Frequently Asked Questions about CSA
(new league)
1. What is CSA?
CSA stands for California Swimming Association. It is
a new league consisting of 8 teams from Pacific Swimming.
Teams will compete against each other in dual meets (7
dual meets total). The season will end with a Championship
Meet in December for those who qualify.
2. Who is in this league?
West Coast Aquatics, Seaside Aquatic Club,
Quicksilver Swimming, Valley Splash, Mission San Jose
Aquatics, Burlingame Aquatic Club, Sunnyvale Swim
Club, and Dana Kirk Swimming (PASA)
3. What do membership fees cover?
These collected fees will cover all of the costs incurred
in creating, developing, and implementing a new league of
this magnitude; including, development and support of an
Association website which will keep current best times of
each swimmer in every event category, an Age Group
Leader Board throughout the season, a platform which will
help to manage our meets and swimmers during the season,
meet management, equipment/ pool rental, Championship
Meet management and Awards, and a Seasonal High Point
Champion Award and recognition, and other expenses
involved with running these USA Swimming Sanctioned
events.
4. What are the membership fees?
You will discover that there are two separate
membership fees, but in order to commit our entire team to
the Association there is not an option and/or preference
regarding your type of membership. Membership
specifications were determined by the Association and by
our coaches. The breakdown for our team, by group is as
follows:
 Meet fees are $25.00 for a single day dual meet
and $40.00 for a double dual meet (only one
double dual per season).
 $40/swimmer for those who qualify for
championships.
5. When and how do I pay?
 Pay the meet fees when you enter the meet through
your team unify account on the WEST Coast Aquatics
website.
7. What about the other meets we used to attend?
During the fall season our emphasis will be 100%
team effort at our home CSA meets and 100% effort. We
are excited that instead of attending many meets, splitting
up coaching staff and families, we will all be at meets
together, building our motivation and excitement for and
with one another.
For our 14-under Junior Olympic Qualifiers, we will still
attend that meet (Dec. 6-8). The seniors in SR. Silver &
Gold will also continue to attend SR. meets such as the
Husky meet.
8. I have heard our team needs more officials to help work
at these meets. Is this true?
Yes, and thank you for asking. We do need officials
(white shirt folks seen at edge of pool during a meet).
Please see the team manager and one of devoted officials
Guiselle Morrone for information or email her at
[email protected]
9. Doesn’t running a meet take a lot of work?
Running a meet does take team effort. For every home
meet we will be asking for volunteers. It takes everyone to
make the effort easy. Each home meet will have signups
online at our website and when we travel we expect to help
there as needed.
10. What time will these meets begin? And how long do we
expect them to run?
For all home meets--warm-ups will begin at 7:30 am
and the meet begins at 9 am.
Travel meet times may vary
a little and we will tell you in advance. We expect meets to
run several hours and be done mid-afternoon.
11. Who will participate from WEST?
All team members and groups need to participate in
these meets for this league. These are team scored meets
that the entire team needs to participate in. There will be
relays for each meet as well as individual events. Your
swimmer will be asked to compete in the relays as well.
12. Scoring
Each meet will be scored by event and will be tabulated on the
league website ( www.swimcsa.com ). You will be able to
follow the progress of every swimmer and every team on the
CSA League website including the top scores of the league. At
the end of the season there will be awards for the top teams in
the league including team awards for the dual meet champions
and conference champions. That is why it is important that
every swimmer and family attend as many if not all of the dual
meets this season. Our team has a great chance of placing very
high in the conference if we bring a big meet attendance the
entire season!
13. Conference Championships
This league will emulate the NCAA format. We want our
swimmers to get used to swimming at the collegiate level. All
events will be in the order of the NCAA Championships. The
conference championships will be for swimmers that qualify
through the dual meets. The championship meet will be
professionally run, (possibly indoors), and will parade the top
8 swimmers in finals with music and name announcements just
like most national level meets. The location and qualification
standards are still in the process of being secured, as soon as
there is more information, it will be posted here and relayed
through the swimmers.
We will add additional questions and answers as they arise.