gmjperry

Hi Roch,

I wish it was that cut-and-dry for track & field! Here’s an example….

The Eagles Invitational Track Meet is June 1 at Memorial Stadium. Our athletes compete as follows:

Mary Smith races in heat 2 of the women’s 400 meters and heat 1 of the women’s mile.
Joe Butler races in the men’s 800 meters.
Megan Jones races in heat 1 of the women’s 400 meters and in the women’s 800 meters.

In each race, Mary, Joe and Megan are the only members of our team in that race. The other 7 athletes in each race come from somewhere else (and, for our site’s purposes, we’re not too interested in who they are). There are also multiple heats of some of the races, like the women’s 400 meters – Mary and Megan both race the 400 meters, but not against each other because there are two separate heats (sections) at that distance. And there are plenty of races that we have nothing to do with.

We don’t earn any points as a team and there is no team scoring / competition within the Eagles Invitational.

We will have 10 meets like this over the course of the Summer 2016 season, and 5 meets like this in the Winter 2016 season.

Even though there is not a team component, it is very important for user experience as well as our branding to have everything grouped on one page for the meet (e.g.,Eagles Invitational). People will ask “How did you guys do at the meet this weekend?”, knowing that we had multiple athletes competing independently in multiple races. They will want a single destination to see how we (as a collection of individuals) did that day.

If there is no way to list an athlete twice without custom code, we’d rather just list their “primary” race at the meet than make each race a separate event (page). Unless there’s a way to group multiple events onto a single page. That’s how important it is to keep everything under one umbrella for a given meet.

Hope this helps!
-G