Volunteering

Parent Volunteer Commitments:

We ask each family to donate a six pack of water bottles, soda, or Gatorade per swimmer at each home meet.  Thank you so much!

Each meet requires approximately 60 workers – it’s a big effort but very rewarding!  Meet management is the responsibility of every parent.  We have a volunteer system in place that requires every family to commit to work at least four meets.   Below is a description of each volunteer position. Most positions require you work one half of a meet.  See Jules Purisima, the volunteer coordinator to sign up for a position.   If you register by mail, the registration form has a section to designate your volunteer interest.

There are several volunteer positions that require official training by RMAL.  RMAL conducts the training at the beginning of every season.  If you trained for a position last year, you still need to attend training this year, per RMAL.   The training is easy, free and only one session.  Please consider stepping up to these important positions!

 

Click here for 2011 RMAL volunteer schedule

 

Swim Meet Volunteer Positions Required

These Positions Require Officials Training.

Referee: (1) Senior official responsible for the overall conduct of the meet and for all other officials at the meet.

Starter: (1) Next most senior official; responsible for starting each race.
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Stroke & Turn:(4 or more) Ensure that the swimmers use the proper stroke technique and that all turns and finishes are legal.

These Positions Require League Training.

Head Computer Person: (1) Operates the computer at all home meets. Prints results and ribbon labels during meet,
prints reports and packs up computer at end of meet.

CTS Operator: (1) Operates the Colorado Timing System during the meet, which records the times of all
the swimmers.

Computer Assistant: (1-2) Assists the head computer person input times from the swimmers’ cards into
the computer

Clerk-of-Course: (1) This person controls the entire pace of the swim meet. He/she places the
swimmers in heats and sends them to the blocks for their swims.

Timing Judge: (1) This person compares the CTS results with the stop watch times and determines
which will be the “official” time

These Positions Require No Training.

Timers: (12-18) These people are responsible for timing and recording the time of the swimmers assigned
to their lanes.

Table Workers: (4) These volunteers are responsible for sorting the swimmers’ cards, verifying
the times from the computer printout and attaching labels to the winners’ ribbons.

Clerk-of-Course Helpers: (4) Assist the Clerk-of-Course sort swimmers’ cards, pass out these cards after
they are seeded and arrange the swimmers in their designated lanes prior to the event.

Announcer: (1) This person announces the events, winners, results and any other meet information.

Runners: (4-5) These volunteers deliver cards to and from judges, timers, table workers, computer
workers, clerk-of-course, and announcer.

Concession Food Table: (4) These volunteers are needed to sell and serve food from our grill and Snack Shack.

Concession Cashier: (4)  These volunteers are needed to take food orders and run the cash register.

Mite Parent: (3-4) These parents help keep track of all mini-mites and mites in the clerk-of-course area and
assist them with their cards. It is the responsibility of each mini-mite and mite’s parents to get these
swimmers to the Mite Parent. This can be accomplished much more easily if the mini-mites and mites stay
together in one area.

Set-Up Committee: (4) These volunteers arrive at 4:00 pm for each home meet and help get everything in
order for the meet to begin promptly at 6:00 pm.

Clean-Up Committee: (4) These volunteers stay after the meet and help take everything down.

Heat ribbons/candy: (2) This volunteer is present after each heat to give that winner a heat ribbon and
piece of candy.