“Sports notices” plus 3 more |
- Sports notices
- Sports briefs, 8/20/10
- Official complain to SYOGOC for poor choice of commentators for the gymnastics event
- Starkell resigns as women's gymnastics head coach
| Posted: 23 Aug 2010 02:11 PM PDT Sports notices must be mailed or hand-delivered (24 N. Hanover St., Pottstown, Pa. 19464), faxed (610-323-0682), or e-mailed (sports@pottsmerc.com) to the sports department. No phone requests will be accepted. A contact name and phone number should be included with each notice. Specific publication dates cannot be guaranteed. AQUATICS The Owen J. Roberts Aquatics program will hold conditioning clinics Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from Sept. 20 through Oct. 29. High school and middle school from 2:30-4 p.m. and elementary school from 4:30-5:30 p.m. Cost is $75. Water polo will be offered on Tuesdays and Thursdays from Sept. 20 to Oct. 29. High school and middle school from 2:30-4 p.m. and elementary school from 4:30-5:30 p.m. Cost is $50. Registration will be held from 7-9 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, beginning Sept. 7, on the OJR pool deck. Swim lessons will be given in two sessions, Sept. 20 to Oct. 1 and Oct. 11-22. Cost per session is $100. A recreational swim will be offered from 7-9 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and FRidays from Sept. 8 through Oct. 29. Cost is $50 per family or $35 per individual. Adult conditioning/Masters Team will run from 7-8 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays. Cost is $60. More information: www.ojrswim.com. BASEBALL Grizzlie postseason workouts at Boyertown Junior High-East will run Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays (9 a.m.) and are open to any players residing in the territory of Boyertown-East. More information: Call Mooch Houck at 610-367-6879. Triple Threat Bearcats are looking for fall players ages 9-12. More information: E-mail bearcatsbaseball@aol.com or call Brian at 484-919-1421. The organization has also announced tryout dates for the upcoming 2010 - 2011 13U travel baseball season: Thursday, Aug. 26 and Sept. 2, 6-8 p.m.; and Saturday, Aug. 28 and Sept. 4, 9-11 a.m. More information: Visit www.triplethreatbearcats.com or call Steve Amenta at 610-996-6798. Pine Forge Athletic Association will hold 9-12-year-old and 13-18-year-old fall ball registration. Ages as of May 1, 2011. Forms may be obtained at Richard A. Zuber Realty, 201 E. Phila. Ave., Boyertown, or by calling 610-369-0303. The Kingplex is open for individual lessons or group instruction. Its travel baseball team is seeking players ages 13-18. More information: Call 610-489-0589, e-mail king1327@comcast.net or visit kingplex.com Rick Moatz Summer Baseball Camp is accepting registrations. More information: E-mail www.rickmoatzbst.com or call 610-763-4053. Diamond Dreams Baseball Academy is conducting registration for fall and winter instruction at its facility in Collegeville. More information: Call 610-489-3383 or visit DiamondDreamsBA.com. Instructional sessions for area catchers ages 6-16 are available by calling Joey Pachik at 484-363-0555 and leaving a message. The Philadelphia Reds organization will once again be conducting its throwing program at its facility in King of Prussia. More information: E-mail name, address, phone number and age to PhiladelphiaReds@comcast.net or call 610-731-7196. All Star Baseball Academy is running three Summer Camps for area players: A Youth Camp at West Chester University, and two College Coaches Camps at West Chester East and Downingtown East high schools. More information: Visit www.allstarbaseballacademy.com or call 610-399-8050. A 15U team from the Upper Perk area is looking for a fall league to play in. Anyone with information on a league or has a team interested in helping to create a new league, contact John at 215-892-4633 or outdoordreamspaces@ptd.net. BASKETBALL Athletes for Better Education will be holding a regional tournament at Northeastern High School in the York Area the weekend of Sept. 24-26. There will be eight different age divisions for both boys and girls: 10&under, 12&under, 13&under, 14&under, 15&under, 16&under, 18&under (A teams) and 18&under (B teams).Registration deadline is Sept. 1. There will also be a tournament at Red Land High School Oct. 15-17. Registration deadline is Oct. 1. More informatioon, www.afbe.org or contact Jason Bieber at 866-906-2323 or jbieber@afbe.org. The Boyertown Summerhoops organization is offering instructional basketball classes for pre-K and Kindergarden students, with morning and afternoon classes available. The Boyertown Summerhoops organization will also be offering kids instructional basketball classes in Grades 1-4 in the afternoon. All classes will be held at Camp Manatawny off Route 562 and will start after Labor Day. More information: Contact Coach Phil Haddad at 610-367-1520 or Coachphilhaddad@dejazzd.com. The Chester County Magic boys AAU program is looking for players in Grades 4 through 10. More information: