Swimnerd Scoreboards

If you don’t run swim meets, I hope that after reading this email, you will start to run swim meets.

I’m talking about tiny little baby swim meets. 2 hour swim meets. Saturday morning practice swim meets. Whether the times count officially or not swim meets.

USA Swimming membership is down. Sanctioned meets are down. If a kid joins USA Swimming and doesn’t race in a meet, they quit the sport. It’s as simple as that.

Poof. They gone.

Racing is what the sport is about - and for the sake of American swimming - we need more racing.

Running a meet requires someone to run a timing system, which have always been difficult to use and prohibitively expensive.

That’s why Pete Santilli created Superior Swim Timing (SST) - which I refer to as the best kept secret in swimming - to bring you the most affordable, most reliable, most user friendly timing system the world has ever seen.

“After using SST for a few meets, you start to wonder why anyone would buy another system.” - Rob Johnson

That’s my favorite quote from a review ever, btw.

SST is so easy to use, you can be up and running in under 5 minutes, using any standard Windows running laptop. And, you can run any kind of meet you want. Conference championships, prelims/finals, intrasquad meets, whatever tickles your fancy.

It works with most meet management software. Hy-tek. Swimcloud. TeamUnify.

It’s been used in thousands of meets over the last 12 years and is beloved by teams like The Bolles School and the University of South Carolina.

SST also makes their own high quality hardware including a Starter, Harnesses (Lane Harnesses & Speaker Harnesses), Buttons, and Lane Speakers.

For the same price as a Colorado Gen 7, you can get an ENTIRE timing system with timer, starter, harness, and buttons so that you can run certified swim meets. Add in Swimnerd Live and now you’ve put the scoreboard in everyone’s pockets, can turn any TV into a scoreboard, and have 24/7 support available during your meets.

SST is literally thousands less expensive AND the hardware is better. Hard to believe I know.

The #1 complaint about starters is the battery is dead and they have to stay plugged in all the time. I just saw a Dak starter at a University last week that can’t hold a charge and the new microphone they bought doesn’t work either. Difficult to get Dak on the phone to troubleshoot…

Well, not with SST’s starter. Here’s another real review:

“The Atlantis from SST is the real deal. We’ve had so many issues with different Colorado and Daktronics starters in the past. This product cooks the other starters we’ve used. Atlantis is intuitive to use right out of the box, it’s loud and clear, and the strobe light is excellent. Best of all though is the battery life and the battery life monitor. Why don’t other systems have this? Seems like a no brainer. And at our very first intra squad meet, we used the Atlantis for two hours and the battery life went from 99% down to 98%. Insane!” - Coach AC

SST is compatible with pretty much all existing timing equipment including any touchpad that uses banana plugs. So if you just need to replace a starter, a harness, or you want to just switch over to SST’s timing system, you can do that.

SST also works with Swimnerd Live, our swim meet software suite that’s transforming meets & natatoriums with customizable scoreboards, live heat sheet creation, TV integration ability, and a Practice Manager, in our newest update. Now you can create pace clocks and display programmable sets on your scoreboard or TV.

We are also happy to announce the integration of eDive into Swimnerd Live. You can now, without the use of a timer, run a dive meet using eDive. And, you can display it on your scoreboard, any TV, and your live streams.

With Swimnerd Live (compatible with CTS 5, CTS 6, CTS 7 Legacy, Daktronics, SST, & Omega Quantum), you can turn any TV or projector or scoreboard into a scoreboard.

Speaking of scoreboards, we’d like to help you with your scoreboard.

We now have LED, LCD, and DIY options.

LED is the most expensive. Then LCD. Then DIY. Our team can work with you to devise a plan, go over your options, and build a solution like this:

If you are outside, you need LED’s. If you are inside, you can opt for TV’s.

Check out this beautiful 16’ x 9’ outdoor scoreboard in Virginia Beach that we built:

I know what you are thinking - “you can’t put TV’s in a pool area” - well that’s just a bunch of crap. We’ve had commodity TV’s sitting over top of swimming pools for years. Our divers have been using the same commodity TV for over a decade. TV’s are the most advanced, most mature technology in the entire world. And, they are completely commoditized.

When they go bad - just hang another one up - and keep it moving.

Networked together, you can put TV’s everywhere around your pool, in the stands, even above the urinals so you don’t miss a single second of Event 48, Heat 5 of 9 of the Boys 11-12 500 Yard Freestyle.

Every school has an IT department that can hang televisions up and connect them with ethernet cable. All you need is Swimnerd Live to power your many scoreboards. If you want us to install them and run all the low voltage and set up your meet battlestation and your camera and live streaming capabilities, we can do all that for you, too.

But for most swim teams, we truly believe you can do this yourself. Most of you already have people on staff at your school or facility that do this every day. I bet you’ve probably hung a TV in your own house before!

We can also build you a TV wall made up of commercial grade TV’s if you’d like - plus a couple of satellites in your stands. These screens are 40% brighter than your normal TV.

Swimnerd is now your one stop shop for all your timing needs. Everything you need to run certified swim meets at a fraction of the price.

Call me 757-996-5512 or email me [email protected] to get started on a quote today.

Oh, and one more thing.

We aren’t going to stop improving the product suite. We’ve got more coming down the pipe - production grade overlays, water polo, and more are all in the works.

Transform how people watch your swim meets - on site and online - with Swimnerd!

-Nate