From: Peter Chiste <pmchiste@hotmail.com>
Date: Mar 11, 2007 4:25 PM
Subject: PTSA Urgent Message: Fields Closed until Monday 3/19/07
Commissioners,
PTSA's Field Director, Steve Magnotti, has informed me that the fields will be closed this week with a tentative opening date of 3/19/07. The Hotline # has been updated with this message as well. Please inform all your coaches to respect the field closure ... though today is a spectacular, sunny day, the fields are still extremely wet from the extensive melt of the recent snow and ice accumulations, and persistent rain yesterday (further precipitation forecast to come this week too).
Encourage your coaches to have their teams focus on conditioning during this field-closure week ... running the indoor track at the PTCC or PTHS tracks, for example, or players bicycling the Montour trail ... these are activities that can be great team-bonding and conditioning events.
Thanks for your consideration.
Pete Chiste
724-969-1070 h
412-327-8538 c
p.s. We should respect other associations' fields as well ... please instruct coaches to not use other areas (e.g. football field, baseball field outfields, etc.) when we close our fields. As you know, this happened a couple times last Fall and it caused some ill-will with other sports associations.
