Meeting Minutes: September 9

Call to Order:  1^st: Darren    2^nd: Stephanie

Dues:  We have decided that this year we will not require any dues, but you have to participate in 2 committees at least.  One fundraiser committee and one other committee.

Class Representatives:  Sophomore: Lynzi and Greg, Juniors: Alicia and Krystine, Seniors: Brandon and Darren

Treasurer’s Report: Our SGA fund is tax-exempt. We were funded 2,500 dollars to send students to NATA and WATA this coming year by SGA.

SFO: 3,176.76

Frank’s: 80.43

SGA: 862. 60

SAAC Update:  SAAC is the Student Athlete Advisory Committee and there are 2 students from each team and 2 athletic training students in the committee.  They want to get the athletes involved in participating in community events.

Apparel: Have until today to place order in the AT classroom.  If you placed an order you will later receive and e-mail letting you know what you owe including shipping.  Make sure when you order you include your size and how many you want for the MADA order.

Involvement Fair:  September 11 from 7-9.  Need at least one volunteer from every class.  Lauren, Krystine, Annie and Maddie

Bulletin Board:  We have a bulletin board down by the Quandt Gym and this year we decided not to have a bulletin board committee.  We do need a group of people to help organize the bulletin board still though.

Helpers: Scott, Liz M, Amanda, Melissa, Lynzi, and Jon.

Ideas?  Got Injuries?

The resource room is available for all the materials needed to make the bulletin board.  The resource room is in the basement of the UC.  Annie said the she can make any letters necessary for the board.

Spaghetti Dinner: Possible dates:  Thursday October 23 or 30

Motion to have the dinner on the 23: 1^st: Shelly   2^nd: Amy    Vote: Unanimous

 Everyone must sell 10 tickets for the spaghetti dinner.  Tickets are 5 dollars each.  If you have difficulty selling the tickets talk to the older students.  If you do not sell all ten tickets the money must come out of your pocket.

Adopt-A-Highway: We have to set 2 dates before winter and 1 for the spring.  Anyone can sign up for any date, but you must at least do it once. 

1^st date Sept 21 at 10 am

Committee Chairs:

Spaghetti Dinner: Krystine and Maddie

Raffle: Allison

Run/Walk: Carrie

Community Involvement: Brandon

Social: Chance

Speaker: Liz M

Public Relations: Jon

Committee Members:

Spaghetti Dinner: Maddie, Krystine, Chance, Amy, Scott, Liz O, Shelly, Brad, Brandon, and Marc

Raffle: Allison, Elizabeth, Amanda, Annie, Steph, Lynzi, Nicole, Mandy, and Mason.

Run/Walk: Amy, Carrie, Sarah P, Chad, Dan, Brandon, Lauren, Melissa, Greg, Devin, Christine, and Jonathan

Community Involvement: Krystine, Alicia, Liz O, Darren, Carrie, Brandon, Marc, Sarah P, Chad, Greg, and Devin.

Social: Allison, Amanda, Alicia, Chance, Amy, Scott, Shelly, Brad, and Lynzi

Speaker: Elizabeth, Mandy, Steph, Lauren, Melissa, and Nicole

Public Relations: Amy, Darren, Jonathan, Annie, Dan, Christine, and Mason

Meeting Minutes October 7, 2008

Call to Order: Shelly          2^nd: Lynzi

Re-Rec Meeting:  To get the Sports Medicine Club re-recognized.  They want us to know that we are not allowed to haze and that we can reserve rooms on campus for our club.

AT Student of the Month: Vote to continue AT student of the Month. 

Motion to vote: Allison

We will continue with student of the month.

Spaghetti Dinner:  Newman Center booked for the 23^rd of October.  We are trying for October 30^th or a Tuesday in late October or early November.  Everyone needs to bring desserts for dinner and make sure to bring enough for 20 people.

Treasurer’s Report:  Nothing new to report from last month.

