John Edward Dye

February 13, 1936 - September 30, 2022

John was a loving husband, father, and grandfather, who lived a full life of 86 years with passions for sports, statistics, technology, travel, and family.

He was an intelligent, adventurous, witty, optimistic, and loyal man, who will be dearly missed and fondly remembered.

John was born in Frederick,

Maryland and raised in

Plymouth, IN with four siblings:

Richard, Mary, Diana, and Kathrine. John came to love sports from an early age, especially basketball. In high school he was sports editor, reporter, and photographer for the Plymouth Pilot-news for two years. He graduated from Plymouth High School class of 1954 as Valedictorian. After two years in the US Air Force, he was a newspaper reporter in California, then moved to Tampa, Florida where he graduated from the University of South Florida. After earning professional certification as a public account, (CPA) he began work as an CPA for the Federal Government in Chicago. While working in Chicago, he met his wife Donna, and would go on to have two children while crisscrossing the globe for work and pleasure. The Dye family eventually settled in Maryland where his two children, Derek, and Natalie, gradually grew up.

It was in Maryland that his life changed markedly when his children both joined the high school track team. As both started to excel, John wanted to know how they compared to the competition. He ended combining his love of sports, statistics, and love of his kids to start the company that would become Dyestat.com. Initially founded as a regional newsletter for western Maryland, John quickly used his technical skills in the burgeoning Internet to start a website version of the newsletter and launched the website in 1996.

Dyestat quickly became the “go-to” web site for high school track in the United States. In 2008, Dyestat was acquired by ESPN as part of the media giant’s venture in high school sports. In 2013, Dyestat was acquired by Runnerspace and continues to operate Dyestat providing outstanding news and rankings of High School Track and Field and XC.

John took great enjoyment watching athletes improve over the years he covered the sport and would take pride in seeing them continue into college, pro, and some even to the Olympics, often referring to them as "Dyestat Grads". In recognition of his contributions to High School Track and Field, John was inducted into the National High School Track and Field Hall of Fame in New York City in March 2018.

John eventually left the website and lived an incredibly happy retirement based in Las Vegas with Donna, making trips all over the world, visiting family, reading, following the games, drinking beer, and generally enjoying life.

Memorials for John at https://www.mykeeper.com/ profile/johndye/