Sample Docs
- The PDF versions have "blanks" where you can handwrite information.
- Remember to add a "Remove" date, and not too far in the future; fliers w/o a remove data tend to get removed quickly.
Bottom line:
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Find a school near you - we can help.
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Get familiar with the Sports Club Handbook - rules to
become a sports club
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Fill out some paperwork
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Get enough students to sign up
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Go to the few required meetings
Getting Started
Table of Contents
1 Summary. 1
2 Goal 2
3 Steps. 3
4 Example
~ Fresno State. 4
5 Free Money!. 5
We need a student leader and/or an adult to show up
regularly, say once a week, to
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Post fliers,
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Meet and greet students who are playing,
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Offer tips and tricks,
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Encourage showing up to the Club Nights to meet new people and
having more fun.
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You will show up at least one night a week for the first two months of
school, play some racqueball, have fun, give tips and tricks, and based on the students introduce skills and practice routines.
Start a Racquetball Sports Club. A Sports Club
is an officially recognized group within the school, is key to building a
program and growing the sport, and the official recognition provides many
benefits from the school. Club Sport requirements vary across schools, but
generally speaking ...
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About 10 students to sign up for the club.
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Designate students to be President, Vice President, and
Treasurer.
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One of the club leaders will need to attend an orientation
meeting at the start of the year.
A key step is that the program be student-led. That
is, the Sports Club director will likely require a student leader in any emails,
meetings, and to complete the process of registering for Sports Club status.
Motivation for the student: This will look great on your resume.
NOTE: This can be any student, they don't necessarily
need to a racquetball player, just willing to step up and help, and have
something great to add to their resume.
1. Find
on the Internet school(s) in your area.
2. For
a given school, find the Sports Club web site, and the Sports Club Handbook.
3. Read
the Sports Club Handbook, complete any required forms. A big component will be
getting the 10 or so students to sign up to be a part of the club.
4. Identify
and attend any required meeting(s), and submit the completed paperwork.
5. Create
a flier - see samples - and post around the courts, recreation areas, and
common campus areas. You will likely need to get the fliers approved for
posting, or they will be taken down within a day or two; adding a "Remove by
<date>" is a very good idea to keeping the flier posted as long as
possible.
6. Show
up one or two nights a week, for the first month or two, to corral as many
students a possible into the club - or even just showing up for club nights.
Once the club is up and running, you can minimize your time if necessary.
7. We
run three collegiate tourneys a year, so we are looking for that student-leader
and/or adult to advertise, encourage, and round up students to attend the
tourney.
8. The
Sports Club Handbook may require the following information
a.
That "The Club must be affiliated with a national or regional
governing body" ...
That would be ...
b.
https://www.teamusa.org/USA-Racquetball
which operates under the USOC
(United States Olympic Committee)
b.
and more specifically: https://www.teamusa.org/usa-racquetball/programs/college-racquetball
d.
and then "The Club must be affiliated with a league and/or conference"
- that's the
WCRC conference: http://wcrcracquetball.org/
Here's a start ...
- You will need to get familiar
with the club sports handbook; see below.
- You will need to meet with the
club sports director to get the paperwork for being a "club
sport" ... Hopefully you can find that online and start filling it
out ...
I can't seem to readily find online the name and contact info for the
person who oversees club sports; hopefully you can find that out; see
links below.
- Typically, you will need to get
10 or so students to sign up to be in the club.
- There will be at least one
formal meeting with the club sports director and all the prospective club
sport presidents. You _must_ attend these meeting(s).
- Bottom line: some paperwork,
rules to be familiar with, get enough students to sign up, go to the
required meetings ... Might sound like a lot, but once you get familiar w/
the handbook, it's "just" some paperwork and a few
meetings.
This all looks great on your resume.
Web Pages ...
If you can go to a college or university, one night a week or so, and send us a few photos with fliers posted, we will cover the cost to access the facilities (e.g., membership fee) up to $50 / month.
That's a free membership! Well, sort of free money ;) but you're really helping out!
