With less than 3 weeks to Chicago Cup 08, we have a lot of work to do to make this tournament a success. As with Chicago Cup 06, it goes without saying that everyone will pitch in to help. But for planning purposes it would really help to have a few of our members commit to volunteering in advance. This would allow us to pre-assign a few critical tasks on the days of the tournament.

Also:

We need coolers for the Gatorade come tournament day (Regular Ice Box Coolers). And 1, preferably 2 folding tables. If you are able to loan us any of these items please let Theresa know.

Volunteers - there are a number of tasks associated with hosting a tournament like this, looking after officials, ensuring we have water at the pitch etc...if you would like to help with the organization of these tasks, please send a note to Mags (ladies-captain@chicagofhc.com) or Steve (mens-captain@chicagofhc.com) and let them know.

Chicago Cup 2008

visit: Chicago Cup 08 website

Tournament Schedule: The schedule for Chicago Cup has been confirmed and uploaded onto the tournament website. The fixtures were based on an open draw, no teams where seeded nor was any scheduling preferences given to any one team.

CFHC Teams: Expect CFHC to announce the rosters for our teams participating in ChicagoCup 08 by the end of this week. The intent is to put in two equally strong sides which should be no problem considering the strong pool of players we have to pick from.

Thanks To Our Sponsor: A special thanks to our Chicago Cup sponsors : Ambient Heating & Cooling, De Stefano + Partners, Farmers Insurance, NorthShore Soccer & More, Star Travel Network & Windy City Field Hockey.

Also: AthletiCo will be providing Sports Medicine & Emergency Staff for Chicago Cup 2008. Their Physical Trainers/Therapists will be available on the field during the tournament to address any injury concerns.

Visiting Teams: The participating teams for Chicago Cup 08 have been confirmed. The Chicago Cup 08 website has been updated and the tournament schedule has been uploaded. The participating teams are:

Philaronto, University of Michigan, St Louis, Denver, Central Ohio, Star FHC, Chicago Red and Chicago Blue.

1. Volunteers - there are a number of tasks associated with hosting a tournament like this, looking after officials, ensuring we have water at the pitch etc...if you would like to help with the organization of these tasks, please send a note to Mags (ladies-captain@chicagofhc.com) or Steve (mens-captain@chicagofhc.com) and let them know.

2. Loaner Items: We need coolers for the Gatorade come tournament day (Regular Ice Box Coolers). And 1, preferably 2 folding tables. If you are able to loan us any of these items please let Theresa know.

3. Sponsorship - Ok, we're not too proud to beg. The estimated cost of running this tournament is $5,000 - $6000, we need sponsorship to make this tournament a success, we are not looking for thousands of dollars from you (although that would be nice!) but if everyone partaking in the tournament was able to find 1 sponsor at the $100 level even, we would have no financial concerns and be able to run a really successful event. So please dig deep into your Rolodex of contacts and find the likely candidates. As we mentioned before we have prizes for the members who bring in the most sponsorship money and we can offer sponsors ads in the tournament program, ads at the event itself, space on our website and the knowledge that they are helping Midwest hockey! All the sponsorship details have been in recent weekly updates and if you need more information contact Faizal (marketing-chair@chicagofhc.com) or any board member.

CHICAGO CUP 2008 - 14th & 15th June

Music for the Social

 

Nevins will  be able to hook up our Ipods during the social, so if you want to bring your ipod to contribute to the musical entertainment for the evening, please do so. We won't be able to access the ipod while it's playing (the Nevin's people will hook them up somehow). So, you should prepare a playlist, or have an ipod that can shuffle through everything.

 

Thanks!

Betsy

 

CFHC Squads for Chicago Cup

Our captains have finalized the two squads for Chicago Cup 2008. CFHC will be entering to equally strong squads to compete in years tournament.

Chicago Olympians Roster: Alan Dunleavy Amanda Eggleston Arnaud van der Bosch Betsy Ehlen Emily Zander Julian Rodriguez Justine Schramke Kamal ElKhadiri Ken Darko Laura Kistler Marc van Dongen Moritz Otte Sanjay Kodali Shayan Zaidi Steve Moulton Theresa Sukal		Chicago Fire Roster: Allie Harned Arno Stienen Dan Krainak Dave Allen Derek Miros Faizal Jogee Gaby Miramon Jeanne Shin-Cooper Josh Cooper Julio Gonzalez Klaus Casper Margreet Coolen Molly Powers Rachael Hopkins Rico Fernandes Simon Allen