Measuring 40-yard dash times should be straightforward—an athlete starts running and then crosses the finish line—but little is clear-cut in the murky world of college recruiting. Disparate methods, such as manually using a stopwatch or electronically timing it with technology, can create significant discrepancies in performance data.
Enter Zybek Sports, a Colorado-based company that has powered the timing mechanism at the NFL Combine for the last nine years. Zybek has struck a new partnership with D1 Training to offer its Standardized Athlete Test (SAT) at franchises across the country. The formalized process will create verifiable results using laser-timing equipment and an automatic data collection system.