In 2011, our CEO Mason Hale realized there simply wasn’t a reliable team management software available for summer swim teams. At that time, he saw parent volunteers consistently wrangling dated programs (which often required a coding background). These parents sometimes found themselves stuck “volunteering” long after their swimmers’ career, simply because only they understood the dated software. … [Read more...]
Meet Management
Announcing New Competition Category Terminology
This summer, to address the continually evolving awareness of gender identity in sport, SwimTopia is updating the terminology used in our products from “Gender” to “Competition Category.” This change more clearly reflects the intended use of “Male” and “Female” labels in our products: for the purposes of competitive classification and not as an indication of an individual’s gender … [Read more...]
SwimTopia Summer Series: Key Player Parent Volunteers
Summer season 2022 is under way and we’re all embracing the glorious chaos! If you are a parent volunteer, you’re already in the thick of the action: arriving early at meets (a.k.a. The Crack of Dawn) for setup, darting here and there to gather kiddos for the ready bench, scrutinizing every race as a stroke judge, marking event/heat/lane grids on athletes’ arms. It’s a lot. If you are what we … [Read more...]
SwimTopia New Features: Heat Sheet Indicator
SwimTopia takes pride in being a customer centric company. We try our best to consider customer feedback and implement it when possible. Most recently we updated the way heat sheets can be pushed to your teams. With the heat sheet indicator option you can send out heat sheets according to your preference. Not only is the heat sheet indicator customizable from meet-to-meet, when you toggle to … [Read more...]
NEW: SwimTopia Time Standard Sets
SwimTopia has always been a company with a big vision: to help lessen swim team management’s frustrations and provide customers the smoothest interface possible. Continually updating features to match end users’ needs, SwimTopia is committed foremost to our customers. Our most recent feature update is the addition of Time Standard Sets, a tool accessible during meet creation. Here, we’ll define … [Read more...]
Running Swim Meets Just Got Easier: Meet Maestro Integrates with More Wireless Timing Systems
Newly built integration between wireless timing systems and Meet Maestro swim meet software brings efficiency to the pool deck on meet days Meet Maestro, SwimTopia’s modern and intuitive meet software, was designed to be used with a meet organizer’s choice of timing system. The goal is to give teams great choices for how they time meets, letting them choose the system that fits their budget and … [Read more...]
Meet Maestro Levels Up with New Timing Systems, Splits, and More
Our vision for Meet Maestro is to provide intuitive and powerful meet software that can be used to run all kinds of meets, in any pool, and at every level of competition. With this latest release, we've made huge strides toward realizing that vision. With some of our newest features, like touchpad integration with Colorado Time Systems System 5/6 and Gen 7, and splits support, Meet Maestro is … [Read more...]
Huge Performance Improvements to Meet Maestro
Our recent release of Meet Maestro makes the software much faster than ever before! You’ll notice multiple performance improvements in the latest version of Meet Maestro, including faster load times and improvements to the software’s usability if your computer ever drops offline. We also recently added automatic updates to Meet Maestro’s desktop app (used by teams who use the CTS Dolphin wireless … [Read more...]
New Feature – You Can Now Generate EV3 Events Files
SwimTopia is excited to announce that you can now generate EV3 events files from within swim meets in your SwimTopia or Meet Maestro accounts. EV3 events files are used to set up swim meets in all types of swim meet software. The addition of this file generation feature is particularly helpful for teams hosting swim meets in Meet Maestro but swimming against teams using other meet software. … [Read more...]
New Feature – Guest Access in SwimTopia Mobile
SwimTopia is excited to announce a new guest access option in our mobile app. Previously, using SwimTopia’s mobile app required having a username and password, usually created as part of swim team registration. With guest access, a username and password are now optional, and anyone can use SwimTopia’s mobile app to access live meet features during meets being run with Meet Maestro! With a Pro … [Read more...]
