Below are the schedules for both the recreational and competitive leagues, as well as a field map for this year. Please heed the warnings about driving slowly and staying out of the stable area. Those horses are ridiculously valuable and we like having somewhere to play.
Peace, Love, and Dallas Winter League. It’s time!
Dec 6
Howdy folks!
As you know, Dallas Winter League is an entirely volunteer run organization put together by the Dallas Ultimate Association. Unfortunately the DUA isn’t gigantic enough to handle every single task that’s required to ensure Winter League goes off without a hitch, which is where you come in.
Every year we rely on the help of dozens of volunteers to help us handle everything from field lining to food setup, player registration and check-in, even policing the fields after we’re done to ensure we leave them as pristine as we’ve found them.
This Thursday the very studly Robert “Turkey” Cropper will be spearheading field lining from 10:00am to 3:00pm. I know many of us work during those hours, but anyone that has a few hours in the middle of the day to give to your beloved Winter League will be greatly appreciated.
Additionally, we’ll be needing a handful of volunteers Saturday morning to run player check-in tables starting at 10:30.
If you’d like to get involved and help with lining or check-in, or if you can’t help this week, but would like it to be known that you’re willing to help, please contact us at dwl@dallasultimate.org and we’ll keep you in mind.
Again, field lining is Thursday from 10am to 3pm and check-in will be Saturday morning starting at 10:30am.
With your help we can make this year’s the best Dallas Winter League yet!
Flick? Force side? Marks? What does it all mean?
There are a number of unique skills (and a ton of jargon) that are specific to ultimate frisbee. Becoming familiar with them will help you understand and enjoy Winter League to its fullest. We can help with that. Read the full post to find out how to avoid long lines to get your disc AND learn how to use that disc.
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Dec 4
Date/Time: Friday, December 9 at 8 pm
Location: Hallmark House — 4656 Hallmark Drive Dallas, TX 75229 (This is a private residence. 21+ only)
What: Winter League Kick-off Party/Meet Your Team
More What: Beer pong, jell-o shots, schwag ball, dance floor, multiple kegs (cold and domestic)
Even More What: Meet your team, try on the new jerseys, have a good ol’ time.
The BEST way to kick off Dallas Winter League, mainly because your teammates won’t look nearly as good until, oh, March.
Every year one of everyone’s favorite things about our beloved Winter League is, of course, the rockin’ artwork for both our recreational and competitive divisions, and the sweet new disc design that every paid registrant receives.
This year will be no exception, and without further ado, I give you this year’s artwork.
We’ll see you all real soon.
Your Co-Poobahs,
Alex Lepe & Glenngory Burr
Oct 26
What: Dallas Winter League 2012
Where: Oak Point/Prestonwood Polo Club (MAP)
When: Dec 10 – March 3 (Breaks for Christmas, New Years and Mardi Gras)
Who: You and 432 of your closest friends
Registration: 10/29-11/28
Winter League is Here,
Alex Lepe and Glenn Burr
Dallas Winter League 2012 Poobahs
FULL details after the jump
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Greetings Winter Leaguers!
One quick note before I get to thanking everyone for a great year:
The people of the Polo Club, who have been so very kind and gracious
by allowing us to play at their facility this year and outright saving
our season, run charity events at their club and need volunteers for
one of their events on May 7th. We’d appreciate anyone who can help
out to contact Dena Miller and let her know you could help out on one
or more of their shifts listed below. Dena’s contact information is:
dena@henrysmiller.com
Sat. May 7th
9 – 12 Setup shift one
12 – 3 Setup shift two
3 – 6 Event activities
6 – 9 Event activities and clean up
8 – 10 Clean up and tear down
Now that the sun has set on another season I’d like to take a moment
to acknowledge everyone who has helped make this another great, fun
season of Dallas Winter League.
Congratulations go out to Sommer and Zac’s team on their perfect
season in rec and, of course, to DD and Casey on yet another
championship. Way to go guys!
First and foremost, I’d like to thank each and every one of you
players for sticking with us through the delay and field issues at the
start of the season. It would have been very easy for you to fold up
shop, but you stuck with us and on behalf of myself, JJ, Michael,
Jason, Tom, the DUA, and everyone else involved, thank you. This
league doesn’t work without people to play it and you guys proved that
no matter where we played, a field doesn’t make our league, it’s the
great people that you get to see every weekend out there playing that
make Dallas Winter League as special as it is!
