SportsTrak is used to manage and score school sporting carnivals, house or year level based. It focuses on Athletics and Swimming.
Typical activities for a particular carnival include:
·set Houses, Age Groups, Age Group Reference Date, Scoring System, and the like.
·create a program of events
·import students from the administration database
·print nomination forms for the events for each house
·pre-enter competitors and print marshal/judges sheets
·enter results and determine a range of championships
·print a range of summary reports
For inter-school carnivals each school is treated as a house. A program may be based on Year Levels, not Age Groups. A carnival may be based on Form Groups, not houses or schools. Each carnival is saved in its own folder.
SportsTrak can be used for Trials
Trials are often run to rank competitors on their performance in a range of events and to use this to seed competitors into events on a program. With SportsTrak you may quickly give any competitor a performance, ignoring age and gender, and SportsTrak will put the best into the program.
Selecting Competitors for an inter-school competition
SportsTrak can take best performers from an inter-house carnival and place them as competitors in an inter-school program.
Assume you run an inter-house carnival:-
Your inter-school coordinator using SportsTrak can send you a copy of the inter-school program for you to set up under SportsTrak. SportsTrak allows you to match events across the two programs and select your best place-getters as competitors. You can then export the competitors to a file to send back.
Terminology
Typically SportsTrak has all the school's students, some of whom actually compete.
A Competitor refers to a student who is in an event.
The word Team can be ambiguous. It can mean House when used in an Inter-house competition, School when used in inter-school carnivals but can refer to a Team Event such as a Relay.
This guide tends to use the word House when speaking of the team to which students belong.
For an Inter-school competition, the word House is equivalent to the school they are competing for.
ST2200 is often used as as an abbreviation for SportsTrak 2200, as is ST3000 for this version.
French expressions occasionally seen in the program, especially in error or system messages?
SportsTrak 3000 is created using PC Soft's Windev. It is a French company and many built in error messages for example are expressed in French. This is seen sometimes in our user interface. On some forms you may see the word Validate which is how Windev labels the OK button on update forms. Most have been changed to OK but not all.