My high school is in the process of starting a new track program. My question is what advice would all of the coaches give in regards to a timing / scoring system (firld events included). We will have a ten lane track and will be hosting big meets in the future. We would also like to use the same or parts of the same system for cross country meets. If possible, give me advice in the form of must have and then the cadillac model. Thank you in advance for your advice.
FinishLynx and HyTek are the only two systems you will need. There are different levels of equipment you can get from FinishLynx from a simple high school package to quite elaborate. HyTek costs about $700 when you include multi-user and cross country system. Keep in mind you will need about four people to learn how to set up and operate system. If you only have one or two meets per year, it might be better to hire a professional timing group to do those meets for you.
no timing just prints great results
full scoring system less than $100
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/racetab/It is in the bata testing now should be out by march
We have Finishlynx and Hytek, and if you want to do big track meets these days FAT is almost a requirement. It is also a requirement if you want to do championship meets at the league and up level. But Finishlynx starts at about $12,000. One way of helping finance this is to do automatic timing for high schools in your area that don't have it, which is what we do (they pay us a fee which is less than what people like flashresults cost).
The other thing you can look at is Sprint-8. At $1000 or so, it's much cheaper than finishlynx (but not FAt by itself), but there's an adapter to finishlynx. Works fine for XC.
Speed Kills Thanks for the info. I had a track official mention to me that we should get the wireless system. Is this only for reporting the field events or am I missing something? Also, is it worth it? Do these systems come with the finish line clock?