Dear parents,

We will not be using Rained Out this year. They changed their business model to a per message fee. We will be using the Swimtopia App to send notifications about cancellations and other items where parents need immediate information.

We’d like to encourage you to download SwimTopia’s mobile app. With this app, we’ll be able to communicate with you through push notifications—which is helpful when we need to get information out quickly, such as rain delays or weather alerts.

To receive push alerts on your phone:

1. Download the SwimTopia Mobile App on the App Store or Google Play
2. Log in with your SwimTopia login
3. Be sure to check your app’s notification settings -- ensure that it’s set to pop up on your screen (Android users: you may need to receive your first notification before you can edit this setting)

*Note: if you don’t download the app, you’ll still receive the alerts via email.

Other features of the free mobile app include:

• Personalized calendar view of upcoming meets and events
• Personalized Meet Overview for your family (including swim events and volunteer jobs)
• Your swimmers’ best times
• Your swimmers’ swim history
• Post-meet results for your family’s swimmers

You’ll see prompts to upgrade to a free trial of the Pro version, but our team won’t be using these features. At this time Pro features are only beneficial when the meet is being run with SwimTopia’s meet management software, Meet Maestro. Our team is not currently using Meet Maestro to run meets. If we start to use the Pro features in the future, we’ll let you know.

Download the SwimTopia mobile app now to receive push alerts and other great benefits! Free on the App Store or Google Play.