Time and score your cross country meets from an iPad
A hand timer that films the finish. Places and times matched for you. Scoring that actually knows cross country's rules — and live results your families can watch from the parking lot.
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Cross country is the easier sport to time
Fewer races than a track meet, but a big pack in each — and everyone in a race runs the same course to the same finish line. No lanes, no heats, no field events going at the same time. The hard part was never the clock — it's matching a time to a face, then sorting out displacers and the sixth runner before anyone heads to the car.
- Hand-time the leaders and hope the finish judge caught the order
- Match times to names off a chute card, later, from memory
- Hand-score it — count the top five, track the displacers, break the ties
- Retype the whole thing into Athletic.net that night
Time the race
No FAT hardware required. The iPad does the work.
A hand timer that films the finish
Tap to start. The app keeps a rolling video buffer, so every runner gets a finish-line photo published right alongside their time. When two kids lean at the line, you've got the footage to sort them out.
Start on your phone, finish on the iPad
Point-to-point course where the start and finish aren't in the same spot? Start the clock with the hand timer on your phone at the line, then pick it up on the iPad at the finish. The times carry over.
Capture the chute
Three ways to get a whole race in at once — pick what fits your crew.
Print QR bibs, scan the whole chute
Print a bib for each runner with a QR code on your home printer. Collect them in the finish chute in order, scan them one after another, and every runner gets their place and time in seconds. Times from the built-in timer attach automatically.
Or scan a handwritten chute card
Still running paper? Snap a photo of the card and our AI reads the bib numbers and places off the page — a whole list at once. Print our template or use any notebook paper you've got.
Bibs and labels you print at home
Use Avery sticker templates, a termal label printer, or even plain copy paper. QR codes, names, and numbers ready for race morning.
Scoring that knows cross country
The min-score math is handled.
Top five score, six and seven displace
Set your scoring team size and RaceApp does the rest. Displacers, the sixth-runner tiebreak, incomplete teams — it follows the rules so you don't have to re-check them at the line.
Team scores update live
Every scan moves the standings. Coaches and families watch the team race develop as runners come through — not an hour later in a spreadsheet.
Results everyone can see — instantly
A QR code taped to the start tent
Print a big QR code and put it where everyone gathers. Families scan it and watch results roll in on their own phones. No app to install, no login.
Export to Athletic.net format in one click
When the meet's done, export the whole thing to Athletic.net format in a single click.
Bring your roster the easy way
Import once, reuse all season
Pull your roster straight from MileSplit or Athletic.net, or add athletes at check-in. Anyone you enter at the finish line is saved and auto-fills next time.
- Import from MileSplit or Athletic.net
- Add guests and unattached runners on the fly
- New names entered at the chute save to your database
One price for the whole season
The Team plan is $99 for a six-month season — 6 hosted meets and 300 athletes per meet, timing, scoring, and live results. Small program? Starter is $49.
And you don't need the FAT add-on for cross country — the hand timer and finish-line video are built right in. Create a free account and plan your whole season for nothing; hosting a timed, scored meet runs on a paid plan.
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