2014 Player Evaluations

Use this area to offer a short teaser of your email's content. Text here will show in the preview area of some email clients. Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Save the Dates: Bootcamp and Player Evals Bootcamp With all the snow, power outages, and wicked cold weather, the 2014 Bootcamp on Saturday February 1st will be a great way to thaw out your baseball gear and bodies before player evaluations the following weekend.   Player Evaluations Player evaluations will be held at the Holt Ninth Grade Campus on Saturday February 8th and Sunday February 9th. Four time slots are available to choose from each day (9am, 11am, 1pm or 3pm).  NOTE: There is a one-time $10.00 fee per player due at the door for the evaluations. This cost covers both days of the evaluations.   2014 Season There will be teams for 8-10 year olds (U10), 11-12 year olds (U12), and 13-14 year olds (U14) based on the player's age as of April 30th. Every player desiring to play will be placed on a team with the following exceptions: 8 year olds (as of April 30th) will be allowed to play if their skills evaluation results in the elimination of concern for the well-being of the player on the playing field. Remember, they will be participating with 10 year olds. High School students (even if they are 13 or 14 years old) may not participate in there HJRB program. We encourage all interested High School students to try out for the Holt Rams Baseball program (in addition to Varsity and Jr, Varsity, Holt fields a freshman team each year). Because of limited field availability, we are only able to field 4 U14 teams. Teams will be selected based on the skills evaluation.   Please use the link below to forward this email to any new families to the community that have a son who may be interested in playing Jr. Rams Baseball. We are finalizing the details and will get online registration opened.  Stay tuned for more information coming soon. Thanks for your patience, Holt Jr. Rams Baseball   You are receiving this email as you are currently, or previously have been, involved with the Holt Junior Rams Baseball Organization. If you no longer wish to receive emails from us, please click the unsubscribe from this list link below an accept our apologies for any inconvenience.   friend on Facebook | forward to a friend  Copyright © 2014 Holt Junior Rams Baseball, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email as you are currently, or previously have been, involved with the Holt Junior Rams Baseball Organization. Our mailing address is: Holt Junior Rams Baseball P.O. Box Holt, MI 48842 Add us to your address book  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences

Your new Holt Jr. Rams Baseball board members

HJRB families,

 

It’s been a good four years as President of HJRB but now I have officially handed over the reins to the new President, Noel Heikkinen.  Noel has been involved in the program for over five years in various positions including Assistant Coach, Parent Representative, HJRB Sponsorship Chairman, and Co-director of the Steinhaus Standoff tournament. The last couple of years he has had all three of his boys in the program in all three age divisions.  I feel very comfortable that HJRB is in good hands with Noel Heikkinen at the helm.  He will send out an email soon to start the transition; either with this email list or a new one that he creates.   A big THANKS to Noel for taking on this responsibility. 

 

I’d also like to give a big THANKS to our other new board members. 

 

John Price is the new Vice President; taking over for Tom Barger who dutifully filled the role for the past four years.  John has been involved in the program for three years serving as a coach and an assistant coach.  Last year he took on the role of managing the schedule for the fields which was a huge relief for me. 

 

Carla Rios is the new Secretary; taking over for Kathy Hall who has filled that role for three years I believe, along with a slew of other roles since the inception of the program.  Carla has had a boy in the program for the past two years.  She also has an older boy that played Varsity Baseball for Holt (graduating in 2012.)  Carla served as a parent rep for JV and then as Secretary for the high school baseball program; so she comes with plenty of experience. 

 

Adrianne Clark is the incumbent Treasurer and was re-elected for one more year.  Adrianne did a spectacular job taking over the role last year and did much more than just balance the checking account.  She volunteered her time for pretty much every event she was able to help with last year (which may have been all of them!) Adrianne has two boys in the program.

 

Please join me in welcoming the new HJRB Board of Directors and give them your own big THANKS if you see any of them.  This is all volunteer time and is a big commitment.  I would also like to urge you to help them out next year by volunteering at least some of your time with projects, tournaments, coaching, concessions, etc. 

 

Tom, Kathy, and I will still be around and I look forward to seeing many of you next season.  I have a younger boy that will be in the U12 division next year so I’m not going anywhere.  Now with my extra time maybe I can spend more time working on my next book!  Now that I’m not the President of HJRB perhaps I can throw out a shameless plug one time.  If you are a science fiction fan checkout my first book at: http://www.thecurseofeuropa.com

 

Thank you everyone and we’ll see you around!  If you have any questions I will still be monitoring this email for a while (but not every day).  You can also send email to info@hjrb.org which will instantly forward to all the new board members. 

 

Thanks!

Brian Kayser

HJRB Board Mtg Tomorrow

The election of new officers will be at the next board meeting this Thursday, September 19th.  Please see the attached PDF document for information about the candidates running for HJRB board positions.  I really like the information gathered and being able to share it ahead of time for a more informed decision.  It looks like the only real voting will be for the President position as there are two candidates.  Please show up to the board meeting and cast a vote.  We will have a limited amount of time for open discussion also.  

