Tim Rand Memorial Fund
Posted: 07.07.2010
The TRMF has paid for all Level 10 National entries for 2009 and 2010, $11,400.00 and has aided many state clinics giving $3,000.00 over the last several years for coaches and judges education. WE WANT TO DO MORE! We would like to pay both the Level 10 National entries and the Level 9 Eastern National entries in 2011. We need your help! If every judge, coach and gym gave we could reach our goal. Your contribution is tax deductable. Please make your check payable to Tim Rand Fund – Region 8 USAG and mail to 394 Stonebridge Road, Birmingham, AL 35210 TODAY!
The Tim Rand Memorial was begun after Tim Rand’s untimely death in August of 2007. We have had many contributions over the years and would like to honor and thank the following individuals and teams for their gifts:
Platinum - $1,000.00 or more
American Twisters
Colleen Barger and Brad Harris Tampa Bay Turners
FL NAWGJ
Tim Keckler Lightning City Gymnastics
North Carolina USA Gymnastics
Gold - $500 - $999.00
Alabama NAWGJ
DEM Cards Deb, Elaine and Marian
Charles Rand
Jeff Wood Orlando Metro
Silver - $100 - $499.00
Sue Ammerman
Cookie Batsche
Rita Brown
Cathi Curtis & Dave Zwiefelhofer Coast Elite Gymnastics
Natalie Duke United States Elite Coaches Association
Marian Dykes
Heather Esposito
Feugill Family
Vicki Frost
Ron and Joan Ganim Gymnastics World
Kathryn and John Geddart Twistars USA
Georgia USAG
Joan and Ray Gnat ACE Gymnastics
Stu and Pam Greenburg Park Avenue Gymnastics
Judy Grounds Athletes in Motion
Robert & Maureen Guise
Karen Hughes Artistic Gymnastics
Pam Kitchen Edgewater Classic
Melissa Kutcher
LA USAG
Jeff and Julie LaFleur LaFleur's Gymnastics
Mike and Melody LaFleur LaFleur's Gymnastics
Elena Lechner TAG School of Gymnastics
William, Kristen & Lisa McGraw
Mississippi NAWGJ
Mississippi USAG
Mary Moore
Norma Moore
Rene Niccollai
North Carolina NAWGJ
Barb Pritchard
Region 5 USA Gymnastics
Region 8 NAWGJ
Carol Register
Salem Gymnastics Center
Juliann Schuett
South Carolina USA Gymnastics
Tennessee NAWGJ
Tennessee USAG
Dayna Waroe
Bronze $99.00 and below
All Star Gymnastics
Gail Arcadipane
Ashly and Dan Baker
Portia Bodenheimer
Torre Bydlon
Lenette Calvin Calvin Twisters
Carol Curley
Chris and Dan Dickey Gymnastics World
Catherine Fariz
Joanne Goodson Midland Elite Gymnastics Academy
Mark Greenwald
Sharon Griffin
William and Susan Hyde
Joy and Kaylor Kelley
Katie Kivisto
Kathy Kuhn
Kristen Lee
Pamela Lieberman
Paul McAloon
Marissa Medal
Cecilia Miller
Steve & Susan Murray & Family LaFleur's Gymnastics
Christian and Elizabeth Ann Petric
Kellie Carpenter Petrillo and Cheryl Carpenter
Planet Gymnastics
Sheila Ragle
Ricky and Susannah Schied
Wendy Settles
Shari Sullivan
Scott Tabor
Bonnie, Amy, Heidi and Heather Usbeck
Elaine Wulf
Tim Rand Fund
When Tim passed away 3 years ago, I was not sure at first what to do with the generous outpouring of support I was receiving from so many people in the gymnastic community. However, within a day or two I realized that the only thing to do was to continue Tim’s passion for education and support of our athletes and that is how the Tim Rand Fund started. In less than 3 years the fund has generated over $40,000 in donations and has paid out over $16,000 in contributions to the Region 8 athletes, coaches and judges. Recently, thanks to the work of Tom Reynolds we have put together a collection of some of Tim’s Elite Coaches Association videos into DVD format and gave these DVD’s as gifts at Congress to anyone who made a $100 or more donation to the fund. The 10 sets (total of 12 DVD’s) were gone within hours. We are currently working on having more copies made and we hope to be able to offer this gift to future donations during the next year.
The TRF biggest contribution to the Region so far has been to pay for the National JO entry fee for all Region 8 qualifiers paying out $11,600 over the last 2 years. But we want to do more and we need your help – We would like to pay the National entry fee for all our Level 9 & 10 athletes that qualify to the National meet in 2011 – the cost of this would be around $17,500. To help us realize this goal I am asking that everyone consider making a small donation to the TRF this year especially if you have level 9 & 10 athletes that may make the National competition or if you had athletes at JO Nationals the last 2 years. We were very pleased that we have started to receive some donations from parents that had children at the National competition last year – we hope that all clubs will give this information to their booster clubs and parents so that they are aware that this is being done. Consider this: If every club in our region made a $50 donation we would raise well over $30,000 and think of the good things that we could do for our region! I sincerely hope everyone will consider what you can do.
In this newsletter and on the Regional web site we have made a list of contributors to the TRF over the last 3 years. I thank everyone for their generous support and I hope to see more names on this list in the future –If Tim were here he would be so grateful for everything - I know he is smiling somewhere and is wishing all of you the best of luck over the next year!
