Officials
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June 12, 2019 |
Hello MAC
supporters,
As you
see on the bottom of the weekly emails we need more officials for
our team. Being an Official is a lot of fun and at a swim meet you
just can't get any closer to the action. Without officials it is
impossible to run a meet
and the more officials we have the smoother the meet runs. When we
can provide officials we get invited to more meets and we can also
more easily host our own meets. I know we have had meets we have
attended in the past where we were only invited because we had an
official coming to help out. With Adam wanting to do more Dual
Meets, we can more easily do that if we can staff a meet. That
means we have at minimum a Referee, a Starter, and at least 4
Stroke and Turn Officials. More is better. We have recently lost
several of our Stroke and Turn Officials as their kids have moved
to other teams, aged out of MAC, or their kids stopped swimming. To
the best of my knowledge we currently have 3 officials. 1 is
certified to be a referee, starter, or stroke and turn, and the
other two are stroke and turn only. We need a lot more
help.
MAC pays
the USA Swimming fees for Officials and will reimburse the cost of
the background check that is required. MAC also waves the meet fees
for 1 of your swimmers if you officiate at a home meet. So if you
only have 1 kid on the team, then you give them an opportunity to
swim, compete, and better their times and it costs you nothing. In
addition to that, as a thank you, almost every meet I have been to
they have drinks and snacks for officials, sometimes meals. Some
other away meets will offer small gift cards to officials as a
thank you for working their meets or waive meet fees for 1 swimmer.
It does take a little bit of training, which again costs you
nothing, to become an official. The first step is to attend a
clinic where they will go over what all is involved with becoming
an official. Or if you are already an official, what you need to
advance to Starter or Referee. I am happy to help you through any
stage of the process or answer any questions. They finally have
some training clinics set up and with 2 of them being this close to
home, we would be foolish to not take advantage. To become a
Starter you must already be a stroke and turn official.
Administrative Officials are the ones that run the meet from the
office with the computer. We do not currently have an Admin
Official and desperately need one.
Thank you
in advance for your help and your willingness to help the team.
Here is the Info for the clinics I was sent this
morning.
Training
clinics for STARTERS, STROKE AND TURN OFFICIALS, and ADMINISTRATIVE
OFFICIALS have been set up for the following times.
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Starters: June 18, 5:30 pm at 5760 Ridge Creek Rd, Murray
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Stroke and Turn Officials: June 18, 6:00 pm at 5760 Ridge Creek Rd, Murray
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Administrative Officials: June 25, 6:00 pm at 957 E 200 S, Lindon
Please
encourage anyone who is interested in training to be a S&T or
administrative official, or advancing to starter, to attend these
clinics.
RSVP to
Alicia Simon: [email protected] (not required since drop-ins are
welcome, but helpful in planning number of handouts
etc.)