This being my first year formally helping out with organizing DWL,
I’ll admit that I was completely lost at times, and there were more
than a handful of people that stepped up to help me that need to be
thanked. There’s Vivian who, despite having to sit this season out as
she welcomed a beautiful baby boy into the world, was the first to
step up and volunteer to organize the schedule for the recreational
division, thanks Viv!. Big thanks to Gina who stepped up and did
absolutely everything she could to make the competitive schedule work
despite all the tournaments and other scheduling conflicts. Thank you
Casey for hounding the masses to get enough competitive captains,
running the draft, and gathering scores for your division! Believe me
when I say that those were not things I was prepared to do.
Huge ups to Jason, Tom, and Gaddy, without who the draft wouldn’t have
been possible! Thanks go out to D.A., Chris Trimble, and Commander for
all their help carting shirts ands discs to and fro, making Costco
runs, and helping appease the masses way out west as we figured out
where we were playing, making sure that we retained all the Fort Worth
area players possible. Thanks guys!
Thanks to everyone that helped out with food this year, whether it was
your team’s week or not! Can’t forget about John Stewart, who’s always
huge in us getting fields to play on, it was great seeing you back out
on the field where you belong man! Thanks to Kirk for handling
sponsors and getting packets together for the start of the year.
Thanks also need to go out to our sponsors, Specific Media, Shoebacca,
Advocare, Sea Blue Travel, Raymond Turco & Associates, The Idle Rich
Pub, Subaru, Genghis Grill, and especially Hard Eight BBQ who kept our
bellies full of delicious food multiple times this weekend. Please
make sure to go out and support those who support our league!
Huge thanks to everyone that was always out there early to help out
whenever we asked it of them all the way from registration to
re-lining the fields, Bill, Melissa, Busty, Turkey, Traci, Stevesy,
Def Jeff, and anyone else I may have missed.
Thanks to Big Jim for putting on another fantastic party and putting
us up for the draft. Thanks to Glenn for not only rocking some short,
short jorts, but also always stepping up and helping with anything
necessary, especially party related.
Gotta thank Brigette for bearing with me while I dealt with anything
WL related starting back in November. I’m sure there were times when I
wasn’t the most pleasant person to be around so for that, and for
bearing through early mornings to line fields, hold captains meetings
and so forth, thank you. I love you Brigette!
Of course Dallas Winter League doesn’t happen this without the help of
Michael Frederick always ready to lend a hand, knowing the ins and
outs of what needs to happen as well as anyone out there. And huge
thanks to Higgy for finding Prestonwood and getting us in touch with
them in the first place.
Finally, no list would be complete without thanking THE ONE, THE ONLY:
JJ JORDAN! There’s no way I can thank JJ enough. If people tell me
that what I did for the league this year was a thankless job, I tell
them they need to reconsider their meaning of thankless job. JJ works
quietly behind the scenes acting as the ninja guardian angel of DWL
and deserves more praise than I have adjectives’ worth.
Anyone and everyone else that I may have missed, THANK YOU! I can’t
say it enough.
Believe me when I say that we’re going to do everything we can to
continue to better the league, and your thoughts are always welcome in
the process. Feel free to keep e-mailing dwl1011@gmail.com with your
ideas.
Remember that the best way to assure positive change as you see it in
the league is to step up and volunteer. This league only happens
through the efforts of all the people listed above and I’d love to be
writing an e-mail twice as long next year!
Until next winter,
Alex Lepe
Games start at 9:30, food will be served after quarter finals. See your captain for details.
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As for the party:
Oh, to give you a little more incentive to come close out the season with us, we’re going to give away a $100 AmEx gift card toward a team party for the team with the most players that come out to the Winter League party. That’s right, you show up to party and you get the chance to party more on us. Mother Theresa ain’t this benevolent.
Big Jim’s Warehouse — 8 pm – 1 am
Note: Gotta be 21+ to drink. We’ll be carding, so don’t make our lives too difficult.
Your WL Social Coordinators
I don’t know if there have been wacky rumors going around lately, but even though this weekend is the Mardi Gras tournament somewhere in remote Louisiana, ALL GAMES WILL BE PLAYED AS SCHEDULED!
We had a few tough decisions to make about the schedule before the season started and this was one of them, so please make sure you show up for your team since your presence is a lot more likely to be integral this week.
Links to the full schedule can be found a few posts down.
Giant sheet of ice on the fields and all roads leading to the fields that’s not likely to start melting until sometime Saturday afternoon means there will be NO GAMES this weekend!
This week’s games will be made up next Saturday the 12th, and the rest of the season will play out as scheduled.
Stay warm out there!
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