Howdy Tsunami Families,

We hope you are all enjoying your spring break, and starting to think about the 2017 summer swimming season.  If you are looking for a great way to help the team, fulfill your volunteer requirement, learn more about swimming, AND save on your summer league registration fees, think about becoming a certified NWAL official.

To run an official NWAL meet we need a minimum of 6 officials at every meet:  4 stroke & turn officials, 1 starter, and 1 meet referee.  Ideally between the two teams at a dual meet we would have twice as many officials available so everyone only has to work one shift of the meet, and not the whole meet.  Officiating is lots of fun, and puts on right on deck close to the action.  

The NWAL training classes are completely FREE to you, and they will take you carefully through the process of becoming a stroke & turn official.  You must be a certified stroke & turn official, before you can become a certified starter, and you must be a certified starter before you can become a meet ref.  The CS Tsunamis are in NEED of more certified SNT officials.  Also, if you have swimmers who swim year round with USA swimming, NWAL officiating is a good primer for stepping up to USA officiating.

This year we will be hosting NWAL training right in College Station at the Community Center on Rock Prairie  and the CSMS Natatorium, on Saturday April 8, 2017.  However, there are also classes in Brenham in April 8, and lots of other dates in North Houston.  Attached are documents with ALL available certification classes, and one for just the Stroke & Turn (SNT) classes.

Parents who become NWAL certified and serve in their certified capacity at least 3 meets in the 2017 will get a refund of 50% of the summer league registration for one swimmer.  NWAL certified parents who serve in their official capacity for 4 or more meets will have 100% of their summer league registration refunded at the end of the season.

You do NOT need any experience at officiating.  the NWAL training will cover everything you need to know for officiating.  

If you have any questions about becoming certified, please contact Melissa Daigneault at [email protected].  Please consider getting trained, all training is before the season starts . . . training does NOT require you to work any meets, but if you do not get trained before the season, you cannot work in this capacity during the season, and we NEED more parents to help us officiate our meets and make the season enjoyable for our kids.

Thanks,

Melissa

 

 

Documents

ALL Classes by Date
SNT by DATE