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Hi,
As a
Swim Club, we (Dolphins) depend on volunteers to run the club, and
to run our meets.
In
the next 2 months we will be hosting two very big meets, and that
requires a lot of help from anybody who wants to give us a
hand.
There are many things that parents and
friends can do: officiating a meet (require some training), setting
up the meet and taking things back at the end, cleaning, computer
operators to run the meet, etc.
This Parents Newsletter is exactly about this.
It is a very nice experience from an actual
parent.
And
if you are interested in becoming an official, or learning how to
operate the computer during the meet, please contact Chris Godfrey
at scgodfrey@windstream.net (270-735-3147).
Or if you want to help with other things in the meet you can
sign-up at our website, just like you commit to go to
meets.
Thanks for your support.
Coach Mavi
News For
SWIM
PARENTS
Published by The
American Swimming Coaches Association
5101
NW 21 Ave., Suite 200
Fort
Lauderdale FL 33309
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Stunned,
Shammed, Thankful, and Finally… Helpful
[Editors note: a letter
from a club’s newsletter]
My Fellow
Parents:
The word “ignoramus
“ comes to mind, but then I realized I wasn't sure what an
ignoramus was. After consulting Webster’s, I confirmed
that I was one. You see an ignoramus is a person who simply
doesn't know.
My wife and girls have been
involved with the team for almost two years. With all their
coming and going, I occasionally found myself tagging along,
usually reluctantly, timing a race, helping out at the snack bar
for a few hours, but not much else. It wasn't until our last
home meet when I offered to help cook at the concession stand and
do some prep work Friday night before the meet, that I realized how
much of an ignoramus I really was.
I was amazed at how much work
went into simply setting up the concession stand, and the shade
areas for timers and judges. That night I got home at 10:30
p.m. After the meet on Sunday, all the stuff that got set up
had to come down. I spent at least 3 more hours helping there
as well as all day cooking and selling at the
concessions.
That weekend left me stunned,
shamed, and thankful all at once. Stunned because of the
tremendous amount of man hours required to put on an event like
that. Shamed, because where was I in the past when a
dedicated few could have used some help to shoulder the load?
I was also thankful for these people who were fun to work with and
who had quietly and diligently served my children those past two
years.
Well those of you who were like
me, you can't be an ignoramus anymore because I just blew your
cover. Maybe you'd like to come along at our next home meet
and pitch in? There'll be plenty to do and there's a chance
we could have some fun doing it.
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