Software for high school cross country and track, made by a coach who needed it.
Bores Sports Technologies is one person in Norwalk, Ohio. The first tool, CourseChalk, maps a cross country course and prints the meet packet. The second, PaceChalk, keeps your team's cross country and track results and shows how the season is going.
The tools
Each one does a job a coach or meet director does by hand today, and stops there.
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CourseChalk
Live at coursechalk.com
Trace your cross country course on an aerial map and it measures itself to the meter, so you find out it is 4,860 before the coaches do. It colors the line mile by mile, then prints the flyer, the coaches packet and the parents packet with your course maps already in them.
Free to try, in your browser or as a Windows app. The free version runs a whole meet on one course and exports the real sheets with a SAMPLE watermark. A $49 season pass adds every course the meet needs and prints them clean.
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PaceChalk
Live at pacechalk.com
Enter your team's race as you timed it: places, the mile splits you have, and the finish. If a split is missing, PaceChalk calculates it at even pace and marks it "est". Then it shows how each runner paced the race and how the team did.
Across the season it keeps team spreads, a page for each athlete with PRs and goals, top lists, team records and your schedule. A results file (PDF, web page or CSV) can fill in a race for you.
For track and field, enter each event at a meet, relays and field events included, in feet and inches or meters. It keeps PRs and season bests, top marks and team records by event. Age grades compare a freshman with a senior fairly.
Try the demo team with no sign-in. Sign in with your CourseChalk account and your own team saves online, free for 30 days, no card. After that, a pass is $49 a year, or $79 with a CourseChalk season pass. Each comes as a yearly plan that renews or as one season. Cross country and track and field.
How they are built
Five things every tool here keeps to.
It works with one bar of signal. A county park at 7 am on meet morning has bad reception. Nothing you need at that moment waits on the network.
Your work stays yours. A meet plan is a file on your own computer, or a record in your own account. Your PaceChalk teams are saved to your own account. Nothing is sold, and nothing is tracked.
You see it work before you pay. The free version runs a whole meet on one course and exports the real sheets, watermarked. You pay for clean paper and the rest of your courses, not to find out whether it works. PaceChalk has a demo team and a 30-day free trial with no card.
Public data where it exists. Aerial imagery from the USGS National Map. Addresses from the US Census Bureau, and schools from the federal school list. All public domain, so the tools can stay cheap.
One person answers the email. That is the whole support department, so you talk to the person who wrote the code.
For schools
Purchase orders are welcome, Net 30. Email billing@borestechnologies.com for a quote. When your PO arrives, you get an invoice with your PO number on it. Payment is by card, and a school purchasing card works; $49 clears most card limits with no PO at all. W-9 on request.
Stripe sells the passes as merchant of record. It collects and pays the sales tax and sends your receipt, and your card statement starts with LINK.COM* BORES. If your district is tax-exempt, email billing@ before you buy.
Ethan Bores, Norwalk, Ohio
I coach high school cross country and track in Ohio, and I write software for a living. These tools started as things I wanted for our own meets and our own runners. That is why they fit the job as closely as they do.
All of this runs alongside a season, not instead of one. If something breaks on a Saturday morning, tell me. I am probably at a meet too.
Something your meet still does by hand?
Tell me what it is. The next tool will come out of somebody's complaint.