initiative steps in.
This initiative will take the very deep paper archives of results, state meet and regular season, for track/XC in Kentucky and put them into a digital format for the world to see. Simply put, data entry has been a major hurdle in accomplishing this goal. However, this summer a part-time staff will be hired to work on digitizing these results. Results to be published include 70 plus years of state track meet history, not to mention various regular season and regional results that have been given to Grooms or through his own research the last few years. This initiative's ultimate goal is to place results from every state track and XC meet from 1912 to the present online.
"As a History Teacher, I instruct my high school students everyday about the past and its importance. That same thought on history applies to track/XC. There are thousands of athletes that have competed in these great sports in Kentucky since the early 1900s. It is time for the results to be online within easy reach. This will help validate the stories of winning a state championship in 1960 that grandparents tell their families. These historic performances are just as important as any today. This Kentucky Track History Initiative is vital to our sports today when it comes to school records and even understanding a school's tradition," Grooms stated about the reason for this initiative.
KYtrackXC.com is going to start the funding for the Kentucky Track History Initiative by setting aside an initial $1,000 to fund part-time data entry staff. Grooms added about the funding, "As long as the public support is there, this initiative will continue beyond the initial funding."
If you would like to help by contributing to this initiative, your contribution will be greatly appreciated. Every dollar donated will be earmarked for this fund to support digitizing past results.
As a bonus, anyone who contributes $15 or more to help this cause can request one set of results from the past to "jump to the front of the line." This will guarantee the placing of those specific results onto KYtrackXC.com within one week, as long as they are accessible. (Please keep in mind that there are certain results that just are not available. If you have a question about the availability of a certain set of results, please feel free to email jonathan@kytrackxc.com.)
If you have older results from the past and would like to see them added, please contact Jonathan Grooms via email at jonathan@kytrackxc.com.