As we approach another year of the Growler here are a few points of order to remind/inform everyone of…
- Volunteers are needed – Please sign up via the following link and help make this the best Growler ever: https://growlervolleyball.com/player-info/volunteer/. Especially for Set up on Saturday (18 of 30 slots filled)!!!
All 4 Events are now visible as volunteering options (Big, Jr, Masters, and Her :) )
If you are a player and want to focus on playing during the events… see if you can get your family and friends involved or volunteer to help with set up and clean up. Remember Volunteering counts towards the GPI. - Registration is moving forward with 305 of the 323 players registered as of this email. The last few players have been notified and need to get registered before Friday.
- Set Up Saturday is 3 days away (Sat 7/26 from 9am-1pm).. hope to see you there. We’ll have Donuts, water, and beer provided to those that assist.
- There will once again be a Player Pavilion this year on Weeks 1 and 4 at Springdale. Thanks to GFL. Pepsi, and Jersey Mike’s for making this possible. All players will report there to pick up a water/Gatorade and a Jersey Mike’s sub (to ensure each player has something “grab and go” that they can eat later). The Player Pavilion will be on the new deck by the covered Pool Pavilion (where the ice is) beyond the bathrooms. You can come pick up your T-shirt and bands on Sunday (2-7pm) and Monday (6-8pm) if you want to avoid the Tuesday rush. at which point you’ll just need to come by and grab your sub and maybe a beverage (Gatorade or Beer) on Tuesday.
- Reminder to Captains… Captains meeting is Sunday (7/27) at 6:15pm at SARC. Given the above, no registration or player bag concerns this year for the captains. No food, just Beer :). It should be a quick meeting as we all get on the same page with Growler 2025 but feel free to preview the Rules before the meeting as well (No changes from 2024)… happy to answer any questions if you have them – https://growlervolleyball.com/player-info/rules/
- The Growler website has the Team Schedules listed (https://growlervolleyball.com/volleyball-events/growler/). Please familiarize yourself with where you’ll be over the 4 weeks as that might help with where you can Volunteer etc. All teams play at Springdale/SARC Week 1. All teams play 3 weeks at Springdale and 1 week at either Lake Park or Greystone. Check http://growlervolleyball.com/ for the Schedule of events (Food, Music, etc) for all 4 weeks.
- Please visit the Growler Auction to WIN Parking and the Jacob Construction Volleyball cabana (for your team) on any or all 4 nights!: https://app.charityauctionstoday.com/auctions/2025-growler-44241This is under utilized every year… Don’t miss out! Auction for night 1 closes in 4 days. The auction will remain open for Weeks 2-4 until the Sunday prior to those dates.
- Last but most importantly… let’s try to get everyone registered on the St Baldrick’s website under each of your teams. We have 36 teams with 323 players and 159 participants currently on the site under the Growler page. I promise the Sponsors aren’t doing what they do for the Volleyball… they are doing it because of how we monetize the event into amazing things for the fight against Childhood cancer. So please, create a St Baldrick’s page and send an email to those dearest to you with the donation link and explain what you are doing, why, and who it benefits. I promise it will work. We all can “collectively” makes this the best year yet! Please note this marketing material that Brooke and Scot put together highlighting the family of our 2025 “Growler kid” Shane– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj65drICUMQ feel free to use this as a TOOL via your personal emails to help share what the Growler is about, build awareness, and raise funds.
On a positive note, we are over $67K and actually 4k ahead of last year… pumped over here :)
Thanks to all in advance and the GROWLeadERship Team can’t wait for next Tuesday… it is going to be a blast.
See you all at the beach!
Bill Speri
Reminder of the below tomorrow night also!! Hope to see you there… I will be :)
