AP Dolphins Jobs

Please contact our Job Coordinator at alanphillips90@hotmail.com if you have questions.

Job Sign Ups
Our swim team runs because of you, our wonderful parent volunteers! Each family is required to sign up for specific jobs at five meets and Championships. Please look at the meet schedule, bring your calendar and be prepared to sign up at registration. The early sign-ups will get the jobs they want. Later sign-ups will have to fill in where necessary.

$200 Deposit
Each year we strive to make sure that every family does their fair share. Yet inevitably, a few people simply do not show up for their assigned meet jobs, resulting in more work for their fellow parents. All families are required to submit a separate check at registration for $200 as a job deposit. This check will not be deposited unless the five-job requirement is not met by the end of the regular season.

Download Weekly Job List (make sure to select the right meet tab at bottom)

Trading Jobs
You may trade jobs with other parents, but it is your responsibility to ensure that your job is covered. You must also inform the Job Coordinator of the trade.

Job Descriptions

Announcer	The home team is responsible for providing the meet announcer. The announcer’s job is to announce each event by event number and description, and to inform swimmers when to report to the ready bench and/or the pool.
Head Timer & Lane Timers	The home team provides the head timer who is responsible for organizing lane timers at each home meet. The home team and visiting team must each provide 9 lane timers. The head timer distributes all timing equipment, assures all equipment is operating properly, and assigns all timers to individual lanes prior to the start of the meet.
Hospitality	At home meets, the hospitality workers provide refreshments to timers, coaches, scorers, ribbon writers, stroke and turn judges, and announcers.
Lane Writer	The lane writers record the swimmers’ times onto the official lane cards as determined by the lane timers.
Meet Director	The Meet Director has overall responsibility for overseeing meet proceedings, and making sure all other meet positions are properly staffed.
Meet Referee	The Meet Referee acts as decision maker in disputes over placing, disqualification or other problems that may arise.
Ready Bench Coordinator	Responsible for organizing swimmers in the ready area. A list of events, swimmers, heat numbers and lane assignments is given to the ready area coordinator at the beginning of each meet. Each team is responsible for organizing its swimmers correctly by event and lane. The ready bench workers for both teams assure that each swimmer goes to the correct lane at the time of his/her event.
Ribbon Writer	Each team is responsible for providing one ribbon writer. After ribbon labels have been printed by the computer, the ribbon writers place the labels on the ribbons and then store the ribbons in a separate box for each team at the time of his/her event.
Data Entry/ Runner	The home team provides runners who carry completed event cards from the lane timers to the scorers, and who also provide blank event cards to the lane timers.
Set-Up	Set-up volunteers are responsible for setting up equipment, tables, and chairs for home meets.
Scorer	Each team is responsible for providing one scorer. This person records each swimmer’s race time and place for each completed event card. This information is recorded on the meet scoring sheet (meet sheet). In league meets, the scorers award points and maintain team scores for the meet.
Starter	The home team is responsible for providing the starter. This person must have participated in a started clinic put on by the league.
Stroke and Turn Judge	Two stroke and turn judges are required at each meet, one provided by each team. The stroke and turn judges must have participated in a stroke and turn clinic, or have previous experience.
Team Parent	Team parents monitor swimmers in the team areas, give them their events (usually by writing them on the swimmer’s hand), assist swimmers in getting ready for events, and bring them to the ready area as their events are called by the announcer. Team parents are assigned to girls and boys in the 6 and under, 7-8 and 9-10 age groups.