ASA Week 1 Recap

Week 1 Full Newsletter

Week 1 Scores and Rankings

Week 2 Referee Schedule

Teams,

We are off and swimming for the 2024 season. Congrats on making it to the fun part of the season, thankfully we did not need a wetsuit and parka to get through swim practices in May, getting geared up for the season. There was 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. 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 communicate your score in as soon as your meet gets done.

We had spectacular weather this week, I wish I could copy and paste in into the next 4 weeks. However, 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, always have a plan for what to do with a crowd in the event of bad weather. Use your pre-meet planning conversation with the other team several days before the meet:

• Communicate the home team’s safety plan in the event the deck needs to be cleared.
• Possible make-up dates 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.
• Refer to rule 22 on page 16 of the rule book for rules governing weather impacted meets.

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. Please remember to

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

Referee Pay

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 Full 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

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404-664-3975