Great Gift Ideas for the Swimmer in Your Life With Thanksgiving behind us, there is no longer a doubt—it’s time to think about the Holidays… Check out our 2018 Holiday Gift Guide for Swimmers for some ideas to keep your swimmer happy this Holiday Season. We’ve compiled this list of gifts for the swimmers in your life, from stocking stuffers to bigger ticket items. Click on pics or headings for … [Read more...]
Chattanooga Area Swim League Chooses Meet Maestro™
Following a successful pilot season, prominent Tennessee swim league adopts SwimTopia’s new swim meet management solution Chattanooga Area Swim League (CASL) has announced the selection of Meet Maestro as its league-wide meet management solution for 2019 and beyond. During the summer of 2018, CASL’s fourteen swim teams piloted Meet Maestro, a new cloud-based swim meet management platform built by … [Read more...]
How to Pick the Perfect Team Swimsuit for Your Summer Team
Cover photo thanks to Colin Sheridan and Kaybrook Green Hills Swim Club Choosing a team swimsuit for your summer team is an important task. One of the many great things about summer swimming is learning about teamwork – and if you look like a team, you’ll act like a team! Picking a good-looking, comfortable, affordable swimsuit makes it easy for your team members to look and feel like a … [Read more...]
Stay Up to Date With “What’s New” Announcements
Our newest feature helps you stay abreast of… our newest features! Yes, we’ve added a way for team admins to easily see important SwimTopia announcements when they log in to the Manage Team portal. By clicking on the What’s New heading on the top right of the screen, admins will see updates on our latest news, features, and enhancements. At SwimTopia, we are constantly trying to improve our … [Read more...]
Introducing Meet Maestro™ – A Bold New Vision for Swim Meet Management
SwimTopia is excited to officially unveil our new swim meet management platform, Meet Maestro™, which dramatically simplifies the setup and running of competitive swim meets. We have been piloting Meet Maestro around the country this summer, with 8 different leagues testing the software. Meet Maestro has already been used to run more than 550 swim meets, including 9 championship meets, this … [Read more...]
New Mobile App Features Put a Live Event-Heat Board in Your Pocket
SwimTopia’s Mobile App Has New Meet Features You’ll Love SwimTopia is excited to announce a mobile app update that helps swimmers, parents and coaches stay up-to-date and informed during swim meets. The new SwimTopia Live features give every meet participant a live event-heat board in their pocket. The Live Bar keeps meet participants and their families in tune with what’s going on in the pool in … [Read more...]
SwimTopia Feature Updates – July 2018
SwimTopia has announced some pretty big feature updates this month with Meet Maestro™ and a revamped mobile app, and we had a few smaller feature updates as well: Feature Updates: New Admin Permission for SwimTopia Live Mobile App Feature If you haven’t checked it out yet, the SwimTopia mobile app has some awesome new features to improve your meet-day experience. Teams can enable SwimTopia Live … [Read more...]
Volunteer Signups: How Does Your Team Manage Them?
The Pros and Cons of Different Ways of Collecting Volunteer Signups SwimTopia works with over 1100 swim teams around the country, so we’ve seen about 1000 different ways that teams can manage their volunteers. Ok, that might be a slight exaggeration. 😁 But teams can, and do, use many different strategies to manage their volunteers! Here we’ll explore some pros and cons of different ways of … [Read more...]
5 Tips and Tools for Better Volunteer Management
Better Organized Volunteers = MORE FUN I can’t think of another sport as reliant on voluntary parent participation as summer swimming. Summer swim teams couldn’t function without a handful of dedicated neighborhood parents. Here I’m talking about the head parents, willing to put in hours outside of the season to make sure all the decisions are made, coaches hired, equipment stocked, and systems … [Read more...]
New League Templates Make Life Easier
Leagues that use SwimTopia to host their website* can now define league templates for meets and jobs, making it easier for teams using SwimTopia to get set up for the season. Once you've created meet and job templates, you can share them with all of your teams who are also using SwimTopia (league-wide use of SwimTopia is not a prerequisite). League Meet Templates Leagues can now define various … [Read more...]
