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Special Offer for New Subscribers to Track & Field 2013

Want to try XCStats Track & Field for next-to-nothing? We have an amazing offer for new subscribers in 2013. The fee is only $50 for the entire season for your school! No strings attached, no reduced feature set. You'll get all the reports and graphs, an email system, text messaging, goal setting, training logs, mobile apps, a meet simulator, team discussion forum, a web site and team management tools! See the full list of features here. All for one astonishingly low price! Sign up today.

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New Features in Track & Field 2013

We've added some exciting new features to XCStats/Track & Field for 2013. Here are the coolest ones:

• Meet Planner
• It's time consuming to assign your athletes to their respective events and divisions before every meet, then communicate the plan to the athletes parents and other coaches, all while dealing with constant changes. This problem is what the XCStats Meet Planning tool addresses. It provides a easy-to-use tool to assign athletes to the different events/divisions, then with a click, post the Meet Plan to your XCStats Track and Field home page.
  
  The planning tool automatically checks that you don't have a same athlete assigned to two different divisions at the same meet. It also provides a view by athlete so you can always see how many events each athlete is participaing in.

• Competitive Analysis
• Here’s something fun. Just as you load your own results into XCStats, you can load that of your competitors! Just locate their results on a site where it is posted, then copy and paste it into XCStats. From there you can create performance lists which compare you against them. Then, use this information to adjust your meet plan using our new planning tool.
  
  You might know more about your competitor than they do themselves!

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New Features in Cross Country 2012

We've added some exciting new features to XCStats for 2012. Here are the coolest ones:

• Mobile Apps!
• We've created mobile versions of the XCStats coaching tools, specifically goal setting and training logs, so it's simple, fun and convenient for your kids to utilize these features. Combined with XCStats email and text messaging, the kids can immediately take action wherever they receive your requests for this information. Sometimes, it can be difficult to get your kids to enter their logs, but with these apps, the moment they finish their workouts they can update their logs on their mobile device.
  
  Our mobile goal setting app will encourage more of your athletes to create goals which, according to research, is the #1 quickest way to improve performance. We've also added an easy tool for emailing a coach from their phones.
  
  The apps are free and they run on all smartphones.

• Enhanced Email Editor
• We've enhanced our email system so coaches can create messages which include formatted text, links, bullets, spell checking, numbering, images and other features! Notice the familiar icons which provide the formatting tools, as shown in the image, and you also can add html directly. You can even write your message in Word, then cut and paste it into XCStats, while maintaining the formatting.

• Custom Groups
• Many coaches usually interact with only a subset of the team. For example, in cross country, a coach may work with only JVG, and track & field has many event-specific coaches. As such, coaches only need to communicate with their specific athletes, which is why we've added the ability for you to create custom groups. Once you define your groups on the Update Roster page, you can select athletes by their group names in the email system. This is a big time saver so you don't need to individually select your recipients each time you want to send a message. Working in conjunction with this feature, on the email page we've added the option to select or de-select parents of the currently selected athletes. So, if you make a custom group of those athletes invited to a particular meet, then with a single click, you can include their parents in all communications.

• Results Posted Faster
• Previously our results-loading process required that we wait until all races were completed before we uploaded the results from that meet. This can be a long wait for an all-day event like Mt. Sac or the section meets! To provide results sooner, we've enhanced our data loading software so we can perform incremental loads. With this feature, you just might get an email or text message notifying you that the results have been loaded before you leave the site!
• Top 10 Performance Email Notification
• One of the favorite tools for coaches is the post-race email system that, with a single click from the coach, sends a customized email to the athlete and parents highlighting their child's performance. We've added a function to this service so that we also report to the coach all performances who crack into the top 10 on the all-time list. This includes both team and individual performances. You'll never miss recognizing an outstanding performance!

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XCStats Guest Pass Now Available

Absolutely free, XCStats now offers a Guest Pass allowing visitors exclusive access to data and content previously unavailable. The Pass provides access to our massive cross country database. Get your Guest Pass now!

• Free Access to the XCStats California Cross Country Database
• With nearly 1,000,000 race performances and over 1,000 meets, and our robust search and reporting tools, you can spend hours researching your favorite runners and teams. XCStats provides Guests with 6 different search methods for both individual and team results: by runner or school name, by event and by course. With these features you can create reports such as:
• The entire career for searched runners.
• Find the varsity (or JV, F/S) team performances for a given school this season or many seasons.
• Get the race results for over a thousand meets (and over 10,000 races) since 2005. No more navigating through page after page of listings.
• Find the top performances at a given course during a season, for example, who ran the fastest time at Mt. Sac in 2010.
• See how runners and teams compare for a given event if they all particpated in the same race.

The tool is especially useful for helping college coaches identify promising recruits! The Guest Pass is free. Sign up here.

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Finally, an SAT Score For Running

We developed this in late 2010, but it's just too cool not to mention. Most high school kids get feedback on their level of education relative to others via the famous and dreaded Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). We've developed the same thing at XCStats! We can tell every runner the percentile of their performance relative to thousands of other high school kids have run the same course. Essentially, it's the "bell curve" for nearly every course in California. Below is an example from Mt. Sac. The Y axis is the size of the population and the X axis is the time to run the 2.93 mile course. The vertical line is draw at 17:40, which happens to be the 50% percentile for varsity boys runners.

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XCStats on the Fast Track

Wow, how we've grown! Started in 2006 with 2 subscribing schools, XCStats has grown to over 100 in 2012! In the process, we've added functionality way beyond just statistics. The site provides coaching tools, such as training logs and goal setting, communication applications such as a discussion forum, complete team web site, email system and text messaging and even tools to help manage the team. We added Track & Field in 2011, expanding to our second sport! Welcome to XCStats!

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Training Sessions Offered

Coaches - need to brush up on your XCStats skills from last year? Or want some personalized training on the new features? Just attend an XCStats Refresher training session! Sessions are scheduled frequently. Sign up on the subscription page. Just select "Attend a Training Session" in the form. All are free.

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