2012 RMHS AAC Pre-Season Boy/Coed Volleyball Tourn

[MoCoBoCo]

The Richard Montgomery High School Asian American Club (RMHS AAC) is sponsoring a pre-season boys/co-ed volleyball tournament!

During the MCPS girls volleyball season, basically every varsity team has the opportunity to play in a competitive volleyball tournament. Our purpose for sponsoring this tournament is to give boys/co-ed teams in MCPS the same opportunity.

All schools are welcome to form both a boys and a co-ed team to compete. If you would like to participate, please contact your school's coordinator. The list of coordinators can be found here: docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArBDd1znas6MdHRKLXdmdHU4MktoRlRVRE9VQkJXNmc&hl=en_US

IF THERE IS NO COORDINATOR LISTED FOR YOUR SCHOOL AND YOU ARE WILLING TO COORDINATE, PLEASE EMAIL US AT [e-mail].

We will be charging a $200 registration fee per team, and ALL PROCEEDS WILL GO TO CHARITY! We will be selling tournament t-shirts and food at the playing site and we are also currently working on a lunch deal with local eateries. More details about the tournament/payment will be sent to your captain after he/she turns in the registration form.

ALL TEAMS MUST REGISTER BY NOVEMBER 31, 2011. LATE REGISTRATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED UNLESS YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD OTHERWISE BY THE TOURNAMENT COMMITTEE.

As of currently, we will only be taking the first 16 boys and 16 coed teams to register. We may expand the number of teams allowed later, but for now, teams will be waitlisted if they are not one of the first 32 teams registered.

So please invite all your friends! Help us get the word out so we can make this as successful as possible!

COORDINATORS: Please download the registration form (https://docs.google.com/document/d/12R6sY2XYVdppjkK2ZtNFJjekGoZoRZFoHPifomxjhVw/edit?hl=en_US) and send it back to [e-mail] with your high school and your division in the subject header (e.g. "Richard Montgomery - Boys"). To download, click on the "File" tab, go down to "Download As", and select the "Word" option.

NOTE: This tournament is geared towards boys and co-ed teams in MCPS, as the name would suggest. However, this tournament is out of season, so your high school coach is NOT allowed to participate. That does not mean that your high school coach cannot help set up the team, but it does mean that your high school coach cannot hold practices for the team and cannot coach your team at the tournament. For more details, please ask your high school coach for more details on out of season coaching.

[Scott Zanni]

Great idea to organize an out of season tournament. The more play the better, especially since the county has reduced games from 14 (years ago) to 11 (starting this year).

However I believe the organizers either misstated or misunderstand the out of season rules. I'm working under the assumption that this is a preseason tournament as stated above (and not a summer tournament, where the rules would be much differnet).

These include:
-Coaching out of season: ANY COACH associated with the spring volleyball program may not coach. This includes all paid and volunteer coaches.

-Organization by coaches: coaches may certainly distribute information, but can't set a roster, determine who can participate (play) and who can't. Simply put, if a coach does more than pass out information, they may be violating the county/state rules (some of which are state law).

-Practices: teams playing in the tournament may practice. I believe (not 100% certain on this) teams are not allowed to use school facilities, equipment, etc. Put another way, a team can organize itself, find a place to practice, but it can't be at their school or using the school equipment UNLESS they rent the gym through ICB as an outside group. Admittedly, I'm not 100% certain on the nuances of this.

I mention this because I'd hate to see a team, coach, players, school violate some rules and have it impact their season.

Finally, I'd note that the boys/coed teams are eligible to host tournaments in the spring. To my knowledge no one ever has, though I know a few schools have explored the idea. there were 1 or 2 preseason tournaments last spring.

[MoCoBoCo]

Thanks for the support and rule clarifications, Coach Zanni!

We definitely agree with you about the coaching limitations. That's the same as what we've been telling to all the players, but we will make sure that the coaching limitations are stressed and clarified.

Also, I didn't mean to say that there were no tournaments last Spring during the boys/co-ed season. I apologize for that poorly-worded statement. I know Einstein held a tournament last Spring, as well as some other schools. What I was trying to convey is that we are trying to provide boys/co-ed teams with the opportunity to play in a larger tournament, complete with multiple pools during pool play and multiple playoff brackets.

Regarding the point about practice locations, would someone be able to figure out what the exact rules are? I know the RM boys team has used the school gym for practices in the past before the Spring season started (usually in between the Winter and Spring seasons). We want to make sure that we provide all the players/coordinators with the correct information.

[marym]

Is a date/location set for this event?

[seemeset]

Oct 16, 2011 10:35:44 GMT -5 @MoCoBoCo said:

I know Einstein held a tournament last Spring, as well as some other schools.

first: great idea!

second: it's .NOT. a tournament.

[MoCoBoCo]

Well Einstein does call it a "scrimmage tournament", so I think it's fair to consider it as such. =)

The projected date for the this tournament is January 21, 2012, which is the 3-day weekend right after 1st semester exams are over.

We haven't really looked too much into the gym situation yet, but we would like to rent Champions Fieldhouse. We plan on getting estimates for gym rental fees this weekend.

[Tournament Update]

The tournament will be held on Saturday, January 21, 2012 at the Richard Montgomery High School gym, from 12:00pm-8:00pm.

There will be 2 divisions, boys and coed. The pools are as follows:

Boys:
1. Blair
2. Richard Montgomery
3. Wootton
4. Springbrook

Coed:
1. Sherwood
2. Wootton
3. Richard Montgomery
4. Seneca Valley

We are extremely excited to have these 8 teams participate in what we hope will become an annual event.

We hope to increase participation in years to come, hopefully up to the point where we can get all 32 MCPS teams to participate. There is no entrance fee, so please spread the word and come out to watch!

[Results]

Congratulations to Blair for winning the Boys Division and Sherwood for winning the Coed Division!

Thanks to everyone who came out and supported the tournament today! Hopefully the tournament can become an annual event in the future, with more teams from around the county participating.