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DRUIDS RFC NEWSLETTER JUNE 2013 Issue #4

Druids RFC

Newsletter June 2013

STRONG. TOUGH. PROUD.

Strong, Tough, and Proud As the season kicked off in May we showed that these words represent us as a club on the field. The club as a whole only suffered two narrow losses all month with several wins to be proud of. The defending provincial champions, second division women or green machines as they are fondly referred to went undefeated all month congratulations girls! The first division men also went undefeated and beat the always-‐strong St.Albert men in a tough game that they can definitely be proud of. The first division women came out strong beating Lethbridge and the clan, but came up short against the Lep Tigers. The second division men beat up the Clan and narrowly lost to the St. Albert second division team. It is certainly early in the season so nothing is written in stone but we did come out with a bang! Congratulations to all teams keep up the hard work.

Our first division front row preparing for a scrum.

Culture Shift Fundraising and volunteerism is a major theme for the board of Governors this year as the financial future of our organization is uncertain and we need your efforts not only on but off the pitch to help the club secure its future as a premier club not only in Alberta but Canada. If you have your own fundraising ideas or proposals please don't hesitate to contact me or any of the Board of governors. We need our membership to not only turn up to train and play games but to help out with things around the club. Help with the grounds or clubhouse as well as social events. Over the next few weeks you will see sign up charts around the club for helping out with work that needs done. It can't just be the STP (same ten people) carrying the weight for the rest of us. A slogan that was identified through a recent governance workshop for our club was 'Strong, Tough, Proud' we see this week in week out on the field we now need to see it off the field. Yours in Druid Rugby Oey Curran Chair Board of Governors

We need you! Our Club, Our Family, YOUR Initiative. Below is the start of a list of some things we could use your help with around the club!

Bar at peak times: 1. Halftime 2. After Game A sign up for bar duty on the white board with positions for 2 people to help out with the half time and after game rush (all game days). If you are down watching games please sign up to take the pressure off. Blue garbage Bins – on Thursdays after practice we need volunteers to lift the garbage bins and empty them into the large bin to the west of the club house and put the bins back out to their positions beside the fields. This keeps the garbage from blowing around and ready for the weekend. Last out of the Changing room Make sure showers are turned off and lights. Please keep these dressing rooms tidy treat them like your home. Thank you one and all for helping our organization run smoothly.

Try time for Larissa Brown!

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Druids Day Silent Auction A silent Auction is planned for Druids Day -‐ Saturday July 27, 2013 in the clubhouse at the Lynn Davies Rugby Park. We are sending out a request for items for this fundraising event. With druids security no longer being the fundraising stable of the club the focus has been turned back over to you and us -‐ the membership. We need items that will be worth bidding on and generate vital income for our club to help cover the costs of running this facility. We are looking for up to 20 items that we can auction off to raise our target amount of $3,000.00. Smaller gifts can be grouped together in baskets etc to make a more sellable item. One of the more popular items from the Druids 50th auction was a bucket of 24 world beers! Lori McConnell club member and security liaison for the Board of Governors will be coordinating the collection of club items and can be reached at [email protected]. Items can be left with Lori or your VP (juniors/women/men) who will store them in the office. The auction will run from 6:00pm Friday July 26 , 2013 to 7:00pm on July 27, 2013. Please use your own, family and work contacts to help get to good items so that we can reach our target. Thank you, Board of Governors

Where we want the club to go… The executive and Board of Governors have been working hard to create a vision, a mission, and values for the Strathcona Druids. Written below is what they have come up with. Vision: To be a premier rugby club for life. Mission: To be a premier club that makes all levels of Rugby available and accessible to our community and actively supports lifelong participation and engagement with its members. Values The club shall be characterized by: -‐ A level of rugby that is all-‐inclusive

with competitive on-‐field placement and quality recreational teams, both playing in a junior boys and girls, and men's and women's programs

-‐ A commitment to player development

-‐ A commitment to coaching development, mentoring and certification

-‐ A reputation for supporting a quality full-‐service facility around events, games and training

