Meets — Track & Field
Heats & flights
QuickMeet builds heats and flights automatically from the seed values on your entries, shaped by the heat settings you choose — then gives you printable heat sheets for meet day.
How heats & flights are generated
When you generate, QuickMeet ranks the athletes in each event by their seed value — the times and marks from the Entries page — and distributes them into heats and flights according to your settings. Athletes with similar seeds are grouped so they compete together, and any entrant without a seed is placed after those who have one.
Seeds drive the ordering
Good seeds make good heats. Seeds auto-fill from an athlete's results in QuickMeet and can be edited by hand on the Entries page — update them before generating for the best result.
Heat settings
Two groups of settings control how heats come out.
Track Configuration (applies to the whole meet)
- Track Lanes — choose a 6- or 8-lane track; this sets how many athletes fill a lane-based sprint heat.
- Runners / Sprint Heat — the default number of runners per heat for sprints (400m and under).
- Runners / Distance Heat — the default number per heat for distance races (over 400m), which can pack in more runners.
Per-event settings (override the defaults for one event)
- Gender: Separate or Combined — run boys and girls in their own heats, or combine them into shared heats.
- Per Heat (M) / Per Heat (F) — set a runners-per-heat count for that specific event by gender; leave it blank to use the Track Configuration default.
Generate & print
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Open Heats
From the meet, open Heats (Heat Generation).
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Adjust your settings
Set the Track Configuration and any per-event overrides so heats match how your meet runs.
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Generate
Generate heats and flights from the current seeds and settings. Change entries or settings and regenerate any time — it rebuilds from scratch.
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Print heat sheets
Open the printable heat-sheet view for a clean, meet-day-ready layout.