Anonymous wrote:Only a handful of larger PVS teams have a proven track record of hosting these Champs meet. It absolutely begins and ends with the host team and TOLL and Henry T. absolutely dropped the ball on Friday night. Hopefully PVS is taking note.

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Anonymous wrote:My understanding is that at Junior/Senior champs last week volunteers who had their bands were allowed entry into the seating area during finals even if they were still looking for timers. They need to institute something like this at all these large meets because otherwise you are punishing people who step up and volunteer along with those that don’t. The expectation isn’t that you have to volunteer at every session. They are short timers tomorrow for the 13-14 prelim session and after Friday I really just have no desire to do anything further to help out at this meet.

I timed last weekend at Jr/Sr Champs. We had to return our “volunteer” badges at the end of the session. And we were not allowed into the spectator area of any session until they found enough timers. They kept us outside of the building in the heat. Not sure if coaches were timing or not at the beginning of sessions.

The “event” staff were hostile and rude last weekend too.

Anonymous wrote:My understanding is that at Junior/Senior champs last week volunteers who had their bands were allowed entry into the seating area during finals even if they were still looking for timers. They need to institute something like this at all these large meets because otherwise you are punishing people who step up and volunteer along with those that don’t. The expectation isn’t that you have to volunteer at every session. They are short timers tomorrow for the 13-14 prelim session and after Friday I really just have no desire to do anything further to help out at this meet.

Anonymous wrote:My understanding is that at Junior/Senior champs last week volunteers who had their bands were allowed entry into the seating area during finals even if they were still looking for timers. They need to institute something like this at all these large meets because otherwise you are punishing people who step up and volunteer along with those that don’t. The expectation isn’t that you have to volunteer at every session. They are short timers tomorrow for the 13-14 prelim session and after Friday I really just have no desire to do anything further to help out at this meet.

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent on deck Friday, I can attest it was the biggest single cluster that I have ever witnessed at a Champs event and PVS should be embarrassed by how it all went down. I witnessed one particular PVS official literally in glee saying how she proudly wasn’t letting any parents on the deck and was gloating how she was going to kick all parents out of the building. It was appalling. That particular official also started power tripping on deck with 800 parents, telling them they couldn’t leave and attempted to force them to time the whole session. I got her name and will be reporting her to the league. No official should act with that kind of complete contempt for parents who volunteer with timing constantly. The meet host was also way in over his head I’m in how to run a successful champs meet and it showed. Parents pay an exorbitant amount to these teams, volunteer around the clock, and work their tails off to get their kids to practices at all hours of the day. To rob them from watching their kids swim a finals champs race is downright wrong and PVS needs to find a better way.

How much are PVS officials paid?

Anonymous wrote:As a parent on deck Friday, I can attest it was the biggest single cluster that I have ever witnessed at a Champs event and PVS should be embarrassed by how it all went down. I witnessed one particular PVS official literally in glee saying how she proudly wasn’t letting any parents on the deck and was gloating how she was going to kick all parents out of the building. It was appalling. That particular official also started power tripping on deck with 800 parents, telling them they couldn’t leave and attempted to force them to time the whole session. I got her name and will be reporting her to the league. No official should act with that kind of complete contempt for parents who volunteer with timing constantly. The meet host was also way in over his head I’m in how to run a successful champs meet and it showed. Parents pay an exorbitant amount to these teams, volunteer around the clock, and work their tails off to get their kids to practices at all hours of the day. To rob them from watching their kids swim a finals champs race is downright wrong and PVS needs to find a better way.

Anonymous wrote:As a parent on deck Friday, I can attest it was the biggest single cluster that I have ever witnessed at a Champs event and PVS should be embarrassed by how it all went down. I witnessed one particular PVS official literally in glee saying how she proudly wasn’t letting any parents on the deck and was gloating how she was going to kick all parents out of the building. It was appalling. That particular official also started power tripping on deck with 800 parents, telling them they couldn’t leave and attempted to force them to time the whole session. I got her name and will be reporting her to the league. No official should act with that kind of complete contempt for parents who volunteer with timing constantly. The meet host was also way in over his head I’m in how to run a successful champs meet and it showed. Parents pay an exorbitant amount to these teams, volunteer around the clock, and work their tails off to get their kids to practices at all hours of the day. To rob them from watching their kids swim a finals champs race is downright wrong and PVS needs to find a better way.