August 20, 2009
Lots of stuff going on in preparation of the upcoming season
SENIOR MEN'S TRAINING (Prems., 1st Div., 3rd Div., Junior Men)
Every Tuesday and Thursday evening at the club at 7pm. starting Thursday, August 20th. Junior Men/U-19's are welcome to join in as well to start out.
BRING A FRIEND!
SENIOR WOMEN'S TRAINING (1st Div. & Junior Women)
Every Tuesday and Thursday evening at the club at 6 pm. starting Thursday, August 20th. Junior Women /U-1 8 's are welcome to join in as well to start out.
FIRST GAMES
Men's League: Weekend of the 19th/20th of September Exhibition: Saturday, September 12 vs Nanaimo Hornets at Herd Rd. (Wayne Peace memorial game)
Women's & Juniors
Information to follow
HEAD COACH
To be announced this weekend. Chris Evans has been running the informal fitness sessions the last 3 weeks.
SPONSORSHIP
The club has signed a deal with Kukri to supply all of our rugby clothing. This includes new jerseys and leisure wear.
SUNFEST
Was a success for the club in that despite a large crowd in the beer gardens (up to 800 people) There were absolutely no problems! The RCMP, organizers and the paying public were very pleased with the professional approach the Cowichan Rugby Club took to this difficult task that made their job so much easier.
A big thanks to the 30 odd club volunteers who spent long hours before, during and after the event. I would especially like to thank Gerry Reese, Bob McDonald and especially Rhonda Grantham who were really the glue that held this all together. Great club people!
WAYNE PEACE GAME
Will take place Saturday, Sept. 12th at Cowichan. The "Friends of Wayne" game will kick off at 1:00pm and the full on exhibition between the Cowichan 1st XV and Nanaimo 1st XV will kick off at 3:00pm. There will be an $10 admission at the gate. $60 will get you a super golf shirt, dinner and admission. Contact Barb James if you want the fresh, new Kukri Gold shirt. Limited quantity of 50. Volunteers need for 50/50, dinner prep., refereeing and general organization. All proceeds will go to the "Wayne Peace Fund" which helps Tanya support their three kids in youth sports.
We also need donations for the live aution that will take place.
GRAND STANDS MOVE
Wednesday, August 26th, at 8am, Nichol Bros House Moving will be moving the stands from their present location to their new "home". The move will take 1 hour.
Nichol Bros will be on site Monday and Tuesday to prep for the move. Nichol Bros is a very busy outfit with four offices (Nanaimo, Victoria, Vancouver and Seattle) and make over 300 structure moves per year. They have a large "inventory" of used houses which they move off property, store, then deliver to new sires for customers around the Pacific Northwest. They are experts in barging/delivering buildings over water.
The grounds project is so far, ahead of schedule and under budget. By the end of this week the underground infrastructure along the south end zone and east preoprty line will be complete including itwo new irrigation lines, two new 3" PVC drains along the east section, new 4" connections and the new 12" double wall main drain the complete length of the property to Herd Rd. Two drinking water stand pipes have been installed along the east property line. 12" of C33 sand should also be be dumped and spread in these areas and we hope to plant grass in these areas next week (16,000 sq. ft. or 2/5's of an acre of playing surface gained.)
Once the stands have been moved the west side and north end zone underground infrastructure will be installed, sand delivered and spread and then seeded for an additional 35,000 sq. ft of playing surface. In total we will be picking up 51,000 sq. ft of sand based playing surface which equates to 1.25 acres. We are planning on having the next area seeded by early Sept. Our original plans were to have the new seed in by October 1st, so the extra month will give us a great head start as it takes about a year before we can play on it.
Nichol Bros House Moving, who quoted us $23,750 tax in April of 2008 requoted and in a sponsorship partnership, dropped their original price, which should have been up by 5%, to $22,000.00 tax. A savings to us of about $2000.00. Andrew Sheret Ltd. Plumbing Supply also reduced their original cost of pipe to us for a savings of about $1800.00. Competitive rates on sand (we need 2000 tons) currently has us getting sand delivered at a great rate.
RUGBY IN THE OLYMPICS
This could be great news. Rugby 7's and Golf (men's and women's) look to be additions to the Olympic games for 2016. Apparently Rugby was an easy winner at the Olympic Board meeting, winning several ballots. Golf duked it out with Karate with Golf eventually winning oout to come 2nd on the 3rd ballot. The Board will now go to the 185 member Olympic membership to have a simple majority vote. The Board will recommend rugby and gold be accepted. The sports that lost out were Softball and Baseball. One of the reasons rugby and golf won out was that the inclusion of these two sports would increase the female participation over softball/baseball by 100%. Our club could see a direct benefit from this as with our new grounds and perhaps plans to resurrect the CRFC 7's tournament in the late summer 2010, we may be recognized as a "hotbed" of 7's rugby if all goes right.
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
U-16 Boys Gold
U-17 Girls Bronze
U-19 Women Silver
Congratulations to all the Cowichan players (11 total) that participated in the games in Ontario.
SUMMER GAMES
The U-18 BC Boys are undefeated so far in the Summer Games in PEI. The only glitch was a tie with Ontario. The BC team has 6 boys from Cowichan on it including team captain, Nick Phillipson.
NA8
BC takes on Ontario on Sept 12 over at Brockton Oval. Doug Wooldridge should start at loosehead for Ontario. Ontario plays a friendly this weekend against the US team and Doug is rostered as starting at #1.
ATHLETIC THERAPIST
The club has contracted an athletic therapist who will be at every training session (Tuesday/Thursday) and at every game to meet the players taping/therapy needs. They will be starting soon.
PLAYER CONTACTS
If you have any questions regarding the season, ability to get here or any other questions that need answering, please contact:
Director of Rugby: Bob McDonald cell:250-715-7180, email bs.mcdonald@shaw.ca
President: John James cell:250-709-5137, email fireguy627@hotmail.com
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