SLP Traveling Baseball Board Meeting
November 8, 2015, Wolf Park Pavillion
Attendees
- Mark Young
- Greg Meyer
- Brian McBride
- Todd Dvorak
- Gino Giovannelli
- Joel Abrahamson
- Dan Hower
- James Kirkpatrick
- Kim Stadler
- Jeb Meyer – Attendee (SLP Little League)
Volunteer Requirements Discussion – tabled.
- Improvements – running score boards, updating boards, communicating with tournament teams
- Brian Piehl – SLP Basketball Association – to discuss overview of volunteer coordination for basketball
Additional non-voting board member positions - Need the following:
- Full time treasurer (TBD)
- Slugfest: Field general, concession manager, volunteer coordinator
Winter Workouts (Greg)
- SLP Traveling Baseball will offer Winter Workouts. Invitation extended to SLP LL 10-12 year olds
- We are looking to get gym times reserved this week – looking for Friday nights starting mid January
Spring tryouts for 10-12's (Greg)
- Dates/times:
- Thursday, 02/25 6:30 – 9:00pm
- Saturday, 02/27 1:15 – 4:45pm
- Sunday, 02/28 10:15am – 2:15pm
- Monday, 02/29 6:30 – 9:00pm
- Need to get specific times set for age groups
- Need a communications email to go – out to parents via Backpack and send to last years Traveling Players (Mike Thyne)
Head coaching options for 2016 for 13-15's (Greg)
- Greg provided an update on coaching vacancies and coaches secured
- Website has been updated with coaching additions
Player registration via NGiN (Gino)
- In progress
- 13-15 year olds - Looking to roll out in early December
- 10-12 year olds - Rollout in March after teams are announced
Slugfest (Dvorak)
- May 20-22
- Births applied for Gopher State, MBT, MSF
- Team fees: ages 13-15 ($375) and 10-12 ($350)
- Number of teams offered per age group
- 1 10’s (10AAA)
- 2 11's (11AAA, 11AA)
- 1 12 (12AAA)
- 2 13's (13AAA, 13AA)
- 2 14's (14AAA, 14/15A)
Fundraising (Thyne) - Tabled
- Ways to generate additional funds
Uniforms (Jenny) - Tabled
- Discussion/plan for 2016
- Jenny bringing uniform samples to next board meeting
Budget discussion (Mark)
- Review of 2015 seasons and present status
- 2016 Budget
Fall Tournament Feedback Discussion (Robello)
- Concessions report – thanks to families that managed it, especially Alan Brown (no kid playing)
Field Scheduling (James)
- Field Scheduling and Batting Cages will be handled via Google Calendar for 13-15 year old teams
- Board will monitor field/cage sign ups to make sure there is equity time across teams