One aspect of swim meets that we find new parents and swimmers struggling to understand or, even, accepting is the “Disqualification” or DQ. Though previously mentioned in our Summer Swim Lingo e-book, we will examine DQs more fully here in our Understanding DQs on Meet Day e-book.
This e-book is the third in a series for new swim parents. Check out our resources page for more on tips for new families and a guide to summer swim lingo. Our blog is also a great spot to find helpful information. For now, be better prepared for the swim season with this guide to disqualifications.
I love the "full features" that SwimTopia provides, from hosting a website that promotes the team, to actually hosting and running a swim meet. It handles registration & waivers, purchasing of merchandise, fee payment, meet entry, and meet management. And it is so easy to use.
We used to use several excel spreadsheets on several computers to run our club - but now it's all incorporated into one place - SwimTopia! It all starts off with being able to have one place to look for all our swimmers, meets, parent volunteers, registration, spirit wear, and fee collection.
Our team has been using SwimTopia for years and it makes the interaction between all of our volunteer and paid employees very easy. We appreciate the ease of use, and the little extras that make running a yearly swim team much easier. For a summer swim team, SwimTopia does provide the best variety of applications/uses that are needed to easily, and simply, organize and run the swim team.
We've used SwimTopia for 6 years, but in 2019 used the combined SwimTopia team management and Meet Maesto meet system. The near-seamless integration of the two very different software packages saved out team a massive amount of time and headaches. In addition, the SwimTopia staff just 'gets' swim team administration.
SwimTopia allows our team to easily manage the team. From registration to volunteer coordination through managing meets, it makes the process so much easier.
Coaches and administrators love Swimtopia! Entry interface for Coaches is unmatched. Team management functions are easy to use, allowing a number of administrators to get up and running quickly. User Role access also very easy to implement. Support is incredibly good, which is necessary in this space, where panicked users are, I'm sure, are a constant.
We tried TeamUnify to help us manage registrations and communications and it was disastrous. The software and functionality was over-complicated. Set-up required days rather than hours. Tasks were not intuitive. Our parents literally begged us to go back to SwimTopia. SwimTopia is an actual utopia.
Going with SwimTopia was best decision we ever made. The website enables us to do team management of all aspects of our swim team. We were able to streamline registration, finally becoming paperless, stay on top of volunteer assignments, and availability of parents.
Last year, our summer league team adopted SwimTopia and went from four separate registration, email communication, instant communication, and team management systems to one. The functionality is intuitive, mobile and, best of all, easy to learn. Our coaches, reps, and parents have all been very pleased!
