The 2005 NCAA Swimming and Diving
Championships are relying on Colorado
Time Systems equipment. Are you ready for
some swimming?

The NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships this year are relying on Colorado Time Systems' equipment. Complete CTS timing systems will be used at the following championships:

In Division I, the University of Minnesota hosts the Men's Championships March 24-26. A longtime CTS customer, the University of Minnesota Aquatic Center has a full CTS timing system, and recently purchased a new video display system from CTS. The 21-foot by 10-foot digital video display is the largest permanent video installation in an aquatic facility in the United States.

Purdue University hosts the Division I Women's Championships March 17-19. The NCAA Division I Swimming and Diving Committee are renting a complete CTS timing system for the Championships to ensure the availability of RJPs, (relay judging platforms) which the committee requires.

Hope College hosts the Division III Championships at the Holland Community Aquatic Center in Holland, Michigan. The Women's Championships are March 10-12, and the Men's Championships are March 17-19. The Holland Community Aquatic Center, another longtime CTS customer, was chosen the nation's best indoor public/nonprofit facility by Aquatics International magazine in 2004.

Over the past five years, 90 percent of NCAA championships have relied on CTS equipment. In the last decade, 16 of 18 facilities to host NCAA swimming and diving championships have used CTS equipment.

Don Megerle, former coach at Tufts University, is responsible each year for the Division III Men's and Women's Championships, and served as the meet coordinator for more than two decades for the Division I Men's Championships. He said he is more secure going into a meet relying on CTS equipment.

"I know we won't have issues with the equipment, and we'll be able to record every time," said Megerle. "CTS sets the standard for timing accuracy."