Advanced Hy-Tek Training

Bill BridgesGrand Cascades Swim Teamwpbridges@bellsouth.net

678-575-6552

Agenda• Preseason• Pre-Meet• Training Exercise• Post Meet• Sharing of Ideas• Q&A

Pre-Season• Update: TM Release 6.0Ga, MM Release 4.0Cm• TM Feature Packages– Gold, Silver*, Bronze

• MM 4.0 – Meet Mobile

• Roster Maintenance– Yearly teams, Inactive until registered, other fields

• Age Up Date: 06/01/2012 (System & Meet)• Team Connect Online – estab. users & procedures• E-mail lists from TM• Organize File Structure, c:\swmeets4\2012\meet x

Pre-Meet (TM)• Team Connect Online – get latest update of your

team’s database. Who is the admin “gate keeper”?

• Establish routines & publish timelines for deadlines for parents to provide availability, coaches to provide lineups, how many iterations each week?

• Prepare for Lineup (vacation list, use inactive)• Enter Line-Up (techniques & strategies)– http://atlantaswimming.com/hytek/TofC.asp– Lesson 6

• Relays – don’t forget H/L assignments• Check Line-Up Using MM, multiple iterations

Pre-Meet (MM)• TM Export Full Roster & Entries (multiple

iterations). Import full roster and entries into MM. Use Excel “trick”

• MM Print Roster/Entries, incl. athletes with no entries• Save to Excel file, Sort on swimmer• Eliminate data not needed• =right(A1,5), then copy below• Copy, Paste Special (values) on top of existing data• Sort on entries• Analysis & Actions

• After multiple iterations, run MM reports

Pre-Meet (MM)• Use template from Franke (ASA)• Organize folders & files in C:\swmeets4\Meet X• Change default MM directories each week• Consolidation, backup• Check YOUR line-up, be hard on yourself, be

perfect!• Check opponent’s line-up for legality only, be nice

& professional when notifying the other team.• Run Reports (entries, sessions, psych sheets,

predict score using Excel template)• Distribute entries, meet program to team!

Training Exercise

How many did you get?

Winner…

How to ID errors?

Training Exercise1.System Age Up Date (2011 vs. 2012), didn’t use template2.ID format=Australia, Class=College, didn’t use template3. # Lanes (adjust to host pool) 8 lanes in this case vs. 64. Relay Point System (7-4 instead of 7-3), didn’t use template5. Slow-Fast Order (won’t score correctly), didn’t use template6. No max scorers per team set, didn’t use template7. Add 6-u boys B-relay (not illegal, but participation issue)8. Make sure every swimmer in at least 1 relay (no illegal, but participation issue)9. Relays w/ no names (9-10 Girls MR), not illegal but creates havoc in bullpen10. Swimmer in relays, no individual, vacation kid, auto seeded in

relay (Bloom M11)

Training Exercise11. Swimmer in 2 relays, only 1 individual (Horne – F14)12. Missing relay H/L assignments (multiple)13. Swimmer in 2 MR’s, different age groups (Bartlett, F10)14. Swimmer in 2 different age groups for individual events (Blewett, F13)15. Swimmer in 3+ live events when not all others have 2 live events (Moffitt – M17)16. EX lane 1 in Heat 1, not marked EX (Garratt (M17)17. Swimmer with >3 EX entries (Bartlett - F10)• Swimmer assigned to other team’s lane in Heat 1, even vs. odd (Bucci F10)• Swimmer w/ entry but no lane assignment (Jerkovic – M13)

Post Meet• MM – Backup• MM – Update records, save, file/export

records to Excel, • MM – Print/save meet results• Export results to TM• Improvement ribbons/spreadsheet in TM• Share info!• Uncheck all inactive on Master copy• Upload to Team Connect Online• Start cycle again!

Ideas?

• Best practices are often “Beg, Borrow, Steal”

Q&A

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