The Ontario Swim Officials Association is the formal body which oversees the officials who make the swim meets our kids participate in happen. Each swim club in Ontario must have a certain number of registered officials in order to be able to run a Swim Ontario sanctioned swim meet. Our club asks that each family have at least one individual register with OSOA. As mentioned at our orientation session, we have only one mandatory meet where all club families are required to participate in the running of the meet: The Mike Brown Invitational meet which will be run on January 9-11, 2015. The club will run some clinics for new officials and for officials wanting to upgrade their qualifications. The link to the OSOA is http://www.osoa.ca/web/
Once you have opened a new account, it will go to Siobhan Muldowney (Club Officials' Chair) for approval. From your account you may log into the education site to do online courses, or sign up for "in person" courses. There are two dates worth mentioning regarding "in-person" clinics:
The Eastern Ontario Regional Officials clinic day will be held on Saturday October 4th. Log into your OSOA account and click on "Clinics". You will see a number of clinics which are available. The clinic day will be held at St Paul High School, 2675 Draper Avenue in Ottawa.
Our club will host a Level 1 Timekeeper clinic on Saturday October 25th at 8 am (during Team swim). This is in anticipation of our first meet, the always fun Spooky Halloween meet on October 26th. New parent officials should plan on attending. Register on the OSOA website. There will be coffee and muffins.
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