Earning Volunteer Hours

Many schools in Georgia require volunteer hours to graduate and many colleges like seeing applicants who have volunteered in their community. Our S.T.A.R. program provides ample opportunities for students to accumulate a large amount of volunteer hours.

For instance, our Spring League is 4 months long with games on Saturday and Sunday. In the course of one weekend there are 8 hours of lacrosse on Saturday and 5 hours of lacrosse on Sunday for a total of 13 hours on the weekend.

A S.T.A.R. who works through the 11 week season on just Saturdays will volunteer 88 hours. If they work the entire weekend they will work 143 hours! In less time than it takes to finish one semester of school a S.T.A.R. can triple or quadruple the amount of service hours they require for graduation.

What's more is that once S.T.A.R.s accumulate 20 hours of service during a season they earn the opportunity to become paid staff for the duration of that season!

What You Can Pursue

All S.T.A.R.s start doing the same ground-level jobs that are required for the smooth running of our leagues. Cleaning trash, maintaining facilities, organizing the PODS, and setting up the fields are some of the basic things that every S.T.A.R. is expected to help out with regardless of their age. However, we do not want our S.T.A.R.s to just work at maintaining our facilities, we want them to grow.

As our volunteers become comfortable in our system they naturally gravitate towards jobs they enjoy doing more or jobs they would like to learn. This is where they have the opportunity to really shine. Let's say that one 7th grade S.T.A.R. really enjoys working with people all they need to do is let the older staff know and we will put that 7th grader in a position where they interact with the players and parents more directly. Perhaps they will run the check-in area during tournaments or maybe they will fit players for equipment. What is important here is that the S.T.A.R. is given the opportunity to do something that they are clearly passionate about and learn a new skill.

We have young S.T.A.R.s that want to learn how to run the scorer's table so they are placed under the supervision of an older S.T.A.R. and are given the opportunity to become proficient in running the table during a game. We also have volunteers that have some carpentry background and are allowed, with proper supervision, to help our older staff in building tables, benches, and tents that we provide to our players. Our goal is to let our S.T.A.R.s develop their own path that follows their interests. Hopefully we can help a young volunteer find a passion that stays with them for the rest of their life.

Officiating - Earning Your Stripes

Our largest need is always having qualified officials for our games. Fortunately we have a tremendous mentoring staff that guides young officials through the paces in order to become top-notch officials.

In fact, reffing is consistently the job many S.T.A.R.s want to be involved in for two reasons. First, they get a really cool neon green Zebra shirt. Second, they get the opportunity to get paid for running up and down a lacrosse field and watching the game. Honestly who could pass that up?

Our older Zebras provide excellent officiating but they eventually move on to college so we are always in need of new officials. If you are interested in learning how to officiate please contact our Head Zebra Gordon Corsetti at gordoncorsetti@gmail.com