ASA Week 1 Recap
Week 1 Full Newsletter
Week 1 Scores and
Rankings
Week 2 Referee Schedule
Whoever is in charge of the weather is on notice, not the
greatest welcome to the 2026 season on Tuesday, but hopefully this will
be our only foul weather week. High marks to Village Mill and
Mark Trail/Princeton Sq. they were the lone survivors on a very wet
Tuesday night. As I always say, if you need to end a drought, have a
swim meet. Also a special welcome to our newest ASA team, the
Sagamore Hills Seawolves.
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.
No rainouts last season at all means karma moves quickly
this year. 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.
- Further info on how to manage this in Swimtopia is listed
later in the newsletter.
In doing so you can communicate with your families before
they get to the meet 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. Also, don’t forget to keep your referee in the communication
loop with your plans. Teams did a great job with this in week
1. Your original ref is your first option for any rescheduled meets,
check with them before they leave that night to see if they can work your
rescheduled meet. If they are unavailable, please notify Franke
and/or Evan ASAP to arrange for a replacement.
Teams are becoming old pros using the Swimtopia Meet
Maestro software. Things 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 Notes – Ref Schedule and Pay
Please remember to confirm with your meet ref, no later
than 6 pm the night before the meet. The weekly officials schedule
will be posted each week at ASA Referee
Schedule 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. Referee payment must be completed before the
official leaves the pool that night, not tomorrow, or next week. Overtime
pay is $10 per team for each 20 minutes a meet runs past the 3 ½ hour
mark, this even applies in weather delayed meets, like Tuesday
night. Referee payment must be completed before the official
leaves the pool that night. Please make sure this is taken care of
each week.
Please click on Week 1 Full Newsletterto
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 next week's ref schedule.
Good Luck This Season,
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