TLDR

Athletic.net handles results, rankings, and meet entries well. It does not handle practices, live splits, athlete workouts, daily team communication, or the hundred small tasks that fill a coaching week. If you're looking for an app that covers your whole program across both track and cross country, not just public results, Split Track is the alternative built specifically for high school T&F and XC coaches.

Why coaches start looking for an alternative

Most high school coaches don't quit Athletic.net entirely. They start looking for something else when they realize Athletic.net solves the public-facing side of the season, for both track and XC, but leaves the day-to-day program management to spreadsheets, group texts, and a clipboard under their arm at practice.

The gap usually shows up as one of these:

  • Practices have no home, whether it's a track interval session or a cross country long run
  • Athletes can't see their workout plan on their phone
  • Splitting intervals at practice or capturing XC race splits means a stopwatch and a screenshot
  • Parent communication is a phone-number group text that gets messy fast
  • Tasks like physicals and uniform returns have no tracking system
  • Managing rosters across both T&F and XC seasons means duplicated work in two places

None of those are Athletic.net's job. They need a separate tool, and that's exactly what coaches go looking for.

What to look for in an alternative

Before you download the first app you find, know what problem you're actually solving. Athletic.net alternatives fall into two categories:

Results-first platforms like MileSplit compete directly with Athletic.net for rankings databases and meet coverage. If your pain is "I want better results publishing," that's your lane.

Program management apps handle the work that happens between meets: practice planning, team communication, meet-day operations on a phone, athlete performance tracking, and roster administration across both seasons. If your pain is "I'm still running this team out of Google Sheets," this is what you need.

Most coaches who search "Athletic.net alternative" actually need the second category.

Why Split Track is the answer for most high school coaches

Split Track is built from scratch for high school track and field and cross country programs. Every feature comes from a real coaching problem.

Practice Planner. Build the workout once, whether it's a track interval session or a cross country tempo run, run it live, and have times sync automatically to athlete profiles. Athletes see the plan on their own phone before they arrive.

Meet Manager. Assign events, capture live times and splits with your phone, invite a parent timer for field events or XC finish line, and share results with the team the moment a race finishes.

Roster and roles. Head coaches, event coaches, athletes, parents, and volunteer timers all get appropriate access across both programs. No more managing five separate communication threads.

Tasks and attendance. Track physicals, uniform returns, RSVP to meets, and mark attendance without a separate spreadsheet.

Team chat. Announcements, scoped threads, and read receipts so you know who actually saw the schedule change.

Most coaches keep Athletic.net for meet entries and public results because their state or conference requires it. They add Split Track for everything that happens the other six days of the week.

How to make the switch

Split Track's first month is free. Most coaches are up and running in a single practice session. There's no data migration required from Athletic.net because Split Track covers different ground.

The fastest way to see if it works: build one practice in Split Track before your next workout, share it with your athletes, and run it live. If it saves you twenty minutes of clipboard work, you'll know it fits.

Ready to try it?

Download Split Track on the App Store or Google Play. First month is free, no credit card required. Questions? Reach us at [email protected] or (801) 310-7135.