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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our swim team rep knows the parents and what they can and cannot do and will work it out with them.  [b]Still much easier to have everyone assigned a task vs. the sign up genius[/b] or what ever method works.[/quote]

No, it's not much easier.  I'm a team rep.  Assigning people means more time for the team reps tracking people down.  Not using whatever method your team uses to let the coach know your kid is available to swim means more time for the coach to find you and ask if your kid is available for a meet.  We use SwimTopia.  It takes less than a minute for you to mark your kid and choose a job.

One-offs, that's no big deal and it happens to everyone that you forget.  For a team rep or coach doing this for a team of 150, 200, 250 kids that's a lot of additional effort if lots of families aren't bothering to sign themselves or their kids up.  By not simply signing up yourself your attitude is that you don't care about anyone else's time but your own.  Don't be a jerk, if they ask for volunteers just sign up.
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This! Also a team rep for a 200+ person team and I agree with everything above. I work a full time job and have multiple kids. Volunteering as a team rep is just something I do to help out. No one has time to track down all these families to see which meets they are swimming and which meets they are able to volunteer. Simply sign up in SwimTopia/TeamUnify the same time you sign into a meet. It is much easier to track down the (very few!) families that don't sign up than the headache to try and hunt people down and figure out availability or worse, assign people and then have them not show up.[/quote]

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