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SANDY SPRINGS STATE QUALIFYING
Here's more info on the 7/10 GRPA Qualifying
Meet for those that want to participate:
Pool Location: Frances Meadows Aquatic Center
1545 Community Way, NE, Gainesville, GA 30501
(off Jesse Jewell Parkway between South Enota and Limestone
Parkway)
http://www.lanieraquatics.com/
Deadline to register our swimmers is 6/15 so I need to
ask everyone that is planning to swim to declare which
events and which strokes you want to compete in. Something
like: Davis Herndon 9-10 Boys 50yd Freestyle, 100IM, Free
Relay, Medley Relay.
Each event is $7 and each relay is $4. If we don't have
4 swimmers in your age group to create a relay team, we'll
figure out how to refund your $4 (or $8 if you want to
swim 2 relays). I've asked for an event listing but so
far have not received that. Please reply to this email
with the events you want to register for.
Birth Certificates are due along with your registration.
With the 6/15 deadline to Gainesville, we need to get
all of our registrations together by 6/12 to see if we
need to have a "swim off" on 6/13. Please block
6p-8p on your calendar for such a swim-off. I don't have
a place for such a swim off so if anyone has a pool they
can offer on that Sunday afternoon/evening, please let
me know. We may not need it but I suspect will have a
few cases where the number of swimmers who want to swim
exceeds our limit of 3 per event.
Please make a check payable to Sandy Springs Swim Association
and have a Birth Certificate copy that you can do without
- no original is needed for this event. The copy will
stay on file and then be destroyed after the Carrollton
Meet.
SSSA teams
A major issue has come up with GRPA that affects Sandy
Springs this year. The Sandy Springs Park rep failed to
get our swimmer numbers turned in to GRPA per some deadline
they have and that will require our swimmers to take a
different path to get to Carrollton this year. It's not
nearly as bad as Decal experienced last year but it will
require us to change our plans and move some things around
for those swimmers who were planning on going to Carrollton.
Rather than host a Sandy Springs City Meet on 7/1 as planned,
that meet is now being replaced with the GRPA District
7 Swim Meet in Gainesville on 7/10. Our planned 7/1 meet
will not qualify swimmers to compete in Carrollton so
we're having to send our swimmers to Gainesville to qualify.
There will be a significantly higher number of kids at
Gainesville trying to qualify so the likelihood of swimmers
who are not in the top of their stroke events actually
making the team is quite small. We were able to take some
of those swimmers the last couple of years because we
had a small qualifying base - that's gone this year as
the base will be large and I suspect pretty good.
I know a number of families had planned their summer vacations
around the 7/1 meet and they will be extremely disappointed.
Many of them will not be in town to go to Gainesville
so they will be shut out this summer. I've already spoken
to 2 of those families and know how disappointed their
swimmers are - it's a mess but one we'll work through
this year and get back on track for 2011.
Please share this information with your SSSA team as soon
as you can so the families who were planning to swim on
7/1 know that it's been canceled. Additionally, the timeframes
to respond with registration information is about to get
real short as the Gainesville meet is almost here. Families
planning to swim will need to get their Birth Certificates
ready this week.
We will form a Sandy Springs team from the kids who do
qualify at Gainesville. We will practice at Chastain as
planned but rather than having 75+ kids on the Sandy Springs
team, we're likely going to have 25 or fewer - just depends
on how they swim in Gainesville and who shows up to swim
against them.
Feel free to call me with any questions.
Frank
404-408-5274
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