The Meet Referee is responsible for writing a Meet Report and entering required information into OTS. Currently, this includes all certified officials, session(s), and position(s) they worked.
Why is a report required? We review the information to ensure the meet follows operational rules and look for patterns of issues within PNS. Our intent is to tackle these issues and improve meets for the athletes and volunteers.
The Meet Report Process consists of the following steps:
- Add participating officials and the position for each session they worked
- Sign in to the USA Swimming site
- Navigate to Officials > My OTS Meets
- Select the meet you will be entering information for
- Add officials to your meet and populate the position they worked each session. (At this time you can only enter registered Officials)
- Write a report in Word, Excel, or any simple format with the following information:
- Start and end time and the age group of each session (4-hour rule compliance)
- OTS session information from Step 1
- Names of all apprentice officials and the sessions that they worked. Note any special comments you need to share.
- Details you feel the Officials Committee needs to know about your meet.
- Facility issues/concerns/complements
- Host club issues/concerns/complements
- Incident reports
- Events such as power outage, fire alarm, coaches or spectators who are ejected from the deck, etc.
- Email the Meet Report to meetrefereereport@pns.org within 7 days of the end of the meet.