About This Site
A Quick History
This site was created in October 2003 to keep our extended family informed about our son who was running for the Staples High School boys' cross country team. By the end of the season, it was opened to the Staples and FCIAC communities. Over the next year, it grew to include the boys' indoor and outdoor seasons and all of the girls' teams as well.
With our second son coming through Staples and graduating in 2006, we continued to own and maintain the site. There have been many parents who contributed photographs but special thanks go out to Michael Lonsdale and Ted Sullivan who logged many hours taking photos in all sorts of weather. Thanks also to Libby Spader(Naficy) who was the site's intermediary for the 2006-2007 school year.
With our third and final runner graduating from Staples in June 2011, it will have been twenty-four seasons of Staples sports on the web and more than 20,000 photos taken.
Why StaplesRunning?
The question comes up from time to time
about why is the name staplesrunning.com. There's no real answer
except... It sounded good. It was cross country season and who knew the site
would still be used during the track and field season much less this many
years later. The domain
name was available...and we needed to distinguish it from a site that would
be run by the high school.
- Mary and Mark Hanrahan