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Give us one shift
Not a committee. Not a season-long commitment. One two-hour slot, usually at a game you were coming to anyway — and then we leave you alone.
What we are actually asking
Most parents don’t say no because they don’t care. They say no because they can’t tell what they’d be signing up for. So here it is in full.
One shift. Then we leave you alone.
Two hours, once a season, is the whole ask. Signing up for a shift does not put you on a list, a committee, or the board. If you want to do more you will have to tell us, because we will not assume.
You will not miss your child play.
Shifts are listed with times so you can take the hour before or after your own child’s game. Most of our jobs happen at events you were coming to anyway — you are already in the building.
You will not be left on your own.
First time on a job, you are paired with somebody who has done it before. Nobody gets handed the register and a queue of eight-year-olds and told good luck.
Pick a shift
Nothing scheduled at the moment. Shifts go up as each season’s fixtures are set. Put your hand up below and we’ll come to you first.
What the jobs actually involve
Honest time costs, and whether you need to know anything beforehand.
Gym admissions
About 1 hour No experience needed
Sit at the door of the PAC gym, take admission and stamp hands. You can see the court from the table, so take the game before your child’s and you will not miss a minute of theirs.
You need: Nothing. A cash box and a folding chair.
Concession stand
2 hours No experience needed
Serve hot dogs, popcorn and drinks. This is the single biggest source of money the association raises itself, and when a shift goes unfilled the stand simply does not open.
You need: Nothing. Prices are on the wall and someone shows you the register.
Field & facility work days
A Saturday morning No experience needed
Spring and fall clean-ups: clearing brush, sorting the container, mounting screens, painting, tidying the entrance gate. Bring work gloves and, if you have them, older kids who owe service hours.
You need: Gloves. Bring a rake or a wheelbarrow if you have one.
Scoreboard & scorekeeping
One game
Run the clock and the book at home games. Genuinely the best seat in the house, and once you have done it twice you will wonder why you ever sat in the bleachers.
You need: Ten minutes of showing you how, the first time.
Team parent
An hour a month No experience needed
Be the one who sends the group message about the time change. Coaches are volunteers too, and this is the job that saves them most.
You need: Diocesan Safe Environment clearance, since you work directly with the team.
Banquets & events
An evening No experience needed
Set-up, serving and clear-down at the 8th grade banquet, the golf outing and the parish festival. Sociable, finite, and over by bedtime.
You need: Nothing.
Uniform manager
A few hours a season
Keep the inventory and place one order for the whole association instead of twelve separate ones. The board has wanted this role filled for a while — it would save real money.
You need: Being organized. A spreadsheet is the entire toolkit.
Coaching
A season
The biggest ask on this page, and the one that changes a child’s year. Most of our coaches had never coached before their first season.
You need: VIRTUS, a background check and CYO training — all set out on our coaching page.
Roles that involve supervising or caring for children — coaching, team parent — need diocesan Safe Environment clearance first: a VIRTUS class, fingerprinting and a volunteer application. Working the gate, the stand or a clean-up day does not. If you are not sure which applies to you, ask the Volunteer Chair before you start. The parish sets out all three steps here.
Where the gap actually is
Registration fees do not cover everything. The gap is closed by the concession stand, gate admissions and the golf outing — and all three of those are just parents giving up a couple of hours.
- Every board member, commissioner and coach is an unpaid volunteer parent.
- When a concession shift goes unfilled the stand stays shut, and that evening’s takings are simply gone.
- The alternative to volunteers is not "someone else" — it is higher fees, or the same dozen people doing it again.
Just tell us where you’d help
This commits you to nothing. It means that when we’re short, we come to you with one specific date instead of emailing four hundred people and hoping — and you can say no to any of them.