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Connecticut Swimming

Job Description

 

This brief description outlines the basic responsibilities of your assignment.  It is meant to be an aid and is not all-inclusive.  This assignment is for the duration of the meet session.  If you cannot work the entire session, you must find a replacement from your team.  It is your team's responsibility to fulfill the work assignment for the session.

 

MARSHAL

 

• Purpose: to ensure the safety of all swimmers, control deck access and be the “eyes and ears” for meet and building management
• Supplies needed: orange vest (to be worn at all times), checklist and comfortable shoes.
• Position: When not walking the deck or checking locker rooms, the designated female marshal should be positioned near the door to the hallway next to the pool office and the entrance to the ladies’ locker room – making sure those entrances are not used by non-participants. The designated male marshal should be positioned near the entrance to the men’s locker room and periodically check the outside entrance on that wall to your left as you face the pool. No swimmers should be in the equipment storage room along the wall. The third (undesignated gender) marshal should spend most time near the stairway to the balcony and the outside entrance below it, controlling deck access.
• Walk the deck periodically and see that the swimmers are behaving in an orderly fashion.  Keep swimmers moving where it is necessary for clear access.  Do not allow large groups to block walkways on the deck area or stairways.  Notify the Referee immediately of anyone behaving in an unsafe manner, using profane or abusive language or whose actions are disrupting the orderly conduct of the meet.
• The First Aid Kit is in the office. All coaches are CPR and first aid trained, so if there is an injury you need not attend to the injured – just make sure someone capable does, provide the supplies, and take notes including names of witnesses. An insurance form MUST be filled out for all injuries. They are available in the office.
• The “marshal (male)” and “marshal (female)” should every 15 minutes or so walk through the locker room of your gender.  Record the time of the walk-through on your checklist.  See that swimmers are behaving in an orderly fashion.  No shaving is permitted.  Notify the Referee or Meet Director immediately of any problems. 
• All adults on the pool deck MUST be displaying coach’s ID tags, official’s credentials, or worker’s badges. Ask to see ID if none is displayed. Any adult without them must be asked to leave the deck immediately. Please report any uncooperative spectators to the Meet Director. If a parent needs to get his swimmer’s attention, offer to notify his child’s coach and ask the parent to wait in the stands.
• All children on the pool deck MUST be swimmers participating in the meet session. The ONLY exception is Finals, at which teammates entered in the meet (only – not brothers and sisters) are permitted on deck to support their team, provided that they are appropriately attired and well-behaved. Swimmers may not act as assistant coaches! Coaches’ children who are not swimming in the session are NOT allowed on deck.
• Enforce warm-up procedures - feet first entry into pool except for one-way sprints.
• Judgment is required for this position.  Do your best. Ask the Meet Director if you have any doubts about a situation.                                                    

Thank you!

 

Connecticut Swimming

Warm-up Guidelines for Meet Safety Marshals

 

 

1. Marshals have authority through the Referee over the warm-up. A swimmer or coach may be removed from the deck for interfering with this authority.
2. Marshals should be a visual presence throughout the warm-up and direct athletes and coaches when necessary to maintain a safe swimming environment.
3. Marshals should remind coaches that they are responsible for the supervision of their swimmers during warm-up.
4. Marshals should familiarize themselves prior to the warm-up with the facility and the warm-up procedure for that session, including timing of various warm-up sessions, teams designated to various lanes and designation of lanes for the Specific Warm-up session.
5. Marshals should be alert for any unsafe facility conditions, such as standing water on deck, unstable starting blocks, sharp protrusions on lane-lines or their anchors, and any other equipment to which the swimmers are exposed. Access to emergency exits and stairways must be kept clear.
6. Particular attention should be paid to swimmers’ entering the pool properly (feet first throughout the general warm-up, nobody on blocks during a backstroke start), that there is no overcrowding in any lane, and that designated sprint lanes are cleared and block starts are conducted safely
7. Pace work should be done from only one end of a 25 yard pool
8. If a lane becomes so crowded to be an apparent safety hazard, it should be brought to the attention of the Referee
9. When continuous warm-up is available during the meet, Marshals should ensure that the area is used appropriately, without horseplay
10. Marshals periodically patrol the hallways and locker rooms to assure that there is no unsafe or destructive activity in these areas.