<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div></div><div>Good evening.</div><div><br></div><div>Victoria have withdrawn from hosting next years nationals and UWHA have asked the states if anyone can take it on.</div><div><br></div><div>Some of the committee are keen to, but we will need the support of the members and families to be able to run the competition. In particular we need a couple of people to step up and fill some of the key roles such as tournament director. If we can get a keen player or parent do some of these roles that would be great and we can provide advice from people who have done these things in the past.</div><div><br></div><div><span>Mark has talked to Iain Barr at the aquatic centre and their preferred time is Boxing day to new years as there is very little happening then. For most of January they have their summer program on with a lot of activity in the pool complex. In particular the state swimming titles are usually on over the Aus day long weekend.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>My personal preference if for then as I have the time off anyway as do most others and there is no chance of school clashes.</span><br><span></span><br><span>If we offer to have the competition I would suggets that we have it starting <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://3" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-result="3">on December the </a>27th</span><span> run for 4 days round robin with finals on the 31st and the party that evening. </span></div><div><br></div><div>This is a great opportunity as it will save our players costs, make it possible for us to field lots of teams and of coarse we have a great pool. As a worlds year next year it would also be a great opportunity for tassie players.</div><div><br></div><div>We need to move fairly quickly so your thoughts and comments would be appreciated over the next day or so.</div><div><br></div><div>In particular, what do you think of the date? And can you or someone you know assist in volunteering? Especially with tournament director, games coordinator, etc.<br><span></span><br><span>Thoughts and comments please ASAP.</span></div><div><br>Mark Lewis</div><div><a href="mailto:Mark.Lewis@csiro.au">Mark.Lewis@csiro.au</a> <br><br><br></div></body></html>