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-----Original Message----- From: Terry McIntyre [mailto:tmcintyre@lametalworks.com] Sean, T he Capital Area nominee for the "Gridiron Award" is Marion McIntyre.When a woman is married to a football fanatic she can begrudgingly accept the situation and her fate as a "football widow" or she can do something about it. Marion McIntyre's motto is "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em." She quickly realized that if she was going to see her husband during the football season she would have to get involved in the program. Well, did she ever get involved! Starting in 1996 Marion became our first-ever female official. She is a certified Level I official. Marion went out and recruited all the officials that work the games in our Squirt and Mosquito divisions. She does all the assigning of officials in these two age groups as well as working four games herself every week. Without her involvement these two programs could not run. In 1999 Marion took on the job of association photographer. Previously, we had used outside "professionals" with very unsatisfactory results. Every year she photographs almost 400 kids on nearly 20 teams. Then with the help of several volunteers she selects the best pictures and puts them in frames. She creates labels for each team picture with the team name and colours as well as showing the year. She also does personalized player "player cards". The association reimburses her only for her out-of-pocket costs. She receives nothing for the many hours that it takes to do these pictures. The profit from these pictures goes to CAMFA. In 2001 this was over $3,000 ! Parents continually tell us the minor football has, by far, the best photograph program of all the sports in the Capital Area. It is Marion's job to find manager's each year for close to 20 football teams, usually from the players' mothers. Then she must make sure that they know how to do their jobs and that they actually DO their jobs.. In CAMFA the Team Manager's job description lists 11 different tasks, including such things as selling team clothing, collecting picture money and organizing the team's year end party. The manager's job is very important and consequently Marion ensuring that it gets done is very crucial for the association. Each year CAMFA has a Pass, Punt and Kick competition and a Fastest Player Competition. Marion makes sure that all teams send representatives and that we have sufficient volunteers available to properly run each of these events. Every year we try to find a sponsor for the T-shirts used as uniforms in our Squirt Flag Football League. The kids get to keep their shirts so we must find a sponsor every year to pay for the shirts (about $850 each year). It is Marion's job to find the sponsor and she has never failed to find somebody to pay for the shirts. Recently she talked a local retailer into donating a new computer to CAMFA. We plan to raffle this computer off and hopefully make at least $3,000 for the association in 2002. In 2001 Marion did up a program for our Peewee and Bantam championship games. She also got us a sound system for free so that play by play could be announced. It was Marion's computer expertise and research that led to the creation of the Capital Area Minor Football Association website as well as the first Football New Brunswick website. She found the software that we use and then did all the 'technical" work to set up the two websites. She then trained her family how to maintain the two sites. Without her, neither one of these websites would have been possible. Finally, CAMFA is in the process of setting up a formal executive for the first time. It is Marion who was able to recruit the vast majority of the people who have volunteered to fill close to 20 positions. Everybody thinks that Terry McIntyre is the reason why Capital Area Minor Football has been so successful in the last six years. However, those in the know realize that it is really Marion who is the brains behind the operation. Terry McIntyre, President P.S.- If Marion is chosen for this award I would like to keep it a secret from her until the banquet. |