
One of the 50-plus photos posted by Meyer80 on the Whitman school page in December.
Now that the snow has been cleared and the holidays are over, meets are back in full swing and we’d love you to let us know about them. There are two ways for team representatives (coaches, athletes, parents, league administrators, fans) to send us high school meet results. And a page for every school in the D.C area has been created for you to write about those meets and post your photos from them.
See the area’s top times here and the meet results that have been submitted so far here. To find your school click here. To see a sample meet result click here. And to see a sample individual results page click here. If you don’t see your meet results, there are now two ways for team representatives (coaches, athletes, parents, league administrators, fans) from around the area to send them to us. Send them to hss@washpost.com.
To file via MEET MANAGER
STEP 1: Once you’ve entered your meet into meet manager, export your results and save them as a .zip file containing the .cl2 and .hy3 file. When exporting meet results to team manager leave the team area blank and it will select all teams swum in the meet.
STEP 2: If possible, each file should contain the information for the all the teams that participated in meet. If you have only your own team’s results available, that’s fine, please send them to us we’d love to have them. But if you have them all, it would be great to have them sent to us all in one file. You are all likely 1,000 times more familiar with the meet manager software than we are, but here’s a screengrab our tech folks asked us pass along to all of those sending us results (note that the top three fields are left blank). This is the screen that appears just before you export.
STEP 3: Please send an e-mail with your zip file attached and subject line of “Swim meet from TEAM A vs. TEAM B vs. TEAM C: mm/dd/yy” to hss@washpost.com.
To file via TEAM MANAGER (many thanks to Jeff Wolla and Brian Pawlowicz for helping us figure out this process. This is adapted from an e-mail Jeff sent us late last week)
STEP 1 All times, places, and points for each event were entered into Team Manager 5 using the Results by Event selection under the Results menu for the designated meet. This involves some scrolling up and down the displayed roster since entries are not defined in advance. Results are printed to double check swimmers, times, and scores against the hand-scored sheets.
STEP 2 Go back to the main screen.
STEP 3 Use the File>Export>Meet Results selection. Make sure the correct meet is displayed in the Specific Meet box. Check Export Relays. In the Athlete Export Filters box make sure All is selected. Your Team should be in the Team box, but I guess this does not really matter since results for only one team are entered for the meet.
STEP 4 Click OK and a box will popup telling you how Individual and Relay results were exported. It will also tell you the name of the file and the location where you will find it. Click OK.
STEP 5 Click Close. (If you click OK, the results are exported again and the number at the end of the file name increases by one.)
STEP 6 Close or minimize TM and find the zipped export file. After changing the file name to match the meet, this is the file that should be emailed with a subject line of “Swim meet from TEAM A vs. TEAM B vs. TEAM C: mm/dd/yy” to hss@washpost.com.
Those wishing to check what is inside the zipped file can go to the Reports>Export/Import File Report (CL2, HY3, SD3) menu selection. Select your export file in the next window and click Open. Click OK in the next box. Select one of the files in the next box (CFILE 01 or HFILE01) and click Open. Click OK in the next box and a report will be generated that shows what is in the file.
CONCLUSION
Send all resuls from your season to hss@washpost.com. We’ll input them as soon as we can. If you’ve already sent us results in one of these formats your results should be posted Thursday. If you don’t see them, or if you have any questions e-mail us at info@reachforthewall.com.
Thanks for your participation and good luck this season!




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