FAMILY VOLUNTEER REQUIREMENTS 

UPDATED FOR 2025-26

 

Family support is critical to swimmer and TEAM success in swimming. Our families truly are the team behind the TEAM. As a year-round competitive swim program and nonprofit organization, we need the support of every family to ensure each season is successful for our swimmers, coaches, and families. As a requirement of membership, each Team Charlotte family must satisfy volunteer requirements each season. Each volunteer ”session” is typically a 3-4 hour time commitment, volunteering during sessions of our TEAM hosted swim meets. Volunteer requirements for each family are based on your most advanced swimmer in the program, and must be completed at TEAM HOSTED swim meets. 

 

Families with a senior or pre-senior group swimmer must complete six (6) volunteer sessions annually.

Families with a gold group swimmer must complete four (4) volunteer sessions annually.

 

There are four Team Charlotte hosted swim meets at which a majority of volunteering sessions are completed: 

  • TEAM September Splash - September 26, 2025 (required for all swimmers)
  • TEAM Western Open – January 23-25, 2026 (required for all swimmers)
  • TEAM Sunkissed Jr/Sr Championships of the USA – March 26-29, 2026 (qualified swimmers)
  • TEAM School’s Out Summer Invite - TBD in early June 2026 (required for all swimmers)

 

Families must fulfill at least (1) volunteer session at Western Open (January), (1) at Sunkissed (March), and (1) at School’s Out (June). Other remaining sessions can be filled at whichever meet works best for your family.

 

Volunteer sessions can also be satisfied by serving as a meet official, meet director, hosting a swimmer/parent social, coordinating awards, leading a committee, etc. Additional volunteer opportunities will be circulated to families via email - but our priority is filling all volunteer needs at our (4) hosted swim meets. The objective is to share the workload across our entire membership. If a family fails to fulfill volunteer session requirements without reasonable justification this will result in a fee assessment of $100 for each required session left incomplete as of July 15. Still, we value your time more than the fee. It really does take a village to run a highly effective nonprofit youth organization.