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Summary of the Project
The purpose of the program, Lickity Split, is to help coaches keep track of their racers’ progress throughout a stagger-start race. Skiers typically start at intervals of 5-30 seconds at a track. Racers complete the race by skiing a pre-determined number of laps on the track. This results in widely scattered finishing times. The coach monitors races by setting a marker somewhere along the track and records the time as each racer passes it. The program, Lickity Split, calculates and sorts progress of the racers as the coach records their marker passing time. This allows the coach to give the racer pertinent information, such as, "You’re 5 seconds behind the lead!" to encourage the racer to increase pace.
