Central Scorpions Touch Association

Central Scorpions Touch Association was the most successful region at this year's Summer State League carnival. Winning both the Mixed Junior and Mixed Open premierships, and placing 3rd and 4th in Mens and Womens, they comfortably won the Club Championship.

All players and officials are thanked for their efforts throughout the weekend, and in the leadup to the carnival. A reminder that the presentation luncheon is to be held at the Kentish this Sunday (March 6th), at 12:30pm.

Please RSVP to Nicole on Nicole.Treleaven@postgrads.unisa.edu.au if you are planning to attend.

Dear Players/Coaches/Managers,

Fixture
The fixture for the Summer 2005 state league season was released on Sporting Pulse on Wednesday afternoon. All Central Scorpions games have been summarised into an Excel spreadsheet (attached). They are also listed at the bottom of this email and have been placed on our web site. It is your responsibility to ensure that you check the starting time of all your games, and arrive at least 1 hour before each of your scheduled games.

Availability
Now that the fixture has been released, please confirm if you are unable to play any games. You can do this by contacting myself, your coach or your team manager ASAP (details listed below), even if you have already let us know previously. It is assumed that if you have said nothing, you are available to play all games.

Presentations (Summer 2005 State League season)
There will be 2 events to present awards for the Summer 2005 state league season. All players are strongly encouraged to attend in order to support your club and all players involved. The details are:
Touch SA Presentation Night
Sunday 27th February
Junior Mixed
After final game (~5:00pm)
City Touch Club Rooms
Men's, Women's, Mixed Open
6:30pm
The Arkaba Hotel
Central Scorpions Presentation Lunch
Sunday 6th March
All Divisions
12:30pm
The Kentish Arms Hotel, North Adelaide
RSVP: Nicole Treleaven, or your team manager prior to 2nd March 2005

Photos
Team photos will be taken at some point during the weekend, depending on player availability.

Team Duties
Throughout the weekend, each team may be asked to provide a few volunteers to fulfil team duties. This could involve looking after the team tent, cooking/selling at the BBQ, selling raffle tickets, or helping out in general. Also, if you are not doing anything I encourage you to support our Central Scorpions teams, as there is a game in almost every time slot.

Playing Shirts
Most of you have now received your playing shirt to be used during the weekend. You are responsible for returning it to your team manager at the end of the state league weekend on Sunday 27th February, or after your last game. Once the shirt has been returned, you will receive your $50 deposit.

I wish you all the best for the weekend and I'm sure all of our hard work will pay off when we win the regional championship for Summer 2005!

Regards
Brice

Brice Mitchell
Regional Coordinator
Central Scorpions Touch Association
http://csta.blogspot.com/

Email
Home: bricemitchell@yahoo.com.au
Work: brice.mitchell@dsto.defence.gov.au
Phone
Mobile: 0412 645 509
Work: 08 8259 5685


Team Managers/Coaches
Head Coach: Matthew Schinckel
Email: matt@schinckel.net
Phone: 0422 118 611 (Mobile)
8354 2626 (Home)
8231 9373 (Work)

Head Team Manager: Ashleigh Green
Email: ashgreen@platypussoftware.com.au
Phone: 0407 870 361 (Mobile)
8363 9383 (Home)

Men’s Open
Coach: Adrian Sim
Email: adrian_sim@hotmail.com
Phone: 0413 353 298 (Mobile)
Assistant Coach: Brice Mitchell
Email: bricemitchell@yahoo.com.au, brice.mitchell@dsto.defence.gov.au
Phone: 0412 645 509 (Mobile)
82595685 (Work)
8344 4765 (Home)
Team Manager: Emily Wray
Email: eminnie_11@hotmail.com
Phone: 0438 845 086

Women’s Open
Coach: Matthew Schinckel
Email: matt@schinckel.net
Phone: 0422 118 611 (Mobile)
8354 2626 (Home)
8231 9373 (Work)
Team Manager: Justine Higginson
Phone: 0413 222 620

Mixed Open
Coach: Phil Carter
Email: kts@airnet.com.au
Phone: 8379 9207 (Home)
Assistant Coach, Team Manager: Justin Timms
Email: Justin.Timms1@defence.gov.au
Phone: 8254 2081 (Home)
0403 544 509 (Mobile)
8393 3944 (Work)

Mixed Junior
Coach: Nicole Treleaven
Email: treng001@students.unisa.edu.au
Phone: 0422 734 271 (Mobile)
Team Manager: Daryl Higginson
Email: dhiggins@caltex.com.au
Phone: 0419 012 943 (Mobile)

Mens Open

1. Friday, 7:30pm.  Eastern Stingrays.
2. Bye.
3. Saturday, 2:20pm.  Northern Vipers
4. Saturday, 4:50pm.  Country Rams
5. Sunday, 11:40am.  South West Wolves

• Grand Final: Sunday, 4:00pm
• 3 vs 4 Playoff: Sunday, 3:00pm

Women's Open

1. Friday, 8:30pm.  Eastern Stingrays
2. Saturday, 11:00am.  Northern Vipers
3. Saturday, 1:30pm.  Country Rams
4. Saturday, 4:00pm.  South West Wolves
5. Bye

• Grand Final: Sunday, 3:00pm
• 3 vs 4 Playoff: Sunday, 2:00pm

Mixed Open

1. Friday, 6:30pm.  Eastern Stingrays
2. Saturday, 12:40pm.  South West Wolves
3. Saturday, 3:10pm.  Northern Vipers

• Semi Finals: Sunday, 10:00am
• Grand Final: Sunday, 2:00 pm
• 3 vs 4 Playoff: Sunday, 2:00pm

Mixed Junior

1. Friday, 6:30pm.  South West Wolves
2. Saturday, 11:50am.  Northern Vipers
3. Bye
4. Saturday, 4:50pm.  South West Wolves
5. Sunday, 10:00am.  Northern Vipers
6. Bye

• Grand Final: Sunday, 4:00pm.

