Courtesy of Neon Innovation, a SwimSwam partner.
Add up what your program already spends to make swimmers faster. Pool time. Coaches. Travel and entry fees. Tech suits that families replace every season. Against all of that, the clock on the wall is almost an afterthought, and on most decks it is still the cheapest, simplest piece of equipment in the building: a dial that counts to 59:59 and rolls over, the same tool teams used decades ago.
That clock quietly sets a ceiling on how good every practice can be. Not because your coaches are not good, but because a coach running send-offs by hand can only track so many lanes and so many intervals before the set they designed becomes the set they couldn’t keep up with.
Across a whole program, that ceiling multiplies. Every group, every session, loses minutes to dead time, repeated send-offs, and swimmers leaving on the wrong second. A few wasted minutes per set, times every lane, every practice, every week, across every coach on your staff, is pool time and coaching time you are paying for and not using to train.
One change, the whole program
A programmable pace clock lifts that ceiling for everyone at once. A coach programs the set into Neon Pace Clock once, and it runs the timing: rep counts, intervals, and send-offs, on a display the whole pool can read. Every group runs the set its coach designed, on the right interval, whether the coach is a twenty-year veteran or a college athlete covering a summer group. Your practice quality stops depending on who happens to be standing on deck.
Four groups, four send-offs, one deck. With the Neon Pace Clock, every lane reads its own interval from the water.
The per-swimmer math
Here is what makes this an easy line item. One Neon Pace Clock is $799. Put it in front of a training group of, say, thirty swimmers who practice six days a week, and over one season that clock runs more than a hundred practices for the entire group. Spread $799 across thirty swimmers and a season of sessions and you are at a fraction of a dollar per swimmer, per practice, for a tool every one of them uses every day. Spread it across the several seasons the clock is built to last, and it is pennies.
Set that against the rest of your budget. It is the price of two or three tech suits, the kind that fit a single swimmer for a single season. It is less than many families pay in dues for one swimmer over one season. And unlike almost anything else a program buys, the clock makes every practice better for every swimmer in the lane, for years, not one athlete on one day.
It also replaces things you already pay for: the stopwatch juggling that eats your coaches’ attention, a patchwork of dead wall clocks, and in many programs an aging, heavy clock that is hard to read and harder to carry. One device does all of it, and does more than any of them did.
One workout in the free Neon Swim app drives every clock on your deck, so a head coach can send the same set to every group at once.
Equip the program at your pace
You do not have to outfit every lane at once. Start free: the Neon Swim app runs up to four virtual pace clocks on TVs and tablets you already own, so you can put the full experience in a training bay for nothing but the app. Add hardware clocks where you want the brightness and the across-the-pool readability, group by group, season by season. Trade in old clocks to bring the cost down further.
Built to live on a pool deck
Neon Pace Clock is built for daily deck use: a rugged housing, a display engineered for direct sun and heat, and ten-inch digits readable across a fifty-meter pool. Every clock runs the same app, so workouts are shareable across groups and coaches, a new or seasonal coach gets up to speed through a guided walkthrough instead of a manual, and your whole staff is on one system instead of a drawer of mismatched remotes.
From coaches running it every day
“The Neon Pace Clock is fantastic! It’s got a clear display, readable from any distance, super durable, easy to store, and programming ahead of time or on the fly is a piece of cake. The customer service is second to none!”
“The kids don’t have to worry about the intervals at all. They can just work on the focus that we have for that set.”
“Affordable, functional and easily transportable! We love how easy the app helps us run workouts. The different time functions help our swimmers stay focused mid-set.
Chris Schlegel, All Star Aquatics
Built by a coach, refined by programs
Neon was built by Coach Nick, who has coached in USA Swimming since 2018 and was recognized as an ASCA Top 25 age group coach for large teams last year. He built Neon Pace Clock for exactly this problem: running large groups across many lanes without losing the quality of the practice. It started with a handful of beta testers and now runs on decks across the country, shaped by feedback from the coaches and programs that use it every day. When you equip your program, you are buying something built by someone who has stood on your side of the pool, and refined by programs like yours.
See the math for your program
The fastest way to decide is to run it. Download the free Neon Swim app and put a virtual clock on a screen at your next practice, at no cost. When you are ready to equip groups, talk to us about team pricing and trade-in credit for your old clocks, or book a short demo and we will walk your staff through it. Hardware comes with a 30-day return, for any reason.
Start with one group this week. Decide whether you want it on every deck by the fall.
Every group, every send-off, handled. Equip your deck with the Neon Pace Clock and the timing runs itself.
Talk to us about team pricing: [email protected] or (703) 996-9226
Download the free Neon Swim app: https://www.neoninnovation.com/store/p/neon-swim
See how it works: https://www.neoninnovation.com/pace-clock
Equip your program with the Neon Pace Clock: https://www.neoninnovation.com/store/p/neon-pace-clock
