SwimTopia Unveils New Swim Meet Management Platform, Takes Aim at Entrenched Competitor
AUSTIN, Texas (PRWEB) July 24, 2018 -- SwimTopia, best known for its easy-to-use swim team management software, today announced the public availability of Meet Maestro™, a new software platform that dramatically simplifies the setup and running of competitive swim meets. Meet Maestro has already been used by more than 200 swim teams across the U.S. to run more than 550 swim meets, including 9 championship meets, this year.
Preparing for and running a swim meet is a data-intensive task typically requiring dozens of hours and the careful attention of one or more skilled computer operators. The vast majority of swim meets today are run using a competing software product first introduced in the 1990s. With an outdated user interface, many find this software to be intimidating and difficult to learn, which makes it harder for swim teams to find and train volunteers to fill these crucial computer operator roles.
In contrast, Meet Maestro was created using the latest technology, and it features an easy-to-use, modern user interface.
“We have been using Meet Maestro to run our summer swim meets and have found the system to be truly intuitive,” says Heather Ugron, lead computer operator for the Copperfield Dolphins swim team. “Summer league is run by volunteers who simply don’t have the time to invest in classes to learn a new system. With Meet Maestro, they don’t have to. Our volunteers just sit down and get right to work with minimal direction from me.”
Beyond being much easier to learn and use, Meet Maestro also saves time and reduces errors. With easily shared meet templates, swim leagues are able to ensure meets are set up properly and run in accordance to their rules, with greater flexibility and more control than was previously possible. In addition, the preferences of teams and coaches for managing meet declarations and selecting relay teams are automatically saved and reused. As a result, the previously tedious and error-prone chore of “meet setup” becomes fully automated and is effectively eliminated.
Meet Maestro is a complete swim meet management system, with all the basic features swim teams need to run a swim meet, plus some features teams have grown to enjoy, like a mobile app with live event results. Meet Maestro also introduces significant new innovations. Meet Maestro provides the first truly end-to-end system, blurring the boundary between the previously separate functions of swim team and swim meet management. It greatly simplifies and streamlines the way rule-related configurations, meet entries and results are shared and exchanged between teams and leagues. In a world accustomed to the limitations of running meet software on a team bought PC laptop, Meet Maestro introduces an array of options, including online access for multiple Macs or PCs, and a desktop application for better integration with timing systems.
With the debut of Meet Maestro, SwimTopia is introducing a new alternative into a market that has been dominated by a single software provider for more than two decades. By bringing new competition into a largely stagnant software segment, the company hopes to spark more innovation and to improve the options available to swim teams and leagues.
“When SwimTopia announced its acquisition of Swim-Team.US last year, we declared we would be accelerating the pace of innovation,” said Mason Hale, CEO and founder of SwimTopia. “Meet Maestro is our first delivery on that commitment. Built using the latest technology, Meet Maestro provides a solid, modern foundation upon which we will continue to deliver innovative new ways to make running swim meets easier, more efficient and more enjoyable for everyone. We’re just getting started.”
About SwimTopia
Launched in 2011 with a focus on ease-of-use and exceptional support, SwimTopia helps swim teams save time and increase fundraising with a modern, cloud-based software platform providing web content management, electronic commerce, online registration, volunteer coordination, team communications, online swim meet entries and more. SwimTopia is the flagship product of Austin-based Team Topia Inc., a graduate of the Capital Factory startup incubator.
SwimTopia® is a registered trademark and Meet Maestro™ is a trademark of Team Topia Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.
Mason Hale, SwimTopia, https://www.swimtopia.com, +1 (877) 856-2940 Ext: 701, [email protected]
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