1. Volunteers Yu Christmas Open

YUTC THIS WEEK – Dec 1st 1. Volunteer Opportunity – York Christmas Open - Dec 6th 2. 2009 Membership Forms 3. YUTC Uniforms / Track Suits 4. YUTC Athletes in Action This Week: YU Christmas Youth Meet YU Christmas Open 5. Call For Coaches’ Entries: Sharon Anderson Memorial – Due 6. 2009 Indoor Competition Schedule 7. York U Strike Continues 8. YUTC Results

1. VOLUNTEERS – YU CHRISTMAS OPEN This coming weekend is the Christmas Open and we need volunteers. If you are coming to the track to watch, why not get closer to the action and avoid having to pay public admission fee. We need timers, people to hold tapes, rake pits, post results, etc. You can work just the morning session or the whole day. If you work the whole day, you get a FREE catered lunch. Hours worked will count towards 2009 volunteer commitment hours. If you are interested, please contact me via email by Thursday, Dec 4th at [email protected]

2. YUTC 2009 MEMBERSHIP FORMS NOW AVAILABLE! It’s that time of year! Our 2009 membership registration forms are now available on-line or through your coach. You will notice a difference this year, as we have streamlined the number of forms to juts three: 1. 2009 YUTC Registration Form (2 pages or back to front) 2. YUTC Power of Attorney (1 page) 3. 2009 OTFA Registration Form – not yet available from the OTFA. So, we will have to get you to fill out and sign this form later in the New Year.

2009 Fee Structure Changes: a. Membership Increase: In these economic times, the club executive has needed to increase the membership fees for 2009 in order to continue to offer the extensive program YUTC offers. These increases are required to cover off the increasing expenses that the club is accruing in travel (gas, accommodations) and meet fees. We have extensive travel expenses to cover with meets as last year’s Ontario Championships in Ottawa. 2009 will be no different with the club traveling to Timmins and Windsor for OTFA Championships.

Cost Comparison: Despite the increase in fees, YUTC’s membership fees are still less expensive then other Ontario Clubs. We conducted a detailed fees analysis verses the other clubs in the GTA and the province and when we compare our fee structure and program verses other clubs, we are still much lower. We have learned that one of the other GTA clubs membership fees will be in the area of $1,000.00 this year!

Arguably, you may find some clubs do offer a cheaper annual memberships but if you look closer, many are a pay as you go club and do not offer all the benefits that are included in our YUTC membership:  Track facility passes ($135)  OTFA registration fee ($45 to $95 per athlete in 2008)  Meet entry fees (varies per meet but typically $5 to 20 per event)  Awards Banquet  subsidized travel and accommodations b. Volunteer Commitment: In order to keep our fee structure lower then other clubs and still provide the programs we do, YUTC will try to raise more revenue verses 2008 by hosting more meets then we ever have before. However, to do this we will need involvement from the membership. In 2009, the volunteer commitment has been raised from 10 hours to 15 hours per member or the cost of $175.00 if the member does not wish to participate in volunteering. Without our membership being actively involved our club could not host the meets that we need to drive the revenue to off set the club expenses and lower membership fees.

In addition to the meets we traditional offer or host on behalf of the OTFA, we have added the following to our club hosting schedule: a. YU Spring Open May 2nd – a full day open meet. b. Summer Twilight Series will be increased from 3 to 4 meets. c. NEW for 2009 – 3 throws only Twilight Meets. Without our membership volunteers, assistance for the York varsity track team and the York University Kinesiology students, we would have to increase our fees. A member recently complained that they felt harassed by my call for volunteers. I apologize in advance for sounding like I am harassing you, but we can either volunteer for these meets or increase the meet fees. If any of the membership is not able to work the meets, but wants to help out, we do have other volunteering duties/committees we need help with; Awards Banquet, Sponsorship / Fund raising committees are just two other areas we need help with.

c. University Membership Structure – The executive has expended the university structure for 2009. Last year, we offered a slight discount to York varsity athletes to join the club. We have expanded that program to ensure that we maintain our university aged athletes and have two new university membership categories: i. York Varsity Alumni – available to recent YU grads who were members of the YU Varsity program. To help our recent graduates get on their feet, this fee available for up to 24 months after graduation. ii. Other Universities & Colleges Students – offered to current students attending other university and colleges. Must be able to show current student card to be eligible.

