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Our M.E. Lyons YMCA/Anderson Barracudas is a great swim
program for lots of reasons. We have great coaches and a great
facility for meeting the demands of a big swim team. The
tradition of excellence for ABLY swimming sets a high bar for all
our swimmers to strive for. Our kids learn tremendous life
lessons about discipline, determination, and sportsmanship.
As parents we should feel good about the program and all that
our kids get out of it. We also need to recognize how much
work it takes to manage and continue to improve the
program. The YMCA provides much of our support – full
and part time coaches, administrative support and facility
maintenance and improvement. For any swim program, and
especially for one as big and successful as ours, there is much to
be done beyond that professional support.
In particular, our parent volunteers are absolutely crucial in
managing and executing our M.E. Lyons YMCA/Anderson Barracudas Swim
Team. We work closely to set program direction with our YMCA
Branch Director and our Head Coach. We plan and execute
multiple swim meets throughout the season. We develop and
manage numerous fund raising events. We provide support to the
coaches in each age group via parent communication/coordination and
special events for the kids. In order to manage costs, we
augment Y staff in erecting the dome each year and in maintaining
the bulkhead and the balance of the facility.
As such, we need all of our parents to help out in running our
program. The commitment starts with signing up to work at our
home meets, and the requirements for each family are included on
this web page. Importantly though, meet workers represent only
a small portion of all the work we need to do. This web page
includes descriptions of numerous volunteer roles we need to staff
to keep our program running, and to keep improving the
program. Please step up and help out. For our kids, AB
represents a tremendous part of their development. It’s
up to us to make it work.
To learn more about opportunities, take a few minutes to look
through the information on volunteer opportunities on this
site. Then get involved by talking to someone on the Swim
Committee about specific roles you are interested in. We
utilize an “apprentice” approach to help folks grow
into roles without creating a lot of stress.
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