- Welcome – Coach Skokowski
- Update on Questions for Athletic Department, awaiting answers
- Selling our old reel mower & fungo man? (maybe like $2000 coming in)
- Moving forward steps are to properly document the equipment through the school district inventory and financial department.
- Once the proper paperwork has been filed, we can further discuss the resell back to the company.
- Discussion of outdoor cages on site (not wanting to take away from indoor cages)
- This project is being deferred at this time.
- Will be revisited in future budget planning.
- Many factors go into planning for projects such as this that school districts must consider. It must be a project that is well-planned and follows the rules and regulations of public education.
- Bullpen lighting (athletic dept funding)
- Waiting for response from District Athletic Director
- Dug-out pad replacements (athletic dept funding)
- These are only 2 years old; (this is the 3rd year) we want to keep up the looks of our facilities so we are currently getting quotes for replacement pads.
- Took one down today; and for a stop-gap finding duct tape to slow down the increase in tears in the mats.
- Researching the company that put these in, to ensure that the replacement padding matches the original padding.
- Offsite banquet request – APPROVED
- See below for further details. 2/25/24 @ Mathena Barn @ 6pm
- Starting Monday 12/4; practice is not restricted so we can go longer
- Practice has been going great, the boys are really doing well
- Ending around 5:45 pm, Wednesday we will keep short
- Dogpile Challenge Briefing
- The boys did great and worked well in teams
- Were able to celebrate the hard work with a surprise outing to Main Event (baseball account funded)
- End of offseason meetings right now (offseason up until 12/1) (preseason up until opening game) (during the season)
- Met with the Freshman team as a whole, meeting with players in small groups, in other grade levels.
- MS Try-outs
- February 12 – 14 (may extend through February 15) players will know by the end of the week.
- Keeping 22 kids per team is the plan (7th grade – 22; 8th grade 22)
- Coaches will communicate whether players make a team in small groups. Players not on a team will be moved into an elective course, Current Events class.
- MS BSN Order window will open as well
- MS Email Fundraiser will open after try-outs as well
- MS Parent Meeting
- Skow will confirm a meeting date for parents soon. Looking at the week after tryouts.
- Hosting other Teams in our F&M Baseball Park
- Hosted OCU games this past weekend – and were able to keep gate money for our baseball program
- Opportunity to host NOC Tonkawa baseball team this weekend, TBC
- These types of opportunities are great for the program, it allows our players the opportunity to see collegiate teams play as well as raise money for our program.
- Baseball will be using the indoor multi-sport facility by the football field. We have it reserved from Jan. 1 through May 15th, 2:30 – 5:30 pm every day.
- Piedmont Wildcat Baseball Google Drive: baseballpiedmont@gmail.com
- If you get an email from here, it’s legit.
- Upcoming SY23-24 Meeting Dates
- Monday, January 29th @ 6:00 pm
- Monday, February 19th @ 6:00 pm
- February MS Parent Meeting – TBC
- SY23-24 Fundraisers
- Blue & Gold Fundraiser:
- 5 chicken fingers bags – still available if anyone is interested.
- Scoreboard Advertising & Sponsorships Update
- Contact: Ryan Aller (baseballpiedmont@gmail.com)
- We need to push these as well, please see the Sponsorship attachment, and contact us if you have any questions.
- Email Fundraiser Update – about $14,300 right now, about $3,000 under what we predicted.
- Blue & Gold Fundraiser:
- SY23-24 Events
- Media Day – February 8, 2024
- First Pitch Banquet – Sunday, February 25, 2024 @ 5 pm
- Participants: HS Baseball Teams and families
- Location: Mathena Barn
- Catering: 1492 has confirmed; fajitas with all the makings. YUM!
- $20 per person; kids under 8 eat free
- Silent Auction
- 9th – The team rep will contact grade-level
- 10th – The team rep will contact grade-level
- 11th – The team rep will contact grade-level
- 12th – Team rep will contact grade level
- White Squirrel Candle Company Basket
- 405 Glitter Co Basket
- Senior Boards will be set up for the Banquet
- Varsity Opening Day – 3/4/24 updated date; 3/5/24 – confirmed
- First Pitch: Dr. Eichelberger (confirmed)
- National Anthem: PHS Choir (confirmed), waiting for confirmation
- Senior Night – Thursday, April 25th, 2024
- Senior Board
- Theme Nights Ideas – confirming these, will send out the schedule
- Opening Pitch Connections
- (Contact Angela Bilyeu, 214-682-3619 or baseballpiedmont@gmail.com)
- MS celebration for baseball players idea?
- Keeping in mind that we want to celebrate our MS teams as well, we want to plan an event at the end of the season
- MS season is shorter than HS, so this will make it easier for us to plan something.
- More details to come as it unfolds
- Tournament (Grade level rep will be in contact)
- Hospitality Rooms – Team Responsibility
- Developmental Blue Tourney – March 14 & 15, 2024
- Developmental Gold Tourney – March 7 & 8, 2024
- Seventh Grade – April 4 – 6, 2024
- Volunteer Opportunities
- Program Expenses Breakdown
For the sake of transparency in the program, we would like to share with you what the district has funded and what has been funded through our fundraisers for the year.
- District Funded
- 1 Head Coach position
- 4 HS Assistant Coach positions
- 4 MS Assistant Coach positions
- 1 janitorial position for year-round cleaning (before only funded during the season)
- All-Tournament entry fees for all teams
- Umpire wages
- Gold Jerseys (exchange for stadium clean up)
- $4000 worth of practice & game balls
- MS field – Spraying for weeds 7 times a year = $2800 total
- Clay, turface, and quick dry for MS field
- Uniform rotation (every 3 years) SY24-25
- Program Fundraiser Funded
- Grey Practice Shirts for all players
- Designated Hitter Pitching Dummy
- 2 – Nine square pitching nets
- Pocket Radar
- 9 medicine balls
- 4 Camwood, 1 hand training bats
- Furniture for Coaches’ office
- 4 couches for the Players’ locker room
- 6 Bilt Trash cans for ball buckets
- Vinyl signs for the locker room
- Set of Blue Jerseys
- Locker nameplates
- HS Celebration to Main Event for Dogpile Challenge
- Team Socks for Varsity Team
- Team Belts for Varsity Team
- Fill in plants
- Set of white helmets
- 60 armbands and software for offensive and defensive signals
- Fill in helmet logos
- Replacement part for Hack Attack pitching machine
- 4 Catching training gloves
- 5 dozen Marv Training Velo balls
- Pitch Logic smart balls and software
- Mini 3 Jugs Pitching Machine (brand new, awaiting delivery in February)
- Donations
- White Practice Shirts
- 2 iPADS with cases
- Upcoming Expenses
- 2 additional HS assistant coach stipends
- AWRE system
- BSN Hats bill
- 1st Pitch Banquet Expenses
- Dallas Trip – Varsity
- Senior Gifts
- Parent Gifts for Senior Night
- Q&A & Open Forum