For anyone who doesn’t know me, my name is Iain McLeish and I am the president of Balmy Beach Rugby. I don’t typically send out club wide emails as most communication goes from coaches, through TeamSnap to the teams. However I wanted to reach out with a couple of important off season announcements/updates. Please find in this email the following information:
Thank you Chris Kalfleisch and Andrew Steele – Many of you will have seen the TeamSnap message that went out last week from Chris Kalbfleisch communicating that after a decade of hard work, himself and Andrew Steele (Junior Treasurer) are stepping down. I wanted to take this opportunity to send out a club wide email thanking both of them for the tremendous amount of hard work they have both put into the Junior program here at Balmy Beach Rugby. Their hard work has helped to grow this club’s Junior program to be one of the largest and most successful in the province.
Call of interested for Junior Coordinators – The growth in our Junior program over the last decade has been extraordinary. However this means that the way the Junior Section was set up to operate years ago, was designed at a time when our numbers were about half of what they currently are. As a club we are going to take this opportunity to add several additional roles into the Junior program. These roles will be:
– Mini’s Coordinator (focusing on U6-U12)
– Junior Boys Coordinator (focusing on U14-U18 boys)
– Junior Girls Coordinator (focusing on U14-U18 girls)
– And then an overall Junior Coordinator to assist with administrative tasks for all age groups
With so many parents/guardians/coaches in our program with rugby and general sports experience I wanted to reach out to see if anyone was interested in applying for one of these roles. The full job description for each role is attached to this email below. If anyone is interested please send an email to balmybeachrugbyjuniors@gmail.com. I will contact anyone interested with more info separately.
Call of interest for coaches for 2027 – Beach’s programmes only run because of the hard work of volunteer coaches, and we thank everyone who put their hand up to coach at every age group in the 2026 season. As we start to put together our 2027 season I wanted to put out a call for anyone who is interested in coaching with our juniors next year. There are several requirements for anyone interested in coaching, most importantly a Police Vulnerable Sector Check. This can take several weeks to obtain, so anyone interested in coaching next season, send me an email at balmybeachrugbyjuniors@gmail. I will contact anyone interested with more info separately.
Call of interest for Alumni Director – This item doesn’t really have anything to do with Juniors, but with so many parents/guardians who were themselves former Beach players I thought I would include it here also. Our current Alumni Directors term is up (3 years). The job description is attached below. If anyone is interested in applying for the role of Alumni Director please reach out to me at coachmcleish@gmail.com. I will contact anyone interested with more info separately.
Winter Holiday Silent Auction (Dec 5) – The upcoming Winter Silent Auction is our club’s largest yearly fundraiser. Please see the message below from the group organizing the event: