TORONTO ULTIMATE CLUB 2013 Juniors Summit February 10, 2012 - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
TORONTO ULTIMATE CLUB 2013 Juniors Summit February 10, 2012 Introduction Purpose Of This Summit To recap the Junior program for 2012 To identify our priorities for 2013 To strategize the growth of juniors playing Ultimate
February 10, 2012
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programming
program
GTA
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ultimate in Toronto by teaching Spirit of the Game, rules, basic skills and strategies in a single-gender setting
4:30 PM – Jan to March 2012
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– 8th annual tournament for high school teams – Dates: Thursday February 23rd and Friday February 24th – Location: Downsview Hangar
– Two day tournament with separate divisions:
– B Division had 15 schools participate, the A division had 12 – Bowmanville won the B division, Northern Secondary won the A
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– TUC attended and provided prizing at the following tournaments in an effort to promote the club:
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Championships (12 Teams)
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– 2012 saw TUC and the GTA All Stars begin the process of working together with regards to touring
kids paid TUC directly
mainly Toronto Juniors
– Overdrive open finished 4th at Nationals, Overdrive Women finished 2nd – GTA All Star provided coaching for the TJSL North East Youths.
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– Split TJSL into two divisions:
– Ran from June 24 to the last week in August – Youth Division had 3 locations
– The first year of the Youth division had a total of 40 registered players – Youth “playoffs” on Sunday August 26th at Riverdale Park.
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– Teen Division increase from 4 to 5 locations:
– A total of 216 juniors participated in our 2012 summer teen divisions – An increase of 62 (teen + youth) participants from TJSL 2011 (194) – Ran first ever TJSL division at Mid-season with 4 teams – Teen playoffs on Thursday August 30th at Downsview Park
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Bloor CI in the south (did only Lawrence Park CI in 2011)
interest
Queen Alexandria PS and Riverdale Park)
– Teen South 26 registered – Teen North 18 registered – Youth South 13 registered – Total of 57 total fall outdoor participants an increase of 21 fall
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– Thursday evenings 7-8:30 PM Nov 1 to Dec 20 (8 weeks) – 27 Registered participants
– Thursday evenings 7-8:30 PM January 10 to March 7 (9 weeks) – 20 Registered Participants
– Two new Youth winter session (to replace JGUP) » East division Saturday 12-2 at Monarch Park runs from February 9 to March 23 (7 weeks) » West division Sunday 12-2 PM at Lakeshore CI dome from February 10 to March 24 (7 weeks) – 10 registered youths (4 East, 6 West)
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leagues
– Just over ¼ of our registered juniors participated in Adult leagues
north of Square 1 Mall)
promotion
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Programming
In 2013 we want to grow on the success of 2012 and continue to increase the accessibility for junior aged players to play Ultimate across the city
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– Junior Pickup/Open House Thursday March 14th 7pm – 9pm at Monarch Park
– Daytime Junior pickup during March Break – Spring indoor TEEN league Thursday evenings at Monarch Park 7 – 9 PM March 21 to May 2 – Outdoor Spring Leagues? – Do we increase the number of summer locations
– Do we further define our age groups?
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– Do we offer a competitive and a recreational division in our teen leagues? – Should we consider inter location games during the summer? – Should we consider doing single gender leagues? – Should we do more junior tournaments? – Growing juniors outside of the city of Toronto? – How can we better promote the junior leagues and tournaments?
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– Right now TUC only provides support by providing practice fields, sponsorship of $1500 and provides money laundering services as described above to the GTA All Stars in exchange for volunteer hours – TUC has no involvement on the operations of the team (budgeting, management, coaches)
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Adjourn Meeting