We are pleased to announce that SwimTopia websites are mobile responsive! With this new feature, your families can now navigate your team’s website with ease from their phones. Not only is your website content now easier to find and read, signing up for meets and jobs on the phone just got a whole lot easier. And parents will love how much easier it is to register for your team while using … [Read more...]
Feature Updates Enhance the Virtual Swim Meet Experience
Updated July 3, 2020: added demo video recording about running virtual meets in Meet Maestro A few months ago, as we all witnessed the world changing around us, SwimTopia decided to focus on what we were hearing from our customers. If they could have a season, they would. If they could run swim meets, they would. The idea of running virtual meets became a focus for swim teams around the … [Read more...]
Colorado Time Systems Collaborates with SwimTopia to Streamline Meets
Colorado Time Systems, a PlayCore Company, and SwimTopia are working together to assist swim teams with running meets efficiently and economically. Colorado Time Systems has created a rental program that allows swim teams to rent their Dolphin wireless timing system, with an option to buy after the season. The Dolphin rental program, together with SwimTopia’s 14-day free trial of Meet Maestro … [Read more...]
Improved File Importing Features—Including the Ability to Import SD3 Results
Once the meet is over, it’s easier than ever to import your swimmers’ results into your SwimTopia meets. Our recent enhancements to SwimTopia’s results import feature include the ability to import .sd3 results files and improved error handling for all formats. SD3 Results Imports SwimTopia is happy to announce the ability to import .sd3 results files (otherwise known as the SDIF format). We’ve … [Read more...]
South Carolina Teams Kick Off the Summer with Virtual Dual Meets
Meet Maestro—Flexible, Easy-to-Use Meet Management Software—Helps SAIL Run Virtual Dual Meets In Greenville, South Carolina, summer swimming is soldiering on for the Swim Association Invitational League (SAIL): their first virtual swim meets took place on June 11. Twenty of SAIL’s teams kicked off the season with ten virtual dual meets, each team swimming against a neighboring team, while … [Read more...]
Getting Back in the Water Again: Safe Swim Practices and Virtual Meets
As some states are “opening up” on a limited basis, many teams will be using this time to plan a safe return to the pool. USA Swimming has posted guidelines for their teams to use while developing their plans to return to the pool safely, and we’d like to share those with you: USA Swimming's guidelines for Facility Re-Opening Messaging and Planning And what’s a swim season without swim … [Read more...]
SwimTopia Helps You Stay Connected With Your Swim Community
While our new “normal” includes words like social distancing, telework, and remote learning, we know how hard it is for our SwimTopia customers to be away from their beloved swim community. We didn’t realize just how much we’d miss being near the crowded ready bench and swim blocks until now! SwimTopia’s Customer Happiness Team has introduced two new ways to stay in touch with other members of … [Read more...]
Preparing for Summer Swim Team – Safely!
Tips and Tools for Getting Back in the Pool: Planning for Practices and Virtual Swim Meets Many people are starting to wonder when social distancing rules will be relaxed and what that might look like. Our swim teams and leagues are particularly interested in what relaxed rules could look like at swimming pools around the country. SwimTopia staff recently listened in on a webinar that included … [Read more...]
Summer League Swimming – A New Resource For Summer Swim Teams
At SwimTopia we are always looking for ways to help swim team administrators simplify running their swim teams. We’d like to share information about a newly launched resource specifically for summer swim teams: Summer League Swimming. Here is a brief message from Leah Hinnefeld, Director of Education and Marketing for Summer League Swimming, explaining how they can help your team: Summer … [Read more...]
SwimTopia Empowers Grown-Up Swimming to Bring Adults Back to Their Summer-League Glory Days
Guest Blog by Brian Robbins, Head Grown-Up, Grown-Up Swimming Yes, you read that right. Grown-Up Swimming. Summer League for adults. 2020 marks the 2nd year that SwimTopia is working with Grown-Up Swimming to expand the Parent/Coach Relay at the end of the meet/season into a series of Championships of the World. Grown-Up Swimming empowers past, present, and future swimmers to get back in shape … [Read more...]