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WOMEN-IN-HOCKEY Digest 351
Topics covered in this issue include:
1) Re: fundraisers
by email@hidden
2) Not enough teams!!!
by email@hidden
3) 9th Annual RI Panthers Thanksgiving Tournament
by email@hidden (Don Wright)
4) Re[2]: fundraisers
by Jan de Regt
5) Re: fundraisers
by email@hidden (Diane E. Bender)
6) Re: Not enough teams!!!
by Ingrid Moon
7) Re: Fundraisers
by email@hidden (Christina McCormick)
8) Not Enough ice, period.
by email@hidden
9) Re: fundraisers
by Lea and Robert Sanford
10) Re: Not Enough ice, period.
by email@hidden (Don Wright)
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Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 13:03:12 -0400
From: email@hidden
To: email@hidden
Subject: Re: fundraisers
Message-ID:
Hi All,
I have an old fashioned, back to basics suggestion for you...
Remember when we were all little and on the local baseball teams?
(don't worry, I'm not gonna suggest the tin can and bell outside the
supermarket...) But this might work; try soliciting sponsorships from your
place of work or local businesses. Who knows if you sew that little patch
with their company name on the sleeve they might just like the idea of
donating a little more cashola!
Regards,
Lisa A
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Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 13:06:26 -0400
From: email@hidden
To: email@hidden, email@hidden
Subject: Not enough teams!!!
Message-ID:
Hi Sheryl.
It sounds like the most of the leagues administrations have, or are getting
their acts together... Improvements are being made (in spite of trying to
keep up with the phenomenal growth factor) and there seems to be more open
communications throughout the league.
Like you, I am trying to get a database or a "pool" started kind of like what
organized little league baseball was doing. ie; your mom would sign you up
and some one would split up the players whether it be according to skill or
even location and from there they'd make up the teams. You may not end up on
your best friend's team but at least everyone got to play! If people didn't
like their team or were completely miserable we could organize a player
trading system.... WHY NOT? Stranger things have been done!
I've been writing & typing and calling along with many others who are trying
to help improve things for everybody! Thanks to this list and the people on
it I think I'm finally getting through! Lets keep up the buzz and really
make things happen.
It will work.
Sincerely,
Lisa J. Addario
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Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 14:48:31 -0400
From: email@hidden (Don Wright)
To:
Subject: 9th Annual RI Panthers Thanksgiving Tournament
Message-ID:
The 9th Annual Rhode Island Panthers Thanksgiving Tournament.
Reflecting the phenomenal growth in Women's Hockey, this year's tournament
features the largest field of teams in it's history. The games are
scheduled starting Friday, November 29th and running through the weekend.
A complete schedule will be posted in early November. The games will be
played at the Cranston and North Smithfield RI rinks. The following teams
will be participating.
Midget Division:
RI Panthers, A Mid-Atlantic team, New Hampshire Selects, Vermont Selects,
Chelmsford Lions, CT Polar Bears, Michigan Metro Flyers and Assabet Valley.
Peewee I:
RI Panthers, New Hampshire Selects, Vermont Selects, Chelmsford Lions, CT
Polar Bears, Long Island Waves, Philadelphia Little Flyers and Assabet
Valley.
Peewee II:
RI Panthers, New Jersey Devils, Bay State Warriors, Chelmsford Lions, CT
Polar Bears and Assabet Valley.
Squirts:
RI Panthers, Maine Selects, Chelmsford Lions, CT Polar Bears, Assabet
Valley and another team to be announced.
For further information contact:
Fred Miller - (401) 944-3935
or email email@hidden
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Date: 17 Oct 1996 15:23:46 -0400
From: Jan de Regt
To: email@hidden (Return requested),
Subject: Re[2]: fundraisers
I suppose it depends on how much $ you're trying to find. Our budget
for the 96-97 winter season is just over $28,000. I've been working
on just this approach for our team, the Chesapeake Bay Lightning in
Maryland.
To make any impact on the per player cost, we were looking for about
$5000, but not necessarily all from one sponsor. I've approached a
few small businesses, but the problem here is that everyone is used to
sponsoring Little League baseball and soccer teams, which are
inherently much less expensive sports. You can outfit a whole soccer
team with T shirts for about $100. A $100 sponsorship doesn't really
help a hockey team with their expenses much, and anything higher is
more than most businesses are willing to consider. They'd rather keep
their sponsor money for the cheap sports - which, by the way, also
tend to have more spectators.
So for us, the "patch on the sleeve" enticement hasn't worked. Oh,
another problem associated with the patch idea is the cost of the
patch. It's almost a question of diminishing returns. To make it
worth while to accept a sponsorship and get patches for everyone's
jersey, it has to be a few hundred dollars, and you're back to the
question of finding someone who has the much to spend on one sports
team - and a group of adults at that.
Good luck!
Jan.
