Hello graduate students!
It is with great pleasure that I introduce the GSA inter-departmental slo-pitch softball league! For those of you who have a rep on the GSA council, you should've heard of this already; but for those who don't, here's how it's going to work! (It is a long email
but it should contain all the info that interested parties need, so read carefully!)
-Inter-departmental
-Softball (bigger ball than baseball)
-Season will run from May 14 to the last week of August
-One game every 2 weeks (on week days)
-Time: 5:00pm or 6:00 pm (depending on field and team availability)
-Minimum of 9 persons per team (minimum 4 girls). Suggested number: 12-13 players per team The more the better - especially since we all have other obligations
-Small departments can join together to form a team. Large departments may form more than one if necessary
-No skills required (easy to learn!)
-The goal is to increase graduate student cohesion -- have some fun, meet graduate students from other department, spend some time outside…
-Location: King's park (15 minute walk south of campus, King street). If there is enough interest from the Bannatyne-campus students, we will do our best to accommodate you (i.e. play at least half of your games around the downtown area)
-Wind-up social in September, trophy and prizes for best/worst record...
-Open to graduate students only, but faculty/staff will be allowed to play on your team if you need more players (no more than 2 faculty/staff per team)
-All equipment provided by the GSA and will be the responsibility of the team captains(This includes a cooler and some refreshments to bring to the game provided by the GSA)
Here is how to proceed with registration:
-Deadline for registration is May 3rd 2012 (2 weeks from today)
-Talk to the students of your department and form a team. If you have enough people to form a complete team, elect a team captain. Email names and emails of all players to Olivier at senator2@umgsa.ca
-If you only have a partial team (3-11 players) by May 3rd, send the email names and emails of all players... to Olivier atsenator2@umgsa.ca. Identify the “temporary” contact person for your partial team
(until teams are merged and a team captain can be elected). Also, include some departments that you would potentially like to team up with in that email
-Free Agency: If there is not sufficient interest in your department to form a team, sign-up as a free agent. Again, register by sending me an email at senator2@umgsa.ca. You will be assigned a team at
the end of registration (or mention potential departments or faculties you would like to join in that email)
-Following the deadline of May 3rd, I will send an email to all contact persons of every full or partial teams. This will be to finalize teams. Once this is all done, team memberships will be sent to all captains, and the merged teams can arrange to elect
a team captain
-The schedule will be put together and emailed to team captains the week of the 7th. Email all specific requirements of your team prior to May 3rd (e.g. “we can't get out of the lab until 5:30 so we will have to play all our games at 6:00” or “most of us are
going on a conference the third week of June so we can't play that week” or again “we can't play on Wednesdays”…)
Some miscellaneous information:
-Rivalries between departments can be accommodated. I'll do my best to accommodate everyone and every team within reason
-Aside from their inherent duties, team captains will be responsible for picking up the equipment/cooler/refreshments from the GSA prior to the games, as well as being responsible for verifying that all equipment is returned after the game.
Any questions, comments or feedback, please email me at senator2@umgsa.ca
Hope to see you on the field!
Olivier and the GSA executive team