Here's a quick overview on the whats, hows, and whys of seeing meet results on MileSplit New Mexico.
In the grand scheme of things, it would be great if every high school meet in New Mexico and across the nation were using a meet manager program and an electronic timing system. The reality of the situation is that they're not. Most track and field meet management programs come with a price tag, an annual licensing fee, system requirements, and the need for competently trained people to run them. Timing systems require expertise that typically requires we tap into the intellectual resources of some of the younger, technologically-oriented people in our communities. Please be sure to thank the directors of meets who go to extra effort of putting all this in place so that the meet runs more smoothly and the process of dissemination of results happens almost instantaneously. It's a big undertaking.
Clearly, New Mexico is inching toward a model where meet management is more or more a computer-assisted activity. That's happening at both the timing and meet management level, and both are great things.
In the meanwhile, however, meets have results and coaches, parents, and athletes alike all like to look at meet results. MileSplit New Mexico is all about making meet results widely available, available to anyone with internet access.
Any meet results in some sort of workable electronic format (a file of scanned results, however, is not a workable electronic format) sent to me at the e-mail address in the lower left corner of this page.will be posted on this site. The best-case scenario is the flat html file from Hy-Tek or the publication file from RaceTab (free meet management software). But, if that's not yet possible in your situation, I have linked an Excel track and field results template that I can use to quickly rework your meet's results into a publishable format, a format very much like when you see in the cover image for this article.
The ideal is meet results arriving the same day as the meet, but we'll still publish results that arrive days after the meet. And, the ideal isn't always attainable even when a meet management program is in use. But, once you see how the availability of results from meets across the state transforms how we see the sports of cross country and track and field (and heightens enthusiasm for the sports along the way) you won't want to go back to the way things have been.