🤸♂️Athletes
Learn what athletes (gymnasts) are and how you can manage them.
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Learn what athletes (gymnasts) are and how you can manage them.
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Athletes, or gymnasts, are the whole reason we're here! They're the individuals competing on the apparatus during the meet, sticking the landings, and receiving the perfect 10s.
In the context of Gym Art Meets, athletes are associated with a category, or a team, and have a unique identifier. Check out this interactive guide if you're a visual learner.
For an in-depth guide explaining how to create or import athletes consult this guide:
⚡Creating AthletesEach athlete has required and optional parameters that allow you to organize and search for them easily. It also allows Gym Art Meets to intelligently distribute athletes into subdivisions and rotations.
The category (or competition level) of an athlete will determine who they compete against. Each athlete can only be assigned to one category.
For example, in FIG competitions Senior and Junior are two different categories. In a lot of cases, you may have categories called Level 4 (13-14) and Level 4 (12 and under). Although all athletes are in Level 4 and have the same competition rules, the 14-year-olds don't compete (and therefore aren't ranked against) the 12-year-olds.
Each athlete must be assigned to a team (or gymnastics club). Athletes who are from the same team will contribute to the same team score in competitions.
Gym Art Meets also uses the team of the athlete to automatically group athletes when generating subdivisions for your competitions and rotations for your sessions.
The athlete identifier is a unique number for the athlete. Most likely your association or league has already provided a unique number or code for your athletes. Feel free to use that number, or any other unique ID system when creating your athletes.
The ID of the athlete also enables you to bulk update your athletes. This means you can upload a CSV file with different athlete details but the same athlete identifier. Gym Art Meets will then match the new data using the ID and update the existing athlete.
The athlete number is an optional number you can provide for further customization. Typically this number is in the range of 1-999 and persists only during the meet. It does not have to be unique.
The date of birth is a required field for athletes and is used to help you spot inconsistencies between the category age range and the athletes in it.
The date this athlete registered (or paid for) this meet. This is optional and used only for your internal records.
A list of the athlete's coaches. It could be their certification number or just their name. Although this field is optional, if provided Gym Art Meets will use this data to try and optimally group athletes together when assigning them into subdivisions and rotations.
A competition represents a group of athletes from one category that will compete and be ranked against each other. Competitions have subdivisions, which are sub-groups of athletes. If all athletes cannot fit in a single session (i.e. cannot all compete in the venue at the same time) then you can create multiple subdivisions of athletes within a competition.
Once in a competition, an athlete has an empty set of scores created for them. Furthermore, their team score will automatically be calculated as well.
Gym Art Meets has a competition generation tool which will automatically distribute the athletes evenly across subdivisions while prioritizing keeping teams together.
Sessions are time slots you create in your schedule. You can add one subdivision from each competition to a session. Athletes in that subdivision will then be assigned to rotations in the session.
A rotation is a small group (typically 5-8) of athletes that will be competing together on the competition floor. They begin on an apparatus, present their routines, and then move as a group to the next apparatus until they've competed on all apparatus.
Rotation assignment is a difficult and precarious task that typically requires a lot of experience and intuition. Gym Art Meets has a rotation generation tool which will automatically distribute the athletes evenly across rotations while prioritizing keeping teams and categories together.
Consider our fictional athlete Jane Smith.
Team: High Flyers
Category: Senior
Athlete identifier: 123456
Her bib number is 101 so we set her athlete number to 101
She has two coaches with unique identifiers of 123 and 456 so we set her coach identifiers value to "123, 456"