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    We Need Your Help!

    Apart from coaches, this team is completely volunteer run, and we can’t do it without you.

    All parents are required to sign up for at least 5 volunteer shifts. If we run short on volunteers, we might ask for a few more volunteers here and there.

    Registering for volunteer duties can be overwhelming, so we've prepared volunteer descriptions to help you understand exactly what each job entails.

    The following is a brief explanation of each job, as well as, what each committee does so you can easily choose the jobs that best suits you.

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    Coordinator Roles

    Big Fish/Little Fish Coordinators (Fulfills all 5 volunteer shifts):

    • Coordinate partners between younger and older swimmers
    • Coordinate supplies for weekly “project” at each meet
    • Help swimmers during all 5 meets to make their “project”

    Concessions Coordinators (Home meets only - Fulfills all 5 volunteer shifts):

    • Plan, shop for, and organize food served during home swim meets
    • Direct Friday night and Saturday morning setup for concessions
    • Set prices and manage concession sales at home meets
    • Coordinate order and pick-up of Bagels, Santiago's Burritos, Chick-Fil-A, and Pizza with Vendor Coordinators
    • Keep notes of inventory for future reference
    • Communicate with Treasurer about needs for change and current payment options: cash, venmo, etc.

    Monday Donuts Coordinator (Fulfills 2 volunteer shifts):

    • Order and deliver donuts for entire team each week of regular season on Mondays

    Heating Coordinators (Home meets only - Fulfills all 5 volunteer shifts):

    • Make sure that all heating volunteers are trained
    • Keep heating running smoothly
    • Verify that event flippers are keeping up with the events
    • Coordinate with announcer to let swimmers know what events are heating

    Hospitality Coordinators (Fulfills all 5 volunteer shifts):

    • Coordinate coach appreciation week
    • Coordinate lunches during prelims and finals
    • Gifts for coaches at the banquet

    Meet Managers (Fulfills all 5 volunteer shifts):

    • Create program for home meets, by confirming times from swimmer’s events in the computer and the visiting team manager confirms after input and performs data quality check for times and swimmers entered
    • Coordinate the printing of programs for coaches, heating, and officials
    • Run scratch meeting

    Parent Reps (Fulfills all 5 volunteer shifts):

    • Represent CCV on RMSL league and attend RMSL monthly meetings
    • Attend Arapahoe Parks and Rec meetings, as needed
    • Preseason planning and arrangements
    • Dual Meet planning and organizing
    • Championship preparation
    • Oversee committee heads
    • Hire and oversee coaches
    • Maintain communication with team
    • Oversee Registration process
    • Coordinate volunteers
    • Coordinate all merchandise design and sales
    • Coordinate sponsors for the season
    • Set up 2-3 restaurant nights
    • Update Facebook page

    Photographer (Fulfills 2 volunteer shifts):

    • Take photos, weekly
    • Create end of the season slideshow and set up for the banquet

    Ribbon Coordinator (Fulfills all 5 volunteer shifts):

    • Get list of results from weekly swim meets and label and bring completed ribbons to practice on Mondays, each week

    Social Coordinators (Fulfills all 5 volunteer shifts):

    • Coordinate team movie night, one teen and one younger kid activity night, and pre-prelims pep rally
    • Set up catering for end of the season party/banquet party: determine menu, cake, decorations and coordinate set up. Work with Treasurer on Budget.

    Starters and Deck Referees (Fulfills all 5 volunteer shifts):

    • Run meet, start each heat
    • Requires additional certification from the league, and at least one year as a stroke judge prior

    Treasurer (Fulfills all 5 volunteer shifts):

    • Collect registration fees
    • Prepare the CCVSL’s budget, present it to the parent reps for approval and ensure that team activities adhere to the budget
    • Maintain accurate financial records throughout the year to be reviewed at any time by members or parent reps
    • Transact business through a local bank account
    • File appropriate forms with the Internal Revenue Service by February 15
    • Disburse funds and pay bills promptly as approved by the parent reps
    • Reconcile bank statements
    • Bill members for unpaid fees
    • Deposit swim team funds

    Vendor Coordinators (Fulfills all 5 volunteer shifts):

    • Coordinate order and pick-up of Bagels, Santiago's Burritos, Chick-Fil-A, and Pizza with Concessions Coordinators
    • Ensure that volunteers pick up/deliver items to the meets

    Volunteer Coordinators (Fulfills all 5 volunteer shifts):

    • Make sure that all volunteer slots are filled prior to the meet
    • E-mail all volunteers prior to that week’s meet
    • Print name tags to post on the bulletin board prior to each meet
    • At meet, make sure that all volunteers have checked in, and that at each shift change, everyone is where they need to be and knows what to do
    • Can be split as one person pre-meet and two during the meet
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    Volunteer Opportunities

    Announcer (Home meets only)

    • Calls swimmers to the heating area 3 events ahead, giving 1st, 2nd, & final calls
    • Provides announcements to assist in meet operations, ie. announcing volunteer shift changes, calling for missing volunteers, and promoting snack bar sales
    • Unofficial DJ

    Backup Timer

    • Start stopwatches at the beginning of each heat, and step in to time a particular lane in the event of a timing malfunction in that lane

    Concessions (Home meets only)

    • Work at concessions stand selling to swimmers and spectators
    • Restock food and drinks, as needed
    • Concessions griller is an additional volunteer shift to grill burgers and hot dogs to sell at concessions

    Event Flipper (Home meets only)

    • Coordinate with heating and starter to display the current event number and the event that we're heating from

    Floater

    • This person does whatever is needed at the meets, as identified by the Volunteer Coordinator or Parent Reps

    Heating

    • Responsible for ensuring that swimmers are placed in the correct event and heat and are situated in their correct spot in the heating area
    • For all races, including relays of age groups 6 & under, one person from heating must escort the kids to their correct place behind the blocks.
    • Keep spectators and unnecessary swimmers out of the heating area

    Heat Winner (Home meets only)

    • Hand out candy to the winner of each individual event

    Hospitality (Home meets only)

    • Serve water and snacks to coaches and volunteers

    Set-up/Takedown (Home meets only)

    • Meet set-up involves setting up equipment and furniture for meet
    • Concessions setup involves unloading supplies and bringing them to concessions, and getting concessions ready to sell
    • There are Friday night and Saturday morning set-up shifts
    • Meet Takedown involves putting away all equipment and getting the pool back to its pre-meet setup (this includes the snack bar, deck area, tent takedown and clean up of the greenbelt area)
    • For away meets, we need someone with a large vehicle to transport the tents and tarps from the meet back to the clubhouse, as well as, clean up the tent area where CCV swimmers were camped out during the meet.

    Scribe/Referee Assistant

    • Listen to calls from stroke judges and coordinate with the referee to record all DQs
    • Must have some swim meet experience, ideally with stroke judging
    • Must be detail-oriented, able to track multiple items, and have legible writing

    Stroke Judge

    • Look for stroke infractions by the swimmers and call them into the referee as described by the RMSL and USS rulebook.
    • This position requires annual certification through the league or USA Swimming; training is provided by RMSL

    Timer

    • Time swimmers in an assigned lane in each heat/event and record the time
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