NEWS & NOTES

WSST Hosting A/B/C 12 and Under Meet, June 21-22, 2008 at Coggan Family Aquatic Center

As you know, we are hosting the 12 and under ABC long course meet June 21 and 22. We need all of our families to help make this meet the success it has been in the past. We are a smaller club and need everyone to pitch in. Even those that aren’t going to be in town for the actual meet can help prior to the meet.

Please take a look and email me how you can help! Thanks!

Meet Programs (4 people): Assemble and print programs for teams, officials and sale
Salesperson (1): Be present prior to warm-ups to sell heatsheets to arriving families. Get card table, money box and change.
Concessions (10): Establish prices, get cash box, get change, get coolers, get ice, get help! No kiddos please. Set up schedule for sales so no one is stuck all day, and you can watch your swimmer!
Hospitality (4): Procure breakfast, lunch, and snacks for coaches and officials. We feed coaches and officials, and there will be many. Expect 20 coaches and 20 officials (some who will never leave the hospitality room).
Try to get as much food donated as possible, ie case of brand name soda from each swimmer, Safeway and Albertson food purchase donation letter, etc. Get families to bring in big salads, muffins, etc, for hospitality room. Hide some of the food!
Clerk of Course (4): Arrive 30 minutes prior to warm up to set up station. Give meet packets to all coaches, assure accuracy of all entrants, deck enter swimmers in meet, relay that info to computer table and meet official, keep record of teams owing money.
Awards (4): Printed labels come to the awards desk from the computer table. Peel and paste labels on correct ribbons. Place ribbons into team bags for coaches at end of meet. Maintain a copy of the results from the comp table. Pretty low stress job but you have to pay attention to the different categories of ribbons. Two people are adequate at each session.

Computer Operators: Timing System and Desk Top

Timing System (2): Engage system for each race, assure that times are recorded from touch pads, if not inform runners to get hand times and enter them on print outs for the heat. Must have some knowledge of what is a reasonable time for an event, ie. 200 free at 53 seconds, something is wrong.
Desk Top (2): Enter deck entries on computer in open lanes or in scratched swims. This info will come to you from the clerk of course. Help timing computer operator insure that events are jiving with your program. Print results of events for ribbon table and for posting in lobby by runner.
Announcers (2): Announce upcoming events, last call, etc. to keep meet flowing. Must speak slowly and distinctly to be understood.
Head Timer (2): Here we need someone to ensure all of the teams chairs are covered during the meet and someone to start extra watches for each heat.
Set Up (5): Arrive one hour before warm-up to set up pool with lane markers, flags, false start rope, PA system, timing systems, microphones, chairs for coaches, tables for concessions, staging areas, etc. We need a card table for clerk of course and long table for ribbons.
Clean Up (4): Stay after meet and assist with cleaning up, ie. putting chairs away, removing furniture, taking down notices from walls, we pay for life guards and supervisors who assist with picking up trash, emptying trash cans, etc. Everyone please help put something away!
Runners (4): Lots of running around. Collect hand times from timers if needed and take to timing desk. Post results on windows in lobby (get from computer operator), run scratches and deck entries to timing table and head official, bring drinks to timers and officials on the hour, if something goes wrong, try to find someone to fix it.

USOC Announces Olympic Trials TV Schedule

The United States Olympic Committee announced today the television broadcast schedule for the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Swimming. Below are the dates and times the Olympic Trials will be televised:

Sunday, June 29–Sunday, July 6; 8–9 pm ET; NBC

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