Why Coaches Use Dashr Timing System: a Complete Ecosystem That Makes a Coach's Job Easier and Athletes Better

As a coach, you’re constantly balancing two things: getting the most out of your athletes and managing the reality of time, logistics, and budget. You want performance testing to be fast, reliable, and meaningful—not something that slows down training or creates extra work after practice.

Dashr was built to solve this.

It gives you the ability to test speed, agility, power, reaction, and more—quickly and accurately—without complicated setups or recurring subscription fees. You can capture results instantly on your phone, give athletes immediate feedback, and still have everything synced for long-term tracking and reporting when you want it.

Faster Setup Means More Time Coaching

One of the biggest wins with Dashr is how fast you can go from “gear in the bag” to “athletes testing.” The Silver timing system fits in a backpack, connects wirelessly, is s single sided reflectorless laser, and is controlled directly from the Dashr app. You’re not untangling wires or troubleshooting complicated hardware while athletes are standing around.

If you want a more traditional setup, Dashr’s Blue timing system gives you laser-to-reflector timing with the same simple app-based control. Either way, the system works with your workflow instead of slowing you down.

The result? More time coaching, more reps for athletes, and smoother testing days.

Real Feedback in Real Time = Better Athlete Buy-In

Athletes care more when they can see their performance.

With Dashr, results show up instantly. Times, speeds, jump heights—right there on your phone or displayed on a connected screen. You can mirror results to a TV or tablet so the whole group sees leaderboards in real time. That small change alone increases competition, effort, and energy during sessions.

Instead of yelling times across the field or scribbling on a clipboard, athletes get immediate, clear feedback—and they start chasing improvements on their own.

A Single Ecosystem for Performance Testing

With Dashr you don’t need a bunch of disconnected tools. Everything lives in one ecosystem:

• Speed & Agility: Silver or Blue timing gates

• Vertical Jump: Jump Mat, Vertec integration with Jump Module, laser-based vertical testing, and the upcoming Dashr Vert

• Broad Jump: Distance Module for automated measurement

• Reaction Testing: LED reaction cues built into Silver gates, Dashr React, and upcoming 360 Display

• RSI Testing: 5-hop RSI and drop jump RSI using the same jump hardware

  
  

This flexibility lets you test athletes in different environments—gym, turf, track, or camp/combine settings—without changing platforms or re-learning new systems.

Cleaner Data Without Extra Work

Testing days can get messy fast: handwritten notes, lost results, spreadsheet clean-up later.

Dashr removes that friction. Results are captured automatically in the app and synced to the Online Dashboard. You can review trends, compare testing sessions, and track development over time without manually entering data.

Advanced reporting helps contextualize performance by factoring in body size along with speed, agility, and power. Percentile rankings give athletes meaningful perspective on where they stand compared to peers their age and gender—without having to explain every metric.

That means you spend less time organizing data and more time using it to coach.

Athletes Take Ownership of Their Progress

The Player Profile App has been a gamechanger for athlete buy-in. Athletes can see their results, track progress over time, view rankings, and even share performance data for recruiting. You don’t have to export files or send reports. Their data is just there, automatically.

This shifts the dynamic:

Athletes stop asking, “What was my time again?” They start asking,“How do I improve my time?”

That’s the mindset they need.

Built for Real-World Coaching Environments

Dashr was built for the high school coach or trainer, but has evolved to support high-volume settings like camps and combines. Currently used by dozens of large traveling combine series such as Rivals, Under Amour Next, and FBU. The BioStation lets you quickly capture height, weight, wingspan, standing reach, and hand size without slowing down the flow of athletes. Displays let groups see results instantly. Everything stays organized inside one system.

And importantly—there are no subscriptions required just to test, capture results, and use the ecosystem. Get the hardware, create an account, and you’re good to go. You can keep things simple on the field or unlock deeper reporting when desired.

Why Dashr Works for the Coach

Dashr helps you:

• Test faster

• Reduce setup and admin time

• Keep athletes engaged

• Track development long-term

• Run combines and events efficiently

• Get the most value out of your hardware

• Avoid subscription fatigue

  
  

Designed to fit into your coaching workflow instead of forcing you to change how you operate.

At the end of the day, that’s what technology is here for: something that quietly makes your job easier while maximizing the athlete’s experience.

Chase Pfeifer is the Chief Executive Officer at Dashr Motion Performance Systems, bringing expertise in performance timing systems and sports data management.