-‐ Delivering a venue that supports a family friendly atmosphere

-‐ Supports youth and adults opportunities to be active, engaged and involved

-‐ An open, welcoming and socially responsive environment that supports activities for members and the our community

Rugby Fest 2013 Rugby Fest came and went once again, and it is safe to say that the most successful part of the tournament was OTS. Our club was well represented entering 3 teams: a Women’s social team, a Men’s social team, and a Men’s elite team. The Women’s social team proved to be quite successful, using their leapfrog lineouts, fast young Druids and a whole lot of drunken determination to work their way to winning the bowl! The Men’s social team was a riot to watch, and won a few games along the way. The Men’s elite team had a very tough draw, loosing a close game to the Hornets to start the tournament off. Despite some unfortunate injuries, the men made it to the quarter final, and lost a heartbreaking game to #selfish. Also, an honorable mention should go out to the Druids Senior Women that played for The Janes. Some of the Druids girls teamed up with some LT’s to make an awesome competitive team, which ended up winning the whole tournament, way to go girls! After all of the seriousness of the tournament was over, the Druids took it upon ourselves to enjoy a whole lot of beer, and party ourselves silly at OTS. Between John losing his shoes and coming to Billiards in stolen (or borrowed) cleats, a few people disappearing into the bushes, and way too many of us having golf balls dropped into our mugs, it is safe to say that we all need a whole year to prepare ourselves for Rugbyfest 2014.

Article by Jasper Graveline.

Men’s Player of the Month Stephen Duffy

Our men’s player of the month is fairly new to the club coming over from Ireland just last year with his beautiful girlfriend lindsay who we ended up liking quite a bit more than him but anyways it turns out he’s a pretty damn good rugby player lets get to know him shall we?


How long have you played for the druids? This is my second season How long have you played rugby? Since I could walk. Playing it all my life. What made you want to start playing rugby? Wasn’t really my choice. Family tradition. What is your favorite thing about being a druid? Playing rugby in the summer sunshine rather than the Irish winter of rain and mud Favorite druid memory? Rugby – div 2 game against the clan last year... Non-‐rugby – stampede 7s last year… more precisely, up on stage as a country music fanatic What position do you play? 10/15 Favorite color red or green why? Easy answer... green as I’m Irish. Although the combination of red and green could be seen as a form of sacrilege in my home town as they are the colours of our biggest GAA rivals at home. What are you most excited about this upcoming season? Going one step further than semis last year and winning city final, then going on to provincials Any Druid Crushes? Myself. Any druid heroes? Tana (although) he is playing elsewhere this year. Still going strong and he’s over the 50 mark

What’s an interesting fact about yourself? You may not know this, but on occasion I do like to kick the ball!!!

Stephen kicking the ball against St. Albert.

Women’s Player of the Month Maddy Laibida

Our women’s player of the month just came up from our junior program to our senior womens program and we could not be happier to have her. She is everywhere on the field making tons of tackles and rucking her heart out. Here she is Maddy Laibida…

How long have you played for the Druids? This would be my third year

How long have you played rugby? I have been playing rugby for 3 years

What made you want to start playing rugby? I had just quit soccer that year and some of my friends that played for McNally High school rugby suggested I join the team. My parents also thought it was a great idea as my Dad played when he was younger.

What is your favorite thing about being a druid? My favorite thing about being a Druid would be that it’s a club that feels like family.

What is your favorite druid memory? I can’t pick only one, it’s like picking your favorite child.

What position do you play? Flank

Any other position you wish you played? Nope, I am open to all positions but I love playing Flank.

Red or Green? Why? Both colors are sick, especially when you put them together! But I would have to say Red

What are you most excited about this upcoming season? Meeting my new team members. This is my first season playing Women's. And of course winning games.

Whats an interesting fact about yourself? Whenever I have French Fries and a Blizzard from Dairy Queen, I dip my fries into my ice cream.

