Requirements
Summer swim team is run 100% by volunteers. Without parent volunteers, there is no swim team. It takes 30+ volunteers to run each swim meet. Swim team families are required to fulfill their volunteer requirements.
- 1 swimmer family - required to complete 4 volunteer requirements at meets
- 2+ swimmer family - required to complete 5 volunteer requirements at meets
- Sign-up for job requirements by deadline: Signup Calendar - notification will be sent when 2023 sign-up is open.
- Complete job requirements. When unable to complete a job, find a substitute and communicate the change to the team reps. If unable to find a substitute, as a last resort, reach out to the team reps.
Season-Long Jobs
Some jobs are carried out over the course of the whole summer season and cover some or all of the volunteer requirements for a family.
The season-long jobs that must be filled in order to run the summer swim season are listed on the Team Organization page.
Meet Jobs
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Certified Officials
- Referee – must have attended MCSL training; oversees meet, including briefing S & T judges prior to the meet, verifying disqualifications with S & T judges, overseeing timers and signaling starter when to start races.
- Starter – must have attended MCSL training; uses electronic starter to start all races
- Stroke and Turn (S &T) Judge – must have attended MCSL training; watches swimmers and determines if they are doing the strokes and turns correctly according to MCSL rules
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Other Meet Jobs
- Announcer – announces races and, at A Meets, the names of the participating swimmers
- Assistant Head Timer – backs up Head Timer
- Awards – affixes stickers to ribbons and sorts them into envelopes
- Clerk of Course – lines swimmers up prior to races and sends them in order to sit behind the lanes to prepare for races
- Concessions – sells food and drinks during home meets
- Floater - fills in where needed
- Head Timer – briefs timers prior to meet, signals referee when timers are ready for next event, starts backup watches during each event in case timers miss the start
- Meet Set-up/Take-Down - arrives early to ready the pool for home meets, and stays after the meet to help take-down the meet - requires some heavy lifting
- Parking Attendant - Instructs meet attendees where to park for home meets; arrives early and remains on duty until half time
- Runner - picks up heat sheets after each event and turns them into the automation table
- Timers – use stopwatches to time events; one timer per lane records the times on cards
- Verifier - works with Computer Operator to verify times after each event
MCSL Division-Wide or County-Wide Meets
There are several division-wide or county-wide meets each season which you can read more about on the Types of Meets page:
- A Relay Carnival
- B Relay Carnival
- Divisional Championship
- Coaches Long Course Invitational
- All Star Relays
- All Star Individuals
There are more strict time requirements for swimming in these meets than our normal A and B dual meets, and a limited number of swimmers will participate. As such we ask all families with a participating swimmer to volunteer at these meets. More information about which positions need to be filled will be available as we approach the time for each of these meets.