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Add swimmers, put them in squads and link them to parents

Build your club's swimmer register, organised by squad, with each swimmer linked to the parents who manage their entries.

For: Club admins and coaches

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    Add a swimmer

    Open Swimmers and choose Add swimmer. Enter their first and last name, competition gender, date of birth, National Membership Number (from Swim England, Swim Wales or Scottish Swimming) and squad, then choose Add swimmer.

    The Add a swimmer form
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    Organise squads

    Swimmers are grouped by squad. To move several at once, tick them on the Swimmers page and choose Move to squad.

    The Swimmers page listing swimmers with their squads
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    Link parents and add best times

    Open a swimmer's profile and choose Allocate parent to link one or more parents. On the same page you can record personal bests, or paste them from the swimmer's page on swimmingresults.org, so Lane4 can check them against qualifying times.

    A swimmer's profile with linked parent, medical details and personal bests

Screenshots show Riverside Demo SC, a made-up club with fictional members and swimmers.