How to become an Official
The Newport Swim Team is in high demand for swim meet officials. These are the individuals that you see volunteering at the swim meets in the white polos surrounding the pool. Every swim club is expected to have officials. Once you are trained as an official you can choose which swim meets you would like to officiate. Some officials only do meets that their swimmers are at, some do those meets plus others, and then there are the officials that carry on with meets once their kids are no longer on the team (very common). It sounds like an overwhelming commitment, but we have found that it is not, and officials love what they do!
PLEASE CONSIDER BECOMING AN OFFICIAL! There is assistance for every step...
Steps to becoming an official:
- Express interest (Let Coach Shayna know you would like more info and/or ready to sign up)
- Register with USA Swimming as a non-athlete member (NST covers fee)
- Pass background check (NST covers fee)
- Complete Athlete Protection Online Training
- Complete Concussion Training
- Then training starts with the Officials
- Acquire uniform
- Start working meet sessions as a trainee
- Training/testing will be different depending on the Official you are becoming.
We need Stroke & Turn Judges and Electronic Timing Judges (ET).
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