Week of December 16

Week of December 16

First, I would like to thank everyone that helped with our tournaments!  There are so many of you that made the day a success.  I would like to thank Sandy Smith for being an amazing Volunteer Coordinator and working with me for the past few months to make sure we had a fully staffed tournament.  I'm so proud to see our alumni stepping up to take key roles in our events.  Dan Smith(BX Alum), you did an amazing job as our FTA!  Bekah May(BX Alum), our JFLL event was amazing!  You were an awesome Event Coordinator!   Hannah May(BX Alum), our judging ran very smoothly, even with the rearrangement of judging times due to the snow.  Thank you for being our Judge Advisor.  Dave Smith, thank you for making our fields perfect!  Broderick & Nancy Gin, Tanya Brothers, thank you for making our money making end run smoothly.  I don't think I stepped foot in your area, and it was perfect!  Thank you!   Michelle Nieman, thanks for keeping our pits in line!  Cheryl Sommers, thanks for making sure we were safe with glasses!   Richard Marquardt & Jodi Russ, thank you for making our volunteer food and room amazing!   Bill Sommers, thanks for getting our stuff safely to the event, and more importantly, for braving the snow storm to return our stuff to the center!  Bruce Meyer, Thanks for making our audio run smoothly and helping with all of our electronics.    Thanks to Andrew Gin (BX Alum) for being our CSA.  Thanks to Jeff Whalen for leading our inspections!  Thanks to our awesome Announcers Bekah May & Brandon Sidoti.  Thanks to Frank Mojzesz for photographing for us!  

In addition to all of those awesome volunteers from our own BX pool of people, we would like to thank Tom & Cindy Nader, Tammy Damrath, Brian Smith and Mark Garver for filling key roles!

And, thanks to ALL of the BX parents, mentors and students who helped those leaders make our tournament such a success.  I would say close to 90% of our volunteer positions were BX team members, family, and/or mentors!   Way to go BX!!  So proud and thankful for you all!!!!!!

PRACTICE:  Thursday 7 - 9 PM - rearrange the center for our season.  :)

The social we were going to have on Friday is going to be rescheduled for January.   With so many of our team going up early Saturday morning, it would be best to put this off for a bit.  :)

LAST CALL for worlds.  If we do not have more participation, we will cancel the trip planning.  At this point, we do not have enough deposits to make it worthwhile to hold our bus.   Please let me know tonight if you are planning to attend worlds.

KICK-OFF:  Saturday, Jan. 4.  Plan on being at the center from 9 AM until late.  More details will be in the blog soon!  

One last thank you to all of you for your help this past weekend!  You all really came through and provided our younger FIRST participants two amazing events!  Thank you!!!!