2026 - 2027 Season begins Monday, November 16, 2026
Please keep in mind : A meet can not run without your help!
If you are new to a swim meet, the following description will be helpful before signing up for your volunteer jobs.
Announcing each swimming event and with an ability to correctly pronounce names. You also make other necessary announcements, and work with the Starter/Referee to keep the meet moving quickly and smoothly.
In charge of taking photos for team members during the meet. The photos will be used on the team website and team banquet slide show as well as for swimmers to download for personal use.
Gives starting command, signals for false start and keeps the meet moving along. This is the most technically demanding job. The Starter runs the events in the meet by ensuring that the swimmers start simultaneously and oversees all the other meet officials.
Judging swimmers to ensure compliance with the rules of all strokes, turns and relay exchanges. It requires knowledge of the US Swimming stroke regulations, and be able to fairly disqualify swimmers when appropriate.
In charge of operating the Daktronics timing system. The timing system picks up electronic signals to determine the swimmers' times and order of finish. Information displayed on the scoreboard will be fed into the computer program that keeps track of the official results. This job requires some on-the-job training if you are inexperienced.
In charge of using Hy-Tek Meet Manager to follow each race, key-in and record all the time results and disqualifications. There can be some timely pressure at the table, and the job requires knowledge of Hy-Tek Meet Manager program used for the computerized scoring system. it needs some on-the-job training if you are inexperienced.
In charge of getting the box containing stop watches, clipboards, and event sheets. Managing to place current heat sheet on each clipboard, assigning a stopwatch and a lane to each timer as well as reminding them for timers meeting.
This is the most popular meet job. You use a stopwatch to time the swimmer in your assigned lane. There are usually 2 timers per lane. One of you is also responsible for recording the finish times onto an event sheet and hand the sheet to the Runner. More instructions are given at a timer's meeting.
Back-up timer starts a watch for each heat like regular lane timers. You must watch to see if any lane timer missed the start. If so, the back-up timer's finish time will be used for that lane.
After each race, the runner collects the timers sheets from the timers in each lane and any cards from the starter/referee and then takes them to the computer operator. You stay on the move throughout the entire meet.