SAAC:  Haunted Trail in October in Schmekle, October 26^th.  We would like to get some volunteers.  Also planning a senior citizens day, were we would go to senior home and hang out with them for an hour.

Clothing:  Clothing should be in soon.

Class Updates:  Soph: Proficiencies and ER Rotations

Juniors: Head/Face check-offs and cryo and heat therapy check-offs

Seniors: Writing research papers

Speakers Update:  We decided to bring in a speaker a month on a Thursday night at 6:30.  We would like to have people bring treats.  We STRONGLY encourage everyone to attend these.  We are still trying to reserve rooms.

Make-A-Difference Day:  Oct 25 can volunteer as a group and rake at a couple of houses.

Group Meetings:  Need to start having meetings.  By next meeting every committee needs to meet.

Bulletin Board:  Need to begin working on bulletin board.

Call to Adjourn:  Shelly     2^nd: Liz O.

SMC Meeting Minutes November 4, 2008

Call to Order:  Shelly    2^nd: Darren

AT Student of the Month:   Chance

Possibility of changing meeting times to a 5:30 Monday night meeting.

Treasurer’s Report:  Nothing new to report.

SAAC Update:  Haunted trail was cancelled due to weather

Raffle Update:  Requesting donations from Menards, Best Buy, Campus Cycle, and Packers.  The committee will decide on a date at Thursday’s meeting.  The drawing will be held over winter break.  Need help from the public relations committee for advertising.  Bracelets will also be sold with tickets or separately. 

Senior Class did a Wal-Mart brat sale and the class will take the money to do something fun as a class.

Baseball Cards:  Need to take pictures.

Class Updates:  Soph: ER Rotations and spine boarding and concussion

Junior: Finishing shoulder, e-stim and ultrasound

Senior: Lit reviews are due

Social Committee:  Will have a meeting sometime this week.

Committee Updates:  Committees need to have meetings in next 2 weeks and all members need to begin stepping up and volunteering.

Bulletin Board:  Thinking of putting class pictures and saying something like we’ve got you covered.

WATA Student Affairs Committee:  An individual from each ATP is picked and our student is Elizabeth.  The committee is trying to get education programs more involved at state level.

Fun Run:  Will be coming up with a theme soon and by the next meeting they will have dates to vote on.

Call to Adjourn:  Shelly   2^nd:  Chance

SMC Meeting Minutes December 2nd, 2008

Call to order: Shelly  2^nd: Liz M

Fundraising:

What do we want to do about fundraisers??

Planning on Spaghetti Dinner in Feb/March

Talked about combining the raffle and the spaghetti dinner and just raise ticket prices.

Maybe just draw at spaghetti dinner and have raffle at door.  You don’t need to be present to win raffle.

Maybe everyone should go out and try to get donations from all over the community.  There is a table available to organize which businesses have been visited and also there is a formatted letter for everyone to reformat for their business.

Motion to vote to have raffle at spaghetti dinner:  Shelly  2^nd: Chance

Vote: ¾ of club

Will probably not have raffle tickets ready by winter break.

Bracelets:  Sell in the ATF and sell in March for Athletic Training Month

Run/Walk:  Wants to raise awareness about eating disorders.

Possible date for run/walk is April 19^th

Motion to vote to have run/walk April 19^th:  Shelly   2^nd: Lynzi

Vote: Unanimous

Adopt-A-Highway:  Will have 2 times next semester.

Committee Updates:  Each committee needs to have a meeting before winter break and e-mail Maddie about what happens at the meeting.

Social Committee:  Meeting next Tuesday to discuss social gathering probably after winter break.

Speakers Committee:  This coming Wednesday December 10^th Heidi Dix will come in and teach yoga and how it relates to athletic training.  In room 154 at 8 pm.

Bulletin Board:  The bulletin board was never completed so Holly did it herself.  The poster volunteers may have to do something for athletic training month.

Treasurer’s Report:  SFO:  1,006.79

Baseball Pictures:  All pictures have been taken and there will be a sheet sent out and everyone needs to fill it out.  May need to time ankle tape.

