Thanks to all teams for a fun and exciting tournament!
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SAAC Meeting Minutes
Monday, May 2, 2011
Garnet Room
- T-shirt design is almost complete.
- Banner for Reamer is done and in student activities.
- Need to make fliers to give to Dearon to stuff mailboxes and put around campus.
- At next meeting (May 16th) we will be passing around a sign up sheet for people to be in Reamer for sign ups.
- Tuesday and Wednesday May 17th & 18th, 6 p.m., Reamer Auditorium
- $25 per team and other donations accepted.
- Each team needs to select and submit a charity to donate money to if they win.
- All teams must have all members (or close to as many as they can) in attendance.
- 4 members will be playing along with 2 alternates.
- New: "Ask the Professor" aspect. If a team does not know a question,
they can have this as an option.
- Try to get more people to attend. Will have a 50/50 raffle for attending non-athletes, and the other half will go to charity.
- Also going to talk to Steve from the cage and see if he has any old gear we can give away as incentive to come to the event.
- Trophy will be given to winning team and showcased.
- Team uniforms (could be something fun or something like team warm-ups).
- Each team needs to make a poster with team name (be creative).
- Special thanks to committee members Shayla Madden and Carissa Vazzana
- For questions contact Eric McDowell at ext. 6170
- W. Basketball and relay for life.
- Men's lacrosse wounded warrior project and game.
NEEDED: Volunteers for the Minerva Games on evening of Monday May 16th.
Will get a free t-shirt for volunteering.
Next meeting will be Monday May 16, 2011 at 1:00pm.
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SAAC Meeting Minutes
Monday, April 18, 2011
Garnet Room
SAAC Minutes- March 31, 2011
Run Ribs and Raggae
T shirt design is all set
Need a sign up sheet for reamer
Dearon for flyers?
Sign for table at reamer- Lauren Winchill
Men's LAX- RPI game- they're wearing all black jerseys
Raising money for Wounded Warrior Project
50/50 raffle
April 30th - need 5 people
Email Kyle Christine if your team is available to work the 50/50 for them
Relay for life
Send an email out with the link
April 29th 6-2am
Minerva Games
Monday May 16th 3-530
5-8 people from each team to come and setup and participate
SAAC Family Feud-
Two people for a committee
Carissa Vazzana
Shayla Madden
Next meeting: May 2nd
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Monday, January 17th, 2011
Garnet Room
Brian Scarlett opened the meeting at 1:00pm
Discussed the SAAC mid-year surveys
Packets of 10 surveys are being handed out to each team
He encouraged teams to have as many members of their team fill out the survey as possible but a minimum of 10 completed ensures each team 2 SAAC pts per member on their team
The surveys are due Jan. 26th and can be handed in to box 1524 or emailed to odencec19@gmail.com
Clarissa Odence talked about a fundraiser for Shelly Shinebarger's daughter
Shelly is the head of Student services
Her daughter Kristen is 8 years old and diagnosed with Sarcoma
Every team must participate in a fundraising event. It can be their own or combined with another team.
All event ideas must be submitted to odencec19@union.edu by next meeting Feb. 7th and scheduled to occur before the end of spring term.
The money raised will go to research and Kristen's expenses
Pat Petty talked about a volunteer opportunity at a local YMCA
Go and talk to middle school kids on Feb. 16th at 4:30pm
Eric McDowell gave a few updates
"Score for Kristen & the kids" is the first fundraiser that has been started by the hockey teams
$120 has already come in
Will submit a story to the NCAA about all the events we are doing for Kristen
Good shape on Did You Knows but can always use more
One of the did you knows led to a store in the Albany Times Union
Officers asked for a volunteer to come up with the next fun SAAC event
Next SAAC point submission will be on Feb. 1st (points from Nov. 1st till Feb. 1st)
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February 7, 2011
Team Proposals & Ideas
Cross Country & Track Triathlon idea
o The teams would make a reasonable track and series of events for students to participate in.
Field Hockey & Women's Lacrosse Bake Sale
o Two teams are thinking of coming together and bake a wide variety of desserts to sell at games/reamer.
Men's Lacrosse Concession Stand
o The lacrosse team has a big game against RPI this season. Representatives are expecting a large turnout and think a concession stand would be profitable to the cause.
Volleyball
Olympic Event
o Will have two teams consisting of students vs. faculty. There will be a series of Olympic like events to be completed by each team. Tickets will be sold for the event.
**Women's Hockey raised about $2,100 this past weekend!!!
YMCA
Wednesday February 16th from 4pm-6pm. Still need a few volunteers. Please email if interested and available.
Albany Children's Hospital Volunteering
Wednesdays at 3pm. Anyone who can volunteer will be awarded SAAC points. Also email if you can attend.
Molly Freeman
Internship opportunity with Target. Molly is also willing to come to Union and help conduct mock interviews for student athletes. An email of the internship opportunity will be sent to all SAAC representatives. They will then forward to team to see if there is interest from other athletes.
SAAC Points
Points have been tallied. Updated raw points per team will be posted up on the SAAC website.
Winter Activity
Dodgeball event is in the making. Possible dates are coming soon.
Surveys
A collection of feedback and results of the surveys completed by student athletes is almost ready!
Did you know?
Please send any new Did You Know facts about student athletes to Eric McDowell at mcdowele@union.edu.
