About

Purpose
The National Running Club Database enables NIRCA collegiate club athletes to upload and see all of their results results in one place.
There are athlete, team, and meet pages where users can see all past results in a user-friendly format. Any user can upload new results on the add results page in order to expand the database. These results will then be added to the respective pages once they are approved by admin.
Finally, there is a records page where you can see the top times from around the country. You can filter by team and year, and even see hypothetical meet scores.

Subscription
We want to provide useful information to running club athletes for as affordable as possible. However, it costs money to run and maintain our website. Therefore, beginning in October 2024, you will need a subscription in order to view the records page. This page allows you to see top times from around the country, filter by team and year, and even see hypothetical meet scores. Additionally, as a subscriber, you can claim your team and athlete and add pictures to your pages. Furthermore, you can see a users asjusted times for race conditions (temperature, long course, and eleveation gain) as a subscriber. You can purchase a subscription here. Thank you so much for your support. Our subscribers make the National Running Club Database possible.
Every club can have one member on the CRC Coaches Poll. As a member, you can be an admin of the NRCD and get a free subscription. For info on becoming a CRC member, check out this doc.

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 was great to see the universities coming together to compile results. However, it had limited functionality since it was a Google Sheet and not a formal database.
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.

Commitment to Open Source
It is the National Running Club’s commitment to make our data open source. We will eventually publish our dataset on either Kaggle or a GitHub DOI, and update it twice a year, after each Cross Country and Track & Field season.
We also plan to release our code on GitHub.

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
There is a merge athletes page where you can merge athletes.
This a common occurance. For example the name could have 2 versions such as Nick and Nicholas. Additionally you can merge athletes that have switched teams.
To do so manually enter the url path /athletes/<int:athlete_id1>/merge/<int:athlete_id2> where you put the two athlete id numbers in the appropriate places.
This will then be approved by admin.
You can also merge meets in a similar way.
To do so manually enter the url path /meets/<int:meet_id1>/merge/<int:meet_id2>

Feedback:
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