If your club hosts a local meet, volunteer to be in charge of some part. If your club runs a postal, be sure to volunteer to time/count for another heat. I am a meet director, swimmer and coach. For many years i have put on a meet with help on race day but I had never assigned duties. This year I was tired. My workout group stepped up and volunteered for various jobs: arranging for officials, getting volunteers for check-in, etc., getting food for officials and workers, arranging the social, coordinating relays, giving our awards. What a difference it made for me. Each of them definitely "paid it forward" and enabled us to have a great local meet which had benefits for many others.
If your club hosts a local meet, volunteer to be in charge of some part. If your club runs a postal, be sure to volunteer to time/count for another heat. I am a meet director, swimmer and coach. For many years i have put on a meet with help on race day but I had never assigned duties. This year I was tired. My workout group stepped up and volunteered for various jobs: arranging for officials, getting volunteers for check-in, etc., getting food for officials and workers, arranging the social, coordinating relays, giving our awards. What a difference it made for me. Each of them definitely "paid it forward" and enabled us to have a great local meet which had benefits for many others.
