1. Advanced Hy-Tek Training Bill Bridges Grand Cascades Swim Team wpbridges@bellsouth.net 678-575-6552

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

3. 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

4. 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 http://atlantaswimming.com/hytek/TofC.asp – Lesson 6 Relays – don’t forget H/L assignments Check Line-Up Using MM, multiple iterations

5. 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

6. 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!

7. Training Exercise How many did you get? Winner… How to ID errors?

8. Training Exercise 1.System Age Up Date (2011 vs. 2012), didn’t use template 2.ID format=Australia, Class=College, didn’t use template 3. # Lanes (adjust to host pool) 8 lanes in this case vs. 6 4. Relay Point System (7-4 instead of 7-3), didn’t use template 5. Slow-Fast Order (won’t score correctly), didn’t use template 6. No max scorers per team set, didn’t use template 7. 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 bullpen 10. Swimmer in relays, no individual, vacation kid, auto seeded in relay (Bloom M11)

9. Training Exercise 11. 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) 18. Swimmer assigned to other team’s lane in Heat 1, even vs. odd (Bucci F10) 19. Swimmer w/ entry but no lane assignment (Jerkovic – M13)

10. 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!

11. Ideas? Best practices are often “Beg, Borrow, Steal”

12. Q&A ?