Newport Country Club to Host Women's U.S. Open
Briana Carter
Issue date: 3/30/06 Section: News
HOW DID YOU GET THE JOB OF BEING A VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR? "The company that I work for is based in Birmingham, Ala., and that is where I am from. And we had a position come open on the 2004 staff for the volunteer coordinator, so I moved to take that role. So I did that same role in 2004 and then moved to the 2006 site in August of 2004. We have staff on site about two years out, so it just worked out for me to move.I'm just a couple of hours down the road so."
WHAT ARE YOUR DUTIES AS A VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR?
"Actually I have kind of two roles. One of is a volunteer coordinator and the other is the finance? I keep all the books for the championship. And then as the volunteer coordinator, it's my job to recruit all the volunteers, which we need about 2,500. To keep them (volunteers) informed and organized and do the training.
So I send out newsletters and assignment letters, let them know what committee they are assigned to. Closer to the championship, we'll have training sessions where they'll all come in and will do kind of a classroom presentation and general championship information plus job specific information, for instance, the admissions committee. We'll show them all the different ticket types we have. We'll talk to them about the Stop & Shop vouchers and just the different things to expect when spectators come to the championship, all the different kinds of things that will get them into the championship."
CAN YOU DESCRIBE SOME OF THE JOBS THAT THEY WILL DO?
"We have about 30 different committees. I just talked about the admissions. That's taking the tickets at the gate. Transportation is a huge committee. We use the transportation committee to greet the players at the airport and get them to their courtesy car. Each player in the field gets a courtesy car.
They have their own car for the week. But the transportation committee helps organize that…then there are some people that we will shuttle around and the transportation committee will take care of the VIP shuttle.
WHAT ARE YOUR DUTIES AS A VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR?
"Actually I have kind of two roles. One of is a volunteer coordinator and the other is the finance? I keep all the books for the championship. And then as the volunteer coordinator, it's my job to recruit all the volunteers, which we need about 2,500. To keep them (volunteers) informed and organized and do the training.
So I send out newsletters and assignment letters, let them know what committee they are assigned to. Closer to the championship, we'll have training sessions where they'll all come in and will do kind of a classroom presentation and general championship information plus job specific information, for instance, the admissions committee. We'll show them all the different ticket types we have. We'll talk to them about the Stop & Shop vouchers and just the different things to expect when spectators come to the championship, all the different kinds of things that will get them into the championship."
CAN YOU DESCRIBE SOME OF THE JOBS THAT THEY WILL DO?
"We have about 30 different committees. I just talked about the admissions. That's taking the tickets at the gate. Transportation is a huge committee. We use the transportation committee to greet the players at the airport and get them to their courtesy car. Each player in the field gets a courtesy car.
They have their own car for the week. But the transportation committee helps organize that…then there are some people that we will shuttle around and the transportation committee will take care of the VIP shuttle.