Features

Built for the day of the carnival

Every feature in MySportsDay exists because a PE teacher asked for it, or because we watched them work around the problem.

The killer feature

Parents love it. Schools switch for it.

Share one link before the carnival starts. Parents open it on any phone — no app download, no login required.

  • Live house leaderboard, updating automatically
  • Latest race results as they're entered
  • Upcoming event schedule
  • "Find my child": search by name, see all their events and results
  • Messages from the coordinator, like "Lunch break, next event at 12:45"
  • Optional PIN so only your school community can view
Available on all plans including Single Event — this is the feature that gets parents asking which software the school is using.
Parent's phone
1st · Redwood 184 pts
2nd · Goldfields 171 pts
3rd · Bluestone 158 pts
Latest: 3km U12 Girls
1st Maya Chen · 2nd Priya Patel · 3rd Zoe Williams
On the day

Any volunteer can be a marshal

No training required. If you can tap a name on a phone, you can enter results.

  • Athlete cards coloured by house — instantly recognisable at the finish line
  • Tap each athlete as they finish — cards sort automatically
  • Race timer records each finisher's time as they're tapped
  • Field events: type each student's best distance or height and places are worked out for you
  • DNS, DNF, and DQ via a one-tap picker
  • Undo button always visible — mistakes happen
  • Review screen before submitting — confirm the order looks right
  • Flag a disputed result for coordinator review
Access by QR code or link, no login needed. Patchy signal? Results are saved on the phone and send automatically when signal returns.
Marshal's phone
1:47
Maya Chen tap to place
Lucy Nguyen tap to place
Priya Patel 2nd ✓
Coordinator view

Watch the whole carnival from one screen

The coordinator dashboard shows everything happening across the carnival in real time.

  • Live house points leaderboard
  • Every event and its status: pending, in progress, complete
  • Heat-level detail with one tap
  • Fix any result, with points recalculated automatically
  • Send a message to marshals' phones and the parent feed
  • Share the parent feed link from right here
  • Staff logins for your team on Standard and Premium
Designed for tablet or laptop primary — works on mobile too.
Coordinator's tablet
312
athletes
7/12
events done
184
Redwood pts
3km Girls U12 Done
3km Boys U12 Live
4km Girls U14 Pending
Before the day

Up and running in 20 minutes

A guided setup wizard gets your houses, first carnival and student list in. A checklist then walks you through age groups, events and heats.

  • Works with Compass, Sentral, SEQTA, OneSchool, or any CSV export
  • Automatic column mapping, no fiddling with spreadsheet formats
  • Students matched to their houses on import
  • Age groups suggested from your own year levels in one click
  • Auto-fill puts every eligible student into a heat in one click, or draw heats and lanes automatically with houses mixed
  • Relay events with a team from each house, and places ranked by time across all heats
  • Printable marshal cards with QR codes for every heat
  • Your student list carries over to every carnival, and you can copy last carnival's set-up
Setup wizard
Houses
Age groups
Import athletes
Events
📂 drag CSV here or browse
Works with Compass, Sentral, SEQTA exports
After the day

Results ready before you leave the oval

Everything the office and the principal need, in one click.

  • Printable results report with your school logo, or save it as a PDF
  • House points summary and every event's results by heat, with finish times
  • Ribbons list for every event, by event or by house, ready to tick off
  • Age champions for each age group, girls and boys
  • Printable age champion certificates
  • CSV downloads for Excel or Google Sheets
  • School records kept year to year, with a "New record" alert on the carnival page and the parent feed

The results report is on every plan. School records are on Standard and Premium. Age champions, certificates and CSV downloads are on Premium.

End of day
📄 Results report (PDF)
🏆 Age champions
🎀 Ribbons list
🎖️ Champion certificates
📊 CSV download
⭐ School records
All carnival types

Cross country, athletics and swimming

Run every carnival your school holds in one place. Clubs can use it too, with their own names for teams and members.

Cross country

Finishing order and times recorded on the marshal's phone. Multiple heats per age group. Works on any course layout.

Athletics carnival

Track and field events with as many heats as you need, and house points across the whole day.

Swimming carnival

Heats for every event and age group, results from several marshals at once, and house points across the full day.

Clubs

Athletics and swimming clubs can rename houses to clubs or squads and use birth-year age groups.

On the way

What we're building next

Not in MySportsDay yet, but on our list. Tell us what matters most to your school.

  • Swimming stroke categories and seeding by previous times
  • Little Athletics season management across multiple meets
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