2010 Swim Team Volunteer Requirement

Newport Hills is required to provide volunteers at every swim meet, home and away.

Our swim team is maintained and operated by a paid coaching staff, a volunteer Parent Advisory Board, club management and many, many great volunteers. Our volunteers play a hugely important role. In fact, swim meets simply can’t take place without the support of each and every parent!

Did you know that it can take as many as 50 volunteers to host a single meet? Finding and organizing this many helpful souls is no easy feat and without everyone’s help we simply couldn’t host meets or function as a team. Therefore, we have a volunteer requirement that each family must satisfy.

2010 Requirement:
Each swimming family should achieve 6 or more volunteer points during the summer season. Most volunteer assignments are worth 2 points each. Assignments and point totals are tracked by SuperMeets (our on-line volunteer registration service). To achieve 8 points at least one parent from each swimming family should volunteer at four or more Dual Meets and at least once at Prelims (“Timed Finals”) or Division Championship if participating in those events. Parents unable to satisfy a particular chosen assignment must find a suitable replacement prior to the day of the event.

We now use SuperMeets to manage volunteer registration for all summer season meets and events. This commercially available software provides us the ability to confirm volunteer attendance, track each family’s volunteer point total (towards our 2010 Volunteer Requirement), send group emails and print sign-up sheets. We will provide you instructions on Parent Night (May 27th,7-8pm) for establishing your own user account in SuperMeets. You can view our team’s Supermeets home page now by going to: http://www.supermeets.com/Index.cfm?StaffTrackerClient=131

Opportunities abound to help everyone meet the requirement. Volunteer positions include Announcer, Timers, Starter (meet referee), Ribbons Person, Results Keeper (computer entry), Runners, Stroke & Turn Judges, Cook and Concession Helpers. A description of each position is located in the Appendix section of the Swim Team Handbook and at SuperMeets.

We have several dual meet volunteer positions which require training prior to registration. These include Announcer, Starter, Stroke & Turn Judge and Results Keeper. We must find qualified individuals to fill these positions well in advance of each meet. Individuals with prior training or experience in these areas should contact our Volunteer Coordinators as soon as possible.

Please contact our Volunteer Coordinators, Charise Eliason or Richard Lee, for additional information on volunteering or to apply for a trained position.