High Performance Clinic Itinerary
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Region 7
The 2010 Region 7 High Performance Clinic Itinerary can be viewed HERE.
Worlds Soon!
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2010 World Championships
16-25 October 2010
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Attitude
By · CommentsThe ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
Arthur Ashe
USAG New Jersey Annual Award Winners Announced for 2010
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The 2010 USAG New Jersey Annual Award Winners have been announced. Congratulations to this year’s selectees.
Life Time Achievement: Wes Martutani
Optional Coach of the Year: ENA Paramus Coaching Staff
Compulsory Athlete of the Year: Olivia Dunne
Optional Athlete of the Year: Sammi Musto & Mikayla Waddell
Judge of the Year: Leslie McPeek
Volunteer of the Year: Dave Rettig
Meet Director/Host of the Year: Dawn Doherty
Club of the Year: Arena
Educator of the Year: Brant Luska
State Board Meeting Minutes – 4 August 2010
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Minutes from the 4 August 2010 USAG New Jersey State Board Meeting are available.
View HERE.
Opening Team Rituals
By · CommentsOpening Team Ritual concept from Positive Coaching Alliance and Liberty Mutual Responsible Sports library.
USAG NJ Sectional & State Sites Posted for 2010/2011
By · CommentsRedefine
By · CommentsOne of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.
Lance Armstrong
National Gymnastics Day – 18 September 2010
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It’s a Wall
By · CommentsObstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Michael Jordan
Coaching Tip: Teaching Players to Respect Officials
By · CommentsArticle reprinted from the Positive Coaching Alliance Newsletter – 22 July 2010
More information at www.positivecoach.org
Teaching Players to Respect Officials
An important life lesson that can come from sports is the need to respect people. Youth athletes who learn to respect officials, even when disagreeing with them, can apply that learning throughout their lives in relationships with friends, family, teachers and employers.
A great way for coaches to teach players to respect officials is to have players officiate during practice games and scrimmages. Players who experience the difficulty of officiating are much more likely to maintain their composure when faced with a “bad call.” They incur fewer technical or misconduct calls and are better able to focus on what they can control – and what is most important in the game – the next play.
Click the video screen to visit the Liberty Mutual Responsible Sports Program Powered by PCA and watch players officiating in practice under Kris Weems, basketball coach at longtime PCA partner Menlo School and a former player on Stanford University’s Final Four team in 1998.
An Olympian’s View of Gymnastics
By · CommentsSamantha Peszek’s Top Ten Reasons to Get Involved in Gymnastics
You on You
By · CommentsThe principle is competing against yourself. It’s about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.
Steve Young
Several New Invitationals Added to Schedule
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Several new Invitational Meets have been added to the USAG New Jersey Schedule.
NEW RULES FOR ENTERING SECTIONAL AND STATE COMPETITIONS
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR ALL CLUB OWNERS AND COACHES from the NJ USAG SACC
NEW RULES FOR ENTERING SECTIONAL AND STATE COMPETITIONS
Due to new rules from the USA Gymnastics National office we are changing the way sectional and State meet entry FEES are being handled.
All entry FORMS are to be e-mailed to Patty Strickland ( this is the same as in the past). Patty must receive your entry FORM for Sectionals 17 days prior to the competition. As soon as Patty receives the entry FORM she will then place your team at a sectional site. Patty will notify all clubs where they will be competing via e-mail on the Monday after entry FORMS are due. At that time she will also notify you where you will send the payment and who you will make the check payable to. Your check to the hosting clubs must be post marked no later than 10 days prior to the competition or you will be responsible for a late fee. It is the responsibility of the hosting club to make sure that they receive all payments for the gymnasts entered into the Sectional they are hosting. It will be up to the discretion of the meet host to allow any unpaid gymnasts to compete. All old rules regarding scratches and refunds will remain in effect. Any applicable refunds will come from the meet host.
Patty must receive your STATE meet entry FORM no later than 2 days after the last Sectional or Qualifying date for that level.
All State meet entry FEES will be mailed and made payable to the State meet host. The check must be postmarked no later than 2 days after the last Sectional or Qualifying date for that level.
DO NOT MAKE ANY CHECKS FOR SECTIONAL OR STATE MEET ENTRY FEES PAYABLE TO USAG NJ.
DO NOT SEND ANY CHECKS FOR SECTIONAL OR STATE MEET ENTRY FEES TO PATTY.
ALL PAYMENTS WILL GO TO THE HOSTING CLUBS.
Good Luck to everyone this coming season.
Dave Rettig
NJ USAG SACC
