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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your team has year round swimmers, surely some of those parents are trained as S&T judges, etc? That's where we get ours and we usually have enough so they only work half the meet.[/quote]

There are so many year-round swim parents who do not volunteer it makes me sad- some of the parents are from NCap, which of course has a pretty hefty fine if you don’t time during the year so maybe they are burnt out, who knows.

[b]We have two refs and four S&T, which means they are all working almost every meet- is that normal?[/b][/quote]

DP - to the bolded, no, our officials aren't working every single meet (or close to it).  We have probably 10 experienced S&T plus 6 new people this year; six of the experienced S&T are also starters, refs, chief judges.  They're training some of the other experienced S&T in those roles.

My kids swim year-round (not with NCAP) and I timed at at least half a dozen meets.  That's less tiring to me than being in the stands![/quote]
My kid swims year round with NCAP and the volunteering requirement is 3 meets over the course of a year (from summer LCM through the next SCY season) so it’s actually not that much if your kid swims at all or almost all the meets offered including QT meets (my kid did probably 12-14 meets during that time). I also volunteer a lot for the club meets because it kills time, especially if my kid is in the last event.

Our summer team overall is great with the volunteering but we do have a limited number of people that are able to be the referee, starter and/or S/T judges. There are some good ideas in this thread for boosting that![/quote]

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