SwimTopia Presents: Summer Swim Resources
Even if you’re thinking to yourself: “Wow- I only just took down my holiday decorations!!”, summer season is still quickly approaching. We at SwimTopia want you to hit the ground running in the most productive way possible. With this in mind, we gathered some helpful summer swim resources from like-minded companies. We share them with […]
SwimTopia Presents: Coach Holiday Gifts
After much anticipation, the holidays are finally here! Now that SwimTopia has investigated the best gifts for your favorite swimmer, you may be feeling more confident about your December shopping list. However, you may also be wondering how to cover all your holiday shopping bases. What do those hard-working “behind-the-scenes” artists, your kiddos’ coaches, want? […]
The High School Swim Team Experience
Swimming is certainly one of the best youth sports on the market. With its low-impact cardio and a muscular component (a full body workout!), swimming helps youngsters tackle goal-setting, introduces the idea of “teamwork” both in practice and competition settings, and provides a social outlet. Further, once our young athletes reach the middle/high school age, […]
SwimTopia Presents: SWIMS 3.0 Integration
September marks the release of USA Swimming’s SWIMS 3.0. This is a newly updated swimmer database/swimmer registration portal for members of USA Swimming clubs. The release allows athletes, parents of athletes, and non-athletes (e.g. volunteers) to register for USA Swimming online at the USA Swimming website while syncing their member details to their team 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 […]
Summer Swim to Year-round Club: Picking your Perfect Competitive Team
Though still brutally hot (depending on where you are in the country), peak summer swim season is finally passing. This might also mean assessing what’s next for your young swimmer. In our previous blog, SwimTopia spoke about the immense benefits of year-round competitive (a.k.a. club) swim teams. Not only will your athlete continue developing strong […]
From Summer Swimmer to Year-round Athlete
We are quickly reaching, if not the end of the season for many leagues, at least the mid-way point (where does the time go??). It’s been a whirlwind of cheers and chants, snacks and backpacks, chlorine and cozy towels. And maybe, just maybe, your young athlete has caught the ‘swimming bug.’ Perhaps, they’re not quite […]
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 […]
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 […]
