What It Is
QuickMeet is a web platform that helps track & field and cross country coaches run their programs — from organizing competitions to tracking how hard their athletes are training day to day.
The Problem
Coaching a track team means juggling a lot at once. Meet registrations, heat sheets, results, attendance, workout plans, and injury logs all end up scattered across spreadsheets, email threads, and sticky notes. There wasn’t a single tool built specifically for this sport that brought it all together.
QuickMeet was built to fix that.
What It Does
For meet directors, the platform handles everything from accepting team entries and assigning bib numbers to capturing results live on competition day using photo finish technology.
For coaches, it’s a day-to-day training hub:
- Plan and schedule workouts for different athlete groups
- Track who showed up to practice and who didn’t
- Log injuries and monitor recovery timelines
- See at a glance whether athletes are being pushed too hard or not hard enough, based on how their recent training compares to their longer-term workload
That last feature — the training load analytics — automatically flags athletes who may be at risk of injury from overtraining, giving coaches an early warning before problems show up.
Built For Everyone
The platform was designed to work for any coach, on any device. Whether someone’s on a laptop in the office or a phone on the infield during practice, the layout adjusts cleanly. Extra care was taken to make sure the interface works for people using screen readers or keyboard-only navigation, meeting the international standard for web accessibility (WCAG 2.2 AA).
Under the Hood
The site is built with PHP on the backend and uses a MySQL database. Coaches log in securely using passkeys — the same fingerprint or face unlock technology on your phone. Payments for meet fees and season subscriptions run through Stripe. The design uses Tailwind CSS to keep things clean and consistent across the site.
One thing worth noting: a lot of thought went into keeping the platform fast. When the system calculates training load for an entire roster, it does it in as few database calls as possible — the kind of detail that isn’t visible to users but makes a real difference at scale.
Status
Actively developed and in use. The coaching tools — workout planning, attendance, injury tracking, and training load — are the most recent major addition to a platform that originally focused on meet management.