These university memberships are reduced verses the regular full year membership fees for the following reasons: iii. University tuition fees – are on the rise again. iv. University varsity athletes have “varsity team Fees” to pay to belong and compete for the university. For example, a first year varsity student may have to pay $200 to $300 just to compete on their university varsity team during the indoor season. v. University students are not expensive to the club during the university school year as many of them do not join until they return home for the outdoor season.

3. YUTC UNIFORMS / TRACK SUITS: T-shirts / Singlets & Shimlets: Be sure and fill correctly fill out the uniform section on the 2009 registration form. You will need to provide your t-shirt and singlet or shimlet size. The club will provide its female athletes the choice of either a singlet or a shimlet. If they would like to have both, they will need to buy the shimlet at the club cost of $35.00.

Shorts/Tights: The club will not be offering any shorts or tights as part of the uniform in 2009 due to the overall lack of use/demand by the athletes. The club has provided these in the past but only to have a very few athletes wear them in competition as most athletes prefer to compete in their own shorts or tights. The club does ask that the athletes please be fashion conscience and buy appropriate shorts and tights in either black or red, to match the club colours.

YUTC Track Suits – we will be doing a team order once a year for track suits. The YUTC track suits are Brooks Podium jacket and pant. Suits are 100% microfiber polyester with 100% moisture transfer polyester lining that is ideal team warm-up suit. The YUTC logo will be embroidered on the back and on the front left chest. YUTC is selling these team track suits at our cost. Cost for complete embroidered suit is $110.00 (taxes included).

Team order deadline: If you want one of these team warm up suits, you will need to have your money in to your coach by January 8th, 2009. We will not do another order this year.

4. YUTC ATHLETES IN ACTION THIS WEEK: This weekend YUTC will host the York University Christmas Open. This meet is really two meets in one with a youth meet in the morning and an open meet in the afternoon. Meet details can be found on our YUTC website. Here are our YUTC entries: YOUTH MEET (16 YUTC Athletes =27 entries) Time Track Athletes Field Athletes Events Events 9:00am 50m Girls Shana Flynn (mite) LJ Boys Lataya Charles (mite) Katie Disimnio (tyke) Hawaa Zoural (tyke) Alexandra Barnett (atom) Stephanie Blom (atom) Naomi Halbert (atom) Rachelle Jacobs (atom) Sasha Jennings (atom) Nikelle Marier (atom) 800m Girls Jessica Short (atom) HJ Boys Michelle Gorkunberg (bant) Joyce Magat (bantam) 200m Girls Lataya Charles (mite) Katie Disimnio (tyke) Seraiah Satto (atom) Alexandra Barnett (atom) Stephanie Blom (atom) Rachelle Jacobs (atom) Sasha Jennings (atom) Nikelle Marier (atom) Alisa Caringal (bantam) 10:30am 50m Boys Jack Sterling (atom) LJ Girls Lataya Charles (mite) Vikram Kandeth (Bantam) Katie Disimnio (tyke) Hawaa Zoural (tyke) Naomi Halbert (atom) 800m Boys HJ Girls 200m Boys Jack Sterling (atom) Vikram Kandeth (Bantam) Track Events will be on rolling schedule starting with Mite followed by Tyke, Atoms, and then Bantams in that order. All track events are timed sections finals and will be run slowest to fastest. Start blocks are to be used by bantam age group only. In the Long Jump (LJ) all age groups will compete at the same time and placings will be determined afterwards based on age categories. Open Meet: Time Track Athletes Field Athletes Events Events 1:00pm 1500m W M LJ 1500m M W HJ 60mh Heats M SP Suyi Georgewill Sr. Women Justine Sparks Eric Braithwaite Sr. Men 60m Heats WPV Women Toyin Badejo Sheree Mullings Men 400m Women Men Eric Sauchez Simon Tsekouras 800m Women Kaitlin Coopman Men 200m Women Toyin Badejo Megan Mukai Eric Sauchez Justine Parks Men 3000m Women Men 3pm WLJ MHJ WSP Cynthia Appiah Elizabeth Petrov Kristen Obrochta Sarah Manson MPV Jeff Hayoe 4pm M WT Suyi Georgewill Eric Braithwaite W WT Kristen Obrochta Cynthia Appiah Megan Edney Sarah Manson

