Key duties Recruitment, training, mentoring & accreditation of officials Rostering officials for Area meets Routine administration including re-accreditations Routine administration includes: “Can you help me find a Referee or Starter for my meet on…?” “My accreditations are wrong on MyLane, please fix” “Where is my badge?” Annual Routine Note I started the role in July, […]
Archives for September 2015
Technical Officials for a distance meet at Knox
This is the TO / volunteer roles recommended for running a distance meet at Knox (8 lane 50m pool). Referee x 1 JOS/IT x 2 (only one was used in September 2015, and that wasn’t enough) Starter x 1 Marshal x 1 Check starter x 2 AOE/SAT x 1 Meet Manager operator x 1 Recorder […]
Crestfallen in Hornsby
It’s school holidays so we have a (more) relaxed schedule. Very Big Fish (VBF) decided that she wanted to swim elsewhere today. Big Fish (BF) wanted to swim at the normal place. Ho hum. VBF and I head to Hornsby pool first thing. BF heads for squad training late afternoon. VBF gives me a set […]
Easier volunteer rostering with Sign Up Genius
We recently calculated that a major 2-day meet requires 1,000 hours of volunteer time to run. That’s an average of 2.5 hours for every single swimmer entered. We owe it to ourselves as organisers and other volunteers to make things as easy and time efficient as possible. One particular challenge is rostering officials and other […]