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    <title>Active Community: Message List - Ralph Raymond's Worcester Hawks GOLD announce Tryouts</title>
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      <title>Ralph Raymond's Worcester Hawks GOLD announce Tryouts</title>
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      <description>&lt;!-- [DocumentBodyStart:3daf58a3-8081-4031-a205-a6924db6e0ed] --&gt;&lt;div class="jive-rendered-content"&gt;&lt;p style="background: #eef4f9;"&gt;The Worcester Hawks announce tryouts for the upcoming 2011/2012 season:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="background: #eef4f9;"&gt;Days: Saturday and Sunday&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="background: #eef4f9;"&gt;Date:&amp;#160; August 13 &amp;amp; 14&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="background: #eef4f9;"&gt;Time:&amp;#160; 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM each day&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="background: #eef4f9;"&gt;Place:&amp;#160; College of the Holy Cross - Freshman softball field, Worcester MA&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="background: #eef4f9;"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; (Off McKeon Rd. on the Holy Cross Campus)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="background: #eef4f9;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Please pre-register by sending an email to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="jive-link-email-small" href="mailto:softballgold@comcast.net"&gt;softballgold@comcast.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt; with the following information:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="background: #eef4f9;"&gt;Player name, DOB, Address, telephone, email, position and experience (HS &amp;amp; travel)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="background: #eef4f9;"&gt;Parent name, email and telephone&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="background: #eef4f9;"&gt;Please note:&amp;#160; this is a tryout, not a clinic.&amp;#160; You should be ready to accept a position with the team, if offered.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="background: #eef4f9;"&gt;The Hawks are coming off a highly succesful first season under the leadership of Hall of Fame coach Ralph Raymond, the Head Coach of the 1996 &amp;amp; 2000 Gold Medal winning USA Olympic teams, and Manager for 27 years of the record setting Raybestos Brakettes (including leading them to 18 National championships &amp;amp; 9 runner-up finishes).&amp;#160; The Hawks finished 33rd in the nation with 2 wins at the ASA Gold Nationals and plan to return again next season.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="background: #eef4f9;"&gt;Coach is looking for talented players who are able to &lt;strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;fully&lt;/strong&gt; commit to the team, and who are also willing to work on their own between practices.&amp;#160; Players between 14-18 years old will be considered.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="background: #eef4f9;"&gt;Why play for this team?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-indent: -0.25in; margin: 2.4pt 0in 2.4pt 0.5in; background: #eef4f9; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; We are not about the money.&amp;#160; We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, and all members of the organization are unpaid and do not profit from their efforts.&amp;#160; We do not charge nearly as much as comperable programs&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-indent: -0.25in; margin: 2.4pt 0in 2.4pt 0.5in; background: #eef4f9; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; Perks and connections.&amp;#160; Do you want to play at the top level?&amp;#160; How is this for an example:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="background: #eef4f9; margin-left: 45pt;"&gt;All girls who play for this team receive an all expense paid trip to the 3rd Annual World Class Softball Clinic on Martha's Vineyard in August, 2012.&amp;#160; Participants receive all transportation, meals, lodging and two full days of instruction by Coach Raymond, several major college coaches, and Coach &lt;strong&gt;Ken Eriksen&lt;/strong&gt;, the head coach of 2011 &amp;amp; 2012 &lt;strong&gt;Team USA softball&lt;/strong&gt;.&amp;#160; This exclusive clinic is &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;only&lt;/span&gt; open to members and invited guests of the Hawks.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-indent: -0.25in; margin: 2.4pt 0in 2.4pt 0.5in; background: #eef4f9; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; College.&amp;#160;&amp;#160; A recommendation for Coach Raymond or his associates are gold.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="background: #eef4f9;"&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="background: #eef4f9;"&gt;Please contact us if you have the talent and potential to compete at the highest level and want to improve both your individual and team playing skills under the direction of one of the world's best coaches.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="background: #eef4f9;"&gt;For more information please email: &lt;a class="jive-link-email-small" href="mailto:SoftballGold@comcast.net"&gt;SoftballGold@comcast.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="background: #eef4f9;"&gt;Coach Raymond's hall of fame profile is linked:&lt;a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.asasoftball.com/hall_of_fame/memberDetail.asp?mbrid=105"&gt;http://www.asasoftball.com/hall_of_fame/memberDetail.asp?mbrid=105&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="background: #eef4f9;"&gt;&lt;a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://WWW.ETEAMZ.COM/WORCESTERHAWKS"&gt;http://WWW.ETEAMZ.COM/WORCESTERHAWKS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:3daf58a3-8081-4031-a205-a6924db6e0ed] --&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 14:55:24 GMT</pubDate>
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