October 2017 Issue 1 / Volume 1 Head Of State Ultimate Frisbee Newsletter HOS GOSS IN THIS ISSUE SNAP SHOT OF THE MINUTES. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Minutes Payment Policy Upcoming Calendar WUCC update Mentoring initiative HoS League EOI forms El Presidente I made an email address. If you have any comments, complaints, issues of any kind please put it in writing and send to headsofstateultimate@gmail. com. I will be personally reading all correspondence. If you have an issue, don t use a tissue. VP He s going to put in a bid for kaimana 2018. Secretary Looking for grants, collaborating with Jett s Gym and Zac again this year. Following up more sponsorship. Claire also likes to ride her bicycle. Read this. It s good for you. 1
Trshur Katie made a payment policy. PLease pay your bills please! High performance Mens - Would like to announce that the juggernaut team split will be WUCC/non-WUCC this season. Both teams will be selected by early to mid-december so it is imperative that players make as many trainings and selections events as possible to push their case for selection in what is going to be our biggest and best year yet! Lee Womens HoS is once again looking to send two teams to Nationals this season. Phoenix to Div 1 and Inferno to Div 2. As my role is new and different this year I am sharing the load with Lilly. As Lilly is a member of the High-Performance committee she will be looking after Phoenix this season. Whilst I will be looking after Inferno, should you have any questions regarding women s this season please get in touch with Development Organizing HoS men s league. VUL league (EOI s to follow). Apocalypse will ONLY be a VUL team for this season and possibly be a team for regionals. Colossus will be the only div 2 men s team for this national s season as we are looking to push and improve players in this division. Operations Organizing uniforms this season. All club members will need new uniform to correspond with the new AFDA rules, hopefully will last the next 2-3 years. The whole club will have the same white, and boys and girls will have separate dark strip Baker has also agreed to be the coach of both teams, get around him! Womens Phoenix will be aiming to build on performance in Div 1. Delighted to announce that our boy Seb Barr will be the coach of Phoenix for this season in between his playing commitments the relevant person. If you are keen on getting involved in all things women at HoS please get in touch as I am still forming the committee. We are excited to announce Seb Barr as Head Coach of Phoenix this season, he will be working alongside a co-coach (TBC) to bring da gurlz to glory. We are currently asking for Expressions of Interest to coach Inferno. If you think this could be you, please email becwallbridge@gmail.com. design. Special tournaments such as WUCC 2018 will have separate uniforms. Social and Gen rep Nothing to report from these two. Ebs goes to the gym if you didn t know. 2
PAYMENT POLICY Since we had a lot of issues in the past year with money things, Katie has provided us all with a payment policy which all club members will abide by for the up coming nationals season. Here is the policy if you wanna have a read of it, actually, please do, it also has basic estimates of each tournament this nationals season, although these are currently guesstimates from last season. UPCOMING CALENDAR October 11th Men s HoS League begins October 18th Women s HoS league starts (every Wednesday for 6 weeks) October 31st Start training, aka destruction of the dad bod. Men s: Ron Barrassi Park, Docklands 6:30 8pm. Every Tuesday. November 4th - Women s training starts: Warner reserve, Ashburton, 9am 12pm. Every Saturday. November 5th Sunday Afternoon training start for mens, Ron Barrassi Park, Docklands from 4:15pm. November 11th and 12th WUCC selection Camp, location TBC November 25th Selection day for Mens and Womens, Location TBC Chistmas break - will begin around the 9th of Dec (subject to change). Be there or be a dad bod. WUCC UPDATE The HOS men s team has received a bid allocation to attend WUCC2018 which will be held from the 14th to the 21st of July next year. This will be the third time the club has attended. Currently we have selected our initial squad who will be trying out for the final team. There is a one-off selection camp which will be held on the 11th/12th of November. HOS do not need to attend the WUCC qualifiers as they are guaranteed a spot. HOS, Colony and Chilly will host their own seeding tournament next year after nationals to determine seeding. The selectors for HOS WUCC are Mark Isherwood, Tony Castrignano and Tim Wise. We are looking to take a maximum of 21 players with the likelihood of taking less. HOS will only be taking current HOS players or players who have previously played with HOS. Key payment dates are below: 01/09/2017 Registration fee $1,000 20/10/2017 Early discount team fee $900 20/11/2017 Player fee for 16 players $7600 = $475 pp 31/01/2018 Remaining player fees depending on team size TBC 31/01/2018 Guest fees eg.physio coach $200 USD per day 3
WUCC UPDATE, continued HOS are looking to win the tournament and will be sending the strongest ever team to attend World Clubs. There will be a 1-week pre-tour which is being organised now before we take on the world. Heads. Of. State. Clap. MENTORING INITIATIVE This is a new program to HoS. Every member will be included in this mentoring program that will begin at the start of the season, and regardless of which team you are on. If you want more details email headsofstateultimate@gmail.com HOS WOMENS LEAGUE/ MENS LEAGUE WOMENS HoS League will be at Albert Park, on Wednesday nights from Oct 18th to November 29th. Each evening there will be a non-compulsory skill coaching session for 45min prior to the games. The games will be held at 8pm and run for 70 min. The league will cost $25 to participate in, this includes fields, administrations costs, and pizza on the last night for the final! The teams will be organised as Hat (you will be placed in a team) teams of mixed abilities, you will stay in your team for the duration of the league. Please note that this league is designed for development of players and as a fun social evening for da gurlz. MENS Starting on Wednesday October 11th, held at Dorothy Laver Reserve West in Malvern. The format is different this year - 5 a side - Smaller fields (roughly 2/3rd size) - Two 40min games each week (6:30pm and 7:20pm) Players register individually and will be placed in teams with a range of experience. Cost is $45 per player for the nine-week season. Please note that unlike previous years this is NOT the membership fee for the season. EXPRESSION OF INTEREST (EOI) FORMS Nationals season If you would like to try out for one of our teams for this national s season please follow the relevant link Womens: Mens: 4
EXPRESSION OF INTEREST (EOI) FORMS, continued Victorial Ultimate League (VUL) mens and womens Victorian Ultimate League is a state-wide competition that runs from November through until February. Rather than being a traditional weekly home-and-away league, VUL teams all meet in one location once per month and play 2-3 rounds of the league on a single day. Heads of State are entering teams in the Open and Women s divisions, and we are looking for players who are interested in taking part. VUL has restrictions on player experience, so this is the perfect competition for anyone looking to play competitively for the first time! Please note this is separate to the national s season. Development subcommittee If you are interested in being on the development sub-committee, get in contact with Simon Talbot at satalbot@gmail.com. 5