High Performance Town Hall Alternatives for MoPac
3 views
Skip to first unread message
Gabrielle
Aug 5, 2010, 11:42:07 AM8/5/10
to MoPac Curling
To MoPac (and Colorado and At-Large) curlers,
As you know, the USCA has been holding town hall meetings to explain
the High Performance Plan (HPP) that was created in 2008 and used last
year to help prepare our Olympic teams. These meetings also cover the
ongoing process to revise that plan, what it could mean for current
and future athletes and how it relates to our funding from the US
Olympic Committee.
Because MoPac (and Colorado and At-Large) are such large geographic
regions and these meetings had to be scheduled on relatively short
notice, I know it was impossible for most of our members to attend.
Nonetheless, it's important for us to understand what's going on and
have a chance to give feedback before the new plan is submitted to the
USOC on Sept 1. Ideally, the USCA will hold its own online session,
but because time is running short and I haven't heard an announcement
about that, we need to look at other options for our region. Here are
two:
1. Listen to an audio recording of a previous meeting - A member at
the Granite Curling Club in Seattle made a recording of the town hall
meeting held there and has posted it online. It's about 2 1/2 hours
long and it gives you the chance to hear directly from USCA COO Rick
Patzke. (I've only listened to a few minutes of it so far, but it
sounds generally like what they covered at the SF meeting. FYI - the
person doing the introduction is Seattle member/USCA board member
James Pleasants.) You can then send any comments or questions you have
directly to the USCA Elite Performance Committee.
2. Hold our own online meeting - We can hold an online meeting
ourselves to go over the basic material then talk about what it might
mean for MoPac/arena curlers. This would not be an official USCA town
hall meeting, but I am a member of the Elite Performance Committee, so
I do have at least some understanding of the program and process. From
there, we can gather the comments and questions asked and send that to
the committee, and/or participants can send them directly to the
committee. I would probably do this using the free public internet
broadcasting service, Ustream. We'd set up a chat/question/comment
forum using that service or Twitter. I could do this on Saturday, Aug
7, from 2-4 pm (or maybe Sunday evening if that would work better.)
Whatever we do, it's important we act right away - a subcommittee of
the Elite Performance Committee will be meeting sometime soon to write
the final draft of this year's HPP to submit to the USOC by Sept 1.
(I'm not on that subcommittee, but I'd guess it will meet next week.)
The plan for the following four years will be submitted by Dec 1.
If you're interested in participating in an online broadcast/chat,
please email me at gcur...@gmail.com by Friday night (8/6). (If
there are only a few people interested, I can just call you
personally.) To give feedback directly to the USCA, email Rick
Patzke, rick....@usacurl.org.
(A little bit about me: I started curling in San Francisco after the
2006 Olympics and served on the board of my club for a couple of
years. I'm an active competitive curler and was in the '09 Olympic
Trials and the '10 National Championships. I was able to get a spot on
the USCA's elite performance this summer after asking lots of pesky
questions at the USCA annual member meeting in May.)
thanks,
Gabrielle Coleman
San Francisco Bay Area Curling Club
gcur...@gmail.com
As you know, the USCA has been holding town hall meetings to explain
the High Performance Plan (HPP) that was created in 2008 and used last
year to help prepare our Olympic teams. These meetings also cover the
ongoing process to revise that plan, what it could mean for current
and future athletes and how it relates to our funding from the US
Olympic Committee.
Because MoPac (and Colorado and At-Large) are such large geographic
regions and these meetings had to be scheduled on relatively short
notice, I know it was impossible for most of our members to attend.
Nonetheless, it's important for us to understand what's going on and
have a chance to give feedback before the new plan is submitted to the
USOC on Sept 1. Ideally, the USCA will hold its own online session,
but because time is running short and I haven't heard an announcement
about that, we need to look at other options for our region. Here are
two:
1. Listen to an audio recording of a previous meeting - A member at
the Granite Curling Club in Seattle made a recording of the town hall
meeting held there and has posted it online. It's about 2 1/2 hours
long and it gives you the chance to hear directly from USCA COO Rick
Patzke. (I've only listened to a few minutes of it so far, but it
sounds generally like what they covered at the SF meeting. FYI - the
person doing the introduction is Seattle member/USCA board member
James Pleasants.) You can then send any comments or questions you have
directly to the USCA Elite Performance Committee.
2. Hold our own online meeting - We can hold an online meeting
ourselves to go over the basic material then talk about what it might
mean for MoPac/arena curlers. This would not be an official USCA town
hall meeting, but I am a member of the Elite Performance Committee, so
I do have at least some understanding of the program and process. From
there, we can gather the comments and questions asked and send that to
the committee, and/or participants can send them directly to the
committee. I would probably do this using the free public internet
broadcasting service, Ustream. We'd set up a chat/question/comment
forum using that service or Twitter. I could do this on Saturday, Aug
7, from 2-4 pm (or maybe Sunday evening if that would work better.)
Whatever we do, it's important we act right away - a subcommittee of
the Elite Performance Committee will be meeting sometime soon to write
the final draft of this year's HPP to submit to the USOC by Sept 1.
(I'm not on that subcommittee, but I'd guess it will meet next week.)
The plan for the following four years will be submitted by Dec 1.
If you're interested in participating in an online broadcast/chat,
please email me at gcur...@gmail.com by Friday night (8/6). (If
there are only a few people interested, I can just call you
personally.) To give feedback directly to the USCA, email Rick
Patzke, rick....@usacurl.org.
(A little bit about me: I started curling in San Francisco after the
2006 Olympics and served on the board of my club for a couple of
years. I'm an active competitive curler and was in the '09 Olympic
Trials and the '10 National Championships. I was able to get a spot on
the USCA's elite performance this summer after asking lots of pesky
questions at the USCA annual member meeting in May.)
thanks,
Gabrielle Coleman
San Francisco Bay Area Curling Club
gcur...@gmail.com
Gabrielle
Aug 5, 2010, 12:07:53 PM8/5/10
to MoPac Curling
Forgot to include web address of Seattle recording: http://curlingseattle.org/members/
> please email me at gcurl...@gmail.com by Friday night (8/6). (If
> there are only a few people interested, I can just call you
> personally.) To give feedback directly to the USCA, email Rick
> Patzke, rick.pat...@usacurl.org.
> personally.) To give feedback directly to the USCA, email Rick
>
> (A little bit about me: I started curling in San Francisco after the
> 2006 Olympics and served on the board of my club for a couple of
> years. I'm an active competitive curler and was in the '09 Olympic
> Trials and the '10 National Championships. I was able to get a spot on
> the USCA's elite performance this summer after asking lots of pesky
> questions at the USCA annual member meeting in May.)
>
> thanks,
> Gabrielle Coleman
> San Francisco Bay Area Curling Club
> gcurl...@gmail.com> (A little bit about me: I started curling in San Francisco after the
> 2006 Olympics and served on the board of my club for a couple of
> years. I'm an active competitive curler and was in the '09 Olympic
> Trials and the '10 National Championships. I was able to get a spot on
> the USCA's elite performance this summer after asking lots of pesky
> questions at the USCA annual member meeting in May.)
>
> thanks,
> Gabrielle Coleman
> San Francisco Bay Area Curling Club
Reply all
Reply to author
Forward
0 new messages