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Organise training groups, schedule track and field sessions, track athletes' awards and progress, and manage everything from junior fun-athletics to competitive squad training.
AMES keeps training groups across sprints, throws, jumps and endurance on one timetable, with each athlete's bookings, payments, attendance and progress on one record. From junior programmes to competitive squads, coaches' qualifications and DBS checks are recorded with expiry dates, so the club can see who is up to date.
UK Governing Body
England Athletics
Typical Pricing
£4-£8 per session
Class Size
12-25 students
Coordinating training across sprints, throws, jumps and endurance within a single session slot is fiendishly complicated when you rely on spreadsheets and group chats. A club session might have younger athletes working on long jump technique in one pit while an older group rotates through shot put and discus at the throws cage, and senior sprinters need a section of the straight to themselves. Throws cage time is limited at many municipal tracks, and clashes with other clubs sharing the facility are common. Jump pits need raking between groups, and pole vault needs qualified coaches and safety checks before anyone begins. Add a warm-up area full of athletes arriving in staggered age groups, and one scheduling error can leave juniors standing idle while their coach is at the other end of the track.
Getting athletes entered into competitions on time, in the right event and with the right qualifying standards is a relentless burden that peaks in championship season. Each competition has its own entry route, deadline and eligibility rules, and qualifying standards can change each year. Entries mean cross-referencing each athlete's recent performances against published standards, checking their registration is current and confirming their age group on the day. Relay selection adds recent splits, handover reliability and availability. Away fixtures need transport, parental consent and supervision arranged well in advance, and a single missed deadline can cost an athlete their place.
Recording, verifying and comparing performances across many events and athletes is far more nuanced than writing down a time or a distance. In sprints and horizontal jumps, a performance with too much following wind does not count for ranking purposes. Electronic and hand timing are not directly comparable, so conversions have to be applied correctly. Multi-event athletes need their individual results converted into points against the right tables. Without one place for all of this, coaches end up keeping parallel spreadsheets for wind-legal bests, hand times and multi-event points, and discrepancies between records erode athletes' and parents' confidence in the club.
Athletics in the UK is not a single-season sport, and moving between track, cross-country, road running and indoor competition creates recurring upheaval. Cross-country brings its own registration, team declarations and venues that change weekly. Road running entries overlap with the end of the cross-country season, with their own entry forms and travel. Indoor events in winter mean different schedules, equipment and venues that may be far from your home track. Summer camps for development squads need booking months ahead. Each change of season means updating timetables, reassigning coaching groups, adjusting payments and telling parents and athletes across every age group.
Scheduling training groups in athletics requires balancing event-group needs, facility capacity, equipment availability, and coach qualifications. This guide covers how to structure group scheduling so every athlete gets meaningful training in their discipline without bottlenecks.
Athletics clubs operate across multiple seasons with fundamentally different programmes: summer track and field, winter cross-country and road, and the indoor season bridging both. Managing these transitions smoothly involves timetable restructuring, payment adjustments, and clear communication to retain members through change.
Personal bests are the currency of athletics. Tracking them accurately means understanding wind-legal rules, timing methods, multi-event scoring tables, and how age-graded comparisons can motivate athletes across every event group. This guide covers the systems and standards that matter.
Effective performance tracking transforms an athletics club from a place that runs sessions into one that demonstrably develops athletes. This guide covers PB alert systems, progression visualisation, age-graded scoring, Power of 10 integration, and multi-event points tracking.
A parent and athlete portal gives athletics club members a single place to view training schedules, competition calendars, personal bests, and coach session notes. This guide covers what to include, how to structure access, and how a well-built portal reduces the communication burden on volunteers.
Running a multi-event athletics session means managing several disciplines simultaneously across different facility zones. This guide covers rotation design, equipment allocation, coach deployment, and the practical logistics that keep sessions safe and productive.
Managing a club's competition programme means tracking qualifying standards, selecting teams fairly, optimising relay combinations, submitting entries on deadline, and reconciling results. This guide covers the systems and processes that keep competition management under control.
Managing competition entries for an athletics club involves juggling qualifying standards, England Athletics portal submissions, parental consent, relay team selection, and tight deadlines. This guide walks through building a system that handles it all without dropping entries.
An athletics club's coaching team must meet England Athletics licensing requirements, maintain current DBS checks, hold event-specific qualifications, and operate within group size limits. A compliance dashboard brings all of this into a single view that prevents lapses and simplifies audit reporting.
Athletics club payments are complicated by membership tiers, England Athletics affiliation, competition entry fees, family discounts, and seasonal variations. Automating collection through Direct Debit and structured billing eliminates volunteer hours spent chasing payments and reduces revenue leakage.
Athletics is one of the most accessible sports for children, but setting up a club requires careful planning around affiliation, qualifications, and venue access. This guide walks you through every step from coaching certification to competition entry.
Run every training group, from juniors to senior squads, on one live timetable that the office, coaches and families share. Each group has its own capacity, levels can carry an age range, athletes and parents book and pay online in AMES Connect, new athletes can book a taster session, and full groups offer the waiting list, with a freed place offered to the next athlete automatically.
Import the ESAA Athletics Award Scheme, with its published performance standards for sprints, hurdles, endurance, jumps and throws, or set up your own levels and skills. Coaches record which standards each athlete has achieved and add notes in AMES Teach, and athletes and parents see their awards and what comes next in AMES Connect. AMES does not keep a results database of times, distances and personal bests.
Collect membership and training fees by GoCardless Direct Debit, and one-off payments such as taster sessions and drop-ins by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay through AMES Pay. Set different prices for junior, senior and squad groups, apply family and sibling discounts under the rules you set, and let failed payments retry automatically with the member told, so your treasurer is not chasing by hand.
AMES Connect gives athletes and parents their training sessions, bookings, payments, receipts, progress and coaches' notes in one app. They can report absences, keep health and medical notes current, read noticeboard updates about fixtures and season changes, and message the club without searching through group chats.
New athletes can enrol online or book a taster session first, free or at the price you set. Holiday camps and one-off sessions sit on the same timetable as weekly training, families can book drop-in sessions and pay as they go, and noticeboard posts and messages tell families about upcoming fixtures. AMES does not manage competition entries.
Coaches take registers in AMES Teach with a tap for each athlete. Record each coach's England Athletics licence, event-specific qualifications, DBS check, first aid and safeguarding training with expiry dates and the certificate uploaded as evidence, see everything that has expired or is due to on one page, and require a qualification for the groups that need it, so an unqualified assignment is blocked or flagged.
See how AMES can automate bookings, payments, and communication for your athletics business.
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