Visit www.ccmagic.org. The Rockets AAU team is looking for 8th-grade boys interested in playing high-level AAU basketball. More information: Call 610-420-2715. BOWLING Limerick Bowl will be holding its annual Youth Registration Day for the 2010-11 winter season 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 28. Registration is open to boys and girls ages 20 and under as of August 1, 2010. More information: Call Limerick Bowl at 610-495-7143 or visit www.limerickbowl.com. CHEERLEADING Pottstown PAL cheerleading is looking for coaches to assist with cheerleading ages 5-12. More information: Call 610-327-0527. CROSS COUNTRY The following meets will be held at Pottstown High School: Trojan Invitational for Grades 6-8, 3:15 p.m. Sept. 17; Harrier Invitational for middle school and high school, 9:30 a.m. Oct. 2. More information: Contact Lawrence Harvey at 610-326-3583 or tnmguru@comcast.net. DIVING The Hill School will be hosting Springboard Diving Camps in August, for boys & girls ages 8-18. More information: Call Traci Fenstermacher at 610-316-1289. DEK HOCKEY Pottstown PAL will be holding Fall Dek Hockey registration 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 28, at the PAL building, 146 King St. Registration is open to boys and girls ages 7-14 as of January 1, 2010. More information: Call Mrs. Hall at 610-587-9912. FOOTBALL Phoenixville Marian Youth Club will conduct registration for the 2010 season today. More information: Contact Dave Gyuris at 610-972-9933 or dave@vimcoinc.com. The Pottstown PAL Patriots are accepting registration for tackle and flag football and cheerleading for Fall 2010. Registration packets can be picked up/dropped off at the PAL Building (146 King St.) during business hours. The program is also looking for coaches at all levels. More information: Visit www.pottstownpal.org; e-mail: football@pottstownpal.org; or call 610-327-0527. The Coventry Wildcats Youth Football and Cheerleading is accepting a limited number of registrations (ages 5-12) for the 2010 season from residents of the Owen J. Roberts School District. More information: Visit www.coventrywildcats.com. GOLF The 15th annual Alvernia University Golf Outing will be held 1 p.m. Monday, Oct. 4, at Moselem Springs Golf Club. More information: Contact kevin.calabria@alvernia.edu or 610-796-8315. ICE HOCKEY The Wildcat Ice Hockey Club is entering high- and middle-school teams in the ICSHL and IMSHL for the spring season. More information: Call Ric Groves (610-469-3235) or Tim Cahill (610-933-8436) or e-mail wildcats@razorwired.com. The American Icebirds spring/summer team is seeking players and goalies for all positions, in the Pee Wee, Bantam and Midget age groups. More information: Contact Coach Bedri at icebirds@inbox.com. LACROSSE Aftershock Lacrosse will hold tryouts for girls in grades 5-11 Sept. 12 and 18 at Manderach Park, Zeigler Road and Swamp Pike, Limerick. Callbacks will be Sept. 19. Times for each age group and registration can be found at www.aftershocklacrosse.com. More information: Jennifer at 610-564-5996. A number of leagues, for male and female players in various age groups, will be conducted. More information: Call 610-828-7170 or e-mail info@athletesadv.com. SOCCER More information or registration: Contact Upper Providence Parks and Recreation at 610-933-9179 or www.uprov-montco.org. Pottstown Middle School girls entering 7th or 8th grade who are interested in playing soccer this year should call coach Kevin Strange at 610-970-1110. Coventry Soccer is accepting boys and girls for its travel team (U9 to U16). It will also hold tryouts for its U16 Girls Wildcat travel team. More information: Visit www.coventrysoccer.com or call coach Bob Grim (U16 Girls team) at 610-405-1775. SOFTBALL X-treme Softball will hold tryouts at Upper Providence Twp., Black Rock Roads, Fields 2 and 3 as follows: Aug. 28-29. 18U at 9 a.m.; 16U at 11 a.m.; 14U at 1 p.m.; 10U and 12U at 3 p.m. More information: Visit www.xtremefastpitch.net or call Brian Hamm at 610-489-9194. The 3rd annual Baseball For Life one-pitch softball tournament and party will be held Sunday, Aug. 29, at Ringing Rocks Park. All proceeds benefit Relay for Life and local cancer patients and their families. Interested teams should call Jim at 610-327-4844. Pine Forge Softball will be conducting a fall program for players ages 7-16, with a registration deadline of Aug. 30. More information: Call either Brian Gilbert (610-970-0790) or Donna Long (610-754-9201), or visit www.pineforge.org. Rick Moatz Summer Softball Camp is accepting registrations. More information: Visit www.rickmoatzbst.com or call 610-763-4053. The Valley Forge Sport & Social Club is registering teams for its Summer Coed Adult Softball League. More information: Contact Tim Horan at 484-919-8547 or tim@sportandsocialclubs.com. Senior 50+, 55+, 60+, 65+ and 70+ slow-pitch softball teams are being formed. Practices will be held in Linfield. More information: Call Tom Schadt at 610-582-2437 or 484-336-5609. SPORTS PROGRAMS The Boyertown Area YMCA