Welcome to our tenth birthday, unofficially. Although we’ve (mostly I’ve) only been running this site for eight years, the site was founded for the 1995-96 season by the Centennial Conference and Steve Ulrich. It was groundbreaking for its time as one of the few Web sites of any kind, let alone one covering Division III sports.

As the 1997-98 basketball season neared, I noticed the site was getting a little dusty. I was back in the sports information business at the time, moonlighting a few days a week as SID at Gallaudet when they were between people (Brett Marhanka and Steve Feit, for the insanely curious). I had spent two years running a basketball page covering the Capital Athletic Conference and was interested in doing more, so I asked Ulrich if he was interested in having someone take over.

Well, within a couple hours I had e-mail with attachments right and left, and a few days after that (before we were ready, actually), they threw a link over to us. The site has morphed several times since then into what you see now.

And although we don’t have a picture of it to show you, how many people remember the spinning basketball graphic that was on the original front page. Show of hands?

So here we are now, recording every result, running our own poll, broadcasting games. We have a good number of like-minded people who volunteer on the site, collecting info and the like. We went out and found some interns to help on the site this year, another step for us. We just passed the 12 million mark on the front page.

And all that on a site I thought would take a few hours a night, two or three nights a week. Silly me. I had no idea there were so many Division III fans out there. But we have all seen the strength in numbers.

Keep up the good work, fans.