Committee Chairs
Interested in becoming a Committee Chair? We'd love to hear from you! Please email [email protected] if you'd like to work with us.
The following Committee Chair positions are empty for the 2025 season. Please consider volunteering!
- Equipment
- Fundraising
- Junior Coach
- Officials
Responsible for the concession stand during time trials and home meets. This includes:
- Purchase items
- Coordinate food pickup from vendors (e.g., Chick-fil-A, Anita's)
- Price concession items
- Set up concessions
- Oversee concession stand sales and food pick-up volunteers
- Sell concessions during time trials and home meets
Responsible for overseeing the equipment stored off-site. This includes:
- Coordinate with the Board on which equipment is needed for home vs away meets
- Coordinate with the tent taxi volunteers to pick-up the equipment from the off-site storage prior to the meets (typically Tuesday evening for Wednesday meets and Friday evening for Saturday meets)
- Coordinate with the tent taxi volunteers to drop-off the equipment at the off-site storage (typically Thursday for Wednesday meets and Saturday afternoon for Saturday meets)
Responsible for coordinating social events before and during the swim season. This includes:
- Support the Board with planning the pre-season ice cream kickoff party and pre-season pool party
- Coordinate the pre-Divisional meet pasta party dinner
- Support the Board with the end of season party
- Organize other social events for the team
- Coordinate with the Volunteer Chair for any volunteer needs at the events
Responsible for the oversight of setting up and cleaning up for home swim meets. This includes:
- Coordinate with the Board on the pool layout for the home meets
- Oversee the Friday night and Saturday morning set-up volunteers
- Oversee the Saturday post-meet clean-up volunteers
Responsible for organizing fundraising activities before and during the season. This includes:
- Coordinate with the Board on fundraisers
- Arrange fundraising activities and events (e.g., Bruester's, Double Good popcorn, Foster's)
- Coordinate with the Volunteer Chair for volunteers needed to support fundraising
Responsible for the oversight of the junior coaches. This includes:
- Support coaches with application and selection process of junior coaches
- Support the coaches with training of junior coaches
- Organize junior coach sign up for daily practices
- Determine and oversee junior coaching roles during swim meets
- Maintain records of volunteer hours for junior coaches
Responsible for ensuring the team has trained officials for all swim meets. This includes:
- Ensuring returning officials have current certifications
- Providing training information to officials to maintain certifications
- Coordinate shadowing opportunities for new officials to learn
- Schedule officials for all swim meets
Responsible for coordinating pep rallies before home swim meets. This includes:
- Coordinate with the Coaches on themes for each of the swim meets
- Develop activities for pep rallies prior to home meets
- Decorate the pool for home meets to coordinate with the themes
- Coordinate with the Volunteer Chair for any volunteer needs at the pep rallies
Responsible for organizing sponsors for the swim team prior to the season. This includes:
- Coordinate with Board on sponsors
- Update and draft sponsorship letter
- Contact past and potential companies about sponsorship
- Collect and deliver all sponsorships to the Treasurer
- Collect and provide the Board with sponsorship logos for the website and swimmer shirt
- Write thank you letters to all sponsors
Responsible for overseeing all volunteer positions are filled during activities through the swim season. This includes:
- Update previous year’s points allocations to propose annual family point requirements for Board approval
- Coordinate with the Computer Operator/Website Chair for any updates to the point requirements on the website
- Ensure volunteer positions are filled for all activities in advance
- Check in volunteers at each activity and provide lanyards
- Track family points throughout the season
Responsible for recognizing swimmer achievements throughout the season. This includes:
- Coordinate with Coaches to identify swimmers of the week, obtain pictures of the swimmers, and post on Facebook
- Create and distribute goodie bags for Mini Rays swimming in their first meet
- Coordinate with the Computer Operator/Website Chair to identify broken team records and post updates on Facebook
- Develop activities to recognize senior swimmers throughout the season
- Organize and coordinate with Coaches for All Star week activities (e.g., daily goodie bags, breakfast)
- Organize All Star yard signs and t-shirts
- Coordinate with Board for end of season medals/trophies
- Coordinate with the Volunteer Chair for any volunteer needs during activities