Dear Parents, Coaches, and Players,
Hello, I am Brian Kayser, the new president for the Holt Jr. Rams Baseball organization. As most of you are aware, on September 1, 2009, an election was held and a new Holt Junior Rams Baseball Board of Directors was elected by those in attendance at the meeting. At that time, then vice president Jeff Steinhaus was elected President of the Board. Additionally, the elections resulted in Tom Barger being named Vice President, myself as Treasurer, and Brandee Brooks as Secretary. Unfortunately Jeff had to step down from the President position due to the recent health issues that I believe all of you were informed about.
I volunteered to take over the role of President and the current board approved the move. While a lot of you out there know me, there are many whom I don’t know and I look forward to working with you. My son, Patrick, has played the last two years for HJRB in the U10 division and will be playing in the U12 division next year.
In addition to the election of the new Board of Directors, new Volunteer Representatives were appointed for the 2010 season. Those Volunteer Representatives are:
U10 Coach’s Representative: Bill Butterson
U10 Parent Representative: Kathy Hall
U12 Coach’s Representative: Spencer Perales
U12 Parent Representative: Doug Clark
U14 Coach’s Representative: Vacant
U14 Parent Representative: Darren Rogers
Furthermore, the HJRB Advisory Board is:
Brad Phillips: Varsity Baseball Coach
Nate Potts: Junior Varsity Baseball Coach
Aaron Houser: Freshman Baseball Coach
Tim Tilma: Parks and Recreation Representative
Bob Clone: Former HJRB President / Founder
We will try to make this transition of board members as smooth as possible but please bear with us as we “learn the ropes”. We would like to express our sincere appreciation to past board members Bob Clone, Anissa Vanliew, Jeff Steinhaus and Annette Middleton for a job well done. Bob has graciously volunteered to be an advisor to us and will be around to help us out and answer our questions as needed.
Currently we are planning on having an open board meeting on Wednesday October 21. I will follow up with additional details when we establish a place to have it.
To wrap up some old business…
As most of you are aware, there have been thoughts of making certain changes to the HJRB program. Specifically, these proposed changes consist of having a competitive travel team at each level that would play an extended season (presumably April – August). It has also been proposed that tryouts be conducted in the fall (September/October). On September 14, 2009, the new board (with Jeff as President) met and discussed these proposed changes to the program. Based upon the fact that the current board was only elected on September 1, 2009 and that significant time constraints existed in implementing fall tryouts for the 2010 season, the Board voted not to implement any such changes for the upcoming season. However, the Board did vote to implement these plans pertaining to fall tryouts and for extended season competitive travel teams in the 2011 season. There are many issues to be worked out in this regard and those will be dealt with between now and the 2011 season.
If possible, we will try to hold the 2010 tryouts sooner in the year to give coaches a better opportunity to locate and sign up for more local tournaments and to have additional practice time before the commencement of the season. This is all dependant on finding tryout windows that don’t conflict with other sports as well as facility availability. We are currently looking into which particular facility we will be utilizing for these tryouts. We will provide you with more information about the upcoming 2010 season in the near future.
The HJRB Board of Directors would like to thank each and every individual who has volunteered their time and effort to ensure that the Junior Rams program continues to grow and be a great success. We all look forward to a great upcoming season. If you are interested in serving as the HJRB Treasurer or as the U14 Coach’s Representative, please contact a Board member at your earliest convenience. Go Rams!
Brian Kayser: bkayser@hjrb.org
Tom Barger: tbarger@hjrb.org
Brandee Brooks: brandee9@yahoo.com
Sincerely,
Brian Kayser
President
Holt Jr. Rams Baseball
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