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Florida Tournament in March 13th – 14th
Jan 21st
Charlie Horse Spring Classic Polocrosse Tournament
Saturday March 13th-Sunday March 14th
11008 South Highway 475
Ocala, Florida, 34480
Closing Date: Friday, February 26th, 2010
($15.00 Late Fee Applies to entries after closing date)
Divisions: A, B, C, D, and F (For Fun-Walk/Trot/Canter-Good Division for beginners and those that desire less intense play), Juniors A and Juniors B (depending on number of entries)
Saturday Night Dinner (7:00pm) and Dancing with DJ/Karaoke
At Charlie Horse Farm, 14200 South Hwy 475, Summerfield, FL
(5 minutes south of the Horse Park) Sharp Casual Attire
Fees:
Tournament Entry Fee: $85.00 for current APA members and international players (includes participant dinner and registration gift)
Additional Dinners: $25.00 per person
The Following Fees are for The Florida Horse Park:
Stalls available at the horse park at $15 per night (book/pay early, there is a dressage show that day and stalls will be full if you don’t book early)
Stall Cleaning deposit $15 per stall
Shavings available at 8.50/bag
Shavings must be purchased through the Florida Horse Park
Electric Pens also permitted at $5.00 per horse per night
Camping Permitted at $5.00 per night (No hook-ups)
Camping with water and electric ($20 night-book/pay early, only 4 available)
Please arrange Stalls, penning, and camping with Deb Zito
At dycharliehorse@yahoo.com (352)266-9326
ALL DOGS MUST BE ON A LEASH!
For More Area Information contact Debbie Zito at 352-266-9326 email dycharliehorse@yahoo.com or the Florida Horse Park at 352-307-6699
Fees: (Stalls, penning, and Camping fees are assessed by the Park)
Participant Entry Fee
(Current APA members and International Players) 85.00
Additional Saturday Night Dinner 25.00 x _________ = _______
Stalls @ $15: Number of horses_______ x number of nights________ = ________
Shavings at $8.50 x number of bags = ________
Camping (no hook-ups) @ $5.00/night x _______nights = ________
APA Membership Fee or $20 Day Fee (if needed) ________
Total Due: ________
**All Non APA members (except International players) will have to pay the Day Fee ($20.00/tournament) or join the APA. The APA annual membership fees are $65 per individual adult, $35 per junior, or $105 for family. If there is a late fee for your membership you must include that in your entry. You can join online prior to event at www.americanpolocrosse.org **
Make Checks to: Charlie Horse Polocrosse Club
Return Entry Forms, Copy of Current Coggins & Checks to:
Debbie Zito, 14200 SE Hwy 475, Summerfield, FL 34491
Or via email to Dycharliehorse@yahoo.com
Charlie Horse Spring Classic Polocrosse Tournament
Saturday March 13th-Sunday March 14th
11008 South Highway 475
Ocala, Florida, 34480
Closing Date: Friday, February 26th, 2010
($15.00 Late Fee Applies to entries after closing date)
POLOCROSSE INTERNATIONAL CHALLENGE 2011
Jan 13th
12 January 2010
Dear Canada Polocrosse Association
POLOCROSSE INTERNATIONAL CHALLENGE 2011
The Polocrosse World Cup 2011 Ltd extends an Invitation to the Canada Polocrosse Association
to participate in the 2011 Polocrosse International Challenge, which will be held alongside the 2011
Polocrosse World Cup.
This invitation is for a Mixed Team – comprising of:
- (preferably) 4 Men
- (preferably) 4 Ladies
- 1 Manager
- 1 Coach
- 1 “A” Grade Umpire (of your country’s highest standard possible)
- National Polocrosse Association President/Chairman
This invitation is also extended to the spouses/partners of the above.
Where Bishop Burton College, Beverley, East Yorkshire, HU17 8QG, United Kingdom
When 11th – 17th July 2011 (World Cup Competition will be 8th – 17th July)
Dates to be noted for participating nations are:
- Arrival at Bishop Burton, Beverley, no later than Sunday 10th July
- Briefing on Sunday 10th July. Games will be played Monday – Thursday, with the final being played on Sunday 17th July
- Nomination Fee of £500 for all International Challenge teams –
- deposit of £125 to be paid by 1 May 2010.
- Remainder to be paid by 1 January 2011.
- Registration Form (attached) confirming your attendance to be completed
- and returned by 1 May 2010.