Student of the month:  E-mail nominations for student of the month by next Thursday.

Class Updates:  Soph: Proficiencies

Juniors:  Proficiencies due tomorrow, and exam on hand

Seniors:  Posters for research project

Call to adjourn:  Shelly   2^nd: Lynzi

SMC Meeting Minutes February 3rd, 2009

Call to order: Darren      2nd: Carrie

SMC tickets for the spaghetti dinner ready so make sure and pick them up from Liz O.

AT Student of the Month:  Only 4 people nominated people, so next time make sure everyone is nominating and writing a reason as to why they are nominating this person. 

Scott W. is the AT student of the month for January.

Spaghetti Dinner:  The dinner is March 5^th.  We have all the food, but we still need to get decorations.  Public relations needs to have posters for the dinner by Feb 12.  On Feb 12 the spaghetti dinner committee will begin student message of the day and e-mail all coaches.  The shift sheet for working at the dinner will be available for signing up on Feb 12 in the ATF.  Everyone must sign up for a shift and bring a dessert to the dinner.  The dessert should be enough to feed at least 20 people. 

There will be a precook party on March 4 at Maddie’s apartment to precook spaghetti for the dinner

WATA and NATA:  Everyone needs to sign up and say if they will be attending WATA and NATA.  For NATA there is some money from SGA for a van and there are possibilities for fundraising to help with the costs.

WATA is April 23 and is 3 days this year: Thursday, Friday and Saturday.  The student sections are mostly Friday and Saturday.  SGA will cover about 34$ out of the 50$ registration fee.  There is also the possibility of SGA covering some of the hotel costs. 

Motion to vote to have half of the hotel cost reimbursed and full registration paid for:  Liz    2^nd: Chance        Vote: More than half

So SGA and our SFO account will reimburse students for the registration fee and SGA will reimburse for half of the hotel room

Register online for WATA and print out receipt and give to Allison for reimbursement.  Individuals are responsible for reserving rooms and then give that receipt to Allison as well.  Hotel phone # 1-888-745-2032

GLATA: Shelly is going to GLATA in Fort Wayne, Indiana and has some room in her car if anyone is interested in going.  GLATA is March 10-14

WATA Student Affairs:  The student affairs has decided to bring back the student newsletter.  Stevens Point was nominated to be the first school to make a newsletter.  The newsletter will include 6-10 pages of information about out program.  Purpose is to have other programs see what we are doing and vice versa.  Our copy is due by March 15.  The newsletter will be posted on the WATA website, and copies will be available in the ATF and sent to other schools.

Newsletter committee:  Liz M, Shelly, Alicia, Jon, Lauren, Christine, Brandon, Lynzi, and Amy. 

Writing Contest:  Liz M had e-mailed the club awhile back about the writing contest being held and there is still time to submit your writing.  The contest accepts many different types of papers, such as research papers.

Athletic Training Month:  Baseball cards are printed and everyone needs to think about a nickname for themselves. 

To help promote athletic training there is the possibility of going out to local high schools and talking about athletic training. 

Bracelets:  There are booth dates set up for Monday, Wednesday, and Friday of next week.  3 people can work at a time, but make sure that each time slot has a least one person.  The lock box for money and bracelets needs to be taken to the booth everyday and taken back to the ATF everyday.  One person from each of those time slots is responsible for those tasks. When selling bracelets make sure we are promoting other events.

The PR committee is responsible for making a poster to advertise the bracelets.

Family/Alumni Day:  Motion to vote to have a family/alumni day: Chance   2^nd: Lynzi  Vote: more than half   

We will be having and the officers will be putting it together for the club. 

Motion to vote to have family day on Saturday April 18^th:  Shelly   2^nd: Carrie   Vote: more than half

The family/alumni day will be April 18 and most likely at Iverson Park and it will be pot luck style dinner.

