Hey Everybody!

I apologize for the tardiness of the spring update. Its been quite a busy year already. I've been trying to compile all of this information and as of now, I'm still working on some of it.

****Update Contacts****
Most teams have had elections at this point, so please get me your new contacts. Also, if you are receiving this and you are no longer at your school, please just respond to me, and I'll get your email removed. I ask that you please be patient during this process because if someone responses to all, you might still be getting our emails. Please remember, I need at least two contacts per team. I'll send it out as soon as I get the information from everyone.

****By Laws****
I started to amend the bylaws to reflect our decisions at the Region meeting but decided it might be more productive just to start over from scratch. There are some new provisions so please read them carefully. I borrowed most of the language from the Mid West bylaws, but there might some provisions we don't agree with. Everything in here is changeable, but I thought it was a good place to start and will hopefully give us a little more legitimacy.

****Tournament Schedule****
Below is the schedule we all agreed on at Regionals. If your tournament is changing sites or dates, we need to know NOW. I'm going to be following up with these teams in the next couple of weeks, but I need to know NOW if there is even a possibility that you will be changing the tournament. We've been pretty lase on this in the past, but we need to try to get this stuff squared away AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

Spring:
Texas A&M at Lord's Lake (March 27th and 28th)
Baylor Spring Fling at Princeton (April 10th and 11th)
ULM Spring Classic at the Bayou Desaird (April 24th and April 25th)

Fall:
Kevin Shimek Memorial Tournament (Sept 11th and 12th) Site Unknown
Arkansas Tournament in the Dallas Area (Working on you guys a site).
Regionals hosted by ULL at Bennetts (Oct 2nd and 3rd)

****Region Shirts****
I've attached some ideas for a region shirt. I've also attached two designs that Camille also created. We'll be voting at the first tournament, so we can have them printed pretty quickly. It would be a great fund raiser` for our region. At this point we don't really have a budget at all, so expanding to new teams is basically impossible. Also, we can afford to help out the All Stars team a little to defray some costs to get to California. I compiled the designs into two pdf's. Joey's design has my design, with the circle emblem on the back and Team South Central on the front. Camille's design has to alternative fronts (one with the Kevin's helmet, and one with region cohesion) and the back has the 3-event logos. We can make both or either, but lets go ahead and start discussing it.

****Region Web Site****
I'm roughly 60% of the way done with the region website. It should be done by Polar Bear. It needs some design help, but most of the content is there. However, I need team histories. Each team will have a small page that is dedicated to their school. So, whatever you guys can scrape up, please let me know. Also, I'll be linking the site to your websites, so please ask whoever to maintains your sites to give them a once over. I'm also exploring web site hosting companies and their fees. More information will come.