Hello Swim families,

Hope you are ready for a wonderful weekend. Looking forward to seeing you all on Sunday at 3:00pm at the Clubhouse.

Here are the Volunteer Roles you can look at to help you decide what to sign up for. You can do different roles at different meets if you like more than one.

Volunteer Positions with descriptions

Check-In (2): to check in swimmers and volunteers when they arrive at the meet; where volunteers pick up and return equipment.

Head timer/Backup Timer: (1)Experienced timer to be there if someone misses a start and/or to step in if there are consistent major timing discrepancies between 2 timers in a lane

Timers: (2 per lane for Time Trial and Last Chance, 1 per lane for all other meets as the opposing team will also supply 1 per lane). Times and records times for all home and away meets and is our biggest committee. Each timer is provided 1-2 stopwatches and assigned a lane; This job gives you the best view of the pool and theswimmers during their races.

Runners For Timers: (2): To collect time sheets from timers, put them in a bucket; other runner pulls the bucket up and takes them to Scoring

Team Area (Bull Pen): (1)Hosts a ready area for each age group at home and away meets, makes sure children stay in the designated groups.

Runners for Swimmers (1-2): someone to take swimmers from bullpens to staging area

Staging (2): lining kids up in heats and lanes

Clerk of Course (1-2): stays behind blocks to make sure kids line up in correct lanes and move up towards the blocks as meet progresses)

Concessions (2):Runs the concession stand at all home events, provides refreshments for timers and coaches. This generates the income for our team to purchase equipment and incidentals throughout the season.

Pizza / snowcone sales (1) during practice coordinator.

Ribbons (1-2)Labels, sorts and files all the children's ribbons at all meets.

Scoring/Computer Person (2):Computer Person at home meets, plus a verifier

Runs the HyTech and Meet Manager software during the home and away swim meets.

Stroke and Turn (4):Provides stroke and turn officials for home and away meets. Must have some swimming knowledge and attend necessary training class. (zoom link for training will be provided next email)

Starter (1):Starts each event with the announcement of the age and stroke and the words “Swimmers Take Your Mark”, pauses to make sure that all swimmers are motionless, and then gives an electronic sound/and light. He/She shall be the solejudge of FALSE STARTS and all false starts shall be restarted. Starters must attend necessary training class (link to zoom provided next email).

Sponsorship Chair: (1) Works on getting sponsors.

Set-up/Take-down & Parking: Prepares the pool and ready area for home swim meets, cleans up and puts away equipment following the meets and supervises parking detail.

With a small team, all swimmers will need to have one parent volunteer on deck for first or second shift for 4 meets (can volunteer for each meet).

Warm wishes,

Beth, 

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