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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was there.  Div 2 team with a lot of relays participating.  I had 3 kids swimming in 6 events.  I applaud Hamlet for stepping up.  All of their volunteers did the best they could, especially the marshals running the bleachers.  The drop-off area was great.  It was brutally hot, but there was plenty of space for teams to hang out.  The clerk of course was at least in the shade.

If parents would follow the rules and get out when their kids aren't swimming, it would have made everything better.  The bleachers were tight but there was enough room for each event if people would move.  Maybe they give out tickets for each event and you need one to be in the spectator area.  Otherwise, you hang out outside the pool.

[b]What about using the Saint James?  Or another indoor facility?[/b]  Or just get rid of parents all together.  Parents just make everything worse.  If you want to see the meet, you volunteer.  Otherwise, stay home and watch the livestream.  I heard it was good.[/quote]

None would be big enough.  I think splitting the event amongst pools would be the smart move.  Two day event.  Two or three pools for the different age groups day one and day two the mixed age.[/quote]

I think the split makes sense.  But maybe instead of multiple venues, which would be hard on the league, it is a one day event with three sessions:  12& unders are in the morning.  There is a mixed age session after that.  And the third session is 13 and ups.  That way the mixed age can overlap.  One big, long day, but much more manageable.

But I think there should also be more money available to pools to entice them to host.  There were 396 relay teams last night.  If each team entry were $20, you'd have almost $7000.  $5000 to the host pool on top of concessions might cause some more pools to step up.  With the remaining $2000, you rent bleachers, port-a-lets, etc.

All of the miscues yesterday were foreseeable, and it sounds like a bigger budget could have gone a long way to solving some of these issues.

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Good luck finding enough qualified volunteers  if you split the meet. it is hard enough getting people to volunteer for this meet. [/quote]

Even one event has 18 teams...18x4= 72 swimmers.  Just require each team to send 2 volunteers, and you've got 36 volunteers[b] which is more than enough[/b].  [/quote]

:lol: you have no clue how many volunteers it takes to run a meet. :lol:

A regular Saturday meet takes 47 volunteers and that is just to run the actual meet- not counting stuff at all star events like concessions, awards, parking attendants...[/quote]

I am the volunteer coordinator for our team, and coordinated the volunteers for several divisionals.

18 timers
1 chief timer 
4 stroke and turn
4 marshalls
1 referee
1 starter
2 clerk of course
4 data/table- place recorder, verify, awards
1 announcer

36 volunteers.  Remember we are only talking here about 2 volunteers from each relay entry...but if they did this split they would have twice as many from even the smallest section (mixed age).  One reason it is so hard to find volunteers for all stars right now is that you have to be there throughout the whole long ordeal....not just the one portion your kid is in.

The home pool would have to handle parking lot and concessions but they would get the money from that. [/quote]

At your pool, how many parents with young kids are referees or starters or even stroke and turn and RTO. At our pool at least, parents with kids who end up being serious start as times or table and then move their way up. If we had to supply officials for a  12 and under, there is no way we're coming up with much above a timer. [/quote]

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