Get Involved: Volunteer with Striders

Did you know Central Maine Striders is 100-percent volunteer run? Every social run and meetup, every race and club activity organized, all Striders activities happen thanks to fellow runners—like you!—volunteering their time and expertise.

Do you want to get more involved in the oldest active running club in Maine? Big or small, ongoing or one-time, there are numerous Strider opportunities: club officers, social run coordinators and hosts, race and event volunteers, communications, and more.

Club Officers

Club officers are elected to one-year positions and are responsible for overall leadership and organization of the club, memberships, funds, events, and more. Our current officers are:

• President: Martha Cowperthwaite
  
• Vice President: Lindsay Theis
  
• Secretary: Alex Casey
  
• Treasurer: Ron Peck

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Interested in serving in the future? Attend an upcoming meeting or reach out to [email protected] for more information on any of these positions. Officers are limited to three consecutive terms, so the President and Treasurer positions will need to be filled in 2027. 

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Social Run Coordinator

Do you like running and socializing? Our Social Run Coordinator position is open!

The club holds regular social runs on Wednesday evenings, often in the Waterville or Augusta areas, though also in other Kennebec County locations and places further afield. The Social Run Coordinator helps maintain the social run email list, organizing and informing folks of weekly times and locations.

Members  also can host a weekly run, suggest a future meetup spot in Central Maine, or get added to the social run list by emailing [email protected].

Volunteer Coordinator

Races run on volunteers and Tom Farmer is our club's Volunteer Coordinator (thanks, Tom!). If you might want to volunteer at a future Striders event—like the January Thaw or the Fall Classic 10K--or help at another Maine race with fellow Striders, email or text Tom ([email protected] or 502-767-4422) for more info and get added to his list of potential volunteers (no obligation).

Currently there are two opportunities to volunteer on behalf of the club:

• April 26: Portland 10 Miler (race day registration and water station)
• July 26: Ironman 70.3 Maine, Augusta (Run Aid Station #4)

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​Meet Tom>>

Communications

We like to stay in touch with our members and potential members. If you have experience in website design and development, social media management, or other communications skills and would like to be involved, please email Alicia MacLeay ([email protected]). Here are some of the channels we use to communicate with members and the Maine running community:
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• ​Facebook/Instagram/Strava—help administer and moderate our social media pages and groups
• ​Website—we're in the process of moving our website to another platform and redesigning the entire thing; so, if you are experienced in Weebly to WordPress migration or website management and design and want to help, let Alicia know
• ​Newsletter--we use MailChimp to design and send out monthly newsletters and RunSignUp to manage members and their emails