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Subject: Re: fundraisers
Author: email@hidden at Internet
Date: 10/17/96 1:52 PM
Hi All,
I have an old fashioned, back to basics suggestion for you...
Remember when we were all little and on the local baseball teams?
(don't worry, I'm not gonna suggest the tin can and bell outside the
supermarket...) But this might work; try soliciting sponsorships from your
place of work or local businesses. Who knows if you sew that little patch
with their company name on the sleeve they might just like the idea of
donating a little more cashola!
Regards,
Lisa A
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Date: Thu, 17 Oct 96 17:28:44 EDT
From: email@hidden (Diane E. Bender)
To: email@hidden
Subject: Re: fundraisers
Message-ID:
We are in the process of incorporating our 'team' as a non-profit
organization, which requires developing by-laws, electing officers,and all
the other stuff (meetings, committees, rules enforcement...) involved with
becoming organized. The nice attraction to this tremendous effort is all
donations are tax deductable once we file as a corporation. This can
be important to companies willing to sponsor you.
Also, if you go knocking on potential sponsor doors, a good suggestion
is to have a picture of your jersey (front and back) to show where their
logo could fit. And have a list of games dates and where they'll be
played so they can get a feel for the amount of exposure and where their
logo will be seen. Many local companies won't sponsor us because
we travel out of state mostly.
If you're interested in developing bylaws for your women's hockey team,
I'll be happy to send a copy of ours once completed (hopefully tonight!).
P.S.--Thanks to everyone on the WIH list that sent us copies of their
by-laws, most of which we've included in our extensive version!
--
Diane E. Bender
NC Trailblazers Women's Hockey Association
email@hidden
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Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 14:45:18 -0700
From: Ingrid Moon
To: email@hidden
Subject: Re: Not enough teams!!!
Message-ID:
Sheryl-Lyn Ekberg wrote:
>
> From Patty in Mass.:
>
> ...there is a problem this year with teams being full. The *B* division
> has the most players. This year is the worst for players not being able
> to be place.
>
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>
> In Minnesota we have experienced very similar problems, but it seems to
> occur year after year. The A league is always in jeopardy of losing teams,
> the B league has too many teams and our C league does fine due to the
> number of new players joining and as they improve they move to the B
> league.
It is strange to hear a problem of "full leagues" for women when out
here in CA I can't find many women's leagues. Disney Ice limits their
"women's league" to 3 teams, all at the same level (mostly new players,
some intermediate and some very very good). This does not make for very
good competition. They would probably raise the number of teams if more
women were interested. Over the summer most of the players in the
Disney women's league also played in men's leagues or on women's teams
who played against men's teams.
I know hockey is not as big in southern CA as in MN and MA, but does
anyone know of any leagues or how I might find enough women to start
one?
Thanks,
Ingrid Moon
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Date: Tue, 19 Dec 95 22:48:22 GMT
From: email@hidden (Christina McCormick)
To: email@hidden
Subject: Re: Fundraisers
Message-ID: <30D74136@cmccorm>
Hi Everyone,
My team have to fundraise quite often to win suuport from the local association,
and one thing that works quite well here is a chocolate drive.
You know, running aroung selling chocolates to work mates, friends, family etc.
I have found that works really well.
Chris
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Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 18:24:27 -0400
From: email@hidden
To: email@hidden
Subject: Not Enough ice, period.
Message-ID:
Hi Everyone.
I think the real issue here is not that there are not enough teams, but that
there is not enough ice rinks and ice time devoted to women's teams.
We can start teams anytime anywhere.
We need to begin lobbying for new ice rinks to support the growth of women's
ice hockey.
Just my $0.02 worth.
Joan
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Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 07:25:08 +0000
From: Lea and Robert Sanford
To: email@hidden
Subject: Re: fundraisers
Message-ID:
Lori,
> Does anyone know of any good fundraisers for women's hockey?
Since our women's team is still forming, I will be looking for answers
to this one myself soon.....
One of the things that seems to work for the men here (and I think we
will try) is to get sponsorship from sports bars and resturants. If you
tend to congregate to a bar or pub after games (of would be willing to)
I would suggest approaching that establishment. Carrabas and Subway
both have mens teams here--proving that a wide spectrum of
establishments may be willing to sponsor teams.
Good luck!
Lea
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Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 09:09:45 -0400
From: email@hidden (Don Wright)
To: email@hidden
Subject: Re: Not Enough ice, period.
Message-ID:
Joan has hit it right on the head. Ice time is also at a premium here in
RI. What we really need are more rinks, and reasonable times on the
existing rinks.
Don Wright
RI Panthers
>Hi Everyone.
>
>I think the real issue here is not that there are not enough teams, but that
>there is not enough ice rinks and ice time devoted to women's teams.
>We can start teams anytime anywhere.
>We need to begin lobbying for new ice rinks to support the growth of women's
>ice hockey.
>
>Just my $0.02 worth.
>
>Joan
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