Nicknames? My real name is Madison Laibida but everyone calls me Maddy, Maddog, Laibidabuddy, Labidabidah. The list goes on.

Junior Players of the Month U7 and U9 Mini’s

This month I had the pleasure of attending a U7 and U9 practice at the druids and interviewing them as a team afterwards. They are being coached by Allison Lamoureux, also known as Pun who has been coaching minis for 3 years now, and Robyn Lofstrand. Here are some of the answers I got from the 7 who were at practice: Kyta, Sadie, Marcella, Will, Sebastian, Loic, and Zea.

How long have you played rugby and why did you start?

Will: this is my first year and I started because its fun to watch on TV.

Marcella: I’ve played for 3 years and it is an interesting sport and a welsh sport and my mom is from Wales.

Kyta: 1 year and I started because I like it

Sadie: 1st year and I started because my mom told me our friend plays and its really fun

Loic: 1st year and my parents play

Zea: 1st year and my parents play

Sebastian: about 2 months

Marcella practicing her kicks.

What do you love about rugby? Will: you can run as fast as you can and do anything you


want except go out of bounds

Marcella: playing with friends

Sadie: its fun

Kyta: playing british bull dog

Loic: I can run and use my hands to make scores

Zea: kicking

Sebastian: you get to tackle when you are older

What makes your coach super awesome? The kids said collectively: she lets everyone have a chance with the ball, she’s so nice, we play fun games, she’s cool, and she gives us instructions on how to get a goal.

Favorite color red or green? Will, Marcella, and Zea said Green, Marcella added that she likes it because it is earthy.

Sadi, Loic, and Sebastian said Red, Sadi said she loves red because its just Druids.

Kyta said very seriously: “Purple and Pink!” In response to my but what about between green or red? She replied “no purple and pink.” Perhaps we should reconsider our club colors here folks.

If you want to watch these young druids of the future come out on Saturdays at Ellerslie rugby park from 9:30-‐10:30 and cheer them on!

U19 Women’s Rugby News The first game for the defending city champions, the Druids U19 girls was recently bumped up from June 25th to June 18th at the Strathcona Druids so it is very important that players go online and register if they want to play in that game. Training will be held Monday and Thursday nights from 5:30-‐6:45pm for those girls. For more information contact coaches Amy Rice on facebook or myself Anna Holowaychuk on facebook or through e-‐mail [email protected]

Training times Training for the senior men and senior women is held from 7:00-‐9:00pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays at Lynn Davies Rugby Park.

Graham and Johnny ready to smash dem bru.

Sponsorship If you are interested in sponsoring the club or helping our club to find sponsors please contact Spencer Janke at [email protected] and 780-‐293-‐4259. Or you can also contact Karl Sibbons at [email protected] and 587-‐335-‐7981

New Players If you are interested in playing rugby this year or want to try it out at training please feel welcome it is not too late to join! For more information on our club check out our website: http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/strathconadr

uidsrfc/ Follow us on twitter @Druidsrfc and join our facebook group: Strathcona Druids Sherwood Park

Registration If you have not yet registered, all registration for juniors and seniors is being done online this year. Below is the link to follow to register and you need a credit card to do so. https://gw.itsportsnet.com/memberArea.php?scriptName=MEMBERLOCKERHOME&leagueID=7588&menuItem=MAhome&cache=update

Kendall running it in for a beautiful try.

Thank you That’s all the news I have for June. The fixtures seem to change so my best suggestion is to go to the Edmonton Rugby Union Website and look at the fixtures posted there to find out when you can watch us play. The Women’s first and second division teams play this Saturday June 8th at Lynn Davies Rugby Park along with the Druids senior men Second division team. Come on out and cheer them on! Thank you everyone who sent me information or stories for the newsletter this month and a big thank you to the people who have supported me in this project. There was no alumni of the month for June due to all the information I had however not to worry I will feature two in July! See you all at the rugby park.

Yours in Rugby,

Anna Holowaychuk

Sadie and Marcella going for a run.

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