The Fallsmead Sharks

The Fallsmead Sharks rely on parent and community volunteers to make it a fun and successful season. You can volunteer to help at Meets, or to help with other team events, or both! Each calendar event has sign up links associated with it. Please contact the reps with any questions about volunteering.

Swim Meet Positions  ( * - must attend officials training):

• *Referee - runs the entire meet. Resolves any disputed calls or issues.
• *Starter – is the “on your mark, get set, GO!” person. The starter makes sure that each heat starts fairly.
• *Stroke and Turn – makes sure that all swimmers are swimming their stroke correctly. Incorrect strokes will be noted and those swimmers disqualified to ensure a fair heat.

• Automation – tracks all statistics of the meets in our computer system at the meets.
• Ribbon Writer – prepares the ribbon awards for our swimmers from the stats provided from Automation.
• Hospitality – provides a snack and drink for our officials and timers to enjoy at homes meets. The designated hospitality person sets up the drinks and snack at a table near the pool right before breaststroke.
• Clerk of Course – responsible for letting the kids know which lane they are swimming in. Coaches will usually line up the kids before their heat in front of the clerk of course. For younger swimmers, the lane number is written on their hand so they remember.
• Timers – Each meet requires 10 timers! We can’t stress the importance of this job. Your quick finger reflexes provide our children with their swim times.
• Runners - takes the times from the timers and delivers them to the automation table. We need two runners per meet to keep up with the pace of the events.

Supporting Team Activities:

• Concessions coordinator
• Volunteer Coordinator
• Banquet Coordinator 
• Senior Lunch
• Big Kid Dinners
• 4th of July Coordinators 
• Pep Rally Food Partners 
• Movie night Planner

Descriptions:

• Pep Rally Food Partners -- Ask another family to join you and sign up to organize food for either our Pancake Night, Pasta Night or Hotdog Night. 
•   Banquet Coordinator -- Determine vendor, plan menu and organize the pre-order for food; Coordinates setup and tear down day of event; Coordinates with Reps, Coaches, Slideshow and Trophies volunteers to help all pieces of banquet work together; Work with Volunteer Coordinator to get people to sign up for assistance.
• July 4th Coordinators -- We're looking for a team of people to take the lead on specific pieces of our July 4th festivities. Must be in town and available at the pool much of the day of July 4th Celebration. Volunteer Coordinators work  to ensure enough additional volunteers to help as shoppers, set up and clean up crews, grillers, ticket salespeople, etc.
  • Shopping Coordinator: Creates shopping lists, directs shoppers, coordinates food storage post shopping and before day of, coordinates food set up on July 4.
  • Set up Coordinator: Map out floor plan and create signage for each major area (Drinks, Salads, Desserts, etc), directs setup volunteers and guides overall setup on July 4.
  • Clean Up Coordinator: Guides the break down and clean up efforts on July 4 including folding of tables and chairs and storage for pickup, clean up trash and put trash cans in appropriate location, tent take down, ensure left over storage (beers and drinks at someone's home, food in freezer).
  • Table Coordinator: Orders tables and chairs, serves as contact for delivery and pickup.
  • Ticket Coordinator: Prepare pre-sales envelopes (2), tear tickets in sets for ease of selling, set up of ticket table & signage for sales, get cash box for day of, put cash in pre-sales envelopes and get them to two pre-sales salespeople.