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PRE-TEAM MEETS
Note: If jobs get filled up here, you can sign up for other
jobs that don’t require you to be at the Team Meets
(one-time/ongoing jobs). You can also sign up for food supplier
jobs that require preparing/buying food for the Saturday meets, to
be delivered on Friday afternoon or Saturday
morning.
Pre-team will have 2 meets scheduled this
summer, each on a weekday evening from approximately 6pm to
7pm. The kids’ events are short and simple (i.e.,
swimming a certain stroke one length of the pool). The
following positions are available per meet:
Pre-Team Coordinator (this position is also listed under
one-time/ongoing jobs)
Coordinator:
Value: 4 shift credits
• organizes parents to run pre-team meets,
of which there are only 2
• meets are in the evening during the week,
usually 6 pm and last about one hour
• jobs needing filling include: starter,
timers, heating, ribbons, etc.
• meets are on a much lower scale than team
and are informal
• there is no concession stand to
organize
Timers
Value: 1 credit hour
6 timers per meet – one timer per lane
Timers use a stopwatch to get swimmer’s time which is
recorded on a ribbon and handed to swimmer
Ribbon Writers
Value: 1 credit hour
6 ribbon writers per meet—one per lane
Ribbon writers work alongside the timers and record the
swimmer’s time on to the ribbon
Starter
Value: 1 credit hour
One person per meet
This is the person who officially begins each race
At the start of each race, the starter announces “timers
ready!”, then “Swimmers take your mark” and sends
them off with either a horn blow or some type of marker
(“GO!”).
Heating Area
Value: 1 credit hour
2 people per meet
Pre-team swimmers get to experience lining up before a race just
like the “big kids”. This involves seating the
kids in event order in each row, and making sure each child is in
the correct seat which corresponds to a lane.
Setting up/break down of the meet
Value: 1 credit hour
2 people per meet
Since these meets are low key, set- up involves helping the
pre-team coordinator with farming out ribbons to each lane,
providing clipboards, setting up chairs in the heating area, etc.
and then returning the pool to pre-meet condition.
Snacks
Value: 1 credit hour
2 people per meet
The kids look forward to this and it’s the reward for
swimming their races! Homemade goodies and fruit are always a
treat; popsicles are fun if you can keep them cold! Work with the
pre-team coordinator to figure out the number of kids on the Elks
pre-team (could be as many as 50-60 kids)
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