We Need You!!!
Help wanted!!! Ladies and gentlemen, if you truly love the sport of racquetball, then it is time to step into the service box and prove it. The NCRA Board does a lot of work behind the scenes to support our great sport and we need your help. We currently have only a small number of active board members and the workload that they shoulder is getting increasingly hard to maintain. We need people dedicated to our sport to become Board members and dedicate some of their time and talents to help us carry on this work. If you don’t know what the Board does for you, let me enlighten you. Listed below are some of the things the Board does for NC Racquetball:
- Run both the State Championship Singles and Doubles, and the Aloha Open tournaments
- Ensures tournament directors have all the sanctioning info required for their tournament and provide other assistance as needed
- Maintains an active web site
- Ensures all rankings and results get entered and updated on the web site
- Tracks memberships
- Distributes new membership rewards
- Runs a referee certification program
- Runs the state junior development program
- Runs the scholarship program
- Runs the grant program
- Writes a monthly newsletter
- Maintains financial/accounting info for the NCRA
- Plans fundraisers for the NCRA
All of these things take time and effort volunteered by the Board members. In order to continue to provide these services and support racquetball in North Carolina, we need additional Board members so that we can more evenly distribute the workload. Board members are not paid though there are some perks provided. Please consider volunteering your time and talents to our great sport by becoming a Board member. You will have the influence to help shape the future of racquetball in North Carolina and the satisfaction of knowing that you have made a difference.
SO..YOU WANT TO BE ON THE BOARD….
Great, we think you’ll be a great asset to the NCRA Board. We’d like to take this opportunity to share with you what you can expect and what our expectations are.
- You will need to complete the petition. Make sure all 25 signatures are current NCRA members. Make sure they write their names so they are legible. You will need to submit a short paragraph on why you want to join the Board or attend the meeting when your nomination is brought up to tell us in person why you want to join.
- You may attend a meeting prior to getting a petition, or after your petition is completed. We suggest you attend a meeting so that you may get a feel for what the Board does, and how it goes about doing NCRA business.
- Attendance at all meetings is required, however, we know that there may be some conflict at some time. If you miss too many meetings you will be asked to step down. Business meetings are usually on Saturdays from 11:00am until approximately 4:00pm. These are held quarterly. Meetings are also held at tournaments occasionally. Meeting dates are always set at the close of the prior meeting. There is also an annual meeting at the State Singles, which usually lasts less than an hour. The total number of meetings each year is normally five. You are responsible for your own transportation to and from meetings.
- Every Board member is also required to work the State Singles, State Doubles, and the Aloha Open tournaments. The NCRA, depending on availability and monies, may choose to reimburse you or provide you with a free hotel room during the State Singles, Doubles and the Aloha, and may also waive your entry fees, at it’s discretion, for these tournaments. You may be asked to share a room with another Board member.
- Each Board member is asked to work on a committee and serve in an active role.
- We will ask each new Board member their main focus or interest. The Board will endeavor to assign them a committee that matches their interest, however, the Board may ask you to serve in another area of need for a period of time.
Thank you very much for your interest. For more information call or email Lynn Stephens at 910-638-8008 or lstephens@ncracquetball.com
NCRA Board of Directors