Support club running nationwide — NRCD Pro unlocks Hypothetical Meet, Head-to-Head, lineup planners, Power Rankings, and more.

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One home for NIRCA club running: register, live results, every mark, and analytics.

Why clubs use NRCD

One stack for club running.

Register with Automark, run live results with national badges, and keep every mark in one database - plus advanced analytics NCAA tools do not give you.

NCAA clubs often juggle

  • DirectAthletics to register
  • Athletic.net for live results
  • TFFRS for race results
  • No built-in advanced analytics

NIRCA clubs use NRCD for all of it

  • Register on Upcoming meets (Automark seeds first)
  • Live results with NRCD Live
  • Every result in the national database
  • Advanced analytics on athletes, teams, and meets
  • Automark for entry Hosts set meet standards (or use sitewide Automark). Qualified clubs and athletes seed and list first.
  • All results in one system Season marks, history, records, and Power Rankings stay on NRCD - not split across three vendors.
  • Live results that mean something NRCD Live shows PR, club, meet, and nationals record badges, plus top-100 national rank callouts.
  • Analytics NCAA stacks skip Depth, PR progression, Hypothetical Meet, Head-to-Head, lineup planners, and standardization.

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Purpose

The National Running Club Database enables NIRCA collegiate club athletes to upload and see all of their results in one place. Browse athlete, team, and meet pages with full result history; add new results on the add results page (reviewed before publishing). Records lists the fastest marks nationwide; Automark tracks qualifying standards by season. Hosts register athletes online, push NRCD Live results with national badges, and keep analytics on the same site.

Subscription

Teams, meets, automark, and the default Records view are free. NRCD Pro unlocks the leaderboard, Head-to-Head comparisons, lineup planners (XC Top 7 and track relays), Hypothetical Meet scoring, advanced analytics on athlete, team, and meet pages, recurring-meet edition switching and series records, performance standardization, Records filters, meet team filters, Database Summary Pro, and profile claiming with photos. See plans & pricing for the full free-vs-Pro breakdown and checkout.

Subscriber revenue helps cover hosting and development — thank you for supporting the project.

History

In August of 2023, Jonathan Karr created the CRC Coaches Poll where teams from across the country rank the best Cross Country and Track and Field NIRCA club teams from across the country. To compile the results, Jonathan Karr (Notre Dame), Ben Darden (Virginia Tech), and other members of the Coaches Poll created a Google Sheet to compile all of the results. This was the first time that all of the results were compiled in one place. This led Jonathan to want to transform the Google Sheet into a user-friendly database. In his Advanced Database class led by Professor Ramzi Bualuan, Jonathan created a National Running Club Database prototype along with his groupmates: Kayla Ambrose and Evan Hall. He further developed it during the summer of 2024 before its initial public release on August 12, 2024 on www.nationalrunningclubdatabase.com. We continue to improve the database and add new features to fulfill your needs!

Commitment to Open Source

The NRCD is committed to open source research and public data. See our research page for papers, open datasets, and collaborators. Our methods and standardization approach are described in this paper.

The public dataset is available on Zenodo. We commit to updating it once per year so researchers and the NIRCA community can rely on a current export. Public releases follow PII guidelines: personally identifiable information is removed before publication.

The nrcd Python package (source on GitHub) implements the same performance-standardization formulas incorporated into the NRCD. Install with pip install nrcd.

Policies

NRCD is based in Michigan and owns the website and database. We collaborate with universities (including Notre Dame and others) on research and community projects. Read our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, DMCA / Copyright, and CCC Community Guidelines (CRC Coaches Poll / officer Discord). Contact nationalrunningclubdatabase@gmail.com for legal/privacy, or nircacoachespoll@gmail.com for Coaches Poll / CCC questions.

Improving the Database

We encourage you to add results to the database here. You can see all of the meets in our database here, so feel free to add both historical and new results.

Merge Athletes / Meets and Meet Series

Duplicate athlete or meet records happen when names are spelled differently (Nick vs Nicholas), when the same meet is entered twice, or when someone competes for more than one school over time (for example, undergrad and grad school).

For athletes on the same team, the database automatically flags likely duplicates with similar names. Admins review those suggestions and approve merges when appropriate.

You can also request a merge manually — including athletes who transferred teams — by visiting /athletes/<athlete_id1>/merge/<athlete_id2>. An admin approves the request before profiles are combined. Duplicate meets merge the same way at /meets/<meet_id1>/merge/<meet_id2>, which combines their result records. Meet Series is different: it links separate editions of the same invite without combining results. Browse linked series at /meet-series (opening /meet-series/<series_id> goes to the latest edition). Admins use /meets/<meet_id1>/series/<meet_id2> to link editions; approved Nationals meets in the same sport are grouped automatically. Linked meet pages show the series name and id, Pro edition switching, series records, and cross-edition analytics.

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