|
|
Where is Southeastern
Swim Club?
|
|
|
Southeastern Swim Club is located in Fishers, IN-- a northeast
suburb of Indianapolis with about 55,000 residents. Our "home base"
of operations is Hamilton Southeastern High School. For more
information about our town, click here.
|
|
|
|
I feel a little behind or
confused. Is there an overall guide to SSC I can
access??
|
|
|
Absolutely!!
Southeastern Swim Club has Team Handbook that should help
quite a bit. It has been developed over the years by a combination
of our Board of Directors and Coaching Staff and contains almost
all matters pertaining to the club. IT IS A GREAT RESOURCE-- We strongly
encourage you to use it! Team Handbooks were distributed when
you initially signed up with the club, however if you have lost or
misplaced your copy, please contact your group coach and he or she
can deliver a new one for you!!
|
|
I have a billing question
or concern. Who can I turn to for help?
|
|
|
SSC now
has a Business Manager that handles all invoices and
payment issues!!! Tina Mudd can be contacted at
sscbusmgr@comcast.net
|
|
What is a Super
Splash?
|
|
|
Super Splashes are SSC’s informal, relaxed
version of an intrasquad meet. While the times do offically count,
these meets are generally catered to the more novice or beginner
swimmer. Because there are no other teams, we can often take more
time to explain rules and the general flow of a meet to
swimmers that may otherwise be intimidated at an away meet with
several teams in a foreign location.
|
|
I’m having
trouble logging into the team system to sign up for meets,
don’t know my username &/or password,
etc...??
Our system uses the email address you provided us
in your registration paperwork as a foundation. This becomes your
username. A random password is then generated by the system
and emailed to that email address.Your email address must
match the address provided to both the SSC business manager and
on your registration paperwork.Once you have logged in, then you
can follow the links in the Meets and Events section to sign up for
a meet. If your email address has changed recently, or you believe
there is an error, please contact us using the Contact Us link on
the homepage. Additionally, we have found that several companies
have security systems that block the use of our login process at
places of employement. We suggest, in this event, that you use an
alternate email address, such as one through hotmail, insight,
yahoo, etc. as the primary address for username. You are able to
link more than one email address in the account for receiving
emails.
|
|
Which day of a meet
should I sign-up for?
|
|
|
This question has no absolute answer. Generally the coaching
staff at SSC hopes that you sign-up for as much of
the meet as possible(that’s
what here for anyway, to have fun
racing!!), however there are always other variables
to consider. One variable is, of course, your own schedule
and whether you are committed to all three days of an invitational.
If you are willing and able to attend any or all three days,
we find that most experienced swimmers sign-up for all three days
of a meet. Friday evening sessions are usually the longer events
for a given age-group, while Saturday and Sunday are a mix of the
sprint and middle distance events. No event is offered twice at any
meet; different days just have different distances of the four
competitive strokes. If you can’t swim a certain day,
don’t sweat it, come to as many days as
possible!
|
|
|
|
What is a Prelim/Final
Meet?
|
|
|
Some invitationals, and almost all
championship meets, run in a prelim/final format. In this format,
swimmers compete in their usual line-up of events, with as many
as 60 swimmers or more competing in that particular age
group. Results are tabulated and later in the day the top 16
(or 8 or sometimes 24- this depends on the meet type and host)
return to swim again later that evening for the final placing.
Call it a type of elimination tournament. Swimmers originally
placed 17th and higher are set at their morning finishing place,
however in the finals, a swimmer originally placed 8th can move up
to #1 and the top qualifier can drop to 8th! Indiana
Swimming’s Championship meets are run in this general
format.
|
|
What does it mean if a
meet event is "limited" or there are "cut-offs" for an
event?
|
|
|
In oder to keep meets a
reasonable length of time, meet hosts often reserve the right to
limit the number of swimmers for a given event. This usual happens
for Friday night events, though it can happen also on Saturday
and/or Sunday too. If a meet host limits an event to the top 32
swimmers, they will make a heat sheet available a few days before
the meet, and teams can view the heat sheet to determine which
swimmers are in the top 32 for that event. If you are not seeded in
the top 32, for example, then you will not swim that event, and
therefore, possibly not that session at all. Often swimmers ranked
near the cut-off line (like seeds 33,34, &35) make it into the
top 32 because a few swimmers seeded above them can’t make it
to the meet due sickness, vacation, etc. In this case, you may
choose to arrive at the meet and hope to be bumped up. About 50% of
the time swimmers ranked 33 and 34 will swim the event.In
these situations, it’s best to contact your coach to
determine if that particular meet historically has a lot of
"bump-ups". Seeds below 36 rarely, if ever, make the
cut. The cut-off number can just as easily be 8, 12, 16 or 40;
whatever the host team decides to limit.
|
|
| |
|
|
