All volunteers are required to check in with the volunteer coordinator upon arrival.  The volunteer coordinator will give you any instructions and/or supplies needed to do your job for the meet.
 

Awards:

Please arrive at your position 30 minutes prior to the start of the meet.  The awards table is under the scoreboard.  At this position you will be awarding heat winner ribbons, putting award labels onto ribbons and distributing them to team files.  Must be able to stay past the completion of the meet in order to label ribbons. 

Head Timer:

Please arrive 30 minutes prior to the start of the meet.  You must attend the timer's meeting, please listen for the announcement. Please bring the stop watches, clipboards and lane assignments page to the timer's meeting.  Please put the lane slips on the clipboards if they are ready before the meeting.  During the meet you will start a stop watch with the beginning of each race and stop it at the end of every race in case your watch is needed by another timer.  Please make sure you are behind your 4 lanes and watching to see if anyone may need a watch last minute.  The Head Timer and Back Up Timer each covers 4 lanes.  Make yourself known and available at all times on the deck.  Once the meet is over, collect all the watches and clipboards and place on the officials table.  The lane slips should be put in lane order and given to the computer table.

Back Up Timer:

Please arrive 30 minutes prior to the start of the meet.  You must attend the timer's meeting, please listen for the announcement.  During the meet you will start a stop watch with the beginning of each race and stop it at the end of every race in case your watch is needed by another timer.  The Head Timer and Back Up Timer each covers 4 lanes.  Make yourself known and available at all times on the deck.

Timers:

Please arrive 30 minutes prior to the start of the meet. Each lane has 2 timers. Timers stand behind the block and time each swimmer in their assigned lane.  Stop watches are provided by the team at each meet.  You do not need any special qualifications to be a timer.  You must attend the timer's meeting which will be held before the start of the meet, please listen for the announcement.  You must be signed in before the timer's meeting.  Lanes are assigned at the timer's meeting.  You will time a lane for the entire meet.  One timer will use a stop watch and plunger for each race and the other will use the plunger and record the watch time.  There will be relief timers available for the breaks, please take a break when needed.  The timer with the clipboard needs to check to make sure the swimmers are behind the blocks and in the correct order.  Ask their name before they step onto the block to make sure it is the correct swimmer for that heat.  Only write down the watch timer, you do not need to write the scoreboard time.  You must be able to stay the entire duration of the meet to be a timer.

Clean-Up Crew:

Please arrive 30 minutes prior to the start of the meet.  During the meet, periodically go around and collect trash in the stands and in the commons area.  Please let the custodian know if any trash cans need emptying.  You must also check in 30 minute intervals your gender appropriate locker room/restrooms and commons restrooms for cleanliness, supplies, loitering and playing children.  After the meet please pick up any trash on deck in the stands and out in the commons.

Commons Monitor:

Please arrive at warm ups.  Sit in the high school commons to make sure there in NO running, NO ball throwing or horseplay,  NO ONE IS ALLOWED on the stairs or on the balcony.  If the stairways aren't blocked, there should be someone positioned near the stairways to prevent people from going up the stairs or onto the balcony.  There will be an area cordoned off where the swimmers can sit.  Any problems, please contact the head coach.

You will also be working with the announcer announcing events in the commons.  There will be a microphone or bullhorn to announce and signs to post 1st and 2nd call for events.  Commons monitors must be able to stay for the duration of the meet.

Runner:

Please arrive 30 minutes prior to the start of the meet. You will work closely with the data board people getting timer information from the timers when needed.

Age Group Helpers for 9/10 age group:

2 parents to assist in getting medley relays and free together for the 9/10 age group.  Assistance is only required for the relays not for each individual event.  These parents will get the relays together before warm ups begin and again close to the end of the meet, usually after the 9/10 breaststroke event.

Clerk of Course (for 6 & Under and 7-8 Swimmers):

Help the 8 and under swimmers get organized into their heats and lanes.  Then take them to their assigned lanes.  Make sure they understand what heat they are swimming in and what stroke they are swimming.  Clerk of Course volunteers may also need to help mark the swimmers' arms with their heats and lanes when the swimmers arrive at the meet.