Welcome to AthleticMeet.com, a FREE online community offering people with active lifestyles a forum to meet and interact for a wide variety of purposes. Whether you are looking for someone to date or to work out, AthleticMeet.com offers you the network and tools to make your search easy and fun.

To use any of the features of the Website, you must first register as a Member. Once you are a registered Member, you may post your Profile for other Members to view, search for other Members, or take advantage of the numerous other features and functions of AthleticMeet.com's user experience.

Memberships

AthleticMeet.com is 100% free. We offer three levels of membership based upon how much you fill out your Profile. All Members can post profiles and search. Learn how to go to the next level.

Protective Measures

AthleticMeet.com offers features that empower you to protect your identity. You determine who sees your Profile and who can contact you. You have control over your personal contact information so that you decide if and when to share such information with other Members. And you choose which email lists you want to be subscribed to.

Display Options. You can check off which membership levels you will allow to view your Profile. Default is to allow all Public, General, and Club Members, but simply uncheck the box of a group you want to exclude. Of course, the more members you allow, the more responses and potential matches you will enjoy. But also keep in mind that Public Membership is free and open to everyone, but these members cannot contact you.

Blocking. You can further limit which members can view your Profile and/or contact you by blocking individual members or every member of an affiliated club. You can block and unblock any member or club at any time, and a list of your block members and clubs is provided on the Blocking page. We encourage you to notify us if a member is abusing the Website or violating the Terms of Use or Privacy Policy.

Email Preferences. AthleticMeet.com maintains several email lists that periodically send out emails about News (new features, new services, etc.), Hints (help on using the Website, interacting with other Members, etc.), Special Offers (discounts, special opportunities from Sponsors), and Clubs (info on clubs, events, leagues in your area). You can elect to subscribe to any of these email lists by checking the boxes on the Preferences page; by unchecking all of the boxes, you can avoid getting any emails from these lists. Please be aware that we maintain the ability and right to send you email outside of these elective lists to contact you with important information regarding your membership or the Website.

Other Account Info

Online Activities, Contests. We encourage you to opt be a candidate for our online contests and spotlights (default is that you are not a candidate). These contests vary from time to time so keep checking back to see if your interests change.

Contact Info. Please keep your contact information updated. This will enable us to contact you with any important issues regarding your membership.

Account Status. You can view your account status at any time.

Profile Help
All Members can build their own Profile to post for other Members to view. Most of the questions are optional, and you can return at any time to review and change your answers. Just click on Profile in the menu.

Building your profile consists of six easy steps:

1. Your Physical: your physical characteristics
2. Sports Profile: your sports interests and history
3. Rank & Serial Number: your work, family, and your personal habits
4. Lift the Hood: your personality, background, and values
5. First Impression: a headline about your posting as well as an brief description of you and what you are looking for
6. Upload Photos: upload photos of yourself including a head shot, sports photos, and other casual photos of you (optional)

The questions in each step are straightforward and intended to give others a better understanding of you and what you are about. Answers should be honest for your best interest and the interest of others seeking a match.

Profiles with Photos get viewed 24x more often. Photos should be fairly current or noted if otherwise. Photos MUST in JPG, PNG, or GIF format - no others will display properly and will not be accepted. We reserve the right to edit any photos including cropping to create a head shot, to remove other people, or to remove offensive or inappropriate material. No nudity, sex portrayals, inflammatory/criminal/discriminatory content, or inappropriate images of minors will be allowed.

All Profile submissions (including photos) are subject to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and may not include material that is copyrighted or otherwise does not belong to you.

Search Types

AthleticMeet.com offers a wide array of search methods to assist you. You can always search to find people for any purpose, Dating, Friendship, Workout Partner, Roommate, etc.

1. Sprint: Quick search based on gender, age, location, and purpose. you can opt to receive search results with photos only.
2. Detailed: For most of the questions in the Profile questionnaire, mark what is important to you and search using those criteria.
3. By Sport: Sprint search plus check off the sports you in which want them to have an interested.
4. Username/Keyword: Input all or a portion of a Member's username and find all Members that match; or do a Sprint Search and add a keyword.

