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Indiana Boys’ Gymnastics State Newsletter

August 21, 2003

Newsletter #2

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State Clinic:

The state clinic will be held at Interactive Gymnastics Academy on September 20-21. The tentative schedule is

Saturday September 20 Morning Golfing somewhere

Saturday September 20 2pm-6pm Coaches Clinic and State Meeting

Saturday September 20 After 6pm BBQ and socializing

Sunday September 21 9am-4pm Gymnasts Clinic

If you did not receive information on the clinic, email me at bpruettkim@aol.com ASAP! The entries need to be in by September 1st so that we can group the kids and order T-shirts. We will have 8 clinicians doing the 6 events plus presentation and trampoline. Also, email me at bpruettkim@aol.com if you are interested in golfing. So far, it is just me and Jeff Greene!

State Meeting:

The coaches clinic on September 20th will double as the state meeting. I have been getting a lot of emails about the schedule. Please bring dates for your meets so that we can plan out the state schedule together. If we do the schedule at the same time and place, we can avoid having more than one meet a weekend. With a shortage of judges in Indiana, one meet a weekend is plenty. If you will not Attend, please forward requests to me by September 1st, so that we can get the schedule finalized.

State judging Course:

Rick Atkinson is starting the first ever Region 5 Judges Symposium. The symposium will be held in Indiana October 4-5 near Fort Wayne. This symposium will be the State judging course. There will be no other course in Indiana this year. The schedule is

Saturday October 4 8am Golf Outing—2 man scramble (only $25!)

Saturday October 4 2pm National Judging Course

Sunday October 5 8am JO Judging Course

If you are interested in judging in Indiana, please consider taking the National Course and the JO course. We are in desperate need of quality judges in Indiana. Meet directors in Indiana spend a lot of money paying to have judges brought in from other states for their meets. At the state meeting, we can discuss the state paying the difference in costs for first time national course takers from Indiana. I think that this is the number one issue that we need to take care of. Further, in January 2005 there will be another FIG course, and I would like to take a delegation from Indiana. Taking the national course this year will be the first step in the process of getting a FIG rating in 2005. I will help anyone who is willing to take the FIG course with me in 2005. Please call Rick Atkinson at 517-355-1633 in order to get the detailed information on the judging symposium or email me at bpruettkim@aol.com and I can fax it to you. Rick needs to know if you are attending no later than September 15th!

Website:

The current website for the boys’ gymnastics page is http://members.aol.com/bpruettkim

This is a temporary location unitl we decide on a permanent location and a url that can be identified with Indiana Boys Gymnastics. Every time the website is updated, I will email a notification to everyone whose email address I have. If you have never seen an update, then I do not have your email address. Please send an email to bpruettkim@aol.com requesting addition to the mailing list.

Questions:

If you have any questions or concerns feel free to use my contact information that I previously provided to get a hold of me and we can work on it. Thanks.

Barry Pruett

Indiana State Chairman