6. CALL FOR ENTRIES: Sharon Anderson Memorial at UofT on January 10 th University & Open Meet Coaches’ entries due December to Rich – Dec 29th, 2008

7. 2009 YUTC COMPETITION SCHEDULE: The schedule has been posted on the YUTC website and on our bulletin boards at the track center. Please check them for the most up to date schedule revisions. We are still waiting for the MTA to publish their 2009 indoor and outdoor schedules.

8. YU STRIKE CONTINUES – no updates.

9. YUTC RESULTS:

Canadian Cross Country Champions Saturday, Nov 29th at the University of Guelph Arboretum. YUTC had 6 junior athletes entered at the 2008 Canadian National Cross Country Championships this past weekend. Stephanie Smith who placed 3rd at the OTFA Jr. XC Championships, was again our best finisher! Coming off a couple of years of injuries, it looks like Stephanie is finally on her way back to full recovery!

Congratulations to all who competed at Nationals!

Junior Women Stephanie Smith 38th 19:53.4 Chantelle Maryuen 168th 22:39.9 Alexandra Jarvis did not compete

Junior Men Nicholas Smith 168th 31:25.0 Spencer Wyatt 182nd 33.58.0 Eduardo Paolini – did not compete

Complete results can be found at http://guelphrunning.ca/news.php?id=174

York U Red & White Inter-Squad Meet Nov 27 & 28th at York University Complete results can be found at www.sport.yorku.ca Once again this was a fun team building meet for the varsity and some open athletes. For those of you who are not familiar with this meet, the varsity athletes are split into two teams and compete against each other. Afterwards, there is a team dinner where the winning team gets its meal bought by the loosing team. It’s a lot of fun with some high jinks going on. However, on a serious note there is some heavy competition going on as this meet represents a last chance for some to make the team. For others it’s a chance for the varsity athletes to make championship qualifying standards. YUTC of course has many athletes on the varsity team and also had some open athletes competing in this meet. Here are their results: YUTC ATHLETES Events Place Results Cynthia Appiah SP 1st 12.24m PB New Meet Record, OUA Qualifier WT 2nd 12.26m PB OUA Qualifier Kaitlin Coopman 600m 2nd 1:42.80 1000m 1st 3:10.35 LJ 11th 3.63m Kristin Obrochta SP 3rd 10.53m OUA Qualifier WT 1st 15.51m PB New Meet & YU School Record. Auto Qualifier for CIS Championships Elizabeth Petrov HJ 1st 1.55m OUA Qualifier SP 2nd 12.04m PB OUA Qualifier LJ 2nd 4.45m Randolph Fajardo 300m 7th 37.48 Suyi Georgewill SP 2nd 12.49m PB & OUA Qualifier WT 1st 14.40m PB New YU School Record & OUA Qualifier 60m 16th 7.66 Kevin Montgomery 1000m 1st 2:38.44 600m 3rd 1:30.06 David St. Bernard TJ 1st 14.27m Francis Silva 60m 12th 7.58 300m 8th 37.98

International Youth Meet of Champions Nov 28 to 30th at York University Results are not yet published. When they are the complete Results can be found at: otfa.ca. I will included the below athletes results in next week’s YUTC Enews.

Toyin Badejo Alexandra Barnett (atom) Stephanie Blom (atom) Lataya Charles (mite) Katie Disimnio (tyke) Shana Flynn (mite) Rachelle Jacobs (atom) Sasha Jennings (atom) Nikelle Marier (atom) Megan Mukai Seraiah Satto (atom) Jessica Short Hawaa Zoural (tyke)

Eric Braithwaite (youth) Jack Sterling Eric Sauchez