All Robin Hood members ages 6 to 18 (as of June 1) are eligible for the team. No prior experience is necessary.Dive team practice begins on Tuesday, May 29. A list of divers and practice times will be posted on the bulletin board at the pool before the first practice. Practice times vary according to the diver’s experience and age. Please be aware that all our practices are scheduled in the early evening. Our dual meets are held primarily on weekends (usually Sundays) in the evening. Warm-ups begin one hour prior to the start of the meet. We meet at the pool to caravan to an away meet.

Parent Clinics will be held in June at several area pools to teach the mechanics of tablework, scoring and judging. (See calendar below for dates, times and locations.) Recording and tallying scores, announcing and ribbon writing will all be taught during the table work session. Regarding judging, the four parts of the dive (approach, take-off,flight through the air and entry) will be discussed at length. Divers will perform dives that will then be analyzed in detail. This is an opportunity to gain valuable experience onhow to break down a dive into its component parts and have fun at the same time. We would like more parents to become familiar with judging so that we can draw upon a wider range of people to judge. Even if you are not currently interested in becoming a judge, attendance at one of these clinics will increase your understanding of the mechanics of good diving, thus increasing your appreciation of the sport. Uponcompletion of a clinic, parents will be certified to work at summer dive meets for three years.

Volunteers are needed for each meet. We ask that each family sign up to help at two meets.  Please plan to stay for the entire meet for the two meets you have volunteered to help with. We will also be asking each family to donate food items for home meets. The money raised goes right back to the team in the form of trophies and equipment.

5:15 - 5:45 7U and inexperienced 8 yr olds

5:45 – 6:30 9/10 and experienced 8 yr olds

6:30 – 7:30 11 and ove

Sun. June 8 Intramural Meet, 3-5p.m.

Sun. June 22 Dual Meet #2

5 pm HOME Merrimack Park @ Robin Hood

Fri. June 27th Movie Day & Pep Rally (7p.m.)

Sun. June 29 Dual Meet

5 p.m. AWAY @ Ashton

Sun. July 6 Dual Meet

5 p.m. AWAY @ Glenwood

5:00 pm HOME RH v. Manor Woods

and judges’ scores. Needs quick-paced delivery to keep meet running

smoothly.

Tablework: Writes scores, calculates degree of difficulty and checks for

accuracy on dive score sheets.

Meet Secretary: Immediately prior to meet, checks dive sheets for accuracy,

completes participants forms and assigns dive order. During and after meet,

writes ribbons, completes meet result sheet, obtains referee’s signature.

Concessions: Helps layout and prepare food and snacks for the meet,

collects money for purchases, and helps clean up the concessions area after

the meet.

Judges: Judges must be certified by attending an officials’ clinic.

Certification is valid for three seasons.

Referee: Referee must complete referee certification.

Meet Secretary 3 Assistant Secretaries

Assistant Secretary 3 Judges with flash cards

Announcer

Meet Referee

2 Judges with flash cards

MCDL forms

Point conversion chart

Ribbons