Treasurer’s Report:  Allison and Carrie have been putting together a request for money

from SGA.  We are requesting about 6500 dollars.  Last year Allison and Trish

requested money from SGA and we did receive some money, but the downfall was that

SGA is making us reimburse them 300 dollars.  Everyone in the club needs to buy a

T-shirt to cover the cost of reimbursement. 

Social Committee:  The committee needs to have a meeting to come up with something

fun for the club to do and that SMC will pay for. 

Run Update:  the committee is working on getting sponsors.  We will be raffling off a flat screen TV and everyone is available to win the TV.  Committee members will be going into jogging classes and talking to them and handing out brochures about the run.

Some other fun runs have asked their sports teams to donate money.  Just an idea for future.

Adopt-a-highway:  March 29^th and sometime in April.  Everyone needs to do adopt-a-highway at least once.

Service night: may go help out with Bingo at Portage County Health Care Center.

Daffodil days:  Daffodil days are March 10^th and there will be a sign up sheet for deliverers in the ATF.

Class Updates:  Soph: foot and ankle, Junior: rehab and biomechanics, Senior: studying for BOC exam. 

Call to adjourn: Annie    2^nd: Allison

SMC Meeting Minutes           March 3, 3009

Motion to begin: Liz O.   2^nd: Carrie

AT Student of the month: Motion to vote for a box in the ATF for student of the month:

Liz O.  2^nd: Lynzi    Vote: Unanimous

The box will be in the ATF and when you see someone do something good put their name in the box.  February student of the month: Krystine

Spaghetti Dinner: Is this Thursday, girls have to wear hair up if around food and everyone needs to have a hat or a bandana on.  Desserts need to be dropped off at the Newman Center anytime after noon and remember to bring enough for 20-30 people.  We also need some people to bring power strips and extension cords.

Pre-cook party on Wednesday night to precook spaghetti and Maddie’s apartment at 7:00.

Treasurer’s Report: $2,578.85 in our SFO account

If large groups are interested in going to conferences and it is for educational purposes we can see if SGA can fund for it.

T-shirts: were ordered on Monday and you need to pay $10 before you pick up t-shirt.

Athletic Training Month: Baseball cards are done.  Athletes can answer question of the day and if they get it correct then give them a card.  The posters of the life without athletic trainers are being printed.  Bracelet booth next week at UC to sell bracelets.

Run/Walk: Seniors need to talk to coaches about donating stuff to raffle off.

Committee Updates:

Social: Talked to a bowling alley and they will pick a date.

Adopt-a-highway: If snow still here March 29 can’t do it then. April 26 is the other day possible.  If you haven’t cleaned up highway already this year then you need to do it at least one of these times.

Class updates: Soph: Ankle practical

Junior: Biomechanics and industrial rehab

Senior: Studying for exam and starting research projects

Parents Day: Will be April 18 and we will probably get together in the morning and then leave and support the softball team in the afternoon.

Daffodil Days: March 10 and delivery starts about 7:45 in the morning and delivery goes to about 10 am.  The best way to deliver flowers is to have 2 people in one car.  Go to Citizen’s Bank to pick up flowers and go upstairs to pick them up.

NATA/WATA: Talk to Holly or Allison if you want to go.  The deadline to tell Allison is before Spring Break.

Hotel rooms for WATA: the sign-up sheet for rooms is in the classroom and when you get a room give receipt to Allison.

Register for WATA by April 10^th for discount price and then make sure you print out receipts  and give to Allison for reimbursement.

Newsletter Committee meets tomorrow at 6

Call to adjourn: Shelly  2^nd: Chad

 SMC Meeting Minutes April 7, 2009

Call to Order: Amanda   2^nd: Liz O.

Introductions:  The new students are here!! 

AT Student of the Month:  Shelly Holzer

Treasurer’s Report:  SFO Account: $4,149.04

Made $798.82 for Spaghetti Dinner,  this is down quite a bit from the times we had the dinner in the fall, so this is something to think about in upcoming years.

