2010 Track & Field Site Updates

Joshua Bowdoin — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:00:00 GMT

Welcome to a new season! We have many upgraded features on the site, and some new features too!

Here is a summary. View the linked forum post to post questions about any feature.

Meet Management

Upgraded Meet Management Page - Forum Post. Simplifies process of hosting your meet, and adds some awesome new features for site supporters:

Meet settings: Lock Meet, Lock Event Entries, Publish Entries.
Quickly copy event setup (events, limits, schedules) from prior meets.
Invite teams to your meet (teams from prior meet, or search for a team).
Email coaches attending your meet.

Team Management

- Upgraded Athlete Editor - Forum Post

Edit athletes faster than before!
Added Athlete Division (youth clubs) and Athlete Registration Number (can be used for entry download systems).

- Upgraded Meet Entry - speeds meet entry process. (released by March 1 hopefully)

Reports and Site Features

- Upgraded Meet Results page - Forum Post

Filters to quickly find results you are interested in.
Simplified Team and Full Meet reports into one report.
Integrated photos for site supporters.

- Photos - Forum Post

Photo tagger allows tagging of photos to athletes and meets
Meet photos integrated into meet results.
Athlete Photos displayed on Athlete Profile.

Site maintenance tools available to coaches - help us make this site the best possible!

- Upgraded alignment editor - Forum Post - much faster to report the new alignment for your region. (find link at the bottom of your state's homepage)

- Meet Event Type Editor - Forum Post - quickly fix incorrect event types for a meet (hurdle heights, shot put weights, etc.). (find on individual meet page)

- Division Event Selector - update the default event list for your division (find link on the Top 10 list for your division). (released by March 1 hopefully)

Remember, while many of our tools are free, upgrading to Site Support is only $45 for the season, and enables us to continue the development of this tool - saving you even more time in the coming seasons. Please consider supporting Athletic.net this year! Upgrade Now | Compare Features

We love feedback, questions, and suggestions:

Comment on this blog post.
Post on the forums.
Submit feedback.

We hope that you and your team have a very successful season!
David Bowdoin & the Athletic.net Team

Athletic.net Excel Meet Manager Preview Released

Joshua Bowdoin — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:45:00 GMT

We are releasing a preview of a new Meet Manager solution: Athletic.net's Excel Meet Manager (EMM) - XC Edition. The EMMxc is free for ALL athletic.net users.

Click here to download the EMMxc. (This page will always have the current version available)

Goals of the Athletic.net EMM Solutions - QUICK, FREE, EASY, & FULLY integrated with the familiar features of Athletic.net!

The EMMxc will:

Download Meet Registrations from Athletic.net.
Run and Score your Races.
Produce Reports.
Upload results back to Athletic.net.

FREE? Yes, the EMMxc will be absolutely free to ALL users. It will require that you currently own a copy of Microsoft Excel (2003 or 2007), and that you are using a PC (we are working on Mac compatibility).

PS For those of you who are interested, we will be releasing an EMM Track & Field Edition in the future as well!