You may have noticed it takes a lot of people to run a swimming event. Timekeeping is the first step towards one of several other roles you can take on to help run a swim meet. If you’re helping poolside, you will never be bored at a swimming carnival ever again!
A helpful page on the Swimming New Zealand website which gives an overview of what being a swimming official is all about is:
https://swimming.org.nz/technical-officials.html
Swimming Northland is putting a special emphasis on upskilling its officials.
Please feel free to contact any of the SNTC at any time - we love questions!
Click here for FINA Rules 2017 - 2021
We look forward to seeing you on pool deck at our next meet.... perhaps even at a National meet?
Technical Committee Chair - Julie Paton