First cell of custom UITableViewCell is blank - ios

Question

I am querying parse for some information and displaying the info in a UITableViewCell, there is only one entry in the table, a test entry with fictional information but the table is displaying the first cell blank and then the second cell with the information in the table. I have attempted to google this and also add more rows of testing info but either way the table displays one cell at the beginning with no info
Here is my code:
var query = PFQuery(className: "marathons")
query.orderByAscending("end")
query.findObjectsInBackgroundWithBlock { (marathons, error:NSError?) -> Void in
if(error == nil ){
//success
for marathon in marathons! {
self.Name.append(marathon["Name"] as! String)
self.entryNumber.append(marathon["Number"] as! Int)
self.totalEntries.append(marathon["entries"] as! Int)
self.runnerDistance.append(marathon["distance"] as! Int)
}
self.TableView.reloadData()
}else {
print(error)
}
}
}
override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
// Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
}
//MARK: TableView
func tableView(tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
return Name.count
}
func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
let singleCell: TableViewCell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("Cell") as! TableViewCell
singleCell.Name.text = names[indexPath.row]
singleCell.entryNumber.text = "\(entryNumbers[indexPath.row])"
singleCell.totalEntries.text = "\(entires[indexPath.row])"
singleCell.runnerDistance.text = "\(distance[indexPath.row])"
return singleCell
}
Name, entryNumber, totalEntries, and runnerDistance defined as:
#IBOutlet var Name: UILabel!
#IBOutlet var entryNumber: UILabel!
#IBOutlet var totalEntries: UILabel!
#IBOutlet var runnerDistance: UILabel!
Any advice? I am using swift, parse as my back end, and XCODE 7

Answer 1

Where are the model objects defined in your code? You're appending to objects named Name, entryNumber, totalEntries, and runnerDistance, but you're trying to assign values from properties named entryNumbers entries and distance.
Edit:
I see what's going on here. Based off your comment, you're initializing your arrays like this:
var names = [String()]
That actually creates an array with one empty string in it [""]. When you call append, you're adding another element to the array, which makes you wind up with ["","John"]. if you want an empty array you should be creating it like this:
var names = [String]()