Why Can't I Delete an Athlete?
Athletes who have competed in a meet and have results posted on AthleticNET cannot have their performance history deleted from AthleticNET. An athlete's results in a meet and their profile page are inextricably linked. As such the following issues would occur if we were to try and remove an athletes results:
- If an athlete's results from a meet were to be deleted, there would be a hole in every place that the athlete competed.
- Such a hole would affect meet placing, tie-breaking, scoring, and rankings at the local, state, and national level. This could have a significant impact upon qualification of teams to bigger events etc etc.
There is a three options to keep as much data as possible private.
- If an athlete is no longer competing for a particular team, administrators / coaches may choose to deactivate the athlete. This will remove the athlete from the current roster, but any historical performance data will remain intact. For more information, see Adding, Deactivating, Reactivating, and Moving Athletes.
- The athlete can set their profile to private so no one can follow them. They can also remove current followers to ensure no one is looking at their results specifically. For more information, please refer to How to Make Your Profile Private
- In extreme circumstances, you could talk to your club, school, team administrators / coaches and see if they would be willing to change your name.
The only way an athlete is truly deleted from AthleticNET is if the athlete has no results associated with him or her. Then, if a administrator / coach chooses to deactivate that athlete from their membership / roster, the athlete will be truly deleted. As soon as any performance data of any kind is loaded into AthleticNET, the athlete becomes permanent.
While we appreciate this may not quite be the answer your looking for, due to the community-based nature of AthleticNET, Administrators, Coaches or Event Managers are responsible for uploading a meet's results to AthleticNET and Administrators / Coaches are responsible for the information they have loaded for their club, school or team.
