News

Annual Fistball Meeting: April 11, 2010

Topics in order of apperance at the meeting:
Playing Dates:
June 6th, 13th, 20th, and 27th Tournament July 3rd
August 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd Tournament September 4th

Tournaments:
USFA Tournament in Jackson July 10th - Still deciding whether this will be mens only or co-ed

EFA July Fistball Tournament at SCC
Facebook Invitation

Date: Saturday, July 17, 2010
Time: 9:30am - 11:55pm
Location: 272 Emmans Rd. Flanders, N.J.

*We are looking for a good showing at this event. A sign-up sheet will be passed around at camp in early June to determine what interest is in this event. The Team representing the WFA won this tournament last year and it is a lot of fun!

Fees:
Daily Camp Fee: $2.50
Season Pass: $22.50 (includes 8 regular season game days, 2 tournament days, and picnic)
Instead of having a team fee this year, each player is required to pay $10 to their team captain in addition to the daily fee or season pass.
Pool Players team fee will be $5 in addition to the daily fee or season pass.

Potential Teams:
Mens:
Rampage: Confirmed Playing: Captain Mat Henrichs
Stingers: Confirmed Playing: Captain Chris Larkin
Venom: Unconfirmed
Renegades: Confirmed Playing: Captain Jim Blank
Thunder: Unconfirmed: Captain Randy
Volleyballers: Unconfirmed: Unknown Captain
Nuggets is changing name to Dunham: Confirmed Playing: Captain Adam Kindler

Womens:
Power: Confirmed Playing: Captain Judy Henrichs
Ultra: Confirmed Playing: Captain Crystal Moll
Cougars: Confirmed Playing: Captain Sadey
*It was communicated that there may be a number of pool players or additional women for the Womens League this year.


REPORTS

Sports Ward: Mat Henrichs
Mens Ball Status:We have plenty of fistballs to continue using this year. We have 2 barely used balls beyond the normal balls we use. Wet ball is in decent condition. We will need to consider getting a couple of new balls in 2 years.
Womens Ball Status: We have 1 existing ball in decent condition and 1 new ball.

Will need to purchast 240' of new line to replace the existing line. This will be completed prior to the start of the playing season.

We will need to purchase new paint for the 2010 season.

Website: Ron Jesswein
We will continue to run the website. Ron is looking to add additional information to the website and is looking for pictures anyone may have. We will post a phone chain for WFA on the website after getting the info once the season starts.

Treasury: Koogie
Summary: The ending balance for 2009 resulted in an increase of $1021.22 and an ending balance of $1771.28

Practice:
We will do this by word of mouth. If there is enough interest, we will get something going.

ELECTIONS
President: Aaron Weninger is the new President
Vice President: Ron Jesswein is the new Vice President
Treasurer: Koogie will continue to be the Treasurer
Secretary: Jamie Larkin is the new Secretary
Sports Ward: Mat Henrichs will continue to be the Sports Ward

NEW BUSINESS
Potential Fall League
We will see partially through the playing season whether there is enough interest in playing a small fall league. League will run from around Sept. 20-Oct 20 depending on weather. Will include about 4 playing dates. May be informal pick up 'beer' games or formal team league depending on the amount of interest. Must get approval by FON to do this. Once interest is determine, we will go to FON and check on the availability of this. League fee would be $5 per person and standard $2.50 per playing date.

Generating New Interest in Fistball
Contacts: Koogie & Eric Kindler
We discussed going to various local schools to see if there would be an opportunity to generate interest in Fistball. We would see what kind of ages would be potentially be interested, and either have a kids day out the park on various Sundays or do something to get them involved. If there are people like 12+ years old, potentially do a round robin picking for the mens/womens teams to get them involved in play. Potential youth league for younger players. More details to follow once we learn more about this project.

Facebook Group Webpage
Contact: Patrick White
We will be developing a WFA group webpage on Facebook.

OLD BUSINESS
Scoring:
We voted to have 18 points halfs for regular season play. Winning team must win by 2 points.
For Tournament play, we will have 12 minute halfs and ties will continue to be allowed.

PICNIC DAY
We will be having our annual picnic on July 3rd after the tournament. We will have a meeting on June 20th prior to playing to determine what kind of format we wish to have for the picnic.

Annual Banquet
Sadie will be planning the annual banquet for this year. Details to follow.