Quick answer
Sign up free at Gophin, choose I'm a parent, and search your child's name as it appears on official meet results. Their meets and best times load from official records, and every new sanctioned meet appears on its own once results are published. No spreadsheet, no typing times.
Meet weekend ends. Someone asks for the 100 Back. You have a PDF in email, a screenshot in the family chat, and last season in a sheet you stopped updating in January. That is the job Gophin was built to replace.
Set It Up Once
- Create a free account at gophin.app (on the web or in the iOS or Android app). It is free.
- Answer "First, who are you?" with I'm a parent.
- Search your child's name on the "Let's find your swimmer" screen. Use the name printed on official results, not the nickname on the parka. Type at least three letters; the optional filters (gender, birth year, country, club) help with common names.
- Select Favorite on the right swimmer. Their meet history and personal bests load from official competition records.
Following a sibling or a friend from the team? Open My swimmers and search again. One free account can follow as many swimmers as you like, and you can switch between them at any time.
First-day screenshots are in Your First Day with Gophin. If you still have a spreadsheet habit, tracking progress without a spreadsheet covers why families drop the sheet.
After Each Meet: What Changes on Its Own
You do not have to send anything or type a time. Once a meet's official results are published and imported, everything for the swimmers in your My swimmers updates by itself:
- New swims appear in Times → Meets, with times and places.
- New personal bests replace the old ones in Times → Best Times.
- Gaps to cuts in Compare → Standards and the season view in Compare → Seasons use the new times.
The habit that works: open Gophin the evening after results are posted, not during the meet.
Where to Look After a Meet
| You want to see | Open |
|---|---|
| Personal bests by event and pool (SCY, SCM, LCM) | Times → Best Times |
| Every meet and every swim in it | Times → Meets |
| Full results of a whole meet, every swimmer | Meets |
| Gap to B, AA, provincial or national cuts | Compare → Standards |
| This season against last season | Compare → Seasons |
| Splits and pacing of a race | Times → Splits |
| Where they rank by age | Rankings |
Home gives the quick view: best times, the swim with the most World Aquatics points, and a performance radar.
What Does Not Load on Its Own
Gophin tracks official competition records. Practice times and some unofficial or intra-club meets never reach those records. If you want them anyway, add them in More → Custom Times; they show in green and you choose whether comparisons include them.
If You Cannot Find Your Child
- Try the spelling from the results. Hyphens, middle names and accents matter. Part of the surname often works better than the full name.
- Brand-new swimmers have no profile until their first sanctioned result is published. After that, it shows up without you sending anything.
- Still nothing? Select Help me find my swimmer on the search screen and tell us the name, year, country and club.
The Bottom Line
Following a child's times should be a Sunday-night glance, not a data-entry hobby. Sign up once, favorite the swimmer, and let official results fill Best Times and Meets.
