Category Archives: Timing System

Impact of No-Shows on a Swim Meet

Tuesday night the MacDolphins held Time Trials. Unfortunately, it didn’t go as smoothly as we’d have hoped and it ran about 20 minutes longer than it should have. We had a few technical issues, e.g., we failed to charge the battery for the electronic starter!!!   However, the biggest problem we had was [...]

MDCC vs Devereaux Meet Logistics and Scratches

Next Tuesday the MacDolphins will swim the final meet of 2009 against the Devereaux Devil Rays at Devereaux. Devereaux has about 100 swimmers, so we will have swimmers swimming in Devereaux lanes in some heats. We still need to make sure that we know if your swimmers will be scratched from the Devereaux meet ASAP. The coaches completed [...]

MacDolphins vs. Cary Park Results

Results from the MacDolphins loss to Cary Park are now available.  We had a couple  issues this week which caused the times from two heats to be combined resulting in very long times for the second heat and no times at all for the first heat and we lost times from Lane 1 for a 2-3 heats.  [...]

MDCC vs Cary Park Logistics and Scratches

Next Tuesday the MacDolphins will swim against Cary Park at MacGregor Downs. Cary Park has 187 swimmers so they are similar in size to the MacDolphins although they tend to have a lot fewer scratches.  We still need to make sure that we know if your swimmers will be scratched from the Cary Park meet ASAP. The coaches will [...]

MacDolphins vs Scotts Mill Results

Results from the MacDolphins loss to Scotts Mill are now available.  Our accuracy with the Dolphin Timing system continues to improve.  We only had one issue this week which caused the times from two heats to be combined resulting in very long times for the second heat and no times at all for the first [...]

Results from MacDolphins vs Glenridge

Results from the MacDolphins swim meet against Apex this past Tuesday are now available for download.
Some notes about the results. The timing system worked very well for the Glenridge meet. We didn’t lose track of swimmers and their heat and lane assignments like we did at the Apex meet.
As well as it ran, we still [...]

MDCC vs Glenridge 6/23 – meet logistics and scratches

Next Tuesday the MacDolphins will swim against Glenridge in an away meet.  There are some logisitical challenges expected with this meet because Glenridge is a much smaller team the MacDolphins, Glenridge will have about 75 swimmers and the MacDolphins will have as many as 150.  The Glenridge pool only has five lanes so main events [...]