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TTHEHE RREBOUNDERSEBOUNDERS CCLUBLUB The Club for Supporters of Ohio State University Women’s Basketball

NEWSLETTERVOLUME 21 NUMBER 2 SEPTEMBER, 2010  

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE 

Hi Rebounders.Again I ask, “Where does the time go?”It seems like just yesterday I was writing myarticle for the August newsletter and here weare in September. This is an exciting weekbecause we have both our first ReboundersDinner meeting on Wednesday, September 1stand our first OSU football night game vs.Marshall on Thursday, September 2nd. Then wecan recuperate and have a relaxing Labor Dayweekend. I guess that really says that fall is

here.A couple of get well wishes go out to Paul

Willer, our past-president and now membershipchairman, who had heart surgery on Aug 23 andto Janet Gething who also has been in thehospital with pneumonia. We hope this finds bothof them feeling a whole lot better and headedback to good health. Each of these members hasgiven so much of their time to the Rebounders inthe roles that they have held. So, we wish foreach of them a speedy recovery and we hope to

see you back here soon.Our first board meeting of the year was

last week and we all should thank all of the boardmembers for their dedication to the club and forthe hours that they give to make this club "go".

I believe all of you should have received acopy of the duties for each office and committeechair. I hope that some of you will want tobecome more involved as the year goes along bychoosing to become one of these officers orcommittee chairs. We really have a great time

getting together to plan the Club activities and itwould be great if some of you would want to joinus. If you have any concerns, questions orsuggestions, feel free to get in touch with any ofthe board members.

If you missed our September 1st meeting,you missed a good program. Our speaker wasMarcus Hartman, a staff writer for the Buckeye 

Sports Bulletin. Marcus gave us his perspectiveon our team and the outlook for the 2010-11basketball season. He believes that the rest ofthe Big Ten teams will be much better this year

and will give our Buckeyes a real test.The following persons can pick up theirname badges at the dinner registration table atour October dinner meeting: Walter andCharlaine Menendian, Mike Shearer, and BeaTyree.

Mimi Mudrak, President  

If you are interested in purchasing a

name badge, please contact Paul Willer atbuckeyepaul@sbcglobal.net and tell him the shapeof the badge(s) you want, (rectangular - $3.00 orthe shape of Ohio -$5.00) how many badges, andthe exact name that you want on the badge.When your badges are ready, they may be pickedup at the registration table as you check in forour monthly dinner meetings. (Payment is

requested when you place your order)

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 PRESIDENT ELECT’S MESSAGE 

Our speaker for the October 6th dinnermeeting will be Tangy Williams. As many of youknow, Tangy is the Director of BasketballOperations for the OSU Women’s BasketballProgram. I hope you will join us at the Octobermeeting to hear her perspective on the manyaspects of the team, the upcoming season and

maybe even a funny story about her sister(former OSU assistant coach), Tamica WilliamsRaymond).

We look forward to seeing you at themeeting. GO BUCKS!

Jeff Grimm, President Elect 

NYC REBOUNDERS BUS

The Rebounders bus will be heading to

Madison Square Garden in New York City to cheerthe Buckeyes when they play the University ofConnecticut on Sunday, December 19. The buswill leave the OSU Golf Course at 5:00 a.m. onSaturday, December 18 and spend the night atthe Fairfield Inn in East Rutherford, NJ, (about5 miles from Manhattan). There is a city bus stopdirectly in front of the hotel for those who wouldlike to go into Manhattan on Saturday evening.

The Rebounder bus will drop us off atMadison Square Gardens around 8:00 a.m. onSunday and return for pick-up at 10:00 p.m. Wewill drive overnight back to Columbus, arrivingaround 9:00 a.m. on Monday, December 20.

The cost of the bus trip including thegame ticket is $200 per person. A block of roomshas been reserved at $99 per room and eachperson will be responsible for making his/her ownroom reservations. Due to demand, we increasedthe limit to 45 people on the bus. We currently

have 38 signed up for the trip, so there are

ONLY 7 seats available. The 45 tickets behindthe Buckeye bench have already been purchased.Your $200 payment will guarantee a seat on thebus.

For more information call June Allen at614-488-8296 or email buckeyejune@yahoo.com.Your check should be made out to TheRebounders Club and mailed to June Allen at2770 Oakridge Ct., Columbus, OH 43221

Look for details about the 2011 Big Tenroad trips to Michigan, Penn State, MichiganState and Purdue in the October newsletter.

