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Greetings!
The
first quarter of 2010 has seen Netball America make some huge strides
with exposure to 6,000 teachers and coaches at the AAHPERD conference
in Indiana, 35,000 attendees at the Rugby 7's tournament in Vegas and
having Netball make its debut at the NBA.
In
addition, Netball America is excited to congratulate the successful
East and West Coast trialists who will take the floor at the Staples
Center and Madison Square Garden events. The competition was tough
and it was great to see such a good turnout for both events!
The
countdown is on for the opening night of the WNBA NY Liberty and
Netball showcase at Madison Square Garden
This is a huge feat for the game with 14,000 sets of eyes on the
game. Netball America is now tasked with getting as many of you and
your supporters to the events. To offer a little incentive we have
teamed up with the folks from Madison Square Garden to offer exciting
prizes, including a Madison VIP experience as a prize for the club
who sells the most tickets for the May 16th
event. The competition will run until April 30 and keep an eye on
the website / face book page for competition leaders.
As
always, we are consistently looking for new ideas for this newsletter
and any volunteers who want to help spread the word about Netball -
please, drop us a line if you have an hour to spare or have any
suggestions.
Happy Playing! Sonya
Ottaway, President, Netball America
e/mail
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 WELCOME NEW MEMBERS
Senators
Netball Club (Brooklyn), New Horizon Sports Netball Club
(Connecticut) and the North Shore Netball Club (Hawaii). Netball
America organized for the North Shore Netball Club to participate in
the Hawaii tournament on Monday - congratulations on your first
team tournament!
Spread the love - forward this email to your Netball friends and encourage them to join today.
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2010 West and East Coast Representative Teams Selected!
Thanks
to everyone who assisted with recent West Coast and East Coast
Trials. Also, thank you to Matt Cohen from the NY Liberty for
stopping by, talking to players and presenting the gifts to
successful trialists. Please click here
to see the Netball America West Coast Lightning and East Coast
Jaguars representative teams as well as players selected for the
shorter demo games.
For representative
team training dates refer to the calendar.
The West Coast team just participated at the NBA LA Clippers vs NY
Knicks game on Sunday - thanks to all those players and volunteers
and a full update will be included in next months newsletter.
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MADISON SQUARE GARDEN EVENT & COMPETITION
Netball
America has worked hard to establish the partnership with the NBA and
WNBA. We are grateful to be given the opportunity to shine the
spotlight on some of the country's top Netball players to
demonstrate how the game is played, recruit American players, and
raise the profile of Netball in America.
WE NEED YOUR HELP! Send out flyers to your friends, family and
co-workers; encourage these people to attend the events. Those
unable to attend the events are asked to make a tax deductible donation enabling Netball America to invite kids from local schools,
PE teachers and other local officials, with the aim of getting
Netball into schools. For the Madison Square Garden event we are
sponsoring the George Washington Carver High School - Springfield
Gardens High School Campus. Thanks to Crusaders Netball Club for
working with us to identify this school.
Lend
us your Facebook page for a day - but updating your profile to
promote the Madison Square Garden event. Also help us identify
potential sponsors who will have exposure to over 30,000 highly
affluent basketball fans. You can also volunteer on the organizing
committee or on the day of the event.
For
the club / person that sells the most tickets to the WNBA Game in New
York we have the following prize packages:
100
tickets
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2 VIP passes
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4 meal
tickets
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Liberty
premium autographed gift - (autographed teamed signed t-shirt)
200
tickets
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3 VIP passes
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10 meal tickets
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Liberty
super premium autographed gift - (autographed teamed signed
basketball)
350
tickets
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4 VIP passes
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20 meal tickets
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NY Knicks premium autographed gift
450
tickets
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6 VIP passes
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40 meal tickets
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MSG premium gift - a pair of tickets to an upcoming
Rangers/Knicks/Liberty in the Madison catered suite (based on
availability)
Purchase
your tickets today by clicking here.
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New York Travel Deals:
Flights: Save time and take a look at www.kayak.com to search for the best deals on flights. This site searches all of the airlines' sites as well as other search engines like expedia, orbitz and travelocity.
Hotels: Do New York in style! While you are in town for the Netball
Showcase at Madison Square Garden you can have the corporate rate when
you stay at the Sheraton Hotel & Towers centrally located corporate
rate
for our Madison Square Garden event. Please click here to make a
reservation today. Alternatively, call 1888-627-7067 and use the code 'Netball America' to
also take advantage of this rate.
Crusaders 20th
Anniversary tournament
If
you're attending and want to stay out of the city another
alternative is: The
Hampton Inn, 144-10
135 Ave, Jamaica,
NY 11436,
(718)
322-7500 http://www.hamptonjfk.com
Reservations Deadline - May 1st.
Reservation Code: Crusaders Sports ClubSpecial
Rate: $69/night **
RATE INCLUDES**HOT
BREAKFAST BAR, PARKING, SHUTTLE SERVICE TO AND FROM JFK AIRPORT
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Netball
America and the National Association of Sport and Physical Education
Netball
A  merica has partnered with NASPE to help get Netba  ll into schools
around the country. Read about Netball America's visit and
demonstration at the National PE Teachers conference in Indiana here.
Stay
tuned as we'll be updating you on this effort and will need your
assistance to help roll out these school programs. Netball
America also had an opportunity to explain Netball to Carl Lewis (yes
the holder of 10 Olympic medals and 10 World Championship medals).
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Netball
America and the International Rugby 7's
This
event attracted a crowd of over 35,000 people and resulted in new
Netball America members for our local clubs and new member teams in
new States. We are still distributing those contacts out to clubs,
so we ask that you to reach out to these new members once you receive
their contact details from us.
A
big thank you to those you helped out over the weekend. - Marcie &
Bob Anderson, Steve Anderson, Nat Cuvelier, Carey Dunlop, Jo O'Key,
Sonya Ottaway, Laverne Patane, and Juhne Tuilaucala. Also it was
great to see Nicola (Calgary Cowgirls), Kirsten (Waves) and De-Anne
(Emerald City) stop by the booth. Also the Honorable Chris De Cure,
Australian Consul General - LA came by and assisted the kids
shooting hoops.
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UMPIRING TIPS by Prue
Plummer-D'Amato  In 1996 Prue
was awarded the All Australia
(AA) umpiring award, then the IFNA Umpires Award in 1998. The IFNA
Umpiring Award was endorsed in 2001.
Setting
Penalties When penalizing an
infringement:
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Blow
the whistle
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State
the infringement
(and the infringer for major infringements) and use a hand signal
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State
the penalty
being awarded (Penalty Pass, Penalty Pass or Shot, Free Pass, Throw
In, Toss Up)
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State
who the penalty is being awarded to
(Note: penalties are awarded to a TEAM, not a player)
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State
(and indicated) where
the penalty is to be taken
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