Frederick U17 Rugby

Greetings –

As part of USA Rugby’s goal of 100% compliance, attached please find the first compliance report of 2010.

This report shows three important compliance issues: Clubs that aren’t registered for 2009-2010, Clubs that do not have 15 members on their public roster, and Clubs that do no have a Coach on their public roster. Column E of the spreadsheet shows exactly what is needed for each club, i.e., CLUB registration, PLAYER/S registration, and/or COACH registration. The attached report is sorted by LAU Name, then by Club Name. Contact information for each club is included, where it exists.

If you know that a Club in your LAU is competing in current competitions, but doesn’t have players, coach or club registered, please send them a reminder about registration requirements immediately.

Additionally, this shall serve as a reminder that players, club and coaches must be registered prior to ANY participation — this includes all forms of training and competition. Please note that the attached report shows clubs with 15 or less players. While 15 is the minimum number of players required to request a Certificate of Insurance, ALL active players and coaches are required to be registered. It is not acceptable to register only a minimum of 15, leaving other active participants unregistered. The only way USA Rugby can guarantee liability insurance coverage in the event of an incident is if all active Clubs, players & coaches are registered. Please see USA Rugby’s Liability Insurance FAQ with any additional questions: www.usarugby. org/goto/ liability_ insurance.

Registration Links:

Individual Coach & Player Registration: https://membership. usarugby. org/IndividualDe fault.aspx

Club Registration: https://membership. usarugby. org/SelectClub. aspx

Dual Role Registration Form (for coaches that need to ADD a coach role to an existing paid registration) : http://www.usarugby .org/information /default. asp?NavPageID= 65812

Club Public Rosters: https://membership. usarugby. org/PublicRoster Rpt.aspx

General Membership: www.usarugby. org/goto/ membership

Please note the following important considerations:

1. COACH registration can be completed immediately by using the online registration system. It is extremely important for you to be affiliated properly for your own protection as a coach. Note that the $5M liability insurance coverage is only guaranteed to cover you if you are properly registered and affiliated in association with your coaching efforts for a specific club. For individuals that have NO active, paid registration for the current competition season, registration can be completed by following this link: https://membership. usarugby. org/IndividualDe fault.aspx

Please note that USA Rugby does require that each club must have an active coach affiliated, and that all active coaches be registered with USA Rugby for the current competition season. We will be contacting the Clubs listed in this report individually, but we also request your assistance in this effort, as you are likely to have much closer contact with each of these clubs and individuals. Please feel free to forward this email and/or attachments to any interested parties.

2. DUAL ROLE REGISTRATION — Please note that an individual may have more than one role on the same or multiple clubs, without paying additional dues. For instance, if an individual has ALREADY paid for USA Rugby registration as a coach, player, referee or exec/admin since August 14, 2009, he/she does not need to repay. An individual with an existing paid, active role may add additional coach affiliations at no additional charge by completing the dual role registration form, located at: http://www.usarugby .org/information /default. asp?NavPageID= 65812

3. The PRIMARY CONTACT role is not the same as an active coach role. This is an unpaid role affiliated with the club for administrative purposes only. If an individual is ONLY listed as the primary contact, with no other paid roles, he/she must register immediately and affiliate as the coach for the appropriate club. This can be completed at https://membership. usarugby. org/IndividualDe fault.aspx

The attached report was compiled on February 27, 2010. If you detect an error in this report or are unsure why a club has appeared on this compliance report, please contact a member of the USA Rugby Membership Department directly so that we can remedy the information in the database immediately.

Will Ris (303-539-0300 x136, wris@usarugby. org)
Matt Trenary (303-539-0300 x118, mtrenary@usarugby. org)
Kristin Richeimer (303-539-0300 x103, kricheimer@usarugby .org) – Please note that Kristin will be out of the office until at least Monday, March 15th.

Please feel free to contact me if you need additional information, or would like any additional, or more detailed reports. Thank you for your efforts, best wishes for the current competitive season!

Yours in rugby,

USA Rugby

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Hello,

My name is Tyler Miller, and I am emailing you on behalf of the University of Pittsburgh’s rugby club. We are a division 2 club sport, however we do travel and play against schools such as IUP, West Virginia University, Fairmont State, Slippery Rock University, and California University of Pennsylvania. Last year, we won the Alleghany rugby union, and this year we tied for 2^nd place. We do travel to playoffs and also are able to compete in collegiate national championships. At the very top, players from Pitt will have a chance to try out for the junior US eagles.

