Posts by Jim Patriquin

Jim Patriquin founded Student Lap Tracker in 2007 after volunteering with the running club at his son’s elementary school and realizing how much volunteer time manual lap counting wasted. He built and led the company until 2020, and wrote the articles below on running clubs, jog-a-thons and the early days of the product. Read more of the story on our About Us page.

Start an Elementary School Run Club

September 6, 2022

Starting a run club or running club is a great way to increase physical activity and improve fitness at your elementary school. Make it fun for the kids, make it easy for the teachers and recognize student achievement using an award or reward system…

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Working with the iOS App

September 23, 2018

Welcome to the iOS App support page! The app is intended for Student Lap Tracker subscriber schools. At this time, there is no functionality for non-subscribers.…

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Student Privacy Pledge

January 16, 2015

We’re in! I’m pleased to announce we took the Student Privacy Pledge earlier this week. We’ve been compliant from day 1 but it’s nice to have our commitment publicly memorialized.…

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New school year start up with ease!

October 1, 2014

Hello everyone, Just had to post how easy it was to get the club back up and running this year. All I had to do was send class lists to our Laptracker friends and they took care of the rest!…

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Park Orchard Jog a Thon

June 9, 2014

Students at Park Orchard Elementary in Moses Lake, WA participated in the first ever jog a thon. Thanks to Student Lap Tracker, students were able to immediately after the run see their individual results and class results.…

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Thank You!

May 30, 2014

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE AT STUDENT LAP TRACKER! Ray Daily Elementary School in Houston, TX implemented the studentlaptracker.com running program during the Spring semester.…

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Successful Start-up at Albert Einstein Academy!

May 20, 2014

Albert Einstein Academy jumped on board the Laptracker train in March and we’ve experienced nothing but success so far! Tracking our 3rd-5th grade running club laps with Student Laptracker has finally given us the ability to run accurate reports.…

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MAD Milers – 75 mile club

May 20, 2014

This was our group of 75 milers in February. They are proudly wearing their MAD Miler T-Shirts that they earned. As of today, we have 10 students over 100 miles!!!

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Jog-A-Thon Fundraisers

April 4, 2014

Raising money to fund supplementary programs has become an important role for parent organizations in these days of tight budgets. Student Lap Tracker is first and foremost a fitness program. A secondary but popular use of our program is for Jog-A-Thon and FunRun fundraising events.…

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Friday shout-out to …

March 27, 2014

Today’s post is a shout-out to Coach Lynne Knowd at the Ramona Community School… she’s put together a fantastic program with LOTS of positive reinforcement. They’ve run a collective 7,000 miles this year, an average of over 20 miles per student.…

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