Ocean Athletics Volunteer Opportunities

The club needs you! There are abundant opportunities for you to help make the Ocean Athletics program successful. We truly do not want to cash your $200 volunteer bond (although we do realize that some of you have extraordinary commitments and time limitations, and if you would prefer us to cash your bond – please let us know).

In addition to the areas listed below, there are volunteer opportunities that go year round that count as fulfilling all volunteer requirements

• Entries Coordinator – responsible for submitting Ocean’s entries to the meet organizers of the various events. Contact us for more information via the helpdesk
• Fundraising – if this is an area of expertise or interest, you are needed! Fundraising is a very important part of the club’s survival
• Uniforms
  • Klara Albert (klaraalbert@hotmail.com)
• Hoodies
  • Cheri Dardano (cldardano@shaw.ca)
    
• Retro Uniforms
  
  • Barbara Hogendoorn (hogies@shaw.ca)
• Volunteer Coordinator – Contact Club President, Brian Palesch, to volunteer for this position currently open (“magoo4 AT TelusDOTnet”
  
• Board Members – if you wish to sit on the Ocean Athletics Board of Directors, please contact Brian Palesch, our club President at: “magoo4 AT TelusDOTnet”
• Coaches - Please contact Jim Clifford (j.clifford "AT" shaw.ca), Head Coaching if you would like to help with coaching athletes
• Practice Sessions (Mondays & Thursdays 6-7:30pm, Saturdays 10-11:30am) 
  • help set up and take down equipment, rake pits, set up hurdles, check athletes in & out of practice
  •   act as extra coaches and guardians when we go out on the trails to run
• Ocean hosted events
  • Event setup
    • Cleaning of stadium
    • setting up equipment, tents, flagging
      
    • Equipment transport if borrowing from another club
  • Meet registrations
  • Awards
  • Officials assistants (raking, recording, marshalling)
  • Concession
  • Cleanup