Rep

Michelle Church:

Michelle has been coaching for 5 years. This is her first year coaching rep ball. In 2009 she coached one of Barrie Storm’s Squirt House league teams as well as the Novice Select team. She has her level 2 coaching certification and she is a certified facilitator for Introduction to Competition A and B under the NCCP Coaching Certification program. Michelle’s strategic ability makes her the ideal coach for the rep program. Her goal is developing the skills of the Novice Rep Team players and help them with their focuses in softball to reach their highest potential and reach their personal goals.

Jennifer Casement-Buttineau:

This is Jennifer’s second year coaching (first year as a co-coach). She retired as a softball pitcher just after her senior year at Limestone College, S.C - playing in the NCAA. Some of her awards have been:

CVAC ALL Conference Pitcher (2003, 06,07) and Canadian Junior National MVP (2004).

Jennifer’s goal for the 2010 season is making it to the provincial championships.

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Gord Maccullum

Gord began his coaching career many years ago (’85) when his daughters decided they would like to play softball and coaches were needed for their teams. He became certified NCCP in both levels 1 & 2. Gord coached a number of teams (mostly in the Brampton organization) and have had a successful run with them, advancing to many Provincials, including participating in the Ontario Summer Games. Accomplishments include a number of Gold, Silver and Bronze placements. He looks forward to coaching in the Barrie organization and developing the skills of the young ladies he has had opportunity to meet.

Janice Maccullum

Janice has been playing softball and pitching since the age of 3. She has been to, and won many tournaments, including Provincials, Easterns, and a World Series. Janice has been a pitching coach for a team in Mississauga who qualified for provincials in the past and she looks forward to learning new techniques for teaching other parts of the game for the 2010 season in Barrie.

Rob Dewan

Rob has been involved in baseball for over 30 years. He started with playing organized baseball (hardball) when he was 14, playing junior and senior ball in his mid twenties, then continued to play slo-pitch. Rob has won 2 provincial championships, and coming in 4th in the nationals. He has been on the Stroud mixed slo-pitch executive for over 13 years, serving as president for four of them. Rob's involvement with fastball started when his daughter started playing, helping out in some matter with the coach and with the kids during a practice or a game. As far as a goal Rob would like to see Barrie Storm post a winning season, playing as a well rounded baseball team.

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ADDITIONAL INFO

Barrie Storm Rep Fastball

It is the intention of the Barrie & District Softball Association Rep system to represent the City of Barrie at the highest level of softball available to us. In keeping with our primary and most important principle of always playing and demonstrating the utmost of honesty, integrity and fair play, Storm players will always strive to improve and develop as athletes and ballplayers. Annually through an open, fair, competitive and accountable tryout process, we will field the best possible team at each level from the talent pool available. Through our teaching, training and most importantly by example, we will lead our players to be the best that they can be. We are playing at a very competitive level and finding ways to win and be successful is very important but, of the utmost importance, is our philosophy of teamwork and unselfish co-operation with our fellow teammates. At this level we are expected to win, required to make a full commitment and must do our utmost to make this a fun and rewarding experience for our players.

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Police Record Screen Constitution Change

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To: All members of BDGSA

Subject: 2009 Rep team applications

This is an invitation to all interested in coaching or managing a BDGSA Rep team for the 2009 season. We are looking to field Rep teams in all divisions from Mite to Midget.

Tryouts for the 2009 teams should begin after the 2008 house league season has ended and ALL players who are eligible from house league should receive a direct invitation to the tryouts. An initial selection of 9 confirmed 2009 Rep players must be submitted to the VP of Rep no later than January 1^st 2009. The final roster of a minimum of 11 players must be submitted to the VP of Rep no later than March 15, 2009.

Rep teams will be permitted under the following conditions:

One coach has the proper NCCP level 2 certification prior to season’s start. (Level 1 for Squirt.)
The corresponding house league division can field a minimum of 4 teams.
Coaches and volunteers have completed the mandatory police checks as required by BDGSA.

The BDGSA will supply the teams with an equipment bag, a set of uniforms (home/away jerseys and shorts), and will pay for 3 2009 tournaments (one of which includes the Barrie Bash). The league will also pay the PWSA affiliation and tournament fees (qualifiers and Grand Championships). Note there is an extra fee for all players to play rep. Said fee will be determined by the 2009 elected executive.