will conduct its Youth Super Sports instructional classes in such sports as basketball, baseball, girls lacrosse, gymnastics, tennis and volleyball. More information: Call Kathi Mikell at 610-369-YMCA or e-mail kmikell@boyertownymca.org. Registration is under way for YMCA youth flag football and soccer leagues. Boys and girls ages 4-13 are invited with registration forms online at www.fvymca.org under the youth sports tab or can be obtained at the YMCA on N. Adams St. More information: Contact Ken Trusty at 610-323-7300 or ktrusty@fvymca.org. United Sports in Downingtown will conduct youth indoor floor and roller hockey, flag football and adult volleyball leagues - as well as a volleyball skills clinic - in Chester County. More information: Call Scott Zeigler at 610-466-7100 or visit www.go2ustc.com. TENNIS The GPTA will be fielding one 14U Jr. Team Tennis team in the fall. The team needs three girls to fill out the co-ed team roster. The cost for participation in the league is $21.50, which includes a uniform. A Jr. USTA membership is also required ($19 annual fee). The league begins play Saturday, Sept. 11, and ends Saturday, Oct. 23. More information: Visit www.phillyteamtennis.org (for play format and rules) or e-mail heather@gptatennis.com (registration). This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Posted: 23 Aug 2010 10:29 PM PDT Staff ReportsPublished:Submit your sports briefs to maricopa_monitor@yahoo.com today! The Maricopa Rams Football Booster Club invites you to participate in the First Annual Maricopa Rams Football Golf Tournament on Aug. 28 at The Duke at Rancho El Dorado. Tee times begin at 7:30 a.m., with check-in beginning at 6:30 a.m. Deadline to register is Aug. 21.Golfers, sponsors needed for MHS football golf tourney Money raised will go directly to the program to provide proper training and equipment. Individual participants can take part for $65 each, with $260 covering a full foursome. Hole sponsorship packages are available for $500, which includes one full foursome, a company green sign, and one two-by-three banner that will be displayed at the MHS football field every game throughout the Rams' 2010 season. Driving range, putting green, and food sponsorships are available for $250 each, which also includes a company sign at the event and a two-by-three banner at home football games. Local organizations and businesses are also encouraged to donate items for the raffle and silent auction. To set up sponsorship opportunities or reserve your spot in the playing field, contact Mary Wilson at (602) 525-2494 or Marty Diehl at (520) 431-2485. City offers fall football, soccer, basketball programs The City of Maricopa is offering the following sports programs during the Fall and Winter seasons. NFL Pepsi Punt, Pass, Kick – Ages 8-15; Wedneseday, Sept. 8; Register for free on site; Youth Soccer – Ages 4-15; registration Aug. 16 through Sept. 17; season Oct. 30 through Dec. 18; $45 per child; Youth basketball – Ages 4-15; registration Oct. 18 through Nov. 19; season Jan. 15 through Feb. 26; $45 per child. For more information, contact community services at (520) 316-6964. Stagecoach Days 'Maricopa Mile & 5K' Chances for Children AZ presents the Stagecoach Days "Maricopa Mile and 5K," scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 10. The race begins at 8 a.m. at Legacy Traditional School, with the 5k run/walk event running $20 per racer, and the 1 mile kids run at $5 per participant.The event will also house a Family Fitness Fair, with all proceeds from the race benefiting Team Fit Kids Maricopa. For more information, visit www.maricopamile.com. Registration currently open for City fall, winter activities The City of Maricopa's Fall and Winter 2010-11 activity guide is now available online at www.maricopa-az.gov (under "Government," select "community services"). Activities available this fall/winter fall under the following categories: sports, health and fitness, dance and gymnastics, art and music, general interest and training and certification. In all, more than 65 activities are available for city residents to enjoy. Download an activity guide and learn which activities are age appropriate, costs, and signup dates. For more information, community services at (520) 316-6964. 'Relay for Life' coming to Maricopa The American Cancer Society's signature event – "Relay for Life" – is coming to Maricopa for the first time on March 25-26, 2011. As the world's largest grassroots fundraising movement, "Relay for Life" mobilizes communities throughout the country to celebrate people who have battled cancer, remember loved ones lost and provide participants with an opportunity to fight back against the disease. Maricopa will host the community's inaugural "Relay for Life" on March 25-26, 2011, from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m., at the Maricopa High School Football Stadium. For more information about the local event, contact co-chair Grace Gomez at (520) 568-9407 or Gwen Traylor at (313) 316-6761. For more general