UNITED SPORTS SERVICES - Key Persons
Bob has almost 40 years of aquatic experience including; 23 years coaching from learn-to-swim to Olympic Trials finalist, 3 years on the staff of USA Swimming, 3 years as an Aquatics Director, served as Head or Assistant Manager on 6 USA Swimming National or Junior National Teams and served on the Board of Directors for USA Swimming and for Oklahoma Swimming and Arkansas Swimming LSC's. Bob also has 8 years of facilities experience in the corporate world. Bob is a member of the Arkansas Swimming Hall of Fame and Hendrix College Sports Hall of Honor. Bob has a BA from Hendrix College and an MEd from the University of Arkansas - Fayetteville. Bob currently lives in Bartlesville, OK with his wife Robin.
Brent has over 11 years experience in sports timing. Prior to his career in sports timing, he worked in the telecommunications and publishing industries. Brent has B.S. in Marketing from San Diego State University. When not working, he spends his time riding dirt bikes in the California desert or surfing along the California coast.
As a business development/sales lead in the Great Lakes region, James joined the team in 2019. Over the span of his previous professional career, James has gained extensive consultative sales experience with multi-media companies across diverse categories. His background has transcended from advertising and brand building environments to successful roles with assorted national media sales companies. Having a passion for competitive swimming and being an active swim Dad on deck over the years fuels his interest in representing Swiss Timing in the U.S.
James describes his time at USS as "a tremendous opportunity to promote an iconic global brand and to provide our customer's with compelling world-class products."
James is a graduate of Michigan State University and resides in Michigan with his family.
Company CEO Matt Murphy is thrilled with the opportunity to represent Swiss Timing in the U.S. and look forward to expanding the reach of the highest quality products in the industry. Matt Murphy stated, "Since the inception of automatic timing in swimming, Swiss Timing products have been the gold standard. They have been entrusted with providing accurate, dependable results at every high profile event in the world including the U.S. Olympic Trials, U.S. National Championships, and the Olympic Games." United Sports Services will strive to not just provide the best equipment in the business, but the best level of service and support during the installation phase, to the moment the equipment sees the competition for the first time it is installed and long down the road for its clients.
Matt has had chlorine in his veins since he was 4 yrs old. His love of all sports, but most of all swimming is tremendous. Matt started swimming at the age of 4 for his neighborhood summer club Northumberland. In high school, he swam for Swim Atlanta and helped get a high school team started his senior year at St. Pius X Catholics School in Atlanta. After high school, Matt attended Southern Polytechnic State University. Since there was no swim team there, he developed his passion for coaching and start coaching the High School swim team at St. Pius while in college. Shortly after that, he moved to The Marist School where he has been coaching for 21 years and still coaches there today. Matt Graduated from SPSU in 1999 with a bachelor's degree in computer science. For many years, Matt worked as a consultant in the custom software development field where he worked with such clients as NAPA Auto Parts, John Deer, Kaufman Tire, and many others. Matt left the consulting world to join the family business Needleheads, an embroidery, and monogramming software company. Matt left needleheads in the fall of 2013 to take over the US distributorship for Swiss Timing. The combination of Matt's passion for sport and his technical background in computing has made him an invaluable asset in furthering the Swiss Timing brand in the US market. Matt and his wife Kristen live in Atlanta and have to children, their son Parker (8) and their daughter Maggie (4)
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