 June Allen, Events Chairperson

DINNER RESERVATIONS 

We kicked off our new year with 91members and guests at our September meeting!What a great start! Let’s keep it going byplanning to join us on Wednesday, October 6, at

the University Plaza Hotel. 3110 Olentangy RiverRoad. Doors will open at 6:00 PM for social time,and dinner will be served at 6:30 PM. The menuwill be Caesar salad, sautéed chicken with sherrymushroom cream sauce, roasted potatoes,broccoli and chocolate mousse for dessert. (Avegetarian meal or a gluten free meal is availableupon request. Just let me know when you RSVP.)Drinks include water, coffee, decaf, tea & icedtea. Soft drinks & alcoholic beverages may bepurchased at the hotel bar. Dinner is $16 per

person, payable at the door. Remember, you arealways welcome to bring a guest to dinner andintroduce them to our club and invite them to

  join! Just let me know when you make yourreservation who will be joining you.

Reservation deadline is 9:00 PM,

Thursday, September 30th. Call 614-475-5872(I’ll call you to confirm) or email

 jgrimm4@columbus.rr.com (reservations will beconfirmed by email) and leave a message with

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your name, number of reservations and aconfirmation phone number. I do confirm allreservations, so if you haven’t heard from mewithin 48 hours contact me again. I don’t want tomiss anyone!

If you are unable to attend pleaseremember that you are obligated to pay if Icannot fill your spot. So let me know ASAP and I’lldo my best!

Judy Grimm, Treasurer 

TREASURERS REPORT 

OSU VS MIAMI TICKET RAFFLE

To all of you who bought tickets and tothose of you who sold tickets to help make thisraffle a huge success, thank you, thank you, andthank you! We raised $1060 for the women’s

basketball program. The winner of the Miamigame tickets was Tricia Honeycutt. 

Don’t forget that we raffle off individualgame tickets at each dinner meeting. This monthMarty Thomas was the lucky winner of the OhioUniversity tickets and Stephanie Coplan won theEastern Michigan tickets. Next month we’ll beraffling the Indiana & Purdue games!

Judy Grimm, Treasurer

MEMBERSHIP

We currently have a total of 253

members as we strive to reach our goal of 500members by the end of the club year. Wewelcome new members: Abigail Harding and

David Goldberger of Worthington, and Judy Long

and Sharon Huber of Dublin, OH.This may be the last newsletter you will

receive this year. Please look at the label on thisnewsletter and make sure that it has“6/30/2011” after your name. That means thatyou have renewed your membership. However, ifit says, “6/30/2010”, that date has passed, andwe have not received your dues. For those of you,who receive your newsletter via E-mail; check outthe note that was attached. That note indicatedwhether your dues are current.

We have included a membership form withyour newsletter. If you do not need the form foryour own purpose, perhaps you could pass it on toa friend or neighbor who would like to join theclub.

This year promises to be another greatyear for the Buckeye women. We’re hoping to goa little further into the post-season games andwe need your voices to help cheer the Buckeyeson.

Membership Committee 

VOLUNTEERING

This year when you received yourmembership card/s in the mail, there was a list ofDuties and Responsibilities included. Please lookover the Committee Duties and see if there issomething you would be interested in helping with.

Some examples:Maybe you would be interested in

coordinating the Yahoo! Groups and the Yahoo! E-mail account (Those are things you could do fromhome with the help of your computer);

Perhaps you would be interested in helpingto monitor the website and offer articles or makesuggestions of things that could be added orremoved from the website;

If you live on the north side of the city,perhaps you could pick up the hard copies of the

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printed newsletter, attach address labels, stampand mail the newsletter (We use Kenwel Printerswhich is located on Indianola just north of CookeRoad);

Or, perhaps you would be interested inpassing out flyers or in designing the flyer to bepassed out.

Please give it some thought andremember that many hands make the worklighter.

Go Bucks! 

2010 GOLF OUTING

PLEASE HELP 

This is your last chance to support the2010 Rebounders Golf Classic which will be heldon September 20. This is the club’s largestfundraiser each year. We still need door prizes(gift cards of $15-$25 are great), silent auctionitems ($50+ value), sponsors and players. Oneimportant addition this year is that each player in

the outing will receive a free round of golf to beplayed between September and June 2011. That’sa great deal!!

