Wellington Disc Sports would like to announce the selection of Adele Gibson and Jane Keane as co-coaches for Artemis. They will be running trainings and selecting a team to represent Wellington at the WaM tournament in Auckland.

Trainings will be held on Sundays from 3-6 pm at Boyd Wilson Field, at Victoria University of Wellington's Kelburn Campus. VUWFDC has secured these fields. To help cover the costs of the fields they are charging $20 per person for the entire training period leading up to WaM.

Trainings start Sunday, 29 January 2012.

For more details about trainings contact Adele or Jane at: adelegibson@yahoo.com.  Adele's cell phone number is 021 0235 8299 and Jane’s is 021 121 2101

The Wellington Disc Sports Exec is looking for people to coordinate practises and team formation leading up to the Women's and Men's Nationals. We are looking for two squad managers to look after men's and women's respectively. We envisage that the managers will lead the training sessions, but they could alternatively delegate coaching responsibilities. There is field space available on Sundays, at Boyd-Wilson field at Victoria University. The Vic squads will be training at the same time, but games between the WDS squad and the Vic squad and combined training sessions may be an option that could be discussed between the coaches. The Vic Club will be charging non Vic players $20 for the entire period, so $20 for about 10 x 3 hour training session, equaling about $2 per week.

The main aim is to develop high level ultimate in Wellington and put Wellington's best foot forward at Nationals, this year and moving forward.

Aspects of this would include:
•    incorporating as wide a base of Wellington ultimate as possible
•    run open trainings throughout until WaM for anyone who wants to improve their skills and play at a high level
•    form representative teams in each division (Men's and women's)
•    ideally top teams will be formed in each division, but more importantly space on teams should be found for anyone who commits to the programme
•    foster positive team environments
•    win both divisions of WaM!

Wellington Disc Sports will:
•    provide training space and resources (discs/cones etc)
•    recognise teams, coaches and players as Wellington representatives in Ultimate
•    investigate funding options

 The Convenors will:
•    ensure coached trainings take place on a weekly basis
•    delegate responsibilities as required (coaching, logistics etc)
•    have overall responsibility for the success of the programme

The ideal candidates will:
•    relate well to players of varying levels of development
•    have a proven record of organising campaigns
•    ideally have solid coaching experience

Please respond with your expression of interest to Alaina O'Byrne at acobyrne@gmail.com by 5 pm, Monday 23 January 2012. We would like to try to have coaches in place for next weekend's training sessions, Sunday 29 January.

Thank you,

Alaina O'Byrne
on behalf of the Wellington Disc Sports Executive

WDS is pleased to open registrations for the second summer leagues for 2011/12. Registrations close on Saturday 14 January.

In June there was a special convening of the Wellington Disc Sports Executive to discuss the development of a strategy plan for the Wellington community.  The resulting strategic statement resulting from this session was as follows:
•    To grow and develop the skills, players, spirit and awareness of the Wellington Disc Sports Community.
•    To provide opportunities to beginner through to elite players in Wellington to play disc sports in a spirited environment.

For more information about your Exec. and what they are up to you can read their minutes. If you want to come along to one of these meetings then keep an eye on the site for further details.