Touchpad™

Every swimmer and diver on your team, with their best times, grades and levels, on the roster you run the season from. Click a name and their whole record opens beside the list: grade and level, the name they go by, the events auto-assign should leave them out of, every best time, and every split you’ve taken, race by race and wall by wall. The relay legs they could swim are listed with their time for each, and the ones nobody has timed yet are flagged. Bring the roster in from a Team Manager best-times export, which carries every swimmer’s times in one file, or a Final Forms roster, and add anyone else by hand. If your school is on KeepUp, the swim roster is shared with it automatically: a level or a grade set in one place is set in both. If it isn’t, nothing changes. Touchpad runs a swim program on its own.

You’re on Touchpad. The schools you swim against don’t have to be. The host shares one link per visiting team, and the coach who opens it needs no account and no login. They upload the entries file straight out of Hy-Tek Team Manager, .hy3 or .cl2, and see every swim and every relay exactly as it will be entered, seed times included, before they press Submit. Wrong export? Pick another file; nothing reaches the meet until they submit. Their swimmers land in the host’s grid the moment they do. The host never chases a lineup again.

Touchpad builds your lineup for you. Auto-assign swimmers to their events in one pass instead of penciling in every name by hand, then tweak anything you want. A lineup that used to eat an evening takes seconds.

Automatic time-based seeding drops the fastest swimmers into the final heats, with manual lane control when you need it: click a swimmer and a lane, or drag between heats. The event order carries a running estimate of when each one goes off. Publish the heat sheet in a tap: every coach is notified, and it goes live on Streamline for swimmers and families.

A swimmer goes home sick an hour before the meet. Open the published heat sheet on your phone, turn on Amend my team, and scratch the lane, put a swimmer into an open one, or swap a relay leg right there. The change is on the desktop console at the timing table, on the host’s sheet, and on Streamline’s live heat sheet for families the moment you make it. Nobody walks a slip of paper to the table, and nobody re-seeds.

Display each heat, key three watches per lane, and Touchpad averages them into the final, places the heat, and keeps a running team score as you go. Every change the meet throws at you is one click from the lane it’s about, on the screen you’re timing on. Sub a relay leg from the team’s roster, which shows who is already in the event and who has hit their limit. Drop a swimmer into an empty lane as an exhibition deck entry. Drag a swimmer to an open lane, or onto another swimmer to swap the two, in any heat of the event. Scratch, mark a no-show, and DQ with every reason that applies. Where Meet Manager sends you off the run screen to change an entry, here you never leave the heat.

Open the meet on your phone, pick up to three of your lanes in a heat, and tap once per wall with your eyes on the water. Every split is recorded on that swimmer the moment you save the heat, read back wall by wall against the official time, and relay legs are chosen from them. Missed the horn? Type what the scoreboard reads and start from there. Coaching data, kept apart from official times and scoring.

The desktop app is offline-first. Download the meet before you head to the pool, then record every time and DQ with zero Wi-Fi: the header flips to Offline and nothing else changes. A running log stamps every download, refresh and sync with the time it happened, so the table knows what made it up and what’s still waiting. It syncs the moment it reconnects, and keeps retrying until it does. The timing table never stalls because the internet did.

One link per meet covers timers and officials. Send it to the team and parents pick a lane to time, a snack table, or a certified officiating role from their phone, with no account, and get a reminder two days before and the morning of. The host’s sheet fills in as they do: who has the referee and starter, which required spot is still open, and whether the meet is ready to run. The Volunteering page lays out every home meet of the season the same way, so you see in October which November meet still has no referee. Print the deck sheet and the crew is on paper.

The whole suite speaks HY-TEK, in both directions. Bring your roster in from a Team Manager best-times export and every swimmer arrives with their times. Drop a Meet Manager entries file, .hy3 or .cl2, into the entry grid and the lineup fills itself. Seed here and hand Meet Manager a merge file with every heat, lane and seed time already in it, or seed in Meet Manager and bring that back. Run race day on whichever one your officials know, then upload the results export and the meet lands in Touchpad, KeepUp and Streamline without anyone retyping a swim. League, district and state cuts ride along, so you see who qualified as the results land.