If you would like additional sponsorshipand registration forms, they are posted on theclub website, www.thereboundersclub.org, oravailable through any of the golf committeemembers below:

Judy & Jeff Grimm (893-3701)Pat & JR Logsdon (236-4268)Mimi Mudrak (890-5136)

Janet Gething (891-0648)Bob Key (321-6021)Greg Edmonds (337-1271)Paul Willer (890-0167)Jim McCarthy (459-2185)Bruce Jones (206-6485)

Thanks in advance for your support of the 2010Rebounders Golf Classic 

 Jeff Grimm, Golf Outing Chair

FUN FACTS

Congratulations to Jantel Lavender andSamantha Prahalis for being named to the 2010-11 “Wade Watch” list for The State Farm Wade

Trophy, Division I Player of the Year. Thismarks the third time that Lavender has beenplaced on the Wade Watch list and the secondtime that Prahalis has received the honor. Only25 of the top NCAA Division I student-athletes

are selected to be on this annual list and in Marchof each year, a winner is chosen. The student-athlete that wins will have led her team in gamestatistics, shown leadership and character, had aneffect on her team and has demonstrated anoverall playing ability. Some regard the Wade

Trophy as the “Heisman of Women’s Basketball”.Good luck to Jantel and Sammy.

If it appears, at times, that the arena isnearly empty during an OSU Women’s Basketballgame, that’s because it is. In 20 home basketballgames in 2009-10, the attendance averaged only3,822 spectators. In fact, in the first 16 gameslast year (home and away), the attendance wasover 3000 only two times (5,236 at Duke and3,721 at home against Wisconsin). Our smallestattendance at home was 2,241 when OSUentertained California. The smallest number ofspectators that OSU played before at awaygames was the 659 at Northwestern. We alsoplayed to a “crowd” of 1,320 at Illinois.

A very interesting statistic is that whilethe home games attendance averaged only 3,822,away games attendance averaged 4,808. Thelargest attended home games were againstIndiana (6016) and Michigan State which drew11,825 fans. Away from home the Buckeyes drew8,669 at Purdue and 12,412 at Michigan State.

Maybe our games against teams likeConnecticut, Oklahoma, Virginia and LSU will helpto bring the early season attendance up.

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 Did you know that in 2009-10 every Big

Ten Conference team finished with at least 13wins overall and at least six Conference wins?This has never before been accomplished inconference history. Also, nine of the eleven BigTen teams participated in post season play. iThesefacts seem to suggest that all Big Ten women’sBasketball teams are getting better.

ii Many people are talking about seeing the

OSU women basketball players assisting in thegardening at the Mid Ohio Food Bank. Some saythat they really “worked as a team” with those

hoes and rakes.We thank you players, for taking an

interest in this vital Columbus community project.We especially thank you for helping those who arein need in central Ohio.

November is coming soon and it is time toremind each of us who are receiving thisnewsletter that we most likely are OSU

ATHLETIC BOOSTERS. We all need to be awareof the NCAA rules regarding our involvement withcurrent and prospective players.

You are a booster if:*You are, or ever have been a member of

an OSU booster group (Rebounders);*You have ever made a financial

contribution to the Ohio State University;*You have made any annual or lifetime

membership commitment to an OSU boosterorganization;

*You have provided benefits to anenrolled student athlete, prospect, or theirrelatives/friends;

*You have provided or helped to arrangeemployment of student athletes;

How do we, as boosters, help make sureOSU remains compliant? ASK FIRST!

Before acting you should contactcompliance by calling 614-292-2681;

*Visit the Compliance Website,ohiostatebuckeyes.com, select the “departments”tab and click “compliance”. Then ask them if theintended actions are permissible;

*Report violations or potential violationsto the compliance office.

It is much better to be safe than to besorry.

NEWSLETTER DEADLINE 

This is a membership publication. For that

reason, we are responsible to you. If you havenews that needs to be told or if you have ideasabout how the publication may be improved,please let us know.

The deadline for receiving news articlesfor the next newsletter is Wednesday, October

6, 2010. We may be reached at pljrl@aol.com.Pat and J. R. Logsdon, Editors 

This newsletter is a publication of The Rebounders Club, an 

independent organization. Its content does not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of The Ohio State University. 

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iiPicture courtesy osubuckeyes.com