Advanced Hy-Tek Training
Bill Bridges
Grand Cascades Swim Team
[email protected]
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
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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”
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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)
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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 Exercise
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System Age Up Date (2011 vs. 2012), didn’t use template
ID format=Australia, Class=College, didn’t use template
# Lanes (adjust to host pool) 8 lanes in this case vs. 6
Relay Point System (7-4 instead of 7-3), didn’t use template
Slow-Fast Order (won’t score correctly), didn’t use template
No max scorers per team set, didn’t use template
Add 6-u boys B-relay (not illegal, but participation issue)
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 bullpen
10. Swimmer in relays, no individual, vacation kid, auto seeded in
relay (Bloom M11)
Training Exercise
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Swimmer in 2 relays, only 1 individual (Horne – F14)
Missing relay H/L assignments (multiple)
Swimmer in 2 MR’s, different age groups (Bartlett, F10)
Swimmer in 2 different age groups for individual events
(Blewett, F13)
Swimmer in 3+ live events when not all others have 2 live
events (Moffitt – M17)
EX lane 1 in Heat 1, not marked EX (Garratt (M17)
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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