Outline details for International Challenge as follows:
Each nation is responsible for the provision of their own team’s horses in order to be able to
participate in the competition. Polocrosse World Cup 2011 Ltd will do all it can to assist you
in the search, should you require it, including providing contact details of horses available for
hire if necessary.
We look forward to your participation in this exhilarating and prestigious event.
Yours sincerely
World Cup Polocrosse (2011)
Please send the completed registration form to the Polocrosse International Challenge
2011 by post or email by 1 May 2010. Registrations will only be accepted with
deposit payment of £125 by cheque or BACS. (please make cheques payable to
“World Cup Polocrosse (2011) Ltd”; for BACS details please request via email)
Affiliation fee for 2010
Jan 12th
January 2010
Affiliation fee to the International Polocrosse Council for 2010
CANADA – Canadian Polocrosse Association
Affiliation fee for 2010 – AUD 600.00
3 x international ties @ AUD 45.00 ea – AUD 135.00
Please forward cheque for AUD 735.00 to:
Odette Neumann
The Hon. Secretary/Treasurer
International Polocrosse Council
PO Box 338
FYSHWICK ACT 2609
AUSTRALIA
Dear all Canadian polocrosse players,
Dec 14th
Herewith we wish you a merry Christmas and a very happy new year. All the best for you, your family and your horses for 2010. Let’s hope next year will be a good year with a lot of nice polocrosse tournaments and exciting chukka’s!
Thanks for keeping the IPC website up to date and posting our reports.
Thanks a lot for the inventation to come to Canada. Unfortunatly next year schedule is full already. It would be very good to play against you guys before the world cup, but the schedule is really full already and we don’t have a sponsor. So probably we will meet you in 2011. Do you have planned any test-matches outside Canada / US?
Regards,
All dutch polocrosse players
Dutch Polocrosse Association
www.polocrosse.nl
APA Nationals 2010 – October 8-10th
Dec 13th
Mark your calendar!
The APA is pleased to announce that the 2010 Nationals is set for October 8 – 10. The event will be held at HarvestFarm, 832 Harvest Farm, Harvest, Alabama, 35749 (near Huntsville). Harvest Farm is a scenic horse facility including
3 polocrosse fields with one field under lights. Watch for more information and updates on what is sure to be a top-notch competiton!
APA changes it’s Foriegn Player Policy
Dec 13th
We missed it
The current foreign player policy states that “each team from the US may allow only 1 non-resident player per team, that player to come in as they are rated at or above their home country rating.”
John Jameson made a motion to change the current foreign player policy to allow more than one foreign player on a team, stating that the basis for the change was that the UK did this years ago and found that the level of play was better due to foreign players and that the Board must make sure that Nationals is financially viable. By allowing more foreign players, we would increase the number of participants and help insure that Nationals covers tournament costs and hopefully make a reasonable profit. He felt we are too small of an organization to limit a group of players from participating. He also said his son was planning on playing with a team that would have 2 foreign players this year. If Canada wanted to send a team with 6 players, they should be eligible to win. He thought the APA should try this for three years, and then assess the impact. He said it did improve the play in the UK. They should be required to pay dues, and come with a letter of good standing, showing their rating. We have rated incoming players as high as possible in the past, so if they were not rated with the APA, they would come in as a 20, since we are on a 20 point scale now. This would most likely place a team with foreign players in an upper division. The Board discussed this email prior to the teleconference, so they could contact
APA members.
Kellee Campbell told the Board that this issue arose every year when she was on the Board. She sees the positives as bringing better players in for social networking (clinics etc.), we’d get better play at tournaments and it would then raise our level of play. The negative reactions to this change seem to be based on fear by reasoning that it would damage the sport, a non-American would win a buckle and APA players would be dissatisfied. Many do say that the American Nationals needs to be won by an American. It seems that those most affected would be the A and B level teams.