information about "Relay for Life," visit www.relayforlife.org/relay. Local team seeks sponsors, riders, for 'Tour de Cure' The WalMart/Sam's Club team, led by Maricopa resident and team captain Keith Monk, is looking for sponsors and riders for next year's American Diabetes Association Tour de Cure, presented by Charles Schwab. The eighth annual race is scheduled for Saturday, March 12, 2011 at the Reach 11 Sports Complex in North Phoenix. For more information on the race itself, call 1-888-DIABETES (ext. 7093) or go online to www.diabetes.org/tour, and for information on supporting or joining the WalMart/Sam's Club team, contact Keith Monk at (480) 980-3015. Article Rating (4 * = highest)Reader CommentsThe following are comments from the readers. In no way do they represent the view of TriValley Central or any of its publications. To report abuse, email dcoop@trivalleycentral.com. Submit a CommentThis entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Official complain to SYOGOC for poor choice of commentators for the gymnastics event Posted: 23 Aug 2010 08:37 PM PDT My name is Alex L S Liang and I am a writing an official complaint about the commentators of the gymnastics event that accompanied the live broadcast. I am a former Singapore national champion gymnast (1993, 1996, 1997), a veteran of the sport and a journalist for the American gymnastics magazine International Gymnast and I currently reside in London where I work in television here in the UK. I was mortified by your choice of commentators for the gymnastics event. Your commentators for the event were a two men team – one of whom is an American and the other is a local. Neither know much about gymnastics – now I don't expect them to have the kind of technical knowledge a professional gymnast or coach may possess (since the majority of your audience are non-gymnasts) – but it seemed that they had done a crash course on gymnastics terminlogy, possibly read up a few pages on the internet and were throwing completely random terms during the broadcast, trying to bluff their way through the event quite unconvincingly. They made a complete mockery of their jobs – and this has made them the laughing stock in the gymnastics world. Just go to some of the gymnastics forums and the gymnasts are mocking what complete fools these two have made of themselves and the event. There is a fine balance between dazzling the audience with technical terms and making the sport accessible to an audience who may be watching the sport for the first time – your commentators totally failed at both for they not only knew little – but were confusing the audience by using totally the wrong terms to describe the gymnastics moves performed. They were at the Bishan Sports Hall – surrounded by so many gymnasts and coaches from all over the world; did they make any effort to ask anyone to clarify what was going on when they weren't sure? For example, a buzzer sounds on the women's beam event and on the men's floor exercise to alert the gymnast that they have ten seconds left to finish their routines. Every time they hear the buzzer, the commentators would say that the gymnasts have gone overtime – which isn't true at all. Did no one go up to these two commentators and gave them a (very long) list of errors they made after each session? Are they simply oblivious to their mistakes, or so arrogant that they cannot be asked to find out? Secondly, your local commentator had a terribly strong Singlish (Singaporean English) accent – surely you could go to any of the top schools in Singapore and pick a student at random and find someone who would speak better English. Now as someone born and bred in Singapore – I have no issues with Singlish – nothing makes me feel more at home than hearing authetnic Singlish in Ang Mo Kio. But good grief, your local commentator struggled with words beginning with the letter V. That's an elementary error common with those who speak Chinese as a first language – as the sound of the letter V doesn't exist in Chinese. It was embarrassing to hear him mispronounce again and again words like "vault", "avoid" and "value" – he kept saying, wault, awoid and walue – and his American colleague made no effort to try to correct his bad English. It was incredible when he said today, "he was already won two medals and has now picked up a turd" (he meant to say THIRD, but being Singaporean, he was unable to pronounce the "TH" sound and said 'turd' instead). That I can forgive as many Singaporeans are incapable of pronouncing the "TH" sound (again, not found in Malay or Chinese) – but there comes a point where you have to draw a line and have some quality control and demand that a commentator knows the difference between a third and a turd. Thirdly, the American commentator seems to know absolutely nothing about Singapore and makes basic errors when describing Singapore. He mentioned that Singapore was situated off the East Coast of Malaysia – which is wrong, Singapore is at the southern tip of the Malaysian Peninsular. And his