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NEWSLETTER (1) 2015
3 mar 2015 0 kommentarer
2015 is now on it’s way and we are working to plan for the club to have a great year, especially since we are celebrating that the club turns 50 years this year. I will get back to that later.
Last Saturday we had the club’s annual meeting and the status of the club was presented and discussed. In short, the economy looks alright again after the big deficit we had in 2013 and we will be able to improve a lot of things within the club in the near future. Also we have a new committee consisting of Henrik Viberg (chairman), Ulf Lindberg (treasurer), Fredrik Wärnberg (secretary), Erika Bergvall, Erik Segergren, Luke Perrin and Tim Dodd (all regular committee members) and as substitutes Sara Sundler and Robin Backebjörk.
During the coming year the club will have more teams than in a very long time or maybe more teams than ever. The men’s team will play in Division 1 east (http://iof3.idrottonline.se/SvenskaRugbyforbundet/Tavling/Tavlingsnyheter/SerieprogramDivision12015Uppdaterad/), the women’s team will play in Allsvenskan with the help of Enköping. Furthermore, in the youth competition Mälardalsserien we will have teams in U8, U10, U12 and hopefully U14 classes. All these teams of course needs support, but we also need people who are interested in helping out coaching the U10-U12 group, who are currently coached by Henrik Viberg and Anders Göransson. If you are interested in helping out please contact me.
We will also keep trying to attract more kids to rugby by interaction with the schools in Uppsala. Our goal is to reach out to around 300 kids during the spring semester. In addition, we will organize a rugby summer camp for kids between 7 and 11 years of age the 15-18th of June.
During 2014 there was a lot of focus on the economy and we had some tough decisions to make. With the help from players, members and sponsors we managed to turn it around and for this year will do some improvements for the players in the club. All full paying active senior players will receive a pair of new personal match shorts and to increase the quality at training we have invested in some new equipment:
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20 feet container
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New training balls for men and women
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3 new tackle bags
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3 new contact bags
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8 new tackle suits
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The men’s and women’s teams will go down to Trelleborg to play preseason games the weekend of the 10-12th of April. We wish them good luck and hope it will be helpful for the coming season
Hopefully this will give our teams better facilities to improve the skills and standard of the players and teams.
As mentioned above we celebrate our 50th anniversary this year and we will try to organize a few happenings throughout the year, where we hope to see past and present members of the club come together and enjoy the spirit of rugby and URFC. The four main happenings will be:
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Participation in Stockholm 10’s old-boys tournament the 1-2nd of August.
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Club day: planned to mid-August, where all the club’s teams and hopefully also old-boys and old-girls, will play at Fyrisfjädern.
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Rugby World Cup 2015 tour: 52 past and present members are going to England 18-20th of September to watch France vs Italy. Ages from 8 to 70 will be represented.
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50’s anniversary banquette: A big party will be held the 17th of October where we will celebrate our beloved club and all the past and present members. Further detailed information will be sent out later, the date is set.
So as you can see a lot is happening within the club and we are working hard to make the club bigger and better and if you are willing to help or support in any way please do not hesitate to contact us. We want more people involved and the club to grow.
Hope to see you all at Fyrisfjädern, the club house or at any of the anniversary happenings during the year.
Henrik Viberg, chairman Uppsala Rugby Football Club
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