Archdiocese CYO Region 17 Track & Field Finals Registration

We are working with a company called Direct Athletics to automate the registration process.  Thank you to Vince for making me aware of this service.  This will eliminate the need for me to duplicate your efforts, and reduce the number of data entry errors that we experienced last year. 

Ok, the site it pretty intuitive, so it will be pretty easy to get your teams up there.

I have attached a PDF with the instructions, but I am going to walk you through the initial steps to get to the Regional Race:

1.       Go to www.directathletics.com

2.       Click on clip-board picture of “I am a COACH or MEET DIRECTOR”

3.       Click on Create Coach Account

a.       Fill out the following:

                                                               i.      Email: Your email address

                                                             ii.      Sport:  Choose Track & Field

                                                            iii.      Team Type: Middle School / Junior High / Elementary

                                                           iv.      State: Pennsylvania

                                                             v.      Country:  United States

4.       Next you need to create your team account.  I am not going to walk you through all of that, it is simple biographical information, and pretty standard.  I will caution you on 3 things listed below:

a.       Team Name: Use your schools name the way you want it shown in results.  Full team names are preferred over simply initials. Example, Use Pope John Paul II instead of PJPII. 

b.      Team Gender:  You MUST choose “Men and Women”.  Unless you are Villa.  Villa will obviously choose “Women”

c.       Meets:  The drop down for the Meets Tab is extensive.  Scroll down the list to May 4^th, and choose the ARCHDIOCESE OF PHILADELPHIA CYO REGION 17 CHAMPIONSHIP MEET.  You will notice that Region 10 is also using this for their meet.  DO NOT choose the Region 10 Meet, choose the REGION 17 Meet. 

5.       Next step is to set your on-line roster.  From this point forward I will have you follow the below link with a PDF File for instructions. I felt the instructions were vague getting you to this point, so I wanted to make things easy for you.

Direct Athletics PDF File Instructions

Coach’s Tip:  There is a deadline on this.  Be aware of it.  All data MUST be completed by Wednesday April 30, 2014 at 6:00 PM.  Registration of Direct Athletics closes, and entries after this date are not accepted.  Vince will download the data on April 30, and what is in there is the final.  Here is my tip:  DO NOT wait to get your roster loaded.  Log in this weekend, set-up your account, and get your team listed.  That is 80% of the work.  Once your team is listed, you will assign them to events, and enter seed times.  You will be able to change any data while the site is live.  Nothing is set in stone until registration closes!!!!!

You will find all of the events listed by the standard Novice, Minor, & Cadet.

Relays:  Another thing to keep in mind.  The AD CYO T&F Committee has given us 4 Alternates for ALL relay events.  Use all 4 spots.  Once this is downloaded it CAN NOT / WILL NOT change.  This is the team and alternates that will be qualified all the way through Championships.  No substitutions at any time once it has been downloaded.  REMEMBER:  Open Relays MUST have at least one Novice and one Minor Runner.  Plan for this in your 4 alternates.  Example: If you do not list a Novice Alt, and your novice runner drops out for any reason, you no longer have a qualified team.