The results of any search will be summaries of all Members that match the criteria you selected as well as the preferences you selected in My Account. For each search result, you may click on the Member's username to view their full Profile.

If your search results in Members that interest you, you may save them as Favorites by clicking on the Favorites icon. You may view and edit your list of Favorites at any time.

You may save any of the searches you undertake and re-use them in the future. Simply check the box "Save Search" and input a name for the search to be saved under. All of your Saved Searches can be run, edited, or deleted at any time.

Contacting Other Members: Anonymous Email, Pinging

You may contact individual Members at any time (in accordance with the Terms of Use) either through our Anonymous Email or by sending a Ping.

Flirting is a great tradition and works well online as well. To Ping another Member, click on the Ping icon on their Profile. A pop-up window will confirm the recipient's username and offer you the chance to attach a very brief message. Receiving a Ping is easy - you will get a notice in the header of each page, to the left of the Menus, indicating how many new Pings you have. Click on that link to go to Favorites/Pings/Emails for a listing of all your Ping activity.

To email another Member (in accordance with the Terms of Use), click on the Email icon on their Profile. You will taken to a page where you can compose an email that will get sent by our systems to the other Member. To protect your identity, your email address will not be revealed to the recipient unless you decide to disclose it in the text of your email; likewise, you will not know the email address of the recipient unless they provide it in a response email back to you.

The recipient of Anonymous Email, including you if another Member emails you through our Website, will receive a notification email addressed to their email address on file in their regular email software (Outlook, Hotmail, AOL, Yahoo, gmail, etc.). Each Anonymous Email contains a link back to our Website to read the entire email; to respond, just click on that link and you will be taken to a page to compose an Anonymous Email back to the sender.

We strongly recommend that you take precautions before revealing your email address or any other identifying or contact information to anyone; for helpful safety tips, please consult the Precautions section below.

Safety Precautions for Meeting People Online
AthleticMeet.com wants to help you to meet people online with the same lifestyle and interests as you for dating, workout partners, roommates, correspondence, and other relationships. We hope you use the Website's power to search out others based on particular preferences and characteristics of your choosing and to open lines of communication with them.

As with any interactions with people new to you, common sense and judgment are your ally. Whether communicating online or choosing to meet in person, please take precautions to ensure your physical and emotional safety. AthleticMeet.com, of course, cannot verify information that other members post or communicate to you, and beware that anyone who can deceive, misrepresent, or impersonate in traditional dating and people meeting forums can also do so on the Internet.

AtheleticMeet.com hopes you meet the person of your dreams! To give yourself the best chance for positive experience, please consider the following safety tips for use in interacting with people you meet online:

• Don't Rush In. You should evaluate all the information available to you in the person's Profile and attempt to have significant online interaction prior to revealing your contact information or communicating offline or meeting in person. A reasonable progression might to ping back and forth online, trade emails and photos, chat on the phone, and then meet in a public place. Most people meeting others online have the same concerns and questions, so most are understanding of your need to inquisitive and safe.
• Protect your Identity. Your identity is not revealed to any member until you make the decision to do so in or by communicating with them. Take care before sending a direct email as that will reveal your home or work email address; consider taking out a separate, anonymous email account at Hotmail or similar provider. Be careful as to if and when you reveal your true identity, location, contact information, or the like. Providing a cell phone number is often time a safer disclosure than a work or home phone number; consider using the caller ID blocking services available on most local phone service to further protect your anonymity.
• The Meeting. Once you get to the point where you are willing to meet someone in person, consider meeting them with a friend, telling a friend where you are going and who you are meeting, meeting in a well-lit, open public place during normal business hours.
• Use Your Judgment. If something does not seem right, if the other person's story doesn't add up, if "red flags" pop up, or they seem to be lying or if it seems to good to be true, it might well be. Investigate some more before committing or revealing. Better safe than sorry.
• No Pressure. Don't feel pressure and be wary of others who seek to exert pressure on you to meet or to reveal your personal contact info.

Even though it is fun and exciting to meet someone for the first time and to have emotions, please make every effort to be thoughtful before taking action and careful in your actions and interactions. With these precautions in mind and common sense as your guide, you are better prepared to comfortably find the person you are looking for! Have fun, be safe!