Teams,

Away we go, we are back in full force for the 2023 season. Congrats on making it to the fun part of the season and kudos to the coaches and swimmers who braved some chilly water getting geared up for the season. There is a little rust to shake off but teams seemed to get off to a great start. We had a great week of swimming in week 1, thank you for your patience in dedication in making this summer swim season a reality. I appreciate the feedback from our teams and will share as much as I can to help smooth the road to travel for the next few weeks. Below are links to this week's full newsletter, including meet scores, a lot of helpful advice based on feedback from this week and other useful info for everyone. Also below is next week's schedule of officials.

A warm welcome to our newest teams from Morehouse, Nesbit Lakes, Smyrna and Swim Kids of Georgia, they are a welcome addition to our league. If you have them on their schedule, greet them kindly. Scores from this week are at the end of this newsletter. If you notice your score missing, please e mail it to me ASAP and I will make sure it gets posted on the league website. Don’t forget, please call or e mail (don’t text) your score in as soon as your meet gets done.

One thing that has not changed is the fact that if there’s even a 1% chance of rain, it will visit itself upon a swim meet. While we had great weather this week, we all know that is a very fluid situation. Please familiarize yourself with the league policies on what to do in the event of bad weather, and always have a plan for what to do with a crowd in the event of bad weather. Don’t forget to use your pre-meet planning conversation with the other team, several days before the meet, to communicate the home team’s plan, and possible make-up date in advance of your meet, plan out how long both teams are willing to wait for weather to clear before moving onto rescheduling or calling your meet. In doing so you can communicate with your families before they get to the met so they know what to expect. This will help minimize the stress of bad weather the day of the meet and will avoid a possibly contentious discussion about what to do if weather hits.

Use of the Swimtopia Meet Maestro software went incredibly well for a number of first time users and we received a lot of feedback that I will pass along to everyone. Your feedback is important and will allow the league to better use the software to run its meets. Good or bad, please let us know how it goes with your team’s use of the software goes so we can learn from everyone’s experience. Thanks to everyone for communicating your scores in a timely fashion as soon as your meet is done

Teams, please remember, the refs get paid $100 per meet ($50 per team) and that overtime pay applies to any meet running longer than 3 ½ hours. Overtime pay is $10 per team for each 20 minutes a meet runs past the 3 ½ hour mark.

Please click on Week 1 Newsletter to view this week's full rundown and meet scores.

Please click on Week 2 Referee Schedule

Good Luck This Season,

Franke Marsden

ASA 

404-664-3975