Well, after a year in the making the soon to be largest sports site in the world was moved from the test servers to the live servers on the 25th October 2007 at 10.32pm Sunshine Coast Australian time.

Having travelled the world for over 13 years and participated in so many different sports I have been lucky enough to meet some wonderful people. I noticed that one of the hardest things to do when you are trying to get involved in a sport is meet other like minded people to participate with you and at your leve. It occured to me after driving down to Brisbane for a game of golf with friends down there that it would be wonderful to be able find golf partners up here on the sunshine coast. When I started thinking about how to do that I realised that with all that modern technology out there, there was no way I could just look up someone who was interested in a game of golf.... or tennis, or going kitesurfing withor or or!!!

The site is a culmination of my desire to provide a place where people can get together online for the purpose of getting out and being active; sport is the great equaliser, there is no requirement for conversation or getting to know someone immediately when playing a sport, friendships are built through a mutual enjoyment of whatever activity is chosen... hence the party line "Building friendships through sport".

I hope you all have as much enjoyment using the site as I did coming up with the ideas. I believe that one day you will be able to go anywhere in the world and find someone to share a run with, go hiking with, get in a game of squash.

Welcome to SportingConnections, get out and play!