Players/coaches/managers,
Just a reminder that this weekend is the Summer state league season. Please read the following so you know what's going on

Fixture
Due to late team nominations, the fixture will not be released until Wednesday night.
Please keep an eye on Sporting Pulse (http://www.sportingpulse.com.au/select_node.cgi?cID=48&p=1).
All players should be prepared to play at 6:30 pm Friday 25th February
All players are to arrive at least 1 hour before the start of their first game to ensure administration requirements have been met, uniforms have been assigned, and any outstanding payments have been made.
If you are unable to make any games, you must contact the team manager, coach, or regional coordinator as soon as possible.

Uniforms
All playing shirts are available for collection at City Touch on Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday night.
Shirts will not be handed out unless you have paid your $50 deposit.
Note that shirts have been assigned to players so that each player receives a top which is of a suitable size, so that there is no dispute between players on numbers, so that we can monitor our uniforms, and so that Touch SA has a record for TID purposes. For this reason players are not to swap their numbers after they have been allocated.
Men's shorts and women's lycra shorts have also been delivered and can be purchased this week.

CSTA Conditions Of Entry
A reminder that all players are expected to comply with the CSTA conditions of entry, which includes signing on and wearing the correct uniform (amongst other requirements). Failure to do this will result in a $50 fine for not signing on and an $11 fine for not wearing the correct uniform (per game)

Regards
Brice

Brice Mitchell
Regional Coordinator
Central Scorpions Touch Association
http://csta.blogspot.com/

Email
Home: bricemitchell@yahoo.com.au
Work: brice.mitchell@dsto.defence.gov.au
Phone
Mobile: 0412 645 509
Work: 08 8259 5685

In order to avoid a number of playing/coaching commitments, and to coordinate a smaller number of people at one time, training times for Sunday 20th February have been changed to:
Men’s Open 3:30-5:00pm
Women’s Open 3:30-5:00pm
Mixed Open 5:00-6:30pm
Junior Mixed 5:00-6:30pm
Please arrive within 30 minutes of the start of your training session as players will be allocated playing shirts. Only a limited number of shorts will be available for purchase as the uniform order has been delayed.

Please confirm that you have received this email including any players that you are able to contact, in order to limit the number of phone calls that I need to make.

Don’t forget if you are in the Men’s Open and Women’s Open teams, you also have training this Friday 18th February 6:30-8:00pm.

Regards
Brice

Brice Mitchell
Regional Coordinator
Central Scorpions Touch Association
http://csta.blogspot.com/

Email
Home: bricemitchell@yahoo.com.au
Work: brice.mitchell@dsto.defence.gov.au
Phone
Mobile: 0412 645 509
Work: 08 8259 5685

Dear CSTA players/managers/coaches,
As you are aware, fundraising BBQ's have been organised at City Touch over the past 2 weeks by the CSTA committee. In order to continue fundraising and to enable teams to meet on a more social level other than trainings/games, the committee has decided that each team is to organise and run the BBQ on 1 night.

It has been suggested that the following teams will be responsible for the following days. Tuesday 15th February: Men's Open
Wednesday 16th February: Mixed Open & Junior Mixed
Tuesday 22nd February: Women's Open

I need a volunteer from each team (perhaps the team manager or coach) to coordinate the following:
-organising volunteers to sell/cook BBQ
-ensuring the BBQ is being looked after at every time slot during the night
-setting up (BBQ, gas, signs, money) (6:00pm)
-making regular announcements on the City Touch speaker system.
-cleaning up (8:45pm)
-counting money at the end of the night
-reporting back to me on stock used (bread, snags, sauce)

Your goal will be to sell 60 snags. The committee appreciates the help of all volunteers and this help means that we are well on the way to winning the Club Championship in Summer 2005!

Regards Brice on behalf of the CSTA committee

Brice Mitchell
Regional Coordinator
Central Scorpions Touch Association
Email
Home: bricemitchell@yahoo.com.au
Work: brice.mitchell@dsto.defence.gov.au
Phone
Mobile: 0412 645 509
Work: 8259 5685
Fax: 8259 5619

Coaches have announced the following training sessions:
Mens Open
Friday 18th February 1830-2000
Sunday 20th February 1600-1800

Womens Open
Friday 18th February 1830-2000
Sunday 20th February 1600-1800

Mixed Open
TBA
Sunday 20th February 1600-1800

Junior Mixed
TBA
Sunday 20th February 1600-1800

Just a quick note to say that selections will be announced by the end of the week (4th February). More information will become available about what you are required to do over the next month, including how payments can be made before Friday 11th February.

Brice Mitchell
Regional Coordinator
Central Scorpions Touch Association