AGENDA
- Introductions
- Brief board introduction and our acting roles
- Presidential Address
- spotless/flawless/fabulous
NEW BUSINESS
- Clarification of forum for discussion
- 5 minutes to introduce your topic of discussion and present your arguments
- 10 minutes total discussion for the topic after introduced, then it becomes old business
- Summary of agenda with brief explanation
- Conduct process review
- HOps update
- L1/L2 Split Review
- Survey results summary about 78 responses for the meeting with several positive answers and a few negative. Social interaction seemed to be one of the larger barriers this year.
- Comments and suggestions from the attendees:
- Witte- Asked for the planning to be more intentional for challenge weeks.
- Parter- Create a new committee for challenge/non-game weeks activities.
- Sukup- Have a conversation with captains to be more open and outgoing themselves or to find a social ambassador on the team to help with branching out to other folx in the association.
- Alpha- Set up game areas, board or cards, in the common areas upstairs.
- MGHA Classic Tournament
- Ryan Ziltner- Put social committee together for the Classic to help mingle locals and visitors playing in the tournament (he volunteered to help this year).
- Recap of all topics mentioned
- Open discussion
- Sukup- What safety concerns do people have with the on-ice safety or rink location
- Safety concern was on-ice with different levels not playing down, players trying too hard and putting themselves and puck handler at risk of injury.
- Geoffrey- Asked about the demographics of new players and if they had breakdown of gender specific answers in regards to gay folks vs straight and if we are still recruting gay men.
- Sarah Pisula – How are we holding skill levels 5 and 6 accountable for their promise to play down to the L1 level. Are they helping to create a safe environment for the the newer skaters?
- Alpha- Maybe there’s an issue with the players ranked 3 and 4 playing down and inclusively, not just those who rank 5 or 6.
- Witte- Felt the play was pretty great in the leagues. Feels the social aspect is lacking and finding the sponsor that stays open past 9:30 on Sundays. There’s still a barrier between L1 and L2 leagues commingling
- Ryan Z- Again volunteered to help with the social squad, is loving the league and scheduling life on Sundays around hockey. He asked if we can we get our sponsors to possibly cater food in the eagle’s nest to facilitate socialization.
- Witte- Should we be telling the sponsors we are from MGHA?
- Yes tell hosts you are MGHA.
- Patrick F- How much aid did we award this year, do we expect this much every year? What’s the forecast with our funds and being able to sustain in the future?
- Amanda- Waiting on numbers from Jake.
- Sukup- There were a lot of new player socials at the beginning of the year, how did they go? Were they successful?
- Ryan Z-personally didn’t talk to a lot of people, but was fine
- Laur- Interacted with a lot of players till 1-2am at the bonfire.
- Tim- L1’s have been hanging out a lot together, especially the new hockey players.
- Chuck-whats the goal for next year in regards to adding more teams?
- Amanda- Waiting till the end of the year survey to see what folks thought of the season. The L1 league is larger than initially anticipated.
- Ryan-do we need to keep recruiting new players?
- Patrick/Amanda- Yes, it’s always good to have players waiting to enter the league as there are players who move away or don’t want to play in the up-coming year.
- Sarah P- Loving the restructure as L1 has given her more time to think while playing and learn at the right speed with those who are similar in skills with her.
- Alpha- Echoes what Sarah said and has enjoyed learning to play goalie in the L1 league and broadening his skills.
- Ryan-are we staying at Cap Ice for next year?
- Amanda-we have a price guarantee for ice. The super bowl debacle won’t happen again. Overall, the ice is better than Hartmeyer’s ice. We have faced some challenges with the Capitals home games forcing us to adjust game times, but are working on better communication with the rink management (they’ve had some turnover).
- Sukup- Loved the super bowl color bowl games.
- Amanda T- Little blurb about membership and their roles/responsibilities.
- Matthew- Are there new proposals for this year?
- Amanda- Not at this time.
- Patrick- Plug for essays and their impacts on new skaters. How they impact and act as a blueprint for other leagues to follow.
- Tim- Writing his essay helped him take a look at his life; where he came from and what he had learned about different groups of people.
- Patrick- Let’s do outreach to help teams get together and travel to other league tournaments.
- Katy- She would love to see more advertising/encouraging of league members to put together teams and travel.
- Alpha- Team trans event is coming up!
- Chuck- What are some things we could do to help others feel less excluded and more included in the MGHA?
- Amanda- Keep an open spot when talking in a group to allow someone to join. Assist captains with finding a social ambassador from the team to help with motivating others to interact and plan social events.
- Matt- A way to encourage socializing could be pre-game activities in the locker room, like jamming out to a song and this could lead to conversations amongst players and pump up the team. Also, maybe set up a week night get-together to participate in trivia or play other games.
- Laur- Suggested teammates and other team players stretch together pre-game.
- Maggie- Great idea! Folx could use the lobby or locker room.
- Sarah- Enjoyed the goalie curious clinics and found out she really enjoys the position. She would like to see more folx encouraging new people to try different positions.
- Geoffrey- Enjoyed the color games during the super bowl, too.
- Chuck- Will there still be summer scrimmages?
- Tim- Yes, assuming Cap Ice is available to us. We will possibly continue Sunday night scrimmages if there is enough interest from folx.