Singaporean colleague made no attempt whatsoever to correct that mistake (why, was he afraid of showing up the American?) – which is unbelievable as any Singaporean should know where the island of Singapore lies relative to Malaysia. Furthermore, the American commentator makes very basic errors such as getting the country of the gymnast wrong (he said that Diana Bulimar was from Bulgaria instead of Romania) and he mentioned today that Carlotta Ferlito has already won two silver medals when she had only won two bronzes at that stage (before her beam finals). If you are going to bring an American in – surely there are plenty of other Americans who are a lot more competent than this joker? Furthermore, both commentators struggle with pronouncing the names of the gymnasts – Chinese names were hopelessly mangled beyond recognition (did the local commentator forget all the Hanyu pinyin learnt at school)? Even Swedish and Russian names were mispronounced – but this was overshadowed by the way they really mangled up all the Chinese names and made elementary errors like saying Xiaodong Zhu ("Shaodong-zoo" they kept saying) instead of Zhu Xiaodong. The event was held in Bishan of all places, they must have been surrounded by thousands of Singaporeans who were fluent in Mandarin – didn't anyone correct them? Did no one on their team speak any Mandarin at all? Was there no management in place to tell them where they have gone wrong and how they could avoid repeating such elementary errors? This is clearly a management error – if you want to bring in American commentators fine, but monitor how they are performing, check on them, listen to them as they work and don't just assume that they are going to deliver a flawless performance. This is clearly a management issue – you are not managing your staff and not giving them the help or training they need to do their jobs properly. I could go on – but it suffices to say that after having been watching gymnastics competitions broadcast on TV since the early 80s, this has got to be undoubtedly the worst possible commentary team in the history of the sport, ever, by a very long way. So whilst the gymnastics community will mock you organisers behind your back on their online forums, as a former Singaporean national gymnast, national champion and national team captain from the 90s, I feel it is my responsibility to bring this to your attention and point out to you what a disaster – no, what a complete catastrophe these two jokers have been. Let me be constructive and make you the following suggestions. 1. There is a thriving gymnastics community in Singapore. http://www.singaporegymnastics.org.sg/ Have you ever thought about approaching them for help when it came to choose commentators for the sport? They would be able to provide gymnasts, ex-gymnasts and coaches who have a detailed technical knowledge of the sport and can guide your commentators through the sport. 2. The most successful gymnastics programmes are found in the top schools in Singapore – such as Raffles Institution, Hwa Chong Institute, RGS, SCGS, CHIJ St Nicholas etc – where the standard of English is extremely high. You could have easily approached one of many ex-gymnasts from these schools who are both knowledgable about the sport and are eloquent and articulate in English. 3. Surely you must have some kind of English oral exam before you let these people on TV and test if they can pronounce simple words like "vault" and "avoid" – and why aren't these people corrected along the way after they make such elementary mistakes? We're humans, we make mistakes – but when you keep making the same mistake over and over again, then it becomes a management issue. Why aren't these two commentators managed properly? The fact that such elementary mistakes were made again and again is indicative of very poor management. I only hope you will learn from your mistakes at this YOG and stop deceiving yourselves that mistakes weren't made. When you have the world watching, you have to put on a good show or risk making a fool of your country. [Please sign the petition demanding a public apology from Dr Vivian Balakrishnan for mismanaging the YOG here.] Source: I hate YOG This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Starkell resigns as women's gymnastics head coach Posted: 23 Aug 2010 01:41 PM PDT It was announced today by Illinois Director of Athletics Ron Guenther that Bob Starkell, who has been on the women's gymnastics staff for 17 years, including the last 11 as head coach, resigned for personal reasons. He was also the Director of Gymnastics, overseeing both the men's and women's programs during the 2009-10 academic year. Kim Landrus, the current associate head coach, has been named the interim head coach for the 2010-11 season. According to a press release issued by the Sports Information Department, a search will begin immediately for an assistant coach to join the staff. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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