| ASA Week 2 Recap
Week 2 Full Newsletter
Week 2 Scores and Rankings
Week 3 Referee Schedule
ASA Championship Landing
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Another week in the books, hopefully you are back into the
swing of things and now remember how all of this stuff works. We had
another terrific set of meets, many of which were decided by a handful of
points. Thankfully, the weather was a little more agreeable this
week. We all know that is a very fluid situation and everyone’s safety
and well being should be the first thing to take care of. 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.
If you are looking for an opportunity for your team to give
back to the community I encourage you to consider Swim Across
America. Their program benefits Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s
AFLCA Children’s Cancer Research Program; as well as countless other
programs aimed at ending childhood cancer. For
more information about their program and how to contribute visit Swim Across
America
Please keep providing feedback from your meets. I will
pass it along to everyone, we all learn from mistakes and successes as we
go. Your feedback is important and will allow the league to better the
way it run its meets. So far, I think we have already been able to
help several teams, thanks to this invaluable communication. Thanks to
everyone for phoning or e-mailing your scores in a timely fashion. If
you see that the score of your meet has not been reported, please e mail or
phone it in ASAP.
Please communicate in advance of your meet with the other
team about important details on your meet. The home team should reach
out to the visiting team several days before the meet and iron out times
for lineup exchange, expected arrival and warmup times at the pool, team
seating location and specifics about how much shade their might be,
concession information and possible restrictions, number of lanes of the
pool, exhibition lanes in 5 lane pools, pool depth and starting
requirements and availability of blocks, a full plan for what to do in case
of inclement weather, a game plan for how long teams want to wait in the
case of a weather delay, and possible makeup date and/or times, as well as
any other pertinent info that will lead to a smooth meet.
For the full recap of Week 2 please click on Week 2 Full Newsletter
to view information about the ASA Championship, lots of
useful rules reminders and Swimtopia notes. as well as meet scores and team
standings. Please click on Week 2 Referee Schedule
for this week's officials schedule.
Good Luck This Season, |
