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Darts Alberta is proud to present the DA
Member League Grassroots Program
The Objective of this program is to recognize grassroots
competitors for their improvements through out the league
season and to encourage league members to compete at a higher
level of competition.
Darts Alberta launches a new DART shoot with $1,200 prize
payout
A new Pro-Am style tournament has replaced the Grassroots
Mentorship Initiative which had been in effect from 2004
to 2006.
All member leagues are eligible to nominate grassroots competitors to be eligible to have the opportunity to compete in the
Developing Achievements of Rookie Talent (DART) shoot of the year and the number of nominations are based on the size of the member league:
Adult Member Leagues of 24 or less members – 1 grassroots award nominee.
Adult Member Leagues of 25 to 99 members – 3 grassroots award nominees.
Adult Member Leagues of 100 or more members – 5 grassroots award nominees.
As a Grassroots Award Recipient, you will receive:
An NDFC Membership Upgrade for the following dart season, paid by Darts Alberta.
Singles event entry into a Darts Alberta Ranked Tournament, paid by Darts Alberta.
Eligibility to register to
compete in the next Pro-AM style DART shoot. Entry into the DART shoot will be by invitation only, limited to 32 participants (16 member league Grassroots nominees and 16 Elite adult / youth competitors) and will be on a first-come first-serve basis.
The list of eligible elite competitors has been expanded to include all those contained on the
current Member League Championship’s Elite Competitors List as well as the Senior Male and Senior
Female Champions and Runners-Up from the most recent Youth Provincial Championship.
2009 Pro-AM event scheduled for
September 19th, 2009 at the Red Deer Legion.
Congratulations to all, Winners and Participants, who attended the
second annual DART Pro-AM style event September 20th, 2008 in
Calgary at the Penbrooke Community
Center.
1st
Greg Lewis & Tie Conn
2nd
Eugene Earnsahaw & Tracy Worsdford
Joint 3rd
Fred Seaward & Dan Kitts
Joint 3rd
Tim Prokop & Kevin Feary
Historical Background
The Grassroots Mentorship Program was launched in February 2004 with anywhere from 1 to 3
Grassroots level members being selected from each league to participate in a mentorship partnership.
The first partnerships began during the 2004-05 tournament season.
The greatest challenges were in securing
Elite partners to participate at DA-Ranked Tournaments. Due to those challenges the program was restructured where 3
Grassroots nominees would each receive NDFC membership upgrades for the following season, but only one would be selected for the partnership program. This still presented challenges in getting nominees to commit to specific tournaments in sufficient time to organize elite partnerships and therefore, the program has been consistently under budget. This causes a challenge since the program is completely funding through our annual
Grant and there is a need to ensure more Alberta Sport funds are spent on
Grassroots initiatives.
The DA Programs Feedback survey shows that although a high percentage would likely participate in a future partnership, they are reluctant to give up their regular doubles partners in an open Ranked Tournament where top prize money is at stake.
Other feedback suggests that partnering a Grassroots level player in an “open” tournament environment can place undue pressure on an individual with potentially little or no competitive experience.
When asked for ideas of new programs targeted at
Grassroots level players, the majority of survey feedback suggested a stand-alone event and/or clinics to assist
Grassroots level players to improve their skills. Other survey feedback included the need to increase awareness amongst the Member League members and guidance to Member League Executives regarding their selection process.
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Grassroots Mentorship Initiative - 2004-2006
This initiative has been funded in part by:
For further information on this new
initiative, contact:
Darts Alberta
Administrator
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Congratulations to the following Grassroots Mentorship
Program nominees for 2008:
Calgary Pub Dart League
Eddie Karst, Kevin Feary, Judy Johns, Gardner Poucette, Linda Keough
Calgary Men's District Dart League
Perry Osmond, Andy Anderson, Kurtis Owens, Maurice Mccurtain, Ryan
Bercier
Calgary Ladies City Dart League Association
Tracy
Worsford, Natalie Gillanders, Linda Keough
Edmonton City Dart League
Gwen
Beasley, Shaun Donaldson, Dan Kitts, Marko Slaney, Lil Wicks
Edmonton Ladies Dart League
Karen Mulligan
Edmonton Inter-Pub Dart League
Tristynn Marchuk, Ryan Foster, Tie Conn
Medicine Hat Dart League
Sylvia Moser, Jess Finley, Jonn Baird, Kelly Smith, Fred
Dee Jr.
Tactics Association on Mondays in
Edmonton
Angelina Palumbi,
Jordan Millard, Dallas Wrangler, Johanne Lamourieux, Brenda Richardson
Past Grassroots Mentorship Nominees:
2007
2006
2005
2004
DART Pro-AM Results:
September 2007 in Red Deer
1st
Rikk Arnott & John Dechambre $600 ($300 each)
2nd
Joe Anderson & Andy Baldi $300 ($150 each)
Joint 3rd
Trevor Tierney & Ivy Wieshlow $150 ($ 75 each)
Joint 3rd Bill McDowall & Tena Pettie $150 ($ 75 each)
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