One-Day WARRIOR Workout For a Cause!

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Sign Up ONLINE!
http://www.americanathletegreenlake.com/schedule/event/rain-city-surge-bootcamp-fundraiser

(or just show up)

Support THE SURGE

and get yourself summer-ready

(or at least start down that path!)

by participating in, paying for, promoting, and showing up to sweat

at THE SURGE's "One-Day Warrior Workout for a Cause!"

It's at the "crack of noon" - so no excuses!

WE'RE ASKING FOR A DONATION!

~~bring us cash, write a check, or use the PayPal button at the upper left of this page!~~

- pay what you will!

- get in shape!

- donations support the Surge's upcoming tournament efforts!

(and we support a lot of wicked good causes too!)

Sunday May 17
12pm - 1:30pm
Meet at American Athlete Greenlake
(7203 Woodlawn NE, Seattle WA 98115)
((the corner of Woodlawn and 72nd in Greenlake))
(((check out the gym's website at www.americanathletegreenlake.com)))

Led by Certified Personal Trainers
Designed for all fitness & ability levels
We're hoping to raise $$ for upcoming tournament play
AND
raise awareness for our "good works we do in the community"
(watch for future posts on that)

(click image to enlarge: we have this version for those who are motivated by hot ladies)

(click image to enlarge: and here's an image that is designed for everybody who finds inspiration in the male form)
We hope to see YOU, your friends, and everybody else there!!!

Spread the word!

Support the Surge at Karaoke Wed 4/22!

Wednesday Apr 22

at The Wild Rose Bar

The Team will be there around 7:30pm

Singing starts at 9ish

Come support the team

Get your groove on

We're amping up our mo-jo

We're raising awareness

We're building community

YOU SHOULD BE THERE

--Help us put a little FUN in fundraising--

WE'RE ON OUR WAY TO THE GAY GAMES

help us get there

((this is what happens when our team has a "BYE" - we say HELLO to some good fun with YOU))

Next Practice:

Sunday 4/19

11am at Lower Woodland #7

See you there

Keeping the Dream Alive--TOGETHER

Three cheers for keeping our momentum alive after coming off our first loss.

We're now 2-1-1...not bad Surge.

It's nice to win, but we can really grow by using our losses as learning opportunities.

Let's keep the dream alive!

Since not everybody was able to be at our soaking-wet Easter practice [& yay for those who came, beer and pizza after was fun!!], let's keep our unity going by making a commitment to ourselves and to the team by showing up at 8:15pm on Wednesday before the game.

We have a great bunch of players!
We are all passionate!
And we all care about the game!

It's important for us to be able to express that stuff in constructive ways both on and off the field. The more time we give ourselves to build that kind of communication -- the more cohesive we'll be collectively.

We'll hold a brief team meeting before our next game (Apr 15) so we can feel the love IN PERSON. The better we know each other as people AND as players...the smoother things will be during those 90 minutes when we're Surging toward victory!

Go Surge!
Let's take on the Jolly Rogers as the team we know we are - positive, fun & talented!

Surging Toward Germany

Henry Delaney, one of the owners of American Athlete and (former college athlete 'mega-star') put us through the paces at the gym on Sunday, April 5. The dynamic warm-up had us prancing on our toes and shuffle-footing it from one end of the exercise room to the other. We wasted no time getting to the meat of it...a fast-paced, bicep-busting, quadricep-killing, speed-and-agility-centered powerhouse of a workout.

Who's bad-ass?
WE ARE!

All that hard work (indoors!) on a beautiful, bluebird day made our after-the-practice picnic in the park even SWEETER:



"How many people are committed to going to Germany next summer?"
(nearly every hand went into the air)
"How many people are down with some SERIOUS fundraising between now and then?"
(again, every hand)
"So...who's got ideas?"
(lots of talking, lots of energy, lots of input!!)

It's an exciting time as we get things going! Here's what we know for sure:

GERMANY:

• Registration: Individual players need to register for the tournament themselves. It's 165 Euros...which tranlates to about $220US. Registration for Germany needs to happen by Oct 1 ~ so we've got about 6 months.
• Registering yourself is your way of making a personal commitment to going. Fundraising will help us supplement (hopefully we'll be able to fully cover!) the cost of transportation, lodging, etc while we're there.
• SO - Save Up Without Feeling The Burn: Make coffee at home this summer - have people over for drinks one night instead of going out - rent a DVD instead of going to the movies....if you can stockpile $10/wk from now until Oct 1 you'll have saved your Registration Fee! Easy-peasy!

FUNDRAISING:

• The team will plan fun, social fundraising events that will help us raise $$ for our tournament travel and international play WHILE promoting good community services.
• Meaning, we'll do some good for the world AT THE SAME TIME as we're rai$ing money for our team!
• The entire team needs to be involved ~ the more, the merrier. (Plus you gotta work for your $$, sorry no free rides!)
• We talked about a lot of ideas: events where we increase our team's visibility (like a booth at Pride), events where we're actively campaigning for $ (such as showing up at The Rose on Apr 22 [we have a bye that night, so plan on karaoke instead!] in our jerseys for karaoke and making it a fun fun fun awareness- and $-raising event, like parking cars at Husky games on Saturdays this fall, like promoting "Surge" drink specials at a bar [in conjunction with Sounders games!] to raise the dough, etc), and events where we're partnering with non-profits and other organizations that can use our help - which means donating some time ladies. Time.
• Asking for money is easier to do when you're also giving back....
• We'll probably be doing events at least 2 times per month ~ so make room in your social schedules, Surgers...because we estimate it's gonna take several thousand dollars per person to make our Germany tournament a reality.
  

Let's keep our Spring record in the winner's bracket: so far we're 2 wins, 1 tie, 0 losses....woot.