Team Fees, Players/Clubs Looking Feature, Insurance, Feedback

CDs-
Hopefully you've mostly survived the girl's tryouts and will be moving onto boy's tryouts this weekend. A few things:

- The Club Dues Payment Form (to pay your team fees so we can mark them paid in Webpoint) can be found here: http://badgervolleyball.org/forms.php

- A new feature is up on the website under Junior Volleyball: "Players Looking for Teams" and "Clubs Looking For Players." I encourage you to spread the word and take advantage of these features so we can work to get everyone on a team who wants to play.
Players Looking for Teams: http://badgervolleyball.org/junior-players-looking-for-teams.php
Clubs Looking for Players: http://badgervolleyball.org/junior-clubs-looking-for-players.php

- Be sure to get your insurance information to Colleen at colleen@badgervolleyball.org. If you don't know what I'm talking about, go here: http://badgerregionvolleyballclubdirectors.blogspot.com/search/label/Insurance

- CAP Registration is still open. http://usavolleyball.org/events/8446

- The Prairie du Chien Impact time has been moved to 12-6pm. http://badgervolleyball.org/coaching-impact.php#schedule These are the scheduled clinics right now. I know some of you don't want the court time, but more education and training is never a bad thing, especially for new coaches. Regular Impact clinics may be scheduled in January or February.

And now I'm going to get a little more in-depth, so please either bear with me or come back and read this. I just spent three days in Colorado Springs with the USA Volleyball staff for the best professional development session I have ever been a part of. Including myself there were seven other Regions represented and we all basically sat around and talked with USAV and each other about Effective Practices - the best ways to do things, problems we run into and advice on how to deal with them, how to do things better. The session ended Wednesday morning with a giant brainstorming session about what USAV can do to make our (the Region's) lives easier or better.

So now I turn around and ask you the same question: what can the Badger Region do to make your (the club director's) lives easier or better. I don't need a response right now (but will take them, for sure) but just as you go through the season, keep mental (or actual) notes about "huh, if the Region had this, or did this" that would rock." Big club, small club, I don't care. Even if you think it's insignificant, if it would make your life easier, we'll look into it.

Don't ask me to change the tryout policy or the recruiting policy - because that comes from YOU as a club director at the September meeting, but I can certainly gather information on what other Regions do because I've heard from countless numbers of you that these things need to be changed.

We're here to work for you guys, who are the troops on the ground. Forgive me for getting sappy, but I'm brain-dead from the trip and the massive amounts of information I learned. I heard several times while out there (from other Regions) "Can I just join Badger?!" because we do so many good things, and that comes from you guys, who help us carry the programming out. Do we have problems, sure, every operation does. But please help us identify them so that we can address the situations and move forward.

Ok, I'm done. Have a great weekend and continued good luck!
Jen