Incorporating Technology in our Sports Program

By Valia Efstathiou, Athletic Programs and Events Coordinator

The Athletic Department always tries to incorporate technology and creativity in its day to day tasks. Let’s see what happened this year.

Æ For the first time ever, the Athletic Department introduced a barcode system to better track its sports uniforms and equipment. With this move, the manual inventory management and tracking is now history, ensuring a smooth and efficient tracking process with the new barcode system.

Æ The local cross country meet at Syngrou Park (with over 110 athletes), supported electronic timing using a running app and a tablet that were connected to the athletes’ bib numbers. The races’ results were readily available and we look forward to using this system in future local cross country events.

Æ The International Youth Basketball Tournament offered livestreaming to our spectators who could not attend the games. A robotics camera was placed in the gym and from the comfort of our office we could control the camera, giving different angles of the games, updating the score and placing graphics during time-outs and halftime.

We can’t wait to see what other technological means our Department will adopt in the future!