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Grace Media begins
Grace Media is founded to run a marketing study to start a girls high school basketball magazine.
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Lonestar Basketball
Grace Media publishes Lonestar Basketball, a preseason basketball magazine cover Houston-area high school, college and professional teams.
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Bobby Knight cover
Texas Tech men’s basketball coach Bobby Knight is the subject of the 2001-2002 Lonestar Basketball cover story.
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Managing Editor
Founder Sarah Hornaday leaves her position as a sports editor at the Houston Chronicle to beginning building the database for TheAthleticsDepartment.com.
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Hometown Sports News
While developing TheAthleticsDepartment.com. Grace Media starts HometownSportsNews.net an aggregation website devoted to Texas high school athletics. Grace Media uses news from the website to create a weekly newsletter for the Texas Girls Coaches Association. This is the early home for regional track and all-district teams.
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TheAthleticsDepartment.com
TheAthleticsDepartment.com launches with a school directory, alignments and mascots.
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Team Sports
TheAthleticsDepartment.com adds team sports playoffs information
Realignment Summary
TheAthleticsDepartment.com launches its realignment summary with UIL 2012-13 realignment announcment
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Football
TheAthleticsDepartment.com adds football regular-season schedules/results
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Spring sports results added
TheAthleticsDepartment.com begins adding individual sports with the addition of Golf, Tennis and Track regional results
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Data Services
TheAthleticsDepartment.com debuts “widgets” to supply schedules, standings, playoffs information to media websites.
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Football Standings
TheAthleticsDepartment.com adds UIL, TAPPS and SPC football standings
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Cross Country honors
TheAthleticsDepartment.com adds regional and state honors for cross country, golf and tennis. It started with cross country and includes a certificate on the website for honorees
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THSCA coaches poll
TheAthleticsDepartment.com coordinated voting for the Texas High School Coaches Association’s 48 regional football polls voted on by the coaches.
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Playoffs history for individual sports debuts
Pages displaying playoffs history such as a multi-state champion individuals and schools launches for individual sports, beginning with cross country.
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TAD foundation awards $6,000 to schools
TheAthleticsDepartment.com awarded six $1,000 awards to schools.
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Swimming & Diving history
Swimming & Diving year-by-year postseason results added to TheAthleticsDepartment.com in addition to all-time state champions
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Wrestling history
All-Time UIL state wrestling results added to TheAthleticsDepartment.com
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TAD Stats debuts
The Athletics Department Stats debuts with weekly football statistics reports for five districts