Summertime is so near, we can feel its humid breath on our necks. As those longer days and warmer months approach, you might ask yourself a very important question: “How, exactly, am I going to entertain my kiddos until the fall??” SwimTopia’s staff is made up of many parents and, goodness, we understand this question wholeheartedly! Or, perhaps, your youngster is jonesing for a new hobby this … [Read more...]
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End of Season Swim Coach Gifts: What Coaches REALLY want
Somehow, faster than ever before (or so it seems), we have reached that time again: the end of the high school and year-round short course swim seasons (i.e. time to think about swim coach gifts!). Swimmers, coaches, and parents alike have survived the annual trek—swimmers crushing hours upon hours of training, coaches ceaselessly analyzing times and metrics, and parents producing endless meals to … [Read more...]
Coach Certifications: Level up the Summer Swim Experience
Youth sports are indisputably an optimal way to kickstart a mentally and physically healthy lifestyle. Sport participation helps develop time-management, work ethic, socialization, goal-setting, and a strong, well-adapted body. In particular, swimming enables visualization of long- and short-term goals, development of body awareness, refining of mental toughness, and strengthening of commitment. … [Read more...]
The Down-low on SwimTopia’s SwimOutlet Partnership
SwimTopia’s newest partnership with SwimOutlet.com has made it easier than ever for teams to outfit swimmers and parents alike in premium gear. With a team store set up through SwimOutlet, parents order straight from the team site and have purchases shipped directly to their home address (or any address of their choosing). So easy it’s “like magic,” to quote SwimTopia customer Susan Carey of the … [Read more...]
Converting Swim Times: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know
How to Become a Lifelong Swimmer (or, at least, how it happened for me)
By Elizabeth NelsonSwimTopia Summer Intern, 2018 To Become a Lifelong Swimmer:STEP 1: END UP IN SUMMER LEAGUE BY ACCIDENT When I was five, one of my friends’ moms recommended that I join the summer league team because her daughter was doing it. Of course I wanted more opportunities to hang out with my friend so I begged my mom to sign me up, but by then the other family had decided to do … [Read more...]
The Year in Review
As the year comes to a close I’ve been reflecting on the year we’ve had at SwimTopia… Here's our year in review: We began 2016 in a flurry to create our new website. It was a huge job and a massive team effort and we think we pulled off a very nice, informative, new website as a result (if we do say so ourselves :)) For the first time we created testimonial videos, bringing in some of our … [Read more...]
