You could say that about every sport but basketball because it is so 1 or 2 player driven. But the 24th best D1 football or soccer is most certainly top 50 in the state because they have so many for athletes to draw from and that is why states have divisions.
What is the standard for "competitive" for "Most D1 schools do not field competitive XC programs?"
If I am understanding the question correctly, you could look at RunMeet in Athletic.net. You can adjust heats, add heats and delete heats on the fly. With a good pair of people clerking and an iPad, you can do those adjustments at the line.
We use lynx camera to time individuals only and give them FAT time which they report to their coach - the camera replaces the stop watch and determines who is 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in a close race.
Ok, that makes sense to me. That is how we do it. We clerk on the fly. Have the kids come back in their lanes for lane races write their names down on the score sheet and by that time, the FAT times are up on the scoreboard and are written into the sheet. The distance races are just given times and anything too close to call can be looked at on the video, but I'm not sure that has happened very often if at all.
Every meet should be on Milesplit, even if it's just a dual. Uploading the results takes less than a minute.
It takes hours to put a dual meet into a meet manager to be able to upload. We have FAT times, but we do not seed a dual meet and put it into meet manager. We hand write it.
It does not take that long. Download entries from Milesplit and it seeds itself.
We do not do dual meets with entries from milesplit. It is a competitive thing. I do not feel I should have the other teams entries so I know their strategy and I'm not giving them mine ahead of time. We do the meet on the fly and get it done fast. My kids are not set in their events and the number of changes we make between boys and girls is a lot some meets. These are meets I'm able to get all my kids involved and if we have a meet won, I might pull people and put others in a position they have never been in. I might pull kids from the 800 after the 1600 and change out my entire 3200. My best hurdler is also my best 100,200 and 400 runner. He is completely flexible. If a high jumper is having a good day, I might pull him from something to allow him to stay on that focus. Having a bad day jumping, I might decide to put him in the 200 to give him a positive to end on. My 3rd or 4th hurdler that has been struggling might just be entered in the 100H. They have a positive result finally, so I might put them in the 300h. A few other coaches in our league are the same and it would be a nightmare. Just last week we had an illness go through the team and 10 kids missed. Sometimes what is easy is not best for the kids. IMO
| 1724 | Woodridge High School | PENINSULA | Northeast | 206 | AA | 200 | AA |
I disagree. But lanes should be determined if the race starts on waterfall, lanes, or alleys.
I like having the #1 and #9 in the same alley (and 2/10, 3/11, etc) versus the possibility of having #1 and #2 in the same alley and having to fight each other for position. I do wish those pairs were randomly assigned to a lane, but trying to do that in Hy-tek is a bit of a hassle and probably prone to human error.
The implication is that the #1 lane is the preferred lane. That means that lane 8 is the least preferred. So #9 ranked runner gets a better lane than all but the #1 ranked? Why would it be any less of a fight between #1 and #9 than #1 and #2? We are talking the start of the race when everyone is fresh. Just as much of a chance of #9 running like an sweetie than #2. This is a solution to something that is not a problem.