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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t know why you swim team parents put up with this system.  I did summer swim team with people who were later Div I recruited swimmers, and my older sib swam with st least one Olympic qualifier.  You know how many parent volunteers there were?  Zero.  Older kids ran the snack bar (I guess a parent did volunteer to do the Costco run in advance).  The coaches or the paid referee monitored for false starts and touch violations.  Like what is done in other kids sports.  I just don’t know why you swim parents don’t rise up against how ridiculous this system is.  I constantly hear people complaining about it but everyone seems to just accept it as a necessary evil.  But why is it necessary?  [/quote]
This is dumb.
There is a huge difference between summer swim and year round. Year round you will be at big pools with touch pads and they won’t usually ask for parent volunteers (although they still do some like timing long course). If you want your kid to swim without volunteering, then do year round and be prepared to pay for it.  Then you will realize how cheap summer swim is and why they need concessions to finance it.  However, most of those kids got started in their summer team. And the Pp you haven’t even covered a plan to have timers or automation covered in your revolt. [/quote]

We are in PVS and even with touch pads they still need volunteers as back up times. We typically have 2 per lane. Onl y1 this year due to COVID. [/quote]
I think I mentioned that? However the volunteer timing is a fraction of what is neeeded at summer swim meets. [/quote]

Summer meets require 18 timer volunteers. 3 per lane and most pools only have 6 lanes/only 6 lanes on Saturdays with the volunteers split between the 2 pools. Winter swim tends to use more lanes, often 10 so at least 20 timers. But for those meets they don't need parent volunteers for all the other jobs like ref, judges and so forth there are also typically a lot more kids and teams per meet .[/quote]

There are a lot of parent volunteers at PVS year round meets (and I assume this is similar in all other regions). All of the officials (ref, stroke and turn, marshall, etc.) are volunteers. Swimming has a long tradition of being volunteer run at all levels.[/quote]

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