Service Hour Policy

RICE Aquatics Families,

As a growing year round swim program, the support and involvement of RICE Aquatics families is vital to the success of our team. Each year many dedicated families provide countless volunteer hours to ensure that RICE swimmers enjoy a quality experience while on the club and that RICE is well represented at home and away meets. In an attempt to ease the load and help distribute the hours to all families on the team RICE Aquatics will be putting a service hour policy in place for all swim families active with RICE Aquatics.

 For the 2010 -2011 swim season we will use the following guidelines.

• Families on the team for the Fall Session will need to acquire a minimum of 3 Hours per family. (August 1st - December 18th)
• Families on the team for the Spring Session will need to acquire a minimum of 3 Hours per family. (December 18th - April 17th)
• Families on the team for the Summer Session will need to acquire a minimum of 6 Hours per family. (April 18th - July 31st)

The goal of the Service Hour Policy is to get all families involved in the club while creating a greater team environment. Hours can be earned by but not limited to: timing at swim meets, volunteering for team activities, bringing required items for practice or planned events, helping with meet hosting duties. Volunteer opportunities will be posted online as job sign ups; in order to view these sign ups you must be logged into the website. Number of hours for each job will vary depending on commitment level involved. 

Penalties for not acquiring the minimum amount of hours

We will be using the Fall 2010 session as our test run for hours per family. Depending on the results our spring and summer session hours maybe adjusted slightly. Because of this there will not be a direct penalty for not achieving the required hours for the fall session. However if we are unable to fill all opportunities it will result in an increase in hours per family for future sessions.

• Starting with the spring session if a family does not achieve the required amount of service hours they will loose priority in the Fall for our returning swimmer registration. Swimmers will have to be re-evaluated during the new swimmer evaluations. 
• If a family does not achieve the required amount of hours for two sessions they will have to fill these hours prior to their swimmer being allowed to swim at meets and/or practices. 
• If a family does not fill hours for RICE for four session in a two year period the swimmer(s) may not be allowed back on the team. 

Additional emails will be going out over the next couple weeks further educating everyone on the job sign up process and how hours will be acquired and logged. For Service Hour inquiries please email servicehours@riceaquatics.com.

Thank you for supporting RICE Aquatics and your swimmers,

Jason Wedlick

Rice Aquatics

Head Coach