Case study · Far Western Championships

28,813 personalized race videos across five championships

In two pools over three years, every swimmer’s race was produced and delivered to their family, with no added crew and no production room.

5 championship meets2024–20262 venues
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Additional crew. SwimClips Meet was operated by the same person running the timing system.
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Personalized race videos produced
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From race to the family’s inbox
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Earned by the operator
The Challenge

Two courses, a packed deck, and one swimmer you came to watch.

Parents at the pool deck holding up phones to film the race, with multiple lanes of competition behind them

Far Westerns is one of the biggest age-group meets in the state, with two courses running at once and the deck full all day. With that much going on, getting a clean angle on your own swimmer’s race, let alone filming it, is a fight.

  • Two courses running and a packed deck make a clean angle on your swimmer’s lane a fight. The best views, underwater and at the finish, aren’t there from the stands at all.
  • A phone clip from across the pool isn’t all that watchable, and a livestream is hours of footage to scrub through that never isolates the one race a family came for.
  • These are milestone races in a young swimmer’s career, the kind that should be captured in full.

Far Westerns brought in SwimClips to capture the races families couldn’t.

Far Westerns Results

Championship-caliber video for the athletes, revenue for the operator.

Far Westerns is a twice-yearly California championship where top clubs come to cap off the season and race for records. Across five meets, every swim was produced into video for the athlete, and the operator earned a share of every sale.

For athletes and parents
Underwater race frame with SwimClips broadcast graphics — meet name, swimmer, event, lane, and running time Olympic broadcast–style video
  • Parents got to watch the race, not fight for an angle in the stands. SwimClips videos allowed parents to focus on cheering on their swimmers.
  • Angles you can’t get from the stands. Underwater and finish-line views on every race.
  • The races athletes train all year for, kept as finished video they own.
Revenue share for the operator
$0K+
Earned by the operator across the five meets
  • Families buy their swimmer’s race, and a share of every sale comes back to the operator.
  • The timing operator already on deck ran SwimClips without stepping away from their other job.
  • About 78% of video sales were presold before the meet started.
  • The operator decides how the share is split, including setting aside a cut for meet directors.
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Races over 20 days
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Meets
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Individual swimmers
Short + long course
Cameras work with any configuration
SwimClips broadcast still — Luka V Mijatovic, Boys 400yd SCY IM Prelims, Lane 4, with broadcast HUD showing meet name and running time
Meets by the numbers

Cameras used at Far Westerns are portable. The mix is tuned to each configuration — long course adds above-water coverage along the full 50m, while short course concentrates underwater cameras at the turn end of each course.

Setup and Delivery

Set up the cameras, upload the videos, SwimClips takes care of the rest.

The operator sets up with the timing equipment and uploads at the end of each day. Everything after that runs on its own.

Meet Operator
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Set up once on day one

The operator puts the cameras up with the timing gear at the start of the meet, and they stay up through the last day. With a permanent install, the fixed cameras are already mounted, so it’s just dropping the underwater cameras in.

Meet Operator
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Upload at the end of each day

The day’s footage uploads once racing wraps.

SwimClips
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We produce every race

Each swim is cut, rendered with graphics, and matched to its official time.

SwimClips
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Families get their swimmer’s video

Parents who bought the race receive it in the app.

Camera coverage

Toggle the course to see how the cameras cover short and long course.

See the coverage by course
Underwater
Above-water, on poles

Bonuses with the permanent system
Streaming compatible Doubles as SwimClips Coach for daily training
What We Delivered

The races athletes, coaches, and parents want to remember.

Each race was cut, rendered with graphics, and delivered to the family in the app.

  • Underwater and above-water angles
  • Broadcast HUD and official splits
  • Lane highlights
  • Delivered within 24 hours

Sample footage is from a free-to-view meet, so no athlete’s purchased video is shown.

Auto-assembly

Each race was produced at the end of the day, once the day’s footage was uploaded — with no editor or production team involved.

Customizable camera cuts

The system makes intelligent cuts between underwater and above-water automatically. Purchasers can adjust those cuts when they get their video.

Shareable Race Library

One-click sharing of every race — family, coaches, college recruiters. Every video lands in an app where the athlete keeps every swim in one place. Six videos per athlete on average for just one meet like Far Westerns.

SafeSport compliantOfficial meet video from fixed, credentialed cameras with controlled access.
Streaming compatibleOur permanent cameras can be used to livestream the meet while they record.

A livestream and SwimClips do different jobs.

A livestream covers the whole meet as it happens. SwimClips gives each swimmer their own race. On the permanent install, the same cameras do both.

A livestream is for the meet.
  • Live coverage for family and fans who can’t be at the pool.
  • Continuous, whole-meet coverage from start to finish.
  • Available during the meet itself.
  • Usually a service the host pays for.
SwimClips is for the swimmer.
  • One swimmer’s race, produced on its own.
  • Broadcast graphics and official time synced to timing, with multiple angles including underwater.
  • Kept in the athlete’s app, with one-click sharing to family, coaches, and recruiters.
  • A revenue line for the host.

On the permanent install, one set of cameras runs the livestream and produces each swimmer’s race.

Meet director
“Having SwimClips at the meet is a no-brainer. The revenue is nice, but on the more positive side, it gives the meet experience more depth and meaning for a family to see what their kids are actually doing in the water. It’s just a great experience all the way around.”
Mike Greymont
Meet Director, Far Westerns · Morgan Hill

Bring the Far Westerns Video Experience to Your Pool.

If you’ve got a championship meet on the calendar, we’d love to show you what SwimClips could look like at your pool.

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