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Spring 2006 Newsletter— Volume 2: Page 1 |
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Virginia Recreational Sports Association |
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April 4-8, 2006 Annual NIRSA Conference in Louisville, Kentucky April 21-23,2006 1st Annual VRSA State Soccer Tournament - hosted at GMU June 5-8, 2006 National School of Recreational Sports Management—Level 1 in San Antonio, Texas Sept. 28-29, 2006 VRSA State Workshop hosted by James Madison University Oct. 11-14, 2006 National Recreation Facilities Institute in Columbus, Ohio Fall 2007 Region II Workshop hosted by The College of William & Mary Fall 2008 VRSA State Workshop hosted by the University of Richmond Can’t attend the National Conference? All student and professional members of NIRSA are eligible to vote online via a proxy ballot for the 2006 elections. Click here to vote online: |
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Student Award of Merit (see page 4 for more information), George Mason will be hosting the 1st Annual VRSA State Soccer Tournament next month, we have individuals standing for office both on the student and professional level at the national conference, as well as individuals presenting at various conferences throughout the course of the year. Certainly an exciting time for our state! Unfortunately the VRSA Extramural Basketball Tournament, scheduled for the weekend of March 17-19, had to be cancelled due to an insufficient number of teams participating. Although this year wasn’t as successful as we hoped for, I am extremely confident we will be able to host this event next year. I think we ran into some unavoidable hardships with the timing of the tournament that will hopefully be avoidable next year. During the state business meeting at the National Conference we will discuss this event in greater detail in hopes of finding a more suitable time to have this event next year. A huge thank you goes out to Greg Corack (JMU), Bob Golson (JMU), Todd Bowman (UVA), the Student Officials Association at JMU and the VRSA Extramural Committee. These individuals put a tremendous amount of time, effort and energy into the planning and preparation of this event, which made announcing the cancellation so much more difficult. Their dedication and commitment to this tournament is truly appreciated and highly commendable! At the national conference we will be holding elections for State Student Representative, Assistant State Director, Treasurer/Secretary and Historian during our state business meeting. If you are thinking about running for any of these positions or would like to nominate someone, please contact Stacy Smith at ss9ug@virginia.edu or 434.982.4866. You do not have to be present at the conference in order to run for office. We truly appreciate the commitment and dedication our current officers have displayed over the course of the last several years: Jennifer Rezac (Asst. State Director); Anne Zielinski (Secretary/Treasurer); Sue Boling (Historian); Lindsey Ervin (Student State Rep.) With the National Conference quickly approaching, I wanted to take this time to point out several important events taking place throughout the week: Tuesday (April 4th) Noon-5:30: Career Opportunities Center (COC) opened 5:30-6:30: New Members Welcome 7:00-9:00: Opening General Session Wednesday (April 5th) 7:30am-11:30am: COC Opened 2:00-4:00: Student Business Meeting 4:30-6:30: Regional Business Meeting (State Business Meeting will also take place during this time) 6:30-8:30: VRSA Social/Farewell to Sue Boling (VCU) at the Galt House West Thursday (April 6th) 7:30am-11:30am: COC Opened 1:00-5:30: COC Opened Friday (April 7th) 7:45am-10:00am: COC Opened 11:00-12:30: Annual Business Meeting 12:30-2:30: Take a Student to Lunch 2:30-5:30: COC Opened Saturday (April 8th) 8:45am-Noon: COC Opened 6:00pm-10:30pm: Honor Award Banquet I would highly encourage each of you to be present at our regional and annual business meetings. Both of these meetings are wonderful opportunities to hear how our state and respective institutions are impacted by the various happenings that occur on the national/regional level. If you wish to contribute to the next newsletter or have any information to add to the website, such as staff updates or facility news, please email me at ss9ug@virginia.edu. I hope you are doing extremely well, and I am really looking forward to seeing you at the National Conference!! -Stacy Smith |
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Greetings VRSA! I hope this newsletter finds you doing extremely well! We’ve had quite an amazing year thus far with even more exciting things to come. Over the last several months, we’ve awarded the first ever VRSA Award of Merit and VRSA |