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[quote=Anonymous]At our pool the jobs of head timer, official, S&T, Starter, Announcer, making the heat cards, and printing the ribbons are all done by veteran parents of high school swimmers.

I would be happy to apprentice for one of those jobs, but it’s a mystery to me how the succession planning occurs. It’s also a mystery to me how some “prime” jobs like setting up the pool the night before a Saturday meet or doing to Costco run for the snack bar are doles out. I used to think they were allocated to families who had conflicts or extenuating circumstances- but I’ve realized the reps just give them to their friends. There are many jobs that are either filled before the sign-up in unlocked or just never even appear on the sign up list. I only found out about a dozen jobs when I was the volunteer checkin person and was given the whole list printed out.

It would be nice if there was a pre-season meeting to review the jobs and the process to express interest or be trained for them. I understand that some jobs require skill and you can have some flaky person screw it up, but I think it should be a bit more democratic than the current starter anointing a successor when his youngest is in their 2nd to last year. [/quote]

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