Track Unattached Swimmers at Meets

Last updated on May 19th, 2022 at 11:53 am

Some swimmers, although affiliated with a team may compete as unattached. For example, some high school swimmers also train with USA Swimming clubs. They may compete in USA Swimming meets unattached to keep their membership on the high school team. However, when a meet entry person imports many unattached entries into Meet Manager, they are joined into one unattached group.  This can make it difficult for the meet host and officials to track fees and swimmers before and during the meet.  Creating an Associated Unattached team in Meet Manager, for each group of team-affiliated, unattached entries, can help solve this problem.

How to Create an Associated Unattached Team in Meet Manager

Do these steps for each team-affiliated entry with unattached swimmers.

Import Entry File into Meet Manager

Learn more about how to do this in Course to Self-Teach Meet Manager.

Use Team Edit Screen to Create Unique Team

• In the Meet Manager main menu click on “Teams” tab
• A “Teams” window will open, double-click on the “Unattached” team listed under Team Name
• A “Team Edit” window will open:
  • Fill in “Team Abbr:” with UNRAC using three characters from the team’s abbreviation
    • UNRAC (Unattached RallySport Aquatics Club) used for this example
  • Fill in “Full Team Name:” with Unatt – real team name
    • Unatt – RallySport Aquatics used for this example
  • Fill in “LSC:” (CO used for this example)
  • Click “OK”, this will close the “Team Edit” window
  • The “Teams” windows will now show the newly created Associated Unattached team

After the Meet, Remove Associated Unattached Teams

Once the meet is over all swimmers on Associated Unattached teams, must be changed/attached to Unattached [LSC].  The meet Administrative Official (AO) does this change.

• In this example:
  • Team Abbr: UN
  • Full Team Name: Unattached Colorado
  • LSC: CO

PDF Instructions

Thanks Linda Eaton of Colorado Swimming for sharing this great resource