Features - Natalog Swimming Software

Natalog swimming software allows

• coaches to track their team's results,
• swimmers to track their own swims,
• parents to track their children's results, or
• dedicated fans to track the results of their favorite teams.

As a user of Natalog, you can

Swim Meets

• Load an unlimited number of swim meets, their entries, and their results. Natalog can import
  • Hy-Tek commlink (.cl2) files
  • Hy-Tek HY3 files
  • USA Swimming SDIF (.sd3) files
  • USA Swimming XSDIF (.xml) files
  • Lenex 2.0 and 3.0 (.lxf) files
  • Hy-Tek HTML results, heat sheets, and psych sheets
  • Hy-Tek EV3 event files
  • Zipped (.zip) versions of these files
• Load live results, or real-time results, into Natalog.
• Load a meet schedule from a tab- or comma-delimited text file.
• Receive alerts when live results have been posted.
• Load multiple meet files at a time.
• Drag and drop files and web links into Natalog.
• Load various meet formats, including dual meets, invitationals, and meets with diving and open water events.
• Define a meet manually.
• Add and delete meet events.
• View a list of loaded swim meets.
• View the full results of a meet that you have loaded. Results include seed time, prelim time, semi-finals time, finals time, relay splits, place, and points scored.
• Filter the results by team.
• Add, edit, and delete meet results.
• View the entries (or psych sheet) of a meet that you have loaded.
• Add, edit, and delete meet entries.
• Filter the entries by team.
• View a swim meet's list of events, including event number, sex, age group, stroke, and distance.
• View a swim meet's list of participants, including their individual and relay event counts.
• View a swim meet's list of participating teams, their athlete counts, and their entry counts.
• View results for a single meet event or for a select group of events.
• View entries for a single meet event or for a select group of events.
• View individual high point standings for a meet.
• View men's, women's, and combined team standings for a meet.
• Chart team scores by event.
• Export meet results or meet entries to an SDIF, XSDIF, or Lenex file.

Swimmers and Divers

• View a list of all the swimmers and divers that participated in the loaded meets.
• Load a list of athletes from a tab- or comma-delimited text file.
• View a swimmer or diver's profile, which includes his or her name, gender, age, date of birth, teams, and personal best times.
• View a list of a swimmer or diver's top times based on the loaded meet results.
• Chart a swimmer or diver's progress.
• Compare any number of swimmers' and divers' best times in a combined list or progress chart.
• Save a progress chart as a PNG, JPEG, GIF, BMP, or WBMP image.
• View a swimmer or diver's seasons.
• View a swimmer or diver's list of meets.
• View a swimmer or diver's summary for a particular meet. The summary includes his age, team, entries, and results.
• Mark an unlimited number of swimmers and divers as Favorites for quicker access to their information.
• View a list of your Favorite swimmers and divers.
• View a list of your Favorite swimmers' and divers' recent meets.
• Add a new swimmer or diver by hand.
• Correct a swimmer or diver's personal information.
• Merge duplicate swimmers and divers.
• Delete a swimmer or diver if he or she does not have any results. Deletion can be done individually or in bulk.

Swim Teams

• View a list of all the teams that participated in the loaded meets.
• Load a list of teams from a tab- or comma-delimited text file.
• View a list of a team's top times based on the loaded meet results.
• Compare any number of teams' best times in a combined list.
• View a team's list of meets.
• View a list of swimmers and divers who have competed for a team.
• Add an athlete to a team, specifying the join date or school year.
• Remove an athlete from a team, specifying the leave date or graduation year.
• Mark an unlimited number of teams as Favorites for quicker access to their information.
• View a list of your Favorite teams.
• View a list of your Favorite teams' recent meets.
• Add a new team by hand.
• Correct or update a team's name, address, or type. Team types include Boys and Girls Club, College, High School, Middle School (Junior High), and Town or Park District.
• Add or remove a swimmer or diver from a team.
• Merge duplicate teams.
• Associate a season with a team.
• Delete a season associated with a team.
• Delete a team if it does not have any results. Deletion can be done individually or in bulk.
• Define custom age groups for a team.

Conferences

• View a list of conferences loaded into Natalog.
• Load a list of conferences from a tab- or comma-delimited text file.
• Add a conference by hand.
• Add a team to a conference, specifying the join date.
• View a list of teams in a conference.
• View a conference's top times.
• Remove a team from a conference, specifying the leave date.
• Associate a season with a conference.
• Delete a season associated with a conference.
• Rename a conference.
• Delete a conference. Deletion can be done individually or in bulk.
• Define custom age groups for a conference.

Top Times

• Show top times for a single swimmer or diver. Top times include relays, relay splits, relay lead-off times, and diving events.
• Show top times for a select group of swimmers and divers.
• Show top times for a single team.
• Show top times for a select group of teams.
• Show top times for a conference.
• Filter top times by date.
• Control how many top times are displayed for each event.
• Allow only one best time per athlete or multiple best times per athlete.
• Filter out top times of athletes no longer on the team.
• Enter a swimmer's career best times by hand.

Time Standards

• View USA Swimming's 2001-2004, 2005-2008, and 2009-2012 Motivational Times.
• View NCAA Division I, Division II, and Division III A and B cuts for the 2001 through 2011 seasons.
• Add custom time standards by hand.
• Delete custom time standards. Deletion can be done individually or in bulk.
• Include time standards in a swimmer's list of top times.

Tools

• Add, subtract, multiply, and divide swim times, using its built-in time calculator.

General Features

• Think of every page/window of the software as a report.
• View reports directly in a familiar browser-like fashion. Back and Forward buttons make it easy to re-visit previously viewed reports. Reports update automatically, making it unnecessary to manually refresh them.
• Interact with reports directly. Any changes you make are saved automatically.
• Undo and redo any operation that changes your information.
• Save any report to a PDF, HTML, comma-delimited, or tab-delimited file.
• Print any report.
• Preview any report before printing it.
• Search for text on any report to make it easier to find, for example, a particular swimmer's results during a large meet.
• Watch the progress of and interrupt long-running tasks.
• Sort the rows of a table on most reports.

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View some screenshots on the version history page.

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