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2026 ASA Fall League - Last Call
July 10, 2026
Teams,
Last call for Fall (League ASA). Below is a reminder of
our fall mini season and how to have a team if you are interested.
From my June e mail
We are closing in on the completion of our 2026 ASA Summer
Season and Championships. However, I wanted to touch base with everyone
about our upcoming fall season. I would like to get a response from
neighborhoods who were considering having a team for this season. Details
on the program can be found below.
What I need to know at this point is whether or not your
neighborhood is planning on having a team this fall. While your answer is
not binding, we do need to get a feel for how many teams we may have and
set a schedule for the season. We know that we may end up with teams
having swimmers from other neighborhoods swimming with them for this fall
season, as many neighborhoods won't have teams. Please complete the
Google form 2026 ASA
Fall League Team Status Form by Friday
July, 24, and we will proceed from there with organizational meetings and
a schedule.
ASA Fall League
The Atlanta Swim Association (ASA) will be offering a
“fall” season in 2026. This season is targeted (but not limited to)
swimmer’s age 8-14 and will have 4 meets will be on Saturday mornings and
are tentatively scheduled to begin Saturday, August 15 – Saturday
September 12. Age groups will be 8 & Under, 9-10, 11-12, 13 and over.
The purpose of this season is to offer swimmers a few more chances to
swim in meets without the full bore commitment to year round swimming.
Additionally, this season will provide a great chance for kids who will
be swimming for their school teams to stay in shape. If you would like
more info or want to have a team please e mail Franke Marsden.
The league will feature some of the following:
We will follow ASA rules, with relaxed membership
requirements to allow swimmers access to more teams. Participation rules
will likely be relaxed as well for these meets in an effort to allow kids
more chances to swim, including events they may not get to swim in a
normal summer league meet.
We anticipate smaller teams and smaller (shorter) meets.
This will provide some kids a shot at winning events in a meet for the
first time, as we anticipate most year round swimmers will be occupied
with their fall seasons.
Meets will be held at a central location each week (kind
of mini invitationals) and will have automatic timing used for results.
Team scoring will be kept, but will obviously not be the
focus of the meets.
We plan of offering ribbons and the same essential
structure and operational support you get in the summer.
Like other off season offerings for other sports there
will likely be fewer practices offered, 3 regular season meets and a
championship will be available.
We will have a championship meet (likely at Marist) in
mid-September as a culmination of the season. Each swimmer will receive a
medal for participating; as well as ribbons for each event. Entry fees
for this meet are $30 per swimmer.
We hope this will increase participation in middle school
and high school swim teams.
The smaller teams may provide your assistant coaches
valuable head coaching opportunities if your normal head coach is
unavailable to coach during this season.
This will also likely offer assistant team managers,
parent reps, and other meet volunteers a chance to ease their way into
their jobs.
League fees per swimmer will be $35 with online
registration available via your registration provider. Swimtopia’s ASA
form and waiver is already set up to receive registrations now.
Officials fees will be $30 per team per meet.
If you are interested in having a team, or more info about
the program please e mail [email protected],
and stay tuned on asa.swimtopia.com for more details. We would like to
get an idea of how many teams we expect to have and how we can best
configure the schedule to make it as easy as possible for the teams.
Please share this with your teams and families to spread the word on
something that we think will help our sport. We plan on having
informational meetings later this month and hope you can attend. I will
forward dates and times once I have them set. In the meantime please let
me know if you have any questions about this program.
Again, I know that many of you have a full plate and may
not be able to take this on. I am certainly not looking to pile on more,
I just ask that you share this info with your team. I feel this is a
great opportunity for kids to get some more swimming in, and possibly
hook them even more on the sport. I look forward to hearing from you all
and hope you are all enjoying your summer.
Thank you again,
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