The clipboard is gone. Standards position is first-class data.
Every vaulter's run-up position, tracked per flight. Automatic imperial conversion. Inline history of the last three values. RecordBoard was built by people who understand what actually happens at the pole vault pit.
What most officials do today
Standards position lives in the margin of the heat sheet. Or in the coach's notebook. Or in the vaulter's memory. At a multi-flight invitational with 15 athletes from 8 programs, none of these hold up.
You delay every attempt while the judge checks the margin annotation — or guesses. The vaulter waits. The coach calls from the infield. It's a data problem. RecordBoard solves it.
Built for the complexity of pole vault
Standards position tracked per athlete
Each vaulter's standards position (0–80 cm) is stored per competition — not globally. Because an athlete's run-up evolves, and you need the current value, not an average of all time.
Automatic imperial conversion
RecordBoard stores values in centimeters and shows the imperial equivalent (rounded to the nearest half-inch) alongside the metric reading. 77 cm appears as 77 cm (30½") in the judge view — no conversion chart required.
Inline history: last 3 values
Below the current standards position, the judge sees the athlete's last three values from previous competitions — with meet name and date. Useful when you've never worked with this vaulter before, or when you're tracking whether their run-up is drifting.
PV only — not in other events
Standards position only appears in pole vault competitions. High jump, throws, and long jump judges never see it. The interface shows what each event actually needs.
Editable from the pit without a page refresh
Tap the standards position field to edit it inline. It saves immediately. When an athlete adjusts mid-competition — which they do — the updated value is there for the next attempt.
First-class data, not a margin annotation
Standards position is attached to the athlete's competition record, not to a note field or a clipboard. It travels with the entry, persists across flights, and is visible to any official who opens the competition.
How it works at the pit
Set up the pole vault competition
Create a PV event in RecordBoard. Add athletes, assign flights. The standards position field appears automatically — no configuration required.
Enter each vaulter's standards position
Tap the field next to each athlete and enter their value in cm. RecordBoard validates the range (0–80 cm) and shows the imperial equivalent immediately.
Run the competition
During the meet, judges see each vaulter's standards position and history inline. Update it on the fly if an athlete adjusts. No clipboard, no radio call back to the table.
History builds automatically
After the meet, that standards position value becomes part of the athlete's history. Next time they compete in a PV event, the judge will see this value in the history panel.
Feature detail
What standards position tracking covers
- ✓Input range: 0–80 cm, validated client and server side
- ✓Storage: attached to the athlete's competition entry, not a global profile field
- ✓Display: metric value + imperial equivalent (nearest ½") shown side by side
- ✓History: last 3 previous values from prior PV competitions, shown inline
- ✓Editability: update the value during the competition without navigating away
- ✓Scope: only visible in pole vault competitions — never appears in HJ, throws, or horizontal jumps
Who uses this
PV officials at invitationals
Managing 10–20 athletes across multiple flights, half from programs you've never seen before. Standards position history gives you a reference point for every vaulter without calling the coach.
Head coaches running their own meets
You know your own athletes' setups cold. The tool is for the other 14 vaulters in the flight. RecordBoard gives your judges the same information you'd give them at warmups — attached to the competition, not on a sticky note.
USATF club meet directors
Sanctioned pole vault competitions require precise management. A digital record of standards position — with history — is the kind of documentation that belongs in a professional tool, not a margin annotation.
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