Booster Club Parent Kickoff Informational Meeting
2014 High School Softball Teams
Furlong Fieldhouse -
7:00 pm - Wednesday November 6th 2013
Meeting Recap
1. Joe Cusenza, Booster Club
President welcomed the group and introduced the Varsity Coaches:
Dan Roberts, Head Coach, Mike Goldstein and Peter Ramiccio, Assistant
Coaches.
Donna Zdanowicz, Junior Varsity Coach and Rebecca Ferguson, Freshman
Coach will be in attendance at later meeting.
2. Pre-season activities,
fundraising and fundraising
possibilities and objectives were discussed.
-Fundraising:
Players are encouraged to become involved, fundraising benefits the
whole team. Money raised will help subsidize the Varsity spring training trip to
Florida, purchase necessary additional equipment, help to defray costs for
indoor practice space when needed. It is
also useful for supporting community/team events such as the "Batters
Up" season kickoff, Senior Day and the Banquet at the end of the season.
-Canning at King's Supermarket in Upper Montclair for this coming
Saturday, November 9th.
Parents should contact Loria Smith if your player can participate this
weekend. There will be additional
opportunities throughout the pre-season.
loria_smith@hotmail.com
-Booster Ad Book- information has been sent out for the Booster Ad book and if
you have any questions about it at this point, please contact Loria Smith or Colleen
Connell.
-BeefSteak Dinner - A longtime MHS Softball tradition, this event will take place
in late January/early February. We will
need volunteers to help with the planning, please look for more details in the
coming weeks.
3. Booster Club Dues for 2014 will be $100 per family
and will also be applied towards items listed above. Presently there $8,041.53 in the Booster
Club's account and we would like to carry at least a $5000 balance forward at
the end of every season.
4. Discussion of Varsity Spring Training in
Florida.
Varsity team will be
making a trip to Disney’s Spring Training at the ESPN Wide World of Sports
Complex in Orlando, Florida. This trip
will give the Varsity players five days of games and practices, drills &
skills, & team building activities. The
players will leave after school on Wed, March 19th and return home,
Monday, March 24th. At this
time, we are planning for approximately 13 Varsity Players and 3 coaches will
have the opportunity to attend and our hope is to keep the out of pocket
expense per family to $500 or less. Academic
time will be slotted into the schedule.
All MHS teachers will be informed of the reason for each student’s
absence. There will also be a community
service component for each player who will attend the trip.
5. Anyone who has a financial issue (all
financial issues will be held in the strictest confidence) should contact
either Joe Cusenza at jcooz1@aol.com
or Colleen Connell at collconnell@aol.com.
6. Coach Roberts announced
off-season training opportunities and preliminary spring season scheduling. These are not mandatory for players prior
to pre-season tryouts, but participation is strongly encouraged. All players should
attend as many sessions as possible.
-Off Season Weight Training will start Tuesday December 3rd at the Fieldhouse. The Softball Team has been scheduled to use
the weight room on Tuesday/Thursday/Friday from 4pm-5pm when school is in
session. They will be supervised by
Coach Stoia. There is no charge for the
weight training.
-Speed and Agility Training will start the first week of February at Woodman Field. The Softball Team has been scheduled to use
the track on when school is in session - TBD times/day of week to be
confirmed.
They will be supervised by Coach Washington. There is no charge for this speed and agility
training.
After school study groups were discussed to
allow for players to do homework while waiting for their training sessions to
begin - TBD.
-Batting practice
will be arranged off-site Starting in January.
Would like to schedule 8 weeks, 2x per week. Last year it was approximately $10 per
session, but the price is TBD. It will
be indoors and a private coach will be part of the batting practice. Once we have a time slot and facility secured
we will pass on the specifics.
-Game Schedules have not been released at this time,
but will be posted as soon as they are available. FYI: Typically,
the Varsity and JV have the same schedule.
Varsity is playing at home, the JV will also be at home playing the same
opponent. The Freshman team would be
playing away - possibly with the same opponent if the school has a freshman
team.
7. The Varsity WILL have games during spring
break. This is necessary due to
schedules for our conference (SEC-Super Essex Conference) and deadlines for
games being played. The JV and Freshman
schedule during spring break to be determined.
8.
Coach Roberts and Joe Cusenza are working on uniform orders, bowflex
nets for batting practice and outfield (portable) fencing for the 2014 Spring
Season. These items are part of the
Softball team's athletic department budget and are not the responsibility of
the booster club. They will work with
the new Athletic Director, Jeff Gannon, to coordinate these items.
9. Booster Club Operations: If you are interested in volunteering for one
of the following or have any other ideas, please contact Joe Cusenza or Colleen
Connell. The Booster Club would like to:
-add another
Board member (or two),
-would like to explore the possibility
of the development of an MHS Softball website
-obtain officers liability insurance
coverage, Joe Cusenza will check with Bollinger Insurance
to see what is available
If you have any questions, please contact montclairsoftball@gmail.com and we will do everything to help answer your questions.
Best regards,
Montclair High School Softball Booster Club
Joe Cusenza President, Colleen Connell VP,
Bill Lee Treasurer, Chris Isidore, Secretary,
Loria Smith Fundraising, Debra David,
Information Distribution
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