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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Fish team provides all volunteers for the meets it hosts. [/quote]

This is not true. I was timing at the FISH long course meet last year. Was happy to do so, but am not with Fish.[/quote]

I was at the November open this weekend hosted by FISH and I timed…. I’m not a fish parent. This is just pure delusion! [/quote]

Open meets are not club meets.  A lot of leagues do not hold opens. PVS does it so that all swimmers have a monthly opportunity to swim in a meet.  Without them, smaller clubs might not get invited to an invitational or not enough meets happen to give all swimmers a chance.

So Open meets are really done by PVS and then they ask a club to host a location.  Last year they could not find a club to host, and AAC ended up hosting a site in Prince William County at the last minute.

Also, fees for the Opens are discounted and affordable to the swimmer.  This translates into it does not make money like a Club hosted meet. The difference in the fees are substantial. So the club hosted meet generally will take the bulk of the volunteer slots because they are making money whereas when they host an Open they do not.

The November Open was an individual event charge $5, per swimmer surcharge $5 and deck entry $10

Swim Rock and Roll is swimmer surcharge $20, individual event $10

Turkey Claus is $18 per swimmer surcharge, relay fee $20, individual event $10[/quote]
All of this is true, but it still doesn’t mean that non-open meets only use volunteers from the host club. All of the meets you just listed above, Swim and Rock, Turkey Claus, and Winter Classic, along with NCI, will have on deck volunteer slots that other invited clubs are expected to fill. We just got a volunteer link for NCI that is for hospitality positions, and that is limited to NCAP families. The on-deck volunteer link will go out to all participating clubs. [/quote]

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