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Gary Wood is the founder of WinSwim Swimming Software. Wood is a former test manager with Microsoft Corporation and development manager with Alltel Information Services, Inc. I have over 30 years experience in software management and design having developed some of the core mission critical banking applications used in financial institutions worldwide. Following is Wood's introduction to WinSwim Swimming Software.

Wow, it's already 2009 and it has been pretty busy with the 4.0 release and new Wiki site. This has been the best year for WinSwim with lots of new teams using the software! Let me introduce WinSwim Swimming Software and give you some thoughts about software and how it can make teams more competitive.

Humble Beginnings

All endeavors have a beginning and I started WinSwim to meet the needs of parent volunteers helping summer swim leagues. These parents would literally spend hours preparing for meets and producing award labels. Being a parent of children that swim, a software engineer and one of these parent volunteer provided the catalyst needed for me to create WinSwim.

Over the years, I feel the need for swimming software to be innovative, easy to use while being inexpensive has become paramount. At the last ASCA 2005 conference in Ft. Lauderdale I talked to many of the coaches and found this need has become greater than it has ever has been. Being able to create a product that is capable of fulfilling these goals motivates me to do my best.