Without having regular meetings anymore, sometimes it can be kind of challenging to keep everyone in the loop. So, I decided to take this opportunity to share with all of you what we have been working on, and what we can use your help on. If you are interested in running for any positions in the fall, there are a lot of great ways to get your feet wet, and so I will also note who you will want to contact if you are interested in helping with any of these projects that we have in the works.
We have tentatively scheduled the first big meeting of next year to be on Monday, September 8th. August 25th will be the first day of classes and also the date for the Sport Club Night in the rec center where we will set up a booth and promote TriCats. That will give us two weeks to spread the word about TriCats. Because our first meeting is always way to big for our little conference room, we are thinking about having it on the mall and setting up a PA system. We will have a meeting earlier than this for all returning members. The time and location of this is TBA, but it might involve food. To help: Contact Andy Wyatt.
We are going to have our first social probably two weeks after that. TriSports has offered to host a BBQ/pizza party at their store in which they provide all of the food, and we spend the day doing team building activities between TriSports and TriCats so that everyone can get to know each other and we can build real relationships between our members and our main sponsor. There will also be bike clinics, swim clinics, run clinics, and other various things related to removing the intimidation from triathlon. I expect that a lot of this will be led by returning members. To help: Contact Jessica Boessneck.
Our fall aquathlon is going to be the TriSports.com fall aquathlon and is scheduled for Saturday, September 27th. We really want to get the jump on this one early, so that we can start promotions and publicity early. Probably one of the biggest things that we can do to really increase the number of participants in this race would be for us to participate in the summer aquathlon series and get to know the other athletes that do these races on a regular basis and let them know about ours. To help: Contact Kristine Billings.
We are looking at having our fall training camp on October 4th. One idea is to have it in Rocky Point, Mexico; and incorporate the Rocky Point triathlon on Saturday morning as a part of it. I think that this would be tons of fun, but everyone would have to make sure they have their passports. This could also possibly be one of the qualifiers for Los Gatos. To help: Contact Brian Grasky.
We have started the process of organizing a winter training camp for all seven of the schools in our triathlon conference, the Mountain Collegiate Triathlon Conference. If any of you are curious as to which schools are in our conference, they are UofA, ASU, NAU, CU Boulder, CSU, Air Force Academy, and UNM. This will take place over winter break, and will take a lot of planning between now and then. I think it will be a great way to build a lot of relationships throughout our conference, and make the conference racing season that much more fun. To help: Contact Andy Wyatt.
We are also starting the process of putting together a newsletter. The initial publication will go out to our sponsors, and prospective members to let them know the purpose of TriCats, and how generally bad ass we are. After that, we are hoping to put one out bi-monthly to all parents, sponsors, and donors. We feel like this will help our sponsors understand how much we do, help all of our parents understand what it is that we invest so much of our time and all of their money in, and it probably won't hurt us financially if the donation letter is not the first time that people hear about TriCats. To help: Contact Andy Wyatt.
We have already started working on our gear orders for several T-shirts, nike orders, and our Squadra team uniform orders with the hope that we can make this process as efficient as possible next year, and hopefully get our gear closer to December than March. To help: Contact Andy Wyatt.
We are also working with TriSports to put together a beginner bike package with a pricepoint similar to the one that we got from Bargain Basement, but with Felt bikes rather than Schwinns. They have also offered to do free bike fits (this usually costs $75) for those TriCats that can't quite afford that $600 price tag when they are new to the sport. That way they can buy a clunker that fits them, rather than something that will cause injury. To help: Contact Jessica Boessneck.
Also, we are going to be trying to put together a coalition of good swimmers that can help teach swim form for the first couple of weeks in the fall. To help: Contact Kristine Billings.
on May 13, 2008 - 17:05. 
Joined: 2007-08-26