2011 Volunteer Chairpersons

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Committee	Chairperson	Volunteer Position Description
Announcer	Not Required	The individual that uses the loudspeaker system to let swimmers and parents know what events are coming up. Not to be confused with the starter (see Meet Officials). You'll hear the announcer say “first call for event …”. We need announcers for both Wednesday and Saturday home meets. Chairperson not required, just use the volunteer signup form to be the announcer.
Beat Your Best	Jill & Anson Hayashi	Uses the team manager software to keep track of swimmer's times in each event. Lets swimmers know when they have beaten their previous best time. (Usually by placing a sticker in the swimmer's mail box.) The Beat Your Best function is something that can be done at home in the days following the swim meet. If you are somewhat comfortable with computers, this is the job for you.
Bullpen - Wed - Sat		This is the place where the young swimmers go prior to their race. Bullpen workers corral those kids and get them to the starting blocks on time. Normally there are 2 - 4 bullpen workers. Volunteers are needed for both home and away meets. Ideally, the chairperson would be the one "go to" person that would organize the bullpen each home meet.
Concessions - Wed - Sat	Ali Price & Deb Randel	Concessions offers a lot of volunteering opportunities from overall organizer (the Chairperson) to "worker bee" at the concession table. Organizing concessions takes a fair amount of work, but we have a small binder with typed instructions and lots of helpful ideas.
COSA Representative	Sarah Ellsworth	The person who goes to the COSA league meetings.
Data Entry and Ribbons - Wed - Sat	Kate Bendure & Suzie Loushin	Lots of volunteer opportunities here. The chairperson(s) are responsible for making sure the times get entered into the computer and the ribbon labels get printed in slapped onto the ribbons. Scoring for the Wednesday night meets is done by the Meet Manager software, so no calculations are required. Each meet requires 1 or 2 people to enter data and 1 or 2 people to slap the labels onto the ribbons.. Volunteers are needed for both home and away meets.
Fund Raising		Coordinate with local restraints for "Otter nights" where we can earn money for eating out. Come up with other ideas for fund raising.
GCSL Representative	Cheryl Miller	The person who goes to the GCSL league meetings.
Head Timer	Not Required	The head timer is an extra timer that serves as a backup in case any of the other "regular" timers experience a malfunction during a particular race. This position is one of the easiest volunteer positions, since most of the time, the head timer does nothing but start their watch at the beginning of the each race and clear their watch at the end of the race. Every once in a while, a regular timer will raise a hand indicating a problem and the head timer fills in. (Normally "filling in" means exchanging stop watches so the regular timer can continue timing the race.).
Meet Official - Wed - Sat	Mike Straw (Wed) ??? (Sat)	This includes the starter (the person who says "take your marks ..." and starts each race), stroke and turn judges. Stroke and turn judges are the officials that watch the swimmers for illegal strokes and turns. Volunteers are needed for both home and away meets.
Team Apparel	Chris Bischel	Responsible for the swim suit sale and ordering team apparel.
Timer - Wed - Sat	Mary & Dave Reed	Lots and lots of volunteer positions here. Each home meet needs 16 timers plus a head timer. The away meets usually need 8 timers. If you can push a button and read, you can time. Besides, you get the best location from which to view the swim meet. The timer Chairperson is responsible for bringing the stop watches to the meet and collecting them after the meet.
Treasurer	Chris Bischel	Show me the money!
Web Master	Mike Straw	Keeps the Otter's web site up to date.
Special Events: mini-champs team breakfasts pizza party photo day banquet	? Brooke Young ? Stanton, Spahr, Finotti Chris Bischel ?	Special events that need lots of helpers. The Chairpersons would be the ones to organize the events. We have notes that indicate what needs to be done.