{"id":122900,"date":"2015-02-12T14:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T21:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=122900"},"modified":"2015-02-12T09:25:27","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T16:25:27","slug":"swimming-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/swimming-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"The Meet Can&#8217;t Start Without Our Swimming Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Allie Clark and Wilson Josephson, Swimming World College Interns<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The final regular season meets of the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) have wrapped up, and athletes have about a week to prepare for conference championships, which will begin on February 19. <\/p>\n<p>But the meet can\u2019t start without our swimming officials &#8211; the ones pacing the side of the pool, watching turns and relay exchanges, and starting each race. Despite the fact that we see them at each meet, it can sometimes be tough to get to know officials. <\/p>\n<p>At most meets, swimmers are single-mindedly focused on their races. On top of that, the officials are authority figures with the power to DQ swimmers, which can seem like power over life and death.<\/p>\n<p>In order to help you get to know some of your MIAC officials before conference championships, we spoke with Brad Ness, Bob Johnson, Michael Bougie, and Doug Magnus.  We asked them an array of questions, some serious, others silly. <\/p>\n<p>The takeaway? Officials are people, too!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Introductions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brad Ness began officiating swim meets in 1976, during his junior year at St. Olaf College. He got his start working at Northfield High School meets when the usual officials pursued job opportunities in Saudi Arabia. After he he graduated in 1978, he found the transition into officiating at collegiate meets natural.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Johnson started officiating MIAC meets in the mid-1970s. He had been coaching at the high school level for six years at that point, and felt that becoming an official was a good way to stay involved with and provide an important service for the local swim community.<\/p>\n<p>Doug Magnus began officiating when his daughters joined a USA Swimming program. Inspired by their passion for the sport, he decided to get involved, and though they stopped swimming many years ago he continues to officiate. He has been working in the MIAC for 18 years.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Michael Bougie started officiating when his sons joined a swim team. To quote Michael, \u201cI found that stands and I were not good friends. There had to be something better.\u201d He has been officiating for the MIAC for 10 years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Racing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Officials working at big meets like the MIAC championships have to work well together to be sure the meet goes smoothly. In this way, they\u2019re like a team &#8211; albeit one that doesn\u2019t compete. <\/p>\n<p>But what if they did? We decided to ask each official which event they\u2019d compete in at conference championships if they were to form a team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am a non-swimmer,\u201d admits Magnus. \u201cSo if officials competed as a team I would have to be the coach. I could put others in events!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was a swimmer in high school and college,&#8221; Ness says. \u201cBut I pretty much only swam breaststroke.\u201d He\u2019d probably enter the 100 breaststroke, though a medley relay might be more fun.<\/p>\n<p>Like Magnus, Bougie says he isn\u2019t a swimmer. But he would be willing to jump in for a 50 freestyle, insisting that he is \u201cmore or less drown-proof.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson has similar intentions. He has spent too much time watching swimmers battle through painful races to succumb to their allure, and so he would \u201crequest the shortest possibility available. Or, better yet, maybe take a declared false start!\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_122905\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/start-official-jpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-122905\" data-attachment-id=\"122905\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/swimming-officials\/start-official-jpg\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/start-official-jpg.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1810,1810\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"start-official-jpg\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;start-official-jpg&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy: Peter Bick&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/start-official-jpg-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/start-official-jpg-1024x1024.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/start-official-jpg-700x500.jpg\" alt=\"start-official-jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-122905\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-122905\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Courtesy: Peter Bick<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Dual Meets vs. Championships<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Every swimmer knows that there\u2019s something different in the air at championships &#8211; something missing from most regular season dual meets. There are nail-biting races and high-strung emotions. <\/p>\n<p>But what is it like for officials?<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that all the officials we spoke with prefer larger meets with higher stakes. <\/p>\n<p>Johnson says that \u201cchampionships are without a doubt in a class by themselves, because of what is at stake.\u201d It can be awesome to watch swimmers achieve their goals &#8211; and sometimes exceed them, \u201cdoing what they weren\u2019t sure they could do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ness assured us that he enjoyed meets at all levels, but he has especially fond memories of his stint as the starter at the Division III National Championships. Ness worked as a starter for nationals from 1999 to 2009, and was always thrilled by the intense level of competition and the high level of sportsmanship.<\/p>\n<p>Magnus prefers championship meets and large invitationals too, but for a very different reason.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorking invites allows me to see and visit with coaches and swimmers I have known for a number of years.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The degree to which the swim community is tight-knit and long-lasting really comes to light at big meets. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw some of these swimmers when they were in junior high!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time Machine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our final question for the MIAC officials before letting them go had to do with a hypothetical trip in a time machine. <\/p>\n<p>Where would they go? When would they go? Their answers were largely straightforward.<\/p>\n<p>Magnus told us he\u2019d like to go back to the 1950s, so that he could apply his current wisdom to his college years &#8211; and maybe do a little bit better. <\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Johnson picked the 1960s, so he could re-live his early years as a coach. <\/p>\n<p>Bougie would like to see what things were like in 1947, which was the year he was born. <\/p>\n<p>Of the four, Ness was definitely the odd man out. He chose September 7, 1876, so that he could bear witness to the James\/Younger Gang\u2019s thwarted robbery of the First National Bank in Northfield, MN (an event which Ness and many other Northfielders reenact each year).<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully this has given you a better sense of what the officials in our conference are like. If you see them on deck, say hello! They\u2019re friendly, wise, and more than a little goofy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Allie Clark and Wilson Josephson, Swimming World College Interns The final regular season meets of the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) have wrapped up, and athletes have about a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":122907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"http:\/\/wp.me\/p56Jja-vYg","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,17],"tags":[45751,48937,48935,48936,48938,46973,21150,8836,1810,1098,24649,142,45285],"class_list":["post-122900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college","category-commentary","tag-allie-clark","tag-bob-johnson","tag-brad-ness","tag-doug-magnus","tag-michael-bougie","tag-minnesota-intercollegiate-athletic-conference","tag-northfield","tag-northfield-high-school","tag-official","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-st-olaf-college","tag-swimming","tag-wilson-josephson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>The Meet Can&#039;t Start Without Swimming Officials<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We spoke with swimming officials Brad Ness, Bob Johnson, Michael Bougie, and Doug Magnus. 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