Tom, In return for experienced players helping you out there's an awful lot you can do to grow the sport in you local area.
Its also easy to offer suggestions about "starting a scheme like this in other areas of ultimate", and much much more difficult to actually do all that you can with your own resources to grow the sport in the own area. Start your own scheme. Most experienced players have jobs and are therefore not ideal for teaching school children. However most university students have ample time during the week, between all the drinking and trisha, for a quick hour or two at a local school. As a starting point why not write a short letter to the nearest 3 schools to your university offering some of your team members to provide a demonstration of the sport and a bit of coaching. I know that you might not feel good enough to provide coaching but it doesn't take much exposure to the game to get the ball rolling at a school. Then organise a junior tournament at the end of the term and invite them along. And before I get all this thrown back at me; Flyght Club are starting women's only indoor practices in Nottingham 7-8pm on a Monday night, £2 a person. Coaching will be by yours truly. Send me an email if you are interested. Flyght Club are also hosting our 4th year of women's only tournaments on the 13th 14th of November. Next summer we'll be starting a Scouts League for local Scout groups and also a Nottingham Summer league. We are also in the midst of organising a large recruitment campaign from local gyms and sports clubs. See you at the conference this weekend. Tom Styles FC#1 -----Original Message----- From: Tom Howard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 October 2004 11:48 To: Emily J. Lyons; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [BD] Experienced contacts for Uni women's teams yeah acknowledged, and i am really pleased to see this sort of scheme finally taking off, having been discussed a while back. was just wondering if there was going to be a joint effort among the committee (ie. open and junior committee reps) to gets similar efforts going in their areas of ultimate? as a suggestion, perhaps pre-emptive or jumping the gun a little, but would it be possible to make this list available or at least advertise it to schools/youth-groups(as well as unis) once its been compiled, who might want to teach ultimate but are in need of assistance. I'd assume most people who are willing to coach uni students would also be willing to teach secondary/college age pupils as well...? not that i'm tyring to suggest any kind of full-burden rests on anyone here - i appreciate you are womens committee rep and therefore only dircetly resonsible for womens ultimate development (strange coincidence that, eh? ;-) Tom --- "Emily J. Lyons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the positive feedback Tom! > I don't know what happened with Juniors. > As far as men's/open teams go, my remit on the women's committee is to > facilitate the improvement/future of the women's game, but anyone > (male or > female) who is interested in coaching (either men or > women) is more than > welcome to reply to my e-mail and be put on the list. Certainly men > can coach women and women can coach men, right? cool. > thanks again, > Emily > > >From: Tom Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "Emily J. Lyons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: [BD] Experienced contacts for Uni > women's teams > >Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 10:57:13 +0100 (BST) > > > >great idea. really pleased to see this mooted on > BD. > > > >But are we gonna see the same provision for uni men/open teams - i > >know we need to promote womens ultimate, but open uni teams would > >also benefit > from > >experienced/expert coaching. > > > >I also know this was mooted in regards to Juniors - that each open > >team should have a Junior liason, > and > >actively participate in coaching Juniors and Junior teams. Has this > >got any further? > > > >probably opening an old can of worms but... > > > > > >Tom > > > > > > > > > > > > --- "Emily J. Lyons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Are you an experienced frisbee player? > > > > > > Have you ever been caught doodling an new offense/defense on a bar > > > napkin? > > > > > > Do you know more frisbee drills than you care to admit? > > > > > > Are you the one always shouting the force and up calls? > > > > > > If this sounds even remotely like you, the UKU women's committee > > > would be grateful if you'd consider sharing some > of > > > your knowledge > > > and time with a women's university team near > you! We > > > are compiling > > > a list of experienced players who would be > willing > > > to coach, offer > > > advice, and/or run skills clinics to offer as a resource for > > > university women's captains/teams. If you are interested, please > > > send the following info to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Emily Lyons) > > > > > > Name: > > > e-mail address: > > > phone # (optional): > > > Location: > > > Nearest Universities to you (we'll sort this if you're not sure): > > > > > > The plan is to post this list on the UKU website > so > > > members can > > > access it. > > > Thanks tons!! > > > > > > Emily Lyons > > > on behalf of the women's committee > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > BritDisc mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://zion.ranulf.net/mailman/listinfo/britdisc > > > Staying informed - > > > http://www.ukultimate.com/informed.asp > > > > > > > > > > >____________________________________________________________ > >Does your mail provider give you a free online > calendar? > >Yahoo! does. Get Yahoo! 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