Underwater Challenge and End of Year Meeting this Wed 7pm before training

Underwater Challenge

The Underwater Challenge in the Hobart Aquatic Centre was a huge success. Close to 40 people got involved and it was amazing to see it all come together on the day and see everyone enjoy playing both UW Hockey and Rugby non-stop for 4 hours. Congratulations to Acers who dominated the Underwater Hockey and scored the most points, closely followed by Celine’s Babes who tied on wins.

Underwater Hockey Results

Round 1: Acers= 4 vs. Life Aquaticas = 0
Round 2: Bobby Dazzlers = 2 vs. Celine’s Babes = 3

Round 3: Bobby Dazzlers = 0 vs. Acers = 5
Round 4: Celine’s Babes = 5 vs. Life Aquaticas = 2
Round 5: Life Aquaticas = 7 vs. Bobby Dazzlers = 2
Round 6: Acers = 5 vs. Celine’s Babes = 0

Acers, the overall winners of the Underwater Challenge 2011

The event generated a attention online (300+ clicks on our event page), and attracted some interest from the media (two interviews with ABC Radio Australia, one with East Side Radio, and Southern Star). Thanks to Laura and Ollie for the excellent interviews. We have had requests for footage and will follow-up on this shortly.Importantly, a big thank you to the sponsors: with their generous contributions, we had no choice but to put in some serious efforts into selling raffle tickets to raise funds for the Australian Lung Foundation and we ended up collecting close to $1,000 in a month which is no small feat. Here is a message from the ALF:

“The Lung Foundation would like to say an enormous thank you to the sponsors , the organisers of this terrific event, and all participants. The funds and awareness raised will help us in our vision “to ensure lung health is a priority for all in Australia”. We look forward to the 2012 Underwater Challenge” (Jo Mason-Smith

Business Development Manager)MASSIVE thanks to Sebastien Robin making this all happen. He has worked tirelessly with the other organisers (Craig Proctor, Jane Davies, Chris Cleaver & Celine Steinfeld) and sponsors, to produced a hugely successful event. We’re looking forward to the next competition.

Tour Slideshow [a sneek peak]

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More photos on the way…

End of Year Meeting & World Champs Viewing

We’ve got plenty to chat about tomorrow at our 2011 wrap-up and 2012 planning meeting. Thanks to Laura for putting together an agenda.

7pm End of Year Meeting – Pool Cafe

8.15pm Sauna

8.30pm Training

10pm Watch the World Championships video, Matthews Bldg Level 14

Agenda

Training

-> rotating coaches, get in for free when coach – but have an overall strategy which determines format of training session and focus (use experienced coaches for first weeks back at uni to encourage new players)

-> can have say 4 weekly focus item e.g. scoring – where drills are based on developing this particular skill, however not limited to it

-> play games where the game is stopped and things explained on the way, coached as we play

-> meet at 8pm and have 30 mins of dry training with whiteboard in pool cafe area

-> splashfield – every sunday of term. base around uni holidays. have a competition that is about 6 wks (+ final i.e. 7 wks) long (start short to encourage more players by less commitment)

-> still have some games in homebush to maintain 5m deep playing ability

Recruitment

-> events e.g. in first few weeks of term – launch party?

-> continue with media promotions (including chasing up southern cross with video footage from tassie)

-> trip?

-> weekend camp during session

-> schools groups? start with the P.E. teachers

-> we also want to appeal to non-university ppl so need to think about how to not give that assumption bc it’s UNSW UWR.. prob need different marketing campaigns depending on the audience

-> promotions – UWR in martin place in a giant fishtank – how can we make this happen?!

Gear

-> investigate different brand swimmers that can give bigger UWR logo?

-> swimmers for girls

-> pump up balls

World Cup

-> lets get there

-> get the right memberships & links with Australian Underwater Federation

-> Confirm the details (dates, locations)

Media

- media pack

-> lets use photos (maybe video) from tassie to follow up on the media contact (or to make media contact if not already made).

-> maybe we can write a post tournament press release that can be used to spread the word.

-> maybe with enough profit we could buy an underwater camera for the club?!

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~ by Underwater Rugby on December 6, 2011.