Toni Rand
Posted In: Programs
The TRMF has paid for all Level 10 National entries for 2009 and 2010, $11,400.00 and has aided many state clinics giving $3,000.00 over the last several years for coaches and judges education. WE WANT TO DO MORE! We would like to pay both the Level 10 National entries and the Level 9 Eastern National entries in 2011. We need your help! If every judge, coach and gym gave we could reach our goal. Your contribution is tax deductable. Please make your check payable to Tim Rand Fund – Region 8 USAG and mail to 394 Stonebridge Road, Birmingham, AL 35210 TODAY!
The Tim Rand Memorial was begun after Tim Rand’s untimely death in August of 2007. We have had many contributions over the years and would like to honor and thank the following individuals and teams for their gifts:
Platinum - $1,000.00 or more
American Twisters
Colleen Barger and Brad Harris Tampa Bay Turners
FL NAWGJ
Tim Keckler Lightning City Gymnastics
North Carolina USA Gymnastics
Gold - $500 - $999.00
Alabama NAWGJ
DEM Cards Deb, Elaine and Marian
Charles Rand
Jeff Wood Orlando Metro
Silver - $100 - $499.00
Sue Ammerman
Cookie Batsche
Rita Brown
Cathi Curtis & Dave Zwiefelhofer Coast Elite Gymnastics
Natalie Duke United States Elite Coaches Association
Marian Dykes
Heather Esposito
Feugill Family
Vicki Frost
Ron and Joan Ganim Gymnastics World
Kathryn and John Geddart Twistars USA
Georgia USAG
Joan and Ray Gnat ACE Gymnastics
Stu and Pam Greenburg Park Avenue Gymnastics
Judy Grounds Athletes in Motion
Robert & Maureen Guise
Karen Hughes Artistic Gymnastics
Pam Kitchen Edgewater Classic
Melissa Kutcher
LA USAG
Jeff and Julie LaFleur LaFleur's Gymnastics
Mike and Melody LaFleur LaFleur's Gymnastics
Elena Lechner TAG School of Gymnastics
William, Kristen & Lisa McGraw
Mississippi NAWGJ
Mississippi USAG
Mary Moore
Norma Moore
Rene Niccollai
North Carolina NAWGJ
Barb Pritchard
Region 5 USA Gymnastics
Region 8 NAWGJ
Carol Register
Salem Gymnastics Center
Juliann Schuett
South Carolina USA Gymnastics
Tennessee NAWGJ
Tennessee USAG
Dayna Waroe
Bronze $99.00 and below
All Star Gymnastics
Gail Arcadipane
Ashly and Dan Baker
Portia Bodenheimer
Torre Bydlon
Lenette Calvin Calvin Twisters
Carol Curley
Chris and Dan Dickey Gymnastics World
Catherine Fariz
Joanne Goodson Midland Elite Gymnastics Academy
Mark Greenwald
Sharon Griffin
William and Susan Hyde
Joy and Kaylor Kelley
Katie Kivisto
Kathy Kuhn
Kristen Lee
Pamela Lieberman
Paul McAloon
Marissa Medal
Cecilia Miller
Steve & Susan Murray & Family LaFleur's Gymnastics
Christian and Elizabeth Ann Petric
Kellie Carpenter Petrillo and Cheryl Carpenter
Planet Gymnastics
Sheila Ragle
Ricky and Susannah Schied
Wendy Settles
Shari Sullivan
Scott Tabor
Bonnie, Amy, Heidi and Heather Usbeck
Elaine Wulf
Tim Rand Fund
When Tim passed away 3 years ago, I was not sure at first what to do with the generous outpouring of support I was receiving from so many people in the gymnastic community. However, within a day or two I realized that the only thing to do was to continue Tim’s passion for education and support of our athletes and that is how the Tim Rand Fund started. In less than 3 years the fund has generated over $40,000 in donations and has paid out over $16,000 in contributions to the Region 8 athletes, coaches and judges. Recently, thanks to the work of Tom Reynolds we have put together a collection of some of Tim’s Elite Coaches Association videos into DVD format and gave these DVD’s as gifts at Congress to anyone who made a $100 or more donation to the fund. The 10 sets (total of 12 DVD’s) were gone within hours. We are currently working on having more copies made and we hope to be able to offer this gift to future donations during the next year.
The TRF biggest contribution to the Region so far has been to pay for the National JO entry fee for all Region 8 qualifiers paying out $11,600 over the last 2 years. But we want to do more and we need your help – We would like to pay the National entry fee for all our Level 9 & 10 athletes that qualify to the National meet in 2011 – the cost of this would be around $17,500. To help us realize this goal I am asking that everyone consider making a small donation to the TRF this year especially if you have level 9 & 10 athletes that may make the National competition or if you had athletes at JO Nationals the last 2 years. We were very pleased that we have started to receive some donations from parents that had children at the National competition last year – we hope that all clubs will give this information to their booster clubs and parents so that they are aware that this is being done. Consider this: If every club in our region made a $50 donation we would raise well over $30,000 and think of the good things that we could do for our region! I sincerely hope everyone will consider what you can do.
In this newsletter and on the Regional web site we have made a list of contributors to the TRF over the last 3 years. I thank everyone for their generous support and I hope to see more names on this list in the future –If Tim were here he would be so grateful for everything - I know he is smiling somewhere and is wishing all of you the best of luck over the next year!
Toni Rand
Posted In: Programs