The Customer

Giants Aquatics Aruba

Giants Aquatics Aruba was founded by the Head Coach Jordy Groters in January of 2020. He started out in a pool housed by Lion Fish Swimming School, which quickly became too small. Besides this he had to navigate an ever changing world, as well as a stagnant swimming community on the island. As you can imagine this brought its various challenges and discouragement. However, as the founder believes to his core, that if you have a passion, you need to keep pushing on. For two years Jordy managed the club largely on his own.

Giants Aquatics Aruba’s mission is to improve the competitive swimming world on Aruba, by means of supporting the well-being of our athletes and their support systems, educating our athletes on safe sportsmanship and overall technique, forming a safe and inclusive community, and the overall development of our athletes and coaches as people first and athletes second.

The Challenge

Lack of Racing, Inflexible Meets, & Hours of Manual Entry

Everything was manual labor. When I wanted to run an intrasquad meet, I would set the whole meet up in another system and then manually input the results. With limited racing opportunities, running intrasquad meets is important for enjoyment, progress, and overall longevity in the sport.

Timing was always an issue at these intrasquad meets and I would have to be creative with ways to time certain events.

In intrasquad meets, flexibility is key. We would not be able to deck enter swimmers or switch swimmers out of relays.