2025 Volunteer Requirements 

Parent volunteers are critical to running summer league meets, and parents must volunteer at meets for their swimmer to join the team. The Tiger Sharks are known for hosting well-run meets with considerate and helpful parent volunteers, and we are proud to continue that tradition of excellence.   When the Tiger Sharks host home meets, it takes approximately 45 volunteers to operate the meet and when the Tiger Sharks are the visiting team at away meets, it typically takes 14-18 volunteers.

The Parent Volunteering mindset is simple: if your swimmer is swimming at a home meet, you are volunteering!  You may not have to work at every meet to fulfill your points requirement, but you might have to double up on shifts at a home meet.  All families must work a shift at Time Trials on June 7^th. 

For the 2025 season we will follow a points-based system for volunteer requirements.  There will be a minimum point requirement for each family for the season.  Our goal is to cover all shifts to operate swim meets throughout the season while equitably distributing the workload across ALL families. 

We understand families have vacation plans and prior commitments preventing perfect meet attendance. The points system offers some flexibility for families to sign up for the volunteer shifts that fit their schedule while also totaling the minimum points requirement for the season. Families can choose how to make up for any missed meets by working additional shifts at other meets. 

Our Volunteer jobs require the following experience and training:

• Official Positions
  • Head Official/Ref, Starter, and Stroke & Turn Judges require a minimum of one prior season on Tiger Sharks, attendance of a 2025 Midlakes Officials certification training event, Swimmingly training, and in-person training at Time Trials on June 7^th. 

• Non- Official Positions
  • Head Timer and Scorekeeper require minimum of one prior season on Tiger Sharks, Swimmingly training, and in-person training at Time Trials on June 7^th. 
  • Announcers, timers, backup timers, relay exchange judges, stagers, deck set-up and deck tear-down do not require prior experience but DO require on-deck training at Time Trials on June 7^th.

Point requirements will be shared in mid May and volunteer sign-ups will open in late-May (exact date TBD). Families will log into our website and select enough volunteer shifts across the entire season to meet the point requirement.  Families that know in advance of planned vacations should not sign up to volunteer at meets they know they’ll miss. Instead, they will identify other meets during the season to make up the missed point.  There will be plenty of opportunities between home and away meets to achieve the minimum point requirements.