Greenhills GATORS
Meet Worker Job Descriptions

Meet Referee & Starter*:  Responsible for running home meets and is the sole authority for rule interpretations and judgment calls.  Gives commands to swimmers to start each event.  This individual must know what starts are legal and is responsible for the correct order of events.  This person must be knowledgeable with USA Rules of Swimming and meet operations.  Certification is strongly encouraged.

Stroke & Turn Judge*:  Responsible for evaluating the use of strokes and turns for each swimmer during an event.  There are four stroke and turn judges located at each end on the pool covering the three lanes closest to them.  Knowledge of USA Rules of Swimming is required.  Certification is strongly encouraged.

Backup Timer:  Responsible for back up timing device for any timer who misses the start of an event or failure with a watch once a race begins.  Responsible for two stopwatches started at the beginning of every race whether they are needed or not.

Lane Timer:  Two timers are required per lane using digital stopwatches..  Timers start their watches with the electronic strobe flash or whistle on the starting system.  The watches are stopped when the swimmer touches the wall or breaks the vertical plane with any part of the swimmers body.  Both watch times are recorded on the lane timers sheet slip and collected by the runner to be turned in at the scoring table.

Runner:  Collects timers sheets from all timers and DQ slips from officials and takes them to the scoring table.  Two runners are needed per meet and should make sure that each timer sheet contains two watch times for each swimmer in that lane.

Scoring*:  One person is responsible for running Meet Manager to record and score the meet on the computer.  One additional volunteer is needed to sort lane and DQ slips collected by the runner.    Knowledge of “Meet Manager” software is required.

Ribbons*:  Two volunteers are needed to be close to the scoring table and are responsible for placing labels on the back of ribbons indicating name, place and time.

Swamp Volunteer (Team Parent):  The glue that keeps us together!!!  Adult supervision is required for each home and away meet by the NSSL.  Team parents generally help keep swimmers of a specific age group, calm and together in the team area.  The main responsibility of the team parents is to make sure all of their swimmers get to the blocks in a timely fashion and organize swimmers for relay events.  This position requires you to stay for the entire meet.

GATOR Concession: (For Home meets only).  All GATOR Concessions will be provided by our Concessions Chair.  Additional volunteers are needed to help with preparation, sales, and are expected to clean up their area after the meet.  All monies are to be turned over to the Treasurer at the close of the grill.  The GATOR consessions will close down before the meet is completely over or when the food runs out!

Meet Set-up/Tear Down:  Assist in setting up starting blocks, flags, etc. for home meets.  Must be available in late afternoon and be able to stay and tear down after the meet is over. (Two people can share this job if needed).

(*) Denotes appointed positions due to the specific requirements of these positions