Southeast Missouri Swim Conference: Welcome

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SOUTHEAST MISSOURI SWIM CONFERENCE
THE WEBSITE FOR SWIMMING IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI
WELCOME to the Southeast Missouri Swim Conference website. Here are some conference teams with links to their own sites.

Charleston   Cape Girardeau   Jackson   Perryville  
Poplar Bluff   Sainte Genevieve   Sikeston

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WE HAVE 621 SMSC SWIMMERS THIS SUMMER!!!

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Saturday July 25th-7pm

Another summer league season ended!  Congratulations to all the teams/swimmers who participated.  With any luck the results will be posted later tonight.  Thank you to all the volunteers from all 10 teams who helped make this Championship Meet possible!  A personal note from SMSC President/webmaster--A bittersweet farewell to my daughter, Maria who just finished her 15th SMSC season. Thanks for being my inspiration!

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SMSC would like to welcome a "new" team to our league--the Kennett Killer Whales!  Congratulations to them on the completion of their 50th swim season!!  Hope you have wonderful weather for your celebration on July 27th.

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HERE IS THE BREAKDOWN OF THE LARGE/SMALL DIVISIONS:

LARGE:  FAST,PBST,SST,GATR AND KST

SMALL:  PVST,SGST,JST,CST AND SCST

PRAY FOR GREAT WEATHER AND NO DELAYS!!!!

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ALL RESULTS ARE IN.  THE ALL TIMES YARDS REFLECTS ALL INDIVIDUAL RESULTS FROM THE ENTIRE SEASON!

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PLEASE NOTE:  IF YOU HAVE ALREADY DOWNLOADED THE GENERIC MEET FILE FOR 2009 FROM THIS WEBSITE PLEASE GO INTO THE EVENTS MENU OF MEET MANAGER AND SET ALL 8 OF THE "A" EVENTS TO NOT SCORE (UNCHECK THE "SCORE" BOX).  IF YOU HAVEN'T THEN THE UPDATED DOWNLOAD FILE SHOULD BE SET PROPERLY. 

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Another loss in our swimming family:

Gussie Crawford's husband of 55-years, Wayne, passed away in his sleep on Friday, 5 June 2009.  A celebration of his life memorial will be held on June 27, 2009 from 2:00 to 5:00 PM at Schrader Funeral Home, 14960 Manchester Road, Ballwin, Mo. 63011 (636.277.5511).  In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, 50 Crestwood Executive Center, St. Louis, Mo. 63126 (314.729.1846).

Feel free to send Gussie a note.  She has been part of our conference for a long time.

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PLEASE KEEP PATTI HENSON AND HER FAMILY IN YOUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS.  PATTI LOST HER MOTHER SUDDENLY THURSDAY, MAY 21ST.

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HERE IS AN UPDATE ON OUR SMSC OFFICIALS WHO ARE CURRENT WITH THE SMSC TRAINING.  OF COURSE, IF THERE ARE ANY WHO ARE FULLY CERTIFIED WITH USA SWIMMING OR AAU THEY WILL NOT APPEAR IN THIS LIST.  PLEASE DO YOUR BEST TO HAVE A NUMBER OF TRAINED VOLUNTEERS FROM YOUR TEAM WILLING TO HELP AT OUR MEET THIS SUMMER!!

Here is the list of people that have gone to the SMSC clinics and satisfactorily completed the test.
 
2007 (re-certification by 2009 season)
 
Mark Castleman
Christy Bohn
Matt Steward
Rebecca Ohmes
 
2008 (re-certification by 2010 season)
 
Tom McCulley
Steve Elefson
Debra Klahs
Phillip Klahs
Rosemary Douglas
Steven King
Michelle Swain
Bernie Gard
Donald Schaefer
Tina McCulley
Robert Brodie
Kate Williams

2009 to date (re-certification by 2011 season)

 Rosa Cundiff

Cynthia Lathum

David Norwood

Jeremy McAtee

Michelle Swane 

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PLEASE NOTE:  THE LINK TO THE 2009-2012 MOTIVATIONAL TIMES HAS BEEN UPDATED.  ALSO THE GENERIC MEET FILE HAS BEEN UPDATED WITH THE NEW TIME STANDARDS.  THE WORD DOCUMENT WITH DIRECTIONS FOR "CREATING" YOUR MEET FROM THIS GENERIC DOWNLOAD HAS BEEN CORRECTED....THERE WAS AN ERROR IN OLD DOCUMENT.

 

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REMEMBER TO CHECK AFTER DOWNLOADING THE NEW MEET TO CHECK DISTANCE FOR EVENTS 65 AND 66.  IT SHOULD BE CHANGED FROM 100 TO 200 WHEN SETTING UP THE MEETS FOR THIS YEAR.  THE NEW MEET DOWNLOAD ALREADY HAS THIS BUT CHECK ANYWAY!  ALSO THE SCORING SYSTEM OF 9-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 (AND DBL FOR RELAYS) IS FOR ALL MEETS.

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PLEASE NOTE THAT WE NOW HAVE A NEW DOWNLOADABLE SMSC SWIM MEET FILE FOR MEET MANAGER AS WELL AS A DOCUMENT CONTAINING INSTRUCTIONS TO EDIT THE MEET FILE TO SUIT YOUR POOL (i.e.  # OF LANES, YARDS/METERS).  THIS IS FOUND AT THE BOTTOM OF THE "MM & TM INFORMATION" LINK ABOVE.

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RELAY RULES
Coaches, please read this note (click here) about relays.  You can only age a swimmer up one age group and can only age up two swimmers per relay.

A MESSAGE FROM THE OLD WEBMASTER:
Please bite the bullet and get to work on your Meet Manager files and Meet invitations.  Meet Manager is a pain to work with but if you "attack it" and get it over with it isn't so bad.  Click on the menu bar for some very good instructions on the basics of Meet and Team Manager.  It is very importatn to keep file types straight.  Before the meet, Rosemary needs a "Meet Event Export" from Meet Manager.  After the meet, Rosemary will need a "Full Meet Backup".  Please also submit your meet invitations in MS Word or RTF format.

About once a year, and early in the year, we have a team that does not post thier event files, while other teams are struggling with the process of generating their entries and it creates a vicious circle:  If the event file isn't posted, the team can't do entries.  Then they are delayed in sending the entries back in.  This results in late nights, high stress, and mistakes!

Be tough.  Work up your computer files and e-mail them to Rosemary and John

OFFICIALS TRAINING
TheOzark USA officials commitee offers occasional training sessions in the St. Louis area.  Here is the link to their website:  http://www.ozarkswimming.org/officials.htm.

However, these sessions are for USA officials, and AAU officials must contact them before attending as there are differing certification requirements.  SMSC parents are discouraged from seeking a USA certification- as this requires training at 5 sessions at USA meets only (our meets do not count!).  AAU certification does not have the apprenticeship requirement and will qualify you to work SMSC swim meets.  Unless you have a year-round USA swimmer do not seek USA certification.   

If you plan to attend a USA clinic E-mail Mike Tchoukaleff (miketch@piasanet.com) and/or Karen Smiley  (karensmiley@sbcglobal.net) and tell them you are seeking AAU certification.  Technically, this is a USA clinic and they may not have the proper forms unless they know you are coming!




SMSC President-Elect/Secretary - John Esswein: svswimcoach@hotmail.com
SMSC President - Debbie Robertson drdrob@semo.net
SMSC Treasurer - Julie King: juliesflowers1@sbcglobal.net

SMSC Webmaster - Rosemary Douglas: prjk95@gmail.com