This has been a great day for the CIAC. Besides revising its football playoff system into a four-division, eight-team format, the state introduced an iPhone application.
The brainchild of Matt Fischer, the CIAC’s director of information services, SchoolZapp – Connecticut puts most of the information on the CIAC’s handy website right on your iPhone (one of my favorite possessions, by the way).
The application costs just 99 cents. I downloaded it today and used it tonight while covering the Darien-Foran Class L semifinal volleyball match. Instead of printing out rosters for the game, I just called them up on my phone. As Fischer wrote to me on a Twitter message after I had sent him one to applaud the idea, “Printing out rosters is so 2008.”
The application should be of great use to anyone involved with or who follows high school sports in the state, and like everything else with the iPhone, it is very user friendly.
Here is the release by the CIAC, which includes the link to purchase the application off of iTunes.
Thanks for the nice words Dave. We’re excited about SchoolZapp. We did have a lot of input in the design process, but the programmer (Jeff Johnson) did a great job of building a framework specifically for State Associations to include whatever info they think is most appropriate for their state. Illinois and Connecticut are the first two states on board and more are on the way.
We’ve got future plans to enhance the info provided even further. And be sure to check out the ability to GeoTag facilities at schools directly in the app – hopefully we’ll get a slew of users to tag the locations of every gym, field and rink in CT.
Comment by Matthew Fischer — November 19th, 2009 @ 8:05 pm