<p>I was checking for the results of a track meet this evening and counted TEN roster entries for my daughter on MileSplit (and 3 different roster names for her on Athletic.net). She has a long hyphenated last name that gets clipped in many different ways when her HS coach enters her name on the various meet platforms (and one season’s coach used her nick name and dropped half of her last name). None of these entries match her College Board name (which doesn’t accept hyphens and limits the last name to 14 characters). Her online visibility is a mess (which worries me a bit for this recruitment season). </p>
<p>When the girls were born we were happy to give them both of our names, but now, in this computer age of limited character fields, I am questioning my original wisdom. Thoughts from other folks with long names?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t worry too much. Your D can fill out recruiting questionnaires with her PR’s and can e-mail recent results to the coaches of the schools she is most interested in. Also, you can apply to maintain your D’s milesplit page, and can perhaps correct errors that way. If that isn’t permitted, you can try contacting the milesplit administrator for your state and explain the situation.</p>
<p>I would have to disagree TheGFG, my son play competitive golf and his national and world rankings were both messed up due to some having his name shortened and others not… This was his first name!!! Not even last name… From our experience it seems important to have everything go in across the board the same way if you can do so. Just our personal experience with golf, perhaps track is different… Good luck.</p>
<p>When my first son was born, we hyphenated his name. When he was a week old, he had to be hospitalized. His name did not fit on the lines provided. The next day, I filed for an amended birth certificate and changed his name so that my maiden name was his second middle name; basically, I removed the hyphen.</p>
<p>Everything worked fine until he turned 16 and we went for his learner’s permit. It turned out that instead of sending us an amended SS card, they had sent a new one with a different number. His whole life we used the number that went with the hyphenated name not realizing the unhyphenated name had been assigned a second number. We had to go to SSA and get the second number canceled and have the first number reassigned to the changed name. It was such a hassle!</p>
<p>momof2010: I wasn’t saying it’s not a problem and that the OP shouldn’t try to correct the reporting. In fact, I suggested one way she might be able to do that. However, she CAN go a long way toward counteracting the problem by providing accurate information to coaches herself. In our experience, the majority of the schools which took the initiative to communicate with D based on publicly available information, were not ones she was interested in. The higher level schools, both academically and athletically, responded to her initiative in visiting them unofficially, and contacting the coaches via e-mail with her stats.</p>
<p>Be careful with this. My daughter has a friend with a name with an apostrophe in it - not even hyphenated - and she was not notified with the other applicants when some of the acceptances came out. </p>
<p>I’d just follow up on all applications when you put them in, as well as any questionnaires, and make sure that the name is spelled correctly. It was ridiculous what this girl went through, one school actually rejected her without the hyphen and waitlisted with it, as if she were two different people at once.</p>
<p>Some database software is confused by these things. Good luck!!</p>
<p>OP- Yes, this is a mess that will likely become even more complicated with the admissions and recruiting process. The good news: most recruiting comes from direct contact your D initiates with the coach & college. Explain the online problems to each coach, and be ready to send an athletic resume with all her PRs and meet results.</p>