Deb Zito said that in talking to Eastern Zone club presidents, the main thoughts were that there’d be a lot of dissent if ringers were brought in; that we’d need to make the playing field even and should give every club the chance to bring in more than one foreign player and it was too close to Nationals to change the rule. She said members wanted a definition of what a foreign player was. (It is a nonresident, as stated in our current policy) Some are concerned that others could afford great players. Betsy Lovelace said she spent a lot of time on the phone with members of her zone. Only 3 thought the policy should stay the same. The rest had no problem with, say, 4 out of 6 foreign players on a team, but not 6 out of 6. There were thoughts that the foreign player should be in the country 30 days prior to play in a tournament, but they realized that Canadans can’t do this. Benefits would be coaching. Wayne Cooper said that this was a big deal, a big change. Canada could be allowed in for this year, but we should do a general election next year. We should let the members decide. Laura Humphreys told the Board that the motion was a concern because it was so close to Nationals this year. Kellee Campbell reminded everyone that no Nationals information had gone out yet (planned to go out the next morning) so everyone will get the information at the same time. Jim Byrd suggested John’s motion be amended to allow foreign players for one year instead of three. Erica Vallee stated that if you looked at other US Championships in other sports, a US player is the winner. She felt the timing of this was off. John Jameson said that there are plenty of sports where the winner does not have to be a US citizen. The amended motion reads that the Board change the current foreign player policy to allow unlimited number of foreign players on a Nationals team and be eligible to win the event. Foreign players must be in good standing with their home country’s polocrosse association in order to participate and will be required to pay full APA membership fees. The new policy will be in effect for one year.
International Polocrosse Meetings
Dec 13th
An Umpires meeting was held in the UK this summer result in some rule changes. Rule 23 where the #3 is positioned on a missed goal. The old rule is that the #3 must follow on the # 1’s horses hip. The new rule is that the # 3 must follow behind (coming from the area) and be no closer than 10 yards.
New rule
23. Goal Scoring Areas
(a) Goals must be attempted from within the areas AXYZA1B1B or DPQRD1C1C. These are termed the ‘goal scoring areas’. It shall not be deemed a goal if it is attempted from outside BB1 or CC1 nor from inside XYZ or PQR.
Throwing in after an attempt at goal has failed
(b) Should an attempt at goal fail or should an attempt at goal be deflected over the back line by the No 3, the defending “Back” shall throw the ball into play from behind the penalty line at a position in a direct line from where the ball crossed the back line. The ball in this instance must be thrown at least 10 metres in any forward direction.
No player is to be within 10 metres of the spot from where the throw is to take place, the “Attack” player of the opposing side must follow the “Back” from 10 metres behind. No player shall attempt to touch the ball or interfere with the player taking the throw until the player and ball have travelled 10 metres. The player taking the throw shall have first attempt at the ball provided the player maintains control of the ball.
(c) Should the throw not travel 10 metres the umpire shall throw in from the nearest sideline in centre field.
The other new thing the IPC wants to incorporate is that it will be illegal to reach across the center line of the opposing players’ horse. That will include picking up a ball off the ground and hitting a racquet. These were the major changes, others were minor. There was some discussion of every country adopting the international rules.
Results of 2009 Polocrosse Canada Awards
Nov 25th
Top Men’s ‘A’ level
Sam Darmondy
Top Womens ‘A’ level
Renee Hicks
Top Womens ‘B’ level
Shelby Richardson
Top Mens ‘B’ level
Dayton Graham
Top Mens ‘C’ level
Mike Grouette
Top Womens ‘C’ level
Deb Nickel
R.J. Memorial Best Junior Player
Josie Leduc
Rookie of the Year
Fiona McDevitt
Horse of the Year
Desi – Shelby Richardson
UK vs. SA on TV & Web
Nov 7th
UK Polocrosse will make its debut on Sky Sports at the end of October in a series of four programs of the recent UK versus South Africa test match series. The test match series took place at Ashfields polocrosse club in Essex on the 18th and 19th of July and the UKPA arranged for the Country Channel to come and film it and screen it through their own TV channel.
After filming the Country Channel showed some of the footage to Sky Sports and Sky promptly said that they would also like to show the programs. The result is that the four half an hour programs (one for each test match) will be shown a number of times on Sky Sports at the end of October.
I think you will all agree with me that this is a brilliant thing to happen for the sport. Half the battle of growing polocrosse is that a lot of people don’t know it exists so to have it on Sky should hopefully make a lot more people aware of it and interested in it.
We are preparing to kick off a big off season sport development program and hope that polocrosse being on Sky, combined with the recent polocrosse demonstrations at Blenheim Horse trials, are the perfect launching pad to grow the sport.
The Country Channel themselves will also show the programs, through their web based TV channel, www.countrychannel.tv, and through their listing on My Channel (Channel number 171) after Sky have run the program on Sky Sports 2, Sky Sports 3 and Sky Sports Xtra.
The below running schedule shows the planned running times for the programs on Sky Sports 2, Sky Sports 3 and Sky Sports Xtra (please be aware that Sky use a 28 hour clock to plan their programming so 28:30 is 04:30 am). Below them is the running times for My Channel (which is the freeview channel that the Country Channel run progarmmes through). I would like to thank Country Channel for their help throughout this process, I hope we can work with them more going forwards.