Next meeting will take place Monday, February 21st. See you then!
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Wednesday September 22, 2010
Location: Garnet Room
Pat Petty Opened Meeting at 1:04pm
Introductions:
Officers introduced themselves
Team Representatives introduced themselves
Pat Petty discussed what SAAC is
Every NCAA school is responsible for having a group
Introduce athletic department representatives
Lacey French
Beth Taimi
Eric McDowell
Brian Scarlett discussed charity run to raise money for Albany Children's Hospital
Need approval from SAAC ->SAAC reps in attendance approved the idea
October 18th subject to change
Run on treadmill
Get sponsors
Other opportunities for fundraising - raffles etc.
Beth Suggested not going after parents for money
Chelsea Charette discussed Old Buisness
Run Ribs & Reggae money was returned because organization closed. Since we advertised the money was going to an orphanage in Haiti we need to find another similar organization.
o Ben Lawrence will head up this project
Congrats to Men & Women's Swimming and Diving who won last years SAAC point competition
Congrats to Men's Track and Field who won the Family Feud night
Clarissa Odence Discussed announcements
More to come about SAAC point competition want to make it simple
Did a good job last year with team unity and community service now want to focus on other aspects of our mission statement
Ask team reps to email officers about issues either on their team or within the athletic department to sit down as a small group and discuss then address in front of the SAAC group as a whole
We are going to look into more ways to get involved with the Union Campus Community
Meetings will be help on the 1st and 3rd Monday of every month during the lunch hour in the Garnet room unless otherwise notified
o Next meeting is Oct. 4th
Davis Barber - SAAC t-shits, look into pricing etc.
Carissa Vazzana- make shirts for Albany Children's Hospital Run
Eric McDowell
o Information about teammates outside of athletics
Pat Petty Closed the meeting at 1:23pm
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October 4th, 2010
Community Service Project:
- We have decided to postpone the run for this fall and accumulate it with Run Ribs & Reggae. We think that we need to get student athletes more involved and invested into these projects. Instead of just paying the $5 and running, we are going to have teams go to Albany Children's Hospital (maybe each team to volunteer here once a trimester?). This way teams are much more intrinsically involved and will feel more compelled to see out the success of the event. This will also give athletes a better understanding of what they are donating towards and how it is helping.
SAAC Points:
-We just went over the agenda (If you want to attach the *fixed agenda that would be good). Also as a SAAC committee we need to go over the double counting for athletes that play more than one sport. These points need to be specified for what team(s) they are going towards. Also we are going to work with Eric to keep updates on the SAAC homepage on a monthly level, to see how teams are doing.
T-Shirts:
-We have decided as a group to scratch the t-shirt idea for n ow. We are going to wait until Davis hears back from his t-shirt contact in regards to prices in comparison to our budget. Also since we are waiting to do the race until Run Ribs & Reggae, we are going to wait to make the shirts for the event (too soon). Another thought is making SAAC shirts because not many other students, besides athletes, know what SAAC is. Still we are going to wait and see what we can work with for budget and t-shirt estimates.
What SAAC reps need to do:
* Fall sport athletes need to email us what game they would like to designate for their SAAC Game.
Corrections to Agenda:
-athletes playing two sports, points will count toward each team.
-next meeting is Oct. 18th
Oct. 18th, 2010
Chelsea Charette opened the meeting at 1:03pm
She reminded the group to send in SAAC points and suggested it may be easier to elect one rep to keep track of team's points and to send in the points as they are received union.saac.points@gmail.com
October SAAC points are Due Nov. 1st
Volleyball team reps announced Women's volleyball SAAC day Oct. 19th, supporting breast cancer awareness
Clarissa Odence suggested a SACC Kickball night
The group decided to have it be held the night of Mon. Nov. 8th or as close to there as possible depending on field availability
Pat Petty presented NCAA legislation changes
Several of the changes were discussed and the officers have decided to revisit the issue
Pat Petty then asked for Fall Sport Reps to give an update on their seasons:
Pearl Jurist-Shoen Women's soccer: 11-3, may of lost chance to host but likely will get into liberty league tournament.
Ben Lawrence Men's cross country: 8 out 31 teams at Westfield meet, meet before that 1st out of 13, States next weekend
Kelsey MacElroy field hockey: Currently tied for 3rd in the league, start post season play soon
Carissa Vazzana Volleyball: SAAC day against Sage, team is hopefully going to liberty leagues
Eric McDowell spoke:
Crew had a great weekend at home. Women's cross country doing well to. Football tough loss this weekend but home again this weekend. Women's hockey won against sacred heart this weekend. Men's hockey won last game in Alaska.
Meeting ended 1:26pm.
POINT TOTALS AS OF NOVEMBER 1, 2010
Baseball: 37
Softball: 231
M. Basketball: 0
W. Basketball: 82
M. Crew: 0
W. Crew: 0
M. Cross Country: 20
W. Cross Country: 0
Football: 0
M. Ice Hockey: 11
W. Ice Hockey: 74
Indoor Track: 0
M. Track & Field: 0
W. Track & Field: 11
M. Soccer: 171
W. Soccer: 71
Swimming & Diving: 181
M. Tennis: 0
W. Tennis: 0
Volleyball: 17
Field Hockey: 56
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