 

Agenda

1.        Introductions

2.        Executive Committee Report

a.        Quick recap of 2013 season

b.       Steinhaus tournament overview

c.        Treasure’s Report

3.        Explanation of election  / by-laws

4.        Election of new officers

a.        President (Noel Heikkinen / John Price)  two year term

b.       Vice President (John Price)  one year term

c.        Secretary (Carla Rios, unopposed)  two year term

d.       Treasurer (Adrianne Clark, unopposed)  one year term

5.        Discuss transition plan

6.        Short open discussion with both new and retired board members with parents present.

a.        Simple Q&A – no lengthy discussions.

b.       How to submit suggestions / concerns / feedback to new board members for future board meeting.

7.        Next Meeting Date/Time? 

8.        Adjourn 

 

Thanks,

Brian Kayser, President

Holt Jr. Rams Baseball

Web Site: www.hjrb.org  

Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/www.hjrb.org

Deadline for HJBR board positions is today

The deadline to apply for a board position is today.

Use the link to the form below if you want to apply for any of the positions.  You can apply for more than one. 
 

CANDIDATES APPLY HERE ASAP (it should take less than 5 minutes):   http://bit.ly/14hvbvU

Positions to be voted on:

·          President (2 Year Term)

·          Vice President (1 Year Term)

·           Secretary (2 Year Term)

·          Treasurer (1 Year Term)

 

 

HJRB Board Meeting: September 19, 2013 at 7:00pm in the High School Library.  

 

 

Thanks,

Brian Kayser, President

Holt Jr. Rams Baseball

Web Site: www.hjrb.org  

Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/www.hjrb.org

Important HJRB Board Meeting

Please mark your calendar for a very important HJRB board meeting September 19, 2013 at 7:00pm in the High School Library.  This meeting is VERY important to the future of the Holt Jr. Rams Baseball program as new offices need to be elected.  Don’t worry, coming to this meeting does not mean that YOU could be forced into a board position.  We plan on having all candidates lined up beforehand, so unless you want to be a candidate, all we are asking is that you show up to vote for the persons you feel will do the best job to lead this baseball program into the future. 

Four years ago I took over as President of HJRB and Tom Barger took over as Vice President.  We have served two terms and, along with the other various board members, have accomplished a lot in moving this program forward.  Last year I sent out an email indicating that our “retirement” was looming and this would be our last year.  Due to this, we were blessed to have some new people come forward for this last season to help and observe.  So we already have nominees for all positions that got a little hands on experience last year.   However, via the HJRB by-laws, these board positions are open for anyone to step forward as a candidate whether you’ve been involved in the past or not. 

Besides the President and Vice President positions, we will also have a vacancy for the Secretary position.  Kathy Hall as dutifully served in this position the past two years along with maintaining her uniform coordination duties since the inception of the program.   

The Treasurer position became unexpectedly vacant last year so we appointed Adrianne Clark to fill out the remaining year term and she has done a great job.  So this position is technically open as well.  Adrianne is willing to serve again so she will be an incumbent candidate.  This will be for a one year term.  If you feel strongly that you want to serve in this capacity you can throw your hat in the ring.  However, I will strongly recommend we maintain Adrianne in this position next year as she has last year’s experience to draw upon. 

All terms are normally two years, but according to the by-laws the four officer’s terms should be staggered.   This is to maintain experience on the board.  This got a little messed up over the years so to fix it, the VP and the Treasurer positions will just be one-year terms this time (up for re-election next year.) 

IF YOU WANT TO BE A CANDIDATE FOR ANY OF THESE POSITIONS PLEASE FILL OUT THE FORM AT THE LINK PROVIDED BELOW BEFORE FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13,2013.  This will ask the candidates what they believe to be the philosophy that should govern the HJRB program, what they think the program’s current strengths and weaknesses are, and ask for three changes (or tweaks) that they think would take the HJRB program to the next level.   The list of all candidates and their answers to the above questions will be emailed out before the meeting. 

When we took over the program four years ago we had a few hundred bucks in the bank and a negative balance sheet.  We have implemented a lot of improvements and changes over the years and are leaving the next board a good amount of money in the bank to keep things rolling.  Please do your part to keep this organization moving in the right direction.  If you don’t have the time in your busy schedule to volunteer, at least make your voice heard by coming to the next meeting and voting in board members that you feel will put this money to the best use and keep the program strong. 

 

CANDIDATES APPLY HERE ASAP (it should take less than 5 minutes):  http://bit.ly/14hvbvU

Positions to be voted on:

·         President (2 Year Term)

·         Vice President (1 Year Term)

·         Secretary (2 Year Term)

·         Treasurer (1 Year Term)

 

Thanks,

Brian Kayser, President

Holt Jr. Rams Baseball

Web Site: www.hjrb.org  

Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/www.hjrb.org