Look for a check in the mail for you WATA reimbursement

Received $6,232.93 from SGA, but need to make revenue of $622.00 for SGA next year.  The money we received from SGA will be used for full reimbursement for WATA and travel to WATA next year and 7 spots for students to go to GLATA and 8 spots for students to go to NATA next year. 

Seniors need to give interesting facts about yourself to Allison by Thursday

Run/Walk:  Everyone needs to sign up for a job on the sign-up sheet.  Next week each group of jobs will meet for a morning to discuss what they will be doing the day of the race.

If you want to buy a T-shirt put your size down and how many you want.  They will be $6.50

On the day of the race workers should wear their I love AT t-shirts so we all match.  The day of the race workers should arrive at about 7:30 to get everything set up.

We all need to make an effort to be there because it is a community event and we want to raise awareness as to what athletic training is to the community.

Class Updates:  Soph: Knee practicals

Juniors: Movement analysis for Biomechanics

Seniors: NATABOC

Committee Updates: PR: We need to keep at least 1 baseball card for Parents Day

Family Day Plans: Interesting fact match game and a quiz bowl.  Some games for parents to play.  Start at 11 am, lunch at 12:30 and we will be done around 1 pm.  Everything will take place in the ATF.

Community Involvement: PCCC Bingo night on the 15^th, Adopt-A-Highway will be on the 26^th at 10am

Baseball Cards:  When athletes come in ask them how many cards they have and keep track of the number on a sheet in the ATF and the winner will get a prize.

End of the Year Picnic:  All students are invited.  Park is still unknown, but the date is May 7^th.  It will be pot luck style so everyone will need to sign up what they are bringing on the sign-up sheet that will be posted in the ATF.  SMC will pay for the meat.

Please e-mail your ideas for goofy awards to Maddie or Annie.

SAAC Picnic: will be May 5^th at Pfiner Park 

New Officers:

President: Shelly

Vice: Amanda

Secretary: Alicia

Treasurer Elect: Lynzi

Please write letters to Kohl, Feingold, or Obey about the ATEAM bill.  Include how it affects you and what it is.

Call to adjourn: Chance 2^nd: Amanda

SMC Meeting Minutes May 5th, 2009

Call to Order: Lynzi  2nd Maddie

Introductions: of new officers and the upperclassmen to the incoming sophomores.

5K Run: We made about $3500 in registration fees and spent about $1000 on the run itself. Motion to vote on buying a Wii or a comparable donation to Portage County Health Care Center 1^st Maddie, 2^nd Lynzi. Vote passed. Motion to vote for donating $1,300 between Portage County Health Care Center, NATAREF, and National Association for Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders 1^st Annie, 2^nd Brandon.  Vote Failed.  Motion to vote for spending $1,000 evenly between the same three  1^st Brandon, 2^nd Stephanie. Vote passed.

Adopt-A-Highway: The last clean up will be this Sunday 5/10 at 4pm. If you have not attended one this year then you must attend.

SMC Picnic:  Will be this Thursday 5/7 at 5:00pm at Mead Park. Everybody including incoming sophomores are invited. Directions will be sent out via email later today.

HESA: picnic is tonight at 5pm

Spaghetti Dinner: Currently are looking at October 22^nd or 29^th 2009 for possible dates for the dinner. Both dates are currently reserved at the Newman Center. Date will be decided later by the spaghetti dinner committee.

Treasure’s Report:  We have received about $6,600 from SGA for next year. Our SFO account has about $4,000.  If anybody has any suggestions about how they want money to be spent next academic year please let Carrie know. Budget meeting is in February.

Student of the Month: Carrie Myers for al of her hard work involved with the 5k run.

Study Abroad in Italy: This is done on an individual basis.

An open-ended questionnaire was handed out by Shelly for feedback on the future of our club. Officers will meet at a later date to discuss the results and the future of our Sports Medicine Club.

Call to adjourn:  Liz 2^nd Brandon