TAR HEEL TEAM TEMPO Update
Fans of UNC Women’s Basketball
October 14. 2009
CALENDAR
Friday, October 16, 2009 at
7:00 PM
Join the UNC Women’s
Basketball team at the Smith Center at 7 PM this Friday night as they
entertain the audience during “Late Night with Roy.” After the players
perform skits for an hour of skits, the team will scrimmage together. See
the freshman players perform for the first time! Enjoy the talent and the
wit of our players. See a completely different view of your Women’s
Basketball team!
Saturday, October 17, 2009
after 2 PM
Single ticket sales for the
2009-2010 season will be available for
purchase after 2 PM at tarheelblue.com. Click
here for special bus caravan package tickets to NC State on Monday,
January 25, 2010, and Duke on Monday, February 8, 2010, on sale now.
Tuesday, November 5, 2009
Our first game of the season:
Exhibition game against Francis Marion, Thursday, November 5, 7 PM at the
Dean Smith Center. Join Team Tempo members at
Time Out on the 15-501
By-Pass in Chapel Hill for pre-game warm-up before home games --- just like
our team! More details soon!
TEAM TALK
Tar Heel Sports Observer:
October 6, 2009
Thanks to Candace Wood, Nyree Williams,
Krista Gross, Waltiea Rolle, Cierra Robertson-Warren, Tierra Ruffin-Pratt
have chosen to play basketball for Coach Hatchell as Tar Heels. They are the
new freshmen. Candace is a red-shirt, and her dad is Al Wood - do you know
him? Oh, her sister, Martina, is a senior on this team as well. This team
opens play on November 5 (less than a month from now) in an exhibition game
in the Dean Dome. Did I tell you that Waltiea is 6'6" and Cierra is 6'4"?
Oops, I forgot to tell you that Chay Shegog, a 6'5" sophomore, played on a
US national team that won a gold medal this summer. This team is TALL. Add
to that, some very experienced players from last year, and you'll begin to
believe that this team will be very fast, very exciting, and could be very,
very successful! If you didn't see them last year, you MUST see them this
year and often.
Carmichael is being renovated which started
at the end of the 2006-2007 season. I have heard it described as a
state-of-the-art basketball arena. I have also been told that it is the ONLY
arena in the country dedicated to women's basketball. It is going to be a
magical place to watch our Tar Heels play. The question that remains is when
will it open. From a variety of sources, it appears that early January is
the most likely opening time, but December continues to be mentioned as a
possibility. Personally, I don't think it matters to anyone who is a true
Tar Heel fan. There are over 22,000 seats in the Dean Dome and around 8,000
in the new Carmichael.
Season tickets and single-game tickets go
on sale on October 17. The Heels play 18 games at home including games
against Duke, State, and Maryland. If you are interested, they also play in
Las Vegas on November 22 and in Myrtle Beach on December 20 (I'm going -
great hotel rate for this game at the Breakers). And if you are really
adventurous, they play UConn in Storrs, CT, on January 9. Talk about sweet -
beating UConn at UConn is amazing!
Tickets are very inexpensive so buy them
now. If you can't afford a full season (time or money), build and buy your
own mini-season package. If you have children or grandchildren, buy tickets
and take them. You won't find better entertainment for less money. Remember
November 5th is the first game!
TEMPO TALK
Events Committee Report: From Jo Yvars
Six members compose the
Events Committee: Mary Bobbitt, Joy Farley, Fran Lassiter, Mark Simmons,
Ann Ward, Bob Ward, and Nancy Zeman.
On November 22 our Tar Heels
challenge the University of Nevada in Las Vegas -- Let's Go! Various plans
available from
www.southwest.com. Click on Vacations, then Deals. Although the Wynn
is our team hotel, you will find a choice of hotels. As an example,
outbound flights 3596 and 1536 connect in Denver on November 19, four nights
at Wynn, and nonstop flight #3108 home on November 23 create an excellent
package. Best price so far: $677/per person. Be relentless and try
multiple ways of booking; prices vary depending on choices! Follow the
Heels!
Want to join others in Las
Vegas for breakfast or an outing? Click
here to send us your request.
Treasurer’s Blog: From Gary Triplett
Hello and welcome to the first Treasurer’s Blog. One of my duties is to
inform the membership about the current state of the organization’s fiscal
health.
The first order of business is to recognize that our organization is in the
start-up phase. Our goal is to improve attendance at the UNC Women’s
Basketball games. We will achieve it, but we need your assistance. If you
are able to donate your time, please contact the
Volunteer Committee. We genuinely welcome and appreciate your
willingness to support Coach Hatchell and her wonderful Women’s Basketball
program.
Also consider a monetary contribution to sponsor a specific committee or
event. Although this year’s contributions are not tax-deductible, we will
use your dollars to create energy and enthusiasm for Coach Hatchell’s
program. Our costs are moderate: as an example, our Kick-Off event last
week cost less than $1.50 per attendee. But we must spend some money as we
create events to elevate support for UNC Women’s Basketball.
However, if you are unable to donate either your time or money, PLEASE,
PLEASE support the program by attending each home game. The UNC Women’s
Basketball program is SECOND TO NONE in the ACC and our team deserves fan
support that is also SECOND TO NONE.
I would like to thank the following individuals who contributed at the
Kick-Off Meeting last week: Gail McKinney, Ken Grogan, Jean Law and Bob &
Ann Ward. We are off to a great start! Finally, I would like to extend a
big thank-you to Jackie Lambertsen. Not only has she generously given her
time to building this organization, she just donated the first official
Sponsorship designated for the Membership Committee.
If you are interested in becoming a Sponsor for one of our events, please
contact me directly at
tt.treas@meridians.us or watch for future details on our 1st
year start-up Sponsorship Program.
To support our efforts, send your donation to:
Tar Heel Team Tempo
11417 Pacesferry Drive
Raleigh, N.C. 27614.
Communications Committee Update
Thanks to Anja Lathan, newly recruited Communications Committee member for
external web sites, you can access new links for Tar Heel Team Tempo at:
Facebook Fans:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tar-Heel-Team-Tempo/166253898988
Twitter:
http://twitter.com/uncwbbfans
You-Tube: Click
here to view: Senior night on February 22, 2007
Lost and Found
An old fashion green and white aluminum tube outdoor beach chair did not
make it to its rightful home after the Kick-Off meeting on October 6th.
If you happen to have this extra chair, please click
here.
Access to MEMBERS ONLY area of TEAM TEMPO web site
To access the MEMBERS ONLY area of the Team Tempo web site, either click on
the large photo of a full Carmichael stadium on our home page or access:
http://www.meridians.us/ncteamtempo/members/members_only.htm
Join us and watch positive support for the UNC
Women’s Basketball team grow until wherever we play, be it near or far,
the stadium is full! Go Heels!