The University of Pittsburgh’s academics are also top notch. Newsweek ranked Pitt as the number 37 school in the top one hundred global universities. Students are provided with many luxuries while attending Pitt, such as free software as well as free public transit anywhere in the Alleghany County. Pitt has a safe urban campus, with our own police force, and everything a student needs is within a five minute walk of their residence halls.

I am asking you to please talk to your players about coming to Pitt to play rugby at the next level. Although we are a club sport, we do take winning seriously, and are competitive every year. Any player who wants to come out and play for Pitt is more than welcome to come play for us.

Overall, Pitt is a great choice to send your players to, and I hope you will talk to your players about attending the University of Pittsburgh. If you have any questions, feel free to email me at tjm70@pitt.edu

Thank you for your time,

Tyler “Distance Dan” Miller

Please see the email below from PSRFR re: the upcoming referee clinic. It is important that we have certified referees (more than one) on each club.

Allow me to add one more thing. There are lots of reasons why you may not be able to play, but you could still referee to keep yourself in the game.

You might be too injured to play, but you are still active (and you will stay fit just running around a rugby field). This is a great way to stay with the game while you’re healing.

You might have work/school commitments that take you away from games/practice, but you still have time Saturday afternoon, or some weekday late afternoon for a HS game.

You might not have health insurance and you don’t want to risk injury by playing, but there’s very little chance of being injured while refereeing.

You’ve had your run with the club and are thinking about hanging your boots up, but you want to give back now and then. There are plenty of young rugby players that could benefit from your experience.

You got a red card (or a bunch of yellow cards) and are forced to sit out for some period of time. (You’re not a bad guy, you just have to do your time.) You might consider refereeing (see what it’s like on the other side of the whistle). Think of it as community service.

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Eric Pittelkau wrote:

My thanks to Derek and PSRFR for arranging this referee course. As you all know (or should know), all PRU clubs at all levels are required to have at least one person available to them who is a qualified referee in the event that PSRFR cannot provide a referee for your game (which does happen from time to time for many different reasons). This person can be the coach, asst coach, players, alumni, anybody.

There are plenty of games that a new referee can do and work his/her way up the ladder. Or you can reserve yourself for those time when your club needs you.

Please take the time to take the referee course. It will be well worth your time.

Eric Pittelkau
PRU President
C 703-587-7462

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:15 PM, derek ryan wrote:

Below is the information for the Level 1 Referee Class. The process has changed please read the whole email!!!!!!

February 27th 9:30am-5:30pm

Gonzaga High School

Classroom to be indentified

Instructor: Mark Koiwai, mkoiwai@upo. org

Co-Instructor: Bob Hausler, bobhausler@hotmail. com

Doug Syme syme4@comcast. com

The Level 1 Officiating Course is the basic refereeing course. There are no prerequisites for attending this course and it is the sole training vehicle for the education of entry level referees as certified USA Rugby referees. The Level One Course covers the referee’s priorities, provides an introduction to the Laws, and examines scrums, ruck/mauls, tackles, lineouts, offside, and advantage with focus on the critical parts and how to referee them. When a student has completed this course, and the accompanying test, they are ready to begin refereeing safely. Students that do not pass will be given opportunities to retest onsite. The objective is to ensure Law knowledge, not to weed people out.

How to Register

Use the following link to register. In order to take the class you must be a CIPPed member of USA Rugby.
http://membership. usarugby. org They will need to select Register for a Referee Course.

We recommend you register not later than 20 February so that we may order the correct amount of materials to have for the classes. [latecomers will eventually get the materials, but they will be shipped later and not available for the class. REGISTER EARLY!]

– Course fee is $50 and we will order out for lunch so we can work through it.

– Please wear clothing suitable for activity, as we will be having indoor practical session work throughout.

Any thing else we need to get it on the calendar so that I can publish to PRU

Derek Ryan
President PSRR
703 927 1128

Derek Ryan
President PSRR
703 927 1128

old version PRU North Club matrix 2010

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