Job Descriptions

Head Timer

The Head Timer's job is to separately time all the races with an extra watch in case of a timing mistake, broken or malfunctioning timer's watch. As the swimmers' times are so important to them, we ask that all timers do not drink, use cell phones or other things that might distract you.

Timer

The timer sits at the end of the pool and times the races/relays. Timer A will be there from beginning of the meet through the breaststroke races.  Timer B takes over after breastroke and times until the end of the meet.  Timers may not drink alcohol, use cell phone or other electronics during the meet. If you are asked to step away from your timer job because you appear distracted, the "unfilled job penalty" of $100 will go into effect. The swimmers take their times very seriously, so it is very important that timers are not distracted from their job in any way for the entire meet. Please don't sign up for this job if you can't take it as seriously as the swimmers take their times. It is against League rules for children (any age) to do the timing and children may not sit in a timer's chair/lap for any reason.

 Check In

Checks in swimmers and job parents. Arrange shepherd boards and aprons and race line-ups and stopwatches/lane sheets. Helps to find last minute job replacements if needed. Needs to arrive 90 minutes before the meet start time. Needs to be available until the start of the meet.

Shepherds

Shepherds line up the kids for their races by heat and lane. Although it is ultimately the parents' responsibility to be sure their kids get into their races, the shepherd is the one to be sure the kids are all assembled correctly, both for individual races and relays. Only 6/u and 7/8 have shepherds. This is a difficult but very important job. We suggest that 6/under and some 7/8 parents do this job exclusively to get to know all the swimmers and become experts. We will attempt to have an "extra" shepherd for each group to help out with finding stray kids (although this is their parents' responsibility) and helping with relays.

STROKE AND TURN and STARTERS

These are the "referees" who watch all races closely for form and appropriate swimming. Will need to disqualify swimmers as needed. The starters call the start of the race and hold swimmers on the blocks as needed. These jobs require attendance at a specific training session usually held in April. If you are interested in learning/doing these jobs, please contact me. If you already have training you can sign up for the jobs, but please don't sign up if you don't have the training until you talk to me first. Thanks

 Ribbons

Putting the stickers (with the race results) on to the correct color ribbons; and then filing them in the proper folders. The ribbons for the SeaLions have to be separated from the ones that are won by the opposing team.

(Ribbons) General Description – This is usually a very fun and low-pressure job. You normally have a good view of the pool. When your child is swimming, you can stop working and leave to watch their race. Your other co-workers will do the same thing, as the races for their children come up. So, sometimes you are working as a group; and at other times you are doing it all alone. Signing up for this job is only for someone who can stay for the entire meet (and doesn’t need to leave early, before the meet finishes). You are generally the last ones to leave. This is because there is always a short delay from when each event finishes and when the computer prints out the stickers with the results. On the flip side, there is not much to do for this job until after the first event has completely finished. So, you have a lot of free time at the beginning of a meet. You start later than most jobs, and consequently end later. When doing this job, it’s a good idea to stay caught up and do each round of ribbons as they are printed. Otherwise, you will be at the pool much later than if you had done more work during the meet. 10-15 minutes after the meet finishes is usually enough time to file everything from the last event (if you have been “keeping up” all day). On Home meets, we supply all of the ribbons for the meet. On Away meets, they supply everything. Additionally on Away Meets, please make sure that someone takes our 2 black boxes (with each child’s folder inside) back to the CCCC pool. This is generally done by the Ribbons coordinator.

Set UP 

Helps set up all the equipment for the meet.  For Saturday meets this is generally done on Friday afternoon and for Wednesday meets this is done early Wednesday afternoon.  This is a physically demanding job, especially on hot days.

Take Down

Puts all the equipment away after a meet and helps clean up the pool deck.  Takes about an hour after the end of the meet.