Iain Heaton, UKPA Sport Development Officer
Sportsdevelopment@ukpolocrosse.co.uk
Title Date Time Channel
1st Ladies Test Match – UK vs SA 27/10/09 09:00 Sky Sports 2 Digital
1st Ladies Test Match – UK vs SA 27/10/09 14:30 Sky Sports 3 Digital
1st Ladies Test Match – UK vs SA 27/10/09 18:30 Sky Sports Xtra
1st Ladies Test Match – UK vs SA 27/10/09 21:30 Sky Sports Xtra
1st Ladies Test Match – UK vs SA 27/10/09 24:00 Sky Sports Xtra
1st Men Test Match – UK vs SA 28/10/09 09:00 Sky Sports 2 Digital
1st Men Test Match – UK vs SA 28/10/09 13:00 Sky Sports Xtra
1st Men Test Match – UK vs SA 28/10/09 14:30 Sky Sports 3 Digital
1st Men Test Match – UK vs SA 28/10/09 18:30 Sky Sports Xtra
1st Men Test Match – UK vs SA 28/10/09 21:30 Sky Sports Xtra
1st Men Test Match – UK vs SA 28/10/09 24:00 Sky Sports Xtra
2nd Ladies Test Match – UK vs SA 29/10/09 09:00 Sky Sports 2 Digital
2nd Ladies Test Match – UK vs SA 29/10/09 13:00 Sky Sports 2 Digital
2nd Ladies Test Match – UK vs SA 29/10/09 14:30 Sky Sports 3 Digital
2nd Ladies Test Match – UK vs SA 29/10/09 18:30 Sky Sports Xtra
2nd Ladies Test Match – UK vs SA 29/10/09 21:30 Sky Sports Xtra
2nd Ladies Test Match – UK vs SA 29/10/09 24:00 Sky Sports Xtra
2nd Men Test Match – UK vs SA 30/10/09 09:00 Sky Sports 2 Digital
2nd Men Test Match – UK vs SA 30/10/09 11:00 Sky Sports Xtra
2nd Men Test Match – UK vs SA 30/10/09 13:30 Sky Sports 2 Digital
2nd Men Test Match – UK vs SA 30/10/09 18:30 Sky Sports Xtra
2nd Men Test Match – UK vs SA 30/10/09 21:30 Sky Sports Xtra
2nd Men Test Match – UK vs SA 30/10/09 24:00 Sky Sports Xtra
2nd Men Test Match – UK vs SA 30/10/09 28:30 Sky Sports 2 Digital
My Channel Listing Times – Sky 171
1st Ladies Test Match – UK vs SA 05/11/2009 19:30 My Channel – Sky 171
1st Ladies Test Match – UK vs SA 06/11/2009 06:30 My Channel – Sky 171
1st Ladies Test Match – UK vs SA 06/11/2009 12:30 My Channel – Sky 171
1st Ladies Test Match – UK vs SA 08/11/2009 19:00 My Channel – Sky 171
1st Men Test Match – UK vs SA 12/11/2009 19:30 My Channel – Sky 171
1st Men Test Match – UK vs SA 13/11/2009 06:30 My Channel – Sky 171
1st Men Test Match – UK vs SA 13/11/2009 12:30 My Channel – Sky 171
1st Men Test Match – UK vs SA 15/11/2009 19:00 My Channel – Sky 171
2nd Ladies Test Match – UK vs SA 19/11/2009 19:30 My Channel – Sky 171
2nd Ladies Test Match – UK vs SA 20/11/2009 06:30 My Channel – Sky 171
2nd Ladies Test Match – UK vs SA 20/11/2009 12:30 My Channel – Sky 171
2nd Ladies Test Match – UK vs SA 22/11/2009 19:00 My Channel – Sky 171
2nd Men Test Match – UK vs SA 26/11/2009 19:30 My Channel – Sky 171
2nd Men Test Match – UK vs SA 27/11/2009 06:30 My Channel – Sky 171
2nd Men Test Match – UK vs SA 27/11/2009 12:30 My Channel – Sky 171
2nd Men Test Match – UK vs SA 29/11/2009 19:00 My Channel – Sky 171
Canadian Polocrosse Open Nationals
Aug 17th
August 28-30, 2009
You are invited to the 2009 Canadian Polocrosse Open Nationals being held at the Millarville Polocrosse Club in Alberta, Canada. The tournament will be comprised of sectional teams of A, B and C grade competing on Saturday and Sunday to win annually awarded trophies. More >
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