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“Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical.
Yogi Berra (1925-)
In this issue of USA Sports
Rankings.com:
· We’re Back!
· New
Discounts for 2004.
· More
Discounts - Tournaments
· Team of the
Month
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We’re Back!
The
ownership of USA Sports Ranking.com has changed, but the site is back with
the same exciting features you enjoy.
We, the new owners, Lynne Klingelsmith and Tom Williams-Cipriani, are
committed to making USA Sports Ranking.com valuable to you, our customers,
and to making it as friendly to use as possible.
Because
keeping you informed of new features, new products, special offers, events,
and useful information for teams and athletes is a priority for us, we are
launching this newsletter to be published monthly. We welcome your ideas, feedback and updates about your players,
teams and leagues; please send them to info@usasportsranking.com.
New Discounts for 2004
 Catch
this! If you are thinking of renewing
your membership or are joining for the first time, you will receive a 20%
discount if you sign up before January 1, 2004. In addition, if four or more teams from your league join before
the end of the year, all the teams will receive an additional 10%
discount! We want to get the new year
off to a great start and to make it possible for many teams to participate.
More Discounts - Tournaments
In response to feedback
from tournament directors, we have reduced the Basic Tournament Package cost
from $49.95 to $15.95. On top of
that, there is a 20% discount until the first of the year, which makes it
only $12.95! Don’t miss this great
offer!
Team of the Month 
Dave King of Triple Crown Sports sponsors and coaches the
Triple Crown Stars, a girls’ 18 and under fast-pitch team in Fort Collins,
Colorado. While the team has an
enviable 58-34-2 record for 2003, Dave said that this is a developmental
team, focused on personal growth, team growth and experience. After coaching his sons’ teams for many
years, when his daughter turned 15 she convinced him to coach a girls’ team,
and he has continued with the team since his daughter moved on. The team is planning trips to Florida,
Canada and Utah for 2004 in addition to 9-10 other tournaments and a college
coaches’ camp in Steamboat Springs.
New this year is an off-season training program that started in
December and will continue through the end of the school year. The program’s focus is on strength and
speed training, based on the results of a smaller, pilot program the team
tried in 2003.
The Triple Crown Stars use the USA Sports Ranking website
to organize their information and make it easily available to parents and
players; they keep their schedule, results, roster, stats and other team
information on the site. Dave said,
“The ranking is a nice gauge, a kind of opinion poll, but we would still use
the site even without it.” A tip of
our cap to the USA Sports Ranking Team of the Month, the Triple Crown Stars!
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