Dear Coach,
- Coach Paul Blair loses his battle…
- Please read the pdf attached. It is from Positive Coaching a great article on parents being totally oblivious to the real beauty of children in sport.
- Building Rectangular Pools. A facilities “FLASH”
- Parent Ed CD. This is MUST SEE TV!
- 5 ways to recruit new board members from Boardcafe.
- Rutgers cost per athlete….
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November 8, 2006. AFTER a long struggle, Coach Paul Blair, 57, (DOB
5-19-49) of
Little Rock, Ark., succumbed to cancer this morning. He passed away just
before 6 A.M. He went peacefully, with his wife, Mary Dawn, at his bedside.
A renowned sprint coach, Blair was honored by the International Swimming
Hall of Fame (ISHOF) in 2004, just before celebrating his 25th year of
coaching the Arkansas Dolphins Swim Team.
ISHOF bestowed its Yutaka Terao Award on Coach Blair for "holding in high
esteem the values of character in family, sport and business and personal
commitment to athletes, friends, coaches and the sport of swimming."
As owner and coach of the Arkansas Dolphins, Blair has been an inspiration
to thousands of kids. He was known for demanding discipline, hard work and
dedication from his swimmers; he returned love, spirit and 100 percent
effort to them.
Blair's team won the men's national championship in 1989, and it has been
Arkansas age group champions for most of the past 27 years. Blair has helped
his swimmers become U.S. national champions, Olympic Trials qualifiers and
national age group record holders, and they have won medals at the Olympics,
World Champs and Pan Ams.
Bob Staab Head Coach of the ConocoPhillips Splash Club, reports that Mrs.
Blair would like to have the funeral service on Friday (November 10),
probably in the morning. She meets with the Funeral Home later this morning.
She is hopeful to have a viewing tomorrow. The address is:
6313 West Markham St.
Little Rock, Arkansas 72205
(501) 666-0123
Mary Dawn's address is:
216 Ridgeway Dr.
Little Rock, AR 72205
501-663-5721
The service probably will be at the funeral home, with a burial to follow.
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Building Rectangular Pools (10/31/2006)
Have you noticed? Aquatics are growing in popularity! There is
increasing demand for both new pools and renovation of existing
facilities. Existing facilities are looking for ways to increase
revenue and decrease overhead. New facilities, still in the planning
and development stages, have to weigh all aspects of aquatic design
and what pools they can afford to include in the construction.
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We are still hearing from coaches about Parent Education. Glowing reviews are coming in! Each Club was sent the new Parent Education CD. If you have not opened it yet….please do so. If you wish to order more…If your team would like to order more than a dozen please contact Christine at USA Swimming. They are $12.00 each. To order online insert the code 1SFQ3
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Successful Sport Parenting CD not DVD… |
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FIVE FAST WAYS TO RECRUIT NEW BOARD MEMBERS
We tend to recruit board members from among our friends and acquaintances .
. .
no wonder we often run out of people in familiar circles to ask. At the
same time,
we often want to bring people onto the board who are more prestigious,
wealthier,
better connected, and who can add an important diversity component. We
might,
for example, want to recruit more people of color, more women, younger
members,
gay/lesbian individuals, residents in another part of the county. In short:
recruiting is as much about knowing WHAT you want to recruit, as HOW to
recruit.
Previous Board Cafe issues have taken on the diversity issue see
www.boardcafe.org
for archived issues or purchase Best of the Board Cafe at
www.compasspoint.org.
Here are Five Fast Ways to Recruit:
1. Post your “Great Board Member Wanted” ad on free websites that match
people
seeking boards to join with nonprofits seeking board members. We like:
www.boardnetusa.org for its national (if uneven) reach, the info it
collects,
and the other resources there
www.volunteermatch.org for its very wide distribution, although it’s much
better
known for referring program volunteers than for board volunteers
www.bridgestar.org uses the boardnetusa.org database, but adds individuals
from
its (mostly corporate) members, and has good additional resources for board
members
less familiar with the nonprofit sector
2. Place a "Help Wanted--Volunteer Board Member" ad on your lobby bulletin
board,
in your newsletter, in the neighborhood newspaper, or in the alumni
newsletter of
a local college. Example: "HELP SOUTH PARK... We're looking for a few
talented and conscientious volunteer board members to lead and strengthen
our programs for people
with Alzheimer’s and their families. If you can contribute your time,
thoughtfulness,
and leadership one evening a month, and are interested in exploring this
opportunity,
call Sister Mary Margaret at xxx-xxxx to find out whether this volunteer
opportunity is right for you. We're especially looking for folks with
accounting experience, with gerontology backgrounds, from the Asian
communities, or who are on the younger side
of the community.
3. Our best idea: Form a "One Hour Recruiting Task Force." Draw up a list
of twenty well-connected people of the sort you would want on the board but
who you suspect
wouldn't join, (but who might know someone who would be a good board
member.) Call
those twenty people and ask them to come to one meeting of the Task Force
committee
over lunch (confess it will actually take an hour-and-a-half). Tell them
that at the
lunch they'll be told more about the organization and what it's looking for
in board members. At the end of lunch they'll be asked simply for the name
of one person they
think would be a good board member. The Task Force is disbanded. The day
after the
lunch call up each of the nominees and begin by explaining who nominated
them.
4. Promote from the ranks: Ask the executive director or the volunteer
coordinator
if there are two or three hands-on volunteers who would make good board
members.
Hands-on volunteers, such as support group facilitators, practical life
support
volunteers, volunteer ushers, weekend tree-planters, classroom aides and
others
bring both demonstrated commitment AND an intimate knowledge of the
organization's
strengths and weaknesses. Volunteers, donors and clients should be the first
place
you look. You don't have to "sell" the agency - they know it already!
5. Board Member Swap: Pick four local organizations where you don't know
anyone,
but you'd like to (examples: NAACP, Japanese American Citizens League,
Accountants
for the Public Interest, community hospital). (Tip: Your local Yahoo site (http://www.yahoo.com/)
is a good place to look for lists under "Community.")
Ask each officer to call one of the four local organizations and ask to have
coffee
with one of their leaders. Over coffee suggest that your two organizations
recommend "retiring" board members to each other as a way of establishing
organizational links
and strengthening ties among communities.
Q: Our board is kind of crummy, and I'm embarrassed to ask anyone I respect
onto the
board I'm on. But we desperately need new members! What should I do?
A: Use one of the above strategies, but with this kicker: "I even feel
guilty asking
someone like you to join a board that's as weak and confused as this one.
But this organization has a unique role to play in solving the problem of
________. What's
really needed is a total overhaul of the board. I’d like you to work with me
and two
others of the same mind to work with the new director to recruit six new
members and
really make this board work. We meet every month for two hours on Tuesday
morning (specifics). Would you work with me on that committee?
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As you may know Rutgers University is in the process of dropping several sports including men’s crew and men’s swimming. There was a recent article in the local (Rutgers) paper, it was about the crew team, but the conclusions would be the same. This is what it costs the athletic department PER ATHLETE for these sports:
Crew--$720 per rower (the crew alumni pay for all equipment including boats, trailers and 2 Ford F 350 pickups that pull them. boathouse funded by alumni)
Football --$23,704 per player
Here's the shocker--women's basketball--$55,186 each for of 12 athletes.
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The material in this e-mail is provided for educational and informational purposes only and does not constitute a recommendation or endorsement with respect to any company or product. One of the objectives of the USA Swimming Coach’s Blast e-mails is to make coaches aware of potential resources available.
Peter C Clark
Sport Development Consultant
Eastern Zone
719-866-3561 (direct office)
719-330-0743 (cell)
719-866-4669 (Fax)