Anyone in Cork/UCC interested in starting an Oly lifting club?

Parsley

With a bit of help from g'em here I'm trying to get an oly lifting club set up in UCC. The Mardyke has all the equipment and such and they have a few coaches that might teach the lifts (g'em says the IAWLA can help us out with coaches).

What we need now is people to support a club so we can set up a provisional committee, get a few people together and talk to UCC about setting the club up. With some students behind us and g'em and the IAWLA promising to nurture the club and such it shouldn't be too hard to get things off the ground.

Is there anyone here that would want to get involved in setting the club up, being on this provisional committee, or that would be interested in joining to train after it's up and running?

holdfast

yea would be interested pm me.

Parsley

PM'd.

DM-BM

I'd be interested in this, but I'm not a student in UCC.

Parsley

same story as holdfast so. i've just emailed the clubs exec asking about the procedure for setting up a club. when he gets back to me i'll have more info, but i'm pretty sure non-students are allowed in UCC clubs.

the drifter

Parsley wrote: »

same story as holdfast so. i've just emailed the clubs exec asking about the procedure for setting up a club. when he gets back to me i'll have more info, but i'm pretty sure non-students are allowed in UCC clubs.

They are in UL clubs nayway so hopefully its the same for ye

Scuba Ste

Parsley wrote: »

With a bit of help from g'em here I'm trying to get an oly lifting club set up in UCC. The Mardyke has all the equipment and such and they have a few coaches that might teach the lifts (g'em says the IAWLA can help us out with coaches).

What we need now is people to support a club so we can set up a provisional committee, get a few people together and talk to UCC about setting the club up. With some students behind us and g'em and the IAWLA promising to nurture the club and such it shouldn't be too hard to get things off the ground.

Is there anyone here that would want to get involved in setting the club up, being on this provisional committee, or that would be interested in joining to train after it's up and running?

I'm guessing you'll need certain number of student members to set up a new club. I know that's the way it is in DCU when the weightlifting club was set up this year. I'll ask the lads in the club how they got enough members but I think they just got rugby players and football players and class mates to sign up and then even though most never turned up, we had the requisite numbers signed up so were good to go.

Having the equipment will be massive for you, we still have none (we will before next semester though hopefully). Good luck with it, it'd be great to have more colleges with clubs.

If yous get going the club championships and Cork Open are in Cork in October, might be something to look forward to.

Parsley

Scuba Ste wrote: »

If yous get going the club championships and Cork Open are in Cork in October, might be something to look forward to.

..just have to learn to lift the olys by then! :pac:

Cuddlytroll

I would definitely be interested in this club. The problem is I haven't been accepted for my MA yet so I can't commit to even being in Cork. As soon as I know one way or another I'll let you know, I'd like to be involved though. I'd have a few contacts in the Clubs exec as well as the hurling and basketball teams.

g'em

Scuba Ste wrote: »

Having the equipment will be massive for you, we still have none (we will before next semester though hopefully). Good luck with it, it'd be great to have more colleges with clubs.

To the best of my knowledge, it will. I really hope it will, I know you guys have been waiting an age for it.

Scuba Ste

g'em wrote: »

To the best of my knowledge, it will. I really hope it will, I know you guys have been waiting an age for it.

Yeah it's been coming "next week" for the past few months. No worries though we'll get it eventually, maybe even next week.

Esse85

Id be interested, it sounds like a great idea.

Esse85

Any updates on this?

Parsley

I've a committee put together tog et things off the ground. The head of the sports dept says we need to put up a stand on the clubs open day to gauge interest in the club, to see if there'll be enough support.

itsallaboutheL

Parsley wrote: »

I've a committee put together tog et things off the ground. The head of the sports dept says we need to put up a stand on the clubs open day to gauge interest in the club, to see if there'll be enough support.

Get me a jumper.

I actually designed a logo for UCC barbell on a notepad last year....

DM-BM

So, is it UCC students only or what?

Parsley

DM-BM wrote: »

So, is it UCC students only or what?

Well I was sent a stock constitution to fill out and send back, and that said that it's only open to students of UCC, or past students who had already been in the club. Now I'm not sure if we're allowed change this when the club gets set up or not, so I'll let ye know.

Parsley

Update for y'all: Meeting the Clubs Exec President and a couple guys who run the Mardyke and organise the High Performance area tomorrow. Thanks to g'em, a contact from the IAWLA has already met them and confirmed that the new club will have the complete backing of the IAWLA and can provide coaching.

Now the meeting tomorrow will be about sorting out getting us in to the High Performance area of the Mardyke, and then for the Clubs Day in UCC on Fresher's Week we've to set up a stall there to see how much interest there'd be in the club from a point of view of having enough members to support and keep the club going etc.

deRanged

And UCC staff - would they also be welcome?
(they are allowed in clubs normally)

Parsley

deRanged wrote: »

And UCC staff - would they also be welcome?
(they are allowed in clubs normally)

sure. we can always change the constitution round at our first AGM anyway :pac: