State Coordinator of Illinois

[Jon Brakel]

Here is my ballot statement:

My brother Bruce forced me to begin playing Frisbee games at the age of 6. Following the directions on the back of a Frisbee, "...Invent games," he and his friends invented a game that involved chucking Frisbees at the six-year old. When mom put a stop to that, they "invented" Frisbee golf.

I am a life long Frisbee player. For the past four years I have also run tournaments; I currently co-TD the Illinois Open Series, which will consist of five or six events in 2005. I am the vice-president of Discontinuum, the husband of one of the co-founders of the Lake County Women's League, and the Uncle of a Junior World Champion. I am currently working on two course installation projects which I hope to be able to announce soon. I occasionally take pictures for Disc Golf World News. If I had a life, this would be it.

If I am elected State Coordinator I promise to send an Illinois player to the USDGC in 2005 and 2006 by nominating a tournament as the qualifying event. I will seek to convene a state scheduling summit each November so that we can coordinate a sensible state schedule. I will also attend the early season events to assist TDs with PDGA renewals and sign-ups at their tournaments, where ever that would be helpful.

Thank you for your vote.

[airspuds]

klemrock has posted a ? on the pdga site
under the peoria club heading

my vote is usually a write in for my bro
but

Jon has my vote this year


is wilbur running this year ?

seems to me there are 2 parts of IL (or used to be)

chicago land area  and downstate


i think you might want to leave bruce out of your statement

wink wink

[mirth]

The way the question is worded makes me think no

[CEValkyrie]

I too will be voting for Jon. I'm a little bummed that the USDGC spot was awarded to someone that would not go.  It would be nice to see our coordinator get involved as well.  

[Bruce Brakel]

The way the question is worded makes me think no

You can't infer anything from anything in a klemrock post

[Guest]

"Any info on who will run for Illinois State coordinator?"

What is there to interpret or to be inferred?

[CEValkyrie]

I'd take a guess the present IL State Coordinator will run again. So it's pretty safe to say there will only be 2 on the ballot. If you are a PDGA member you'll get the ballot with the information in the mail.

[mirth]

Jim - just the way you worded the question could lend one to think Wilbur isn't running for reelection.

[Dan Michler]

"Any info on who will run for Illinois State coordinator?"

What is there to interpret or to be inferred?

I'll interpret and infer that you don't want Jon Brakel to be elected     Boo Ya!!  Just call me Colombo!  Who do I want to be elected?  I guess I'd rather have somebody who plans to actively do the job of the state coordinator over some dude who apparently puts in little or no effort.  Vote for Jon!    

[airspuds]

wilbur has done a huge amount of work for illinois disc golf

again the 2 parts of IL comes into play
chicago land and southern IL

only in recent years has the northern part become active and/or competitive
obviously discontinuum has something to do with this
if you run it they will play

ask yourself why lombard doesn t hold sanctioned events

i think with all of the changes the pdga has put forth lately
it s  taken its toll on the TD's who have been running their events
the way they want to run them for years
my two cents on that topic

wilbur's area is peoria

obviously when he was running for the post
no one else was willing/able to run/able to run against him

yeah it makes no sense that no one from IL was selected
to attend USDGC

most likely in recent years no one was able to go

it takes time and money and a solid disc golf game (winning a T or T's)

perfect exampe is the worlds

brett - teacher had summer off enough dough to attend and a solid game

me  - recently unemployed no money no game ( i did get an invite the last few years due to a low pdga #) plenty of time unfortunately


so no blasting wilbur over 1 thing  please

[Dan Michler]

I didn't blast Wilbur.  He has done things for disc golf.  However, I do wonder what he has done under the role of STATE COORDINATOR.  Has he held meetings to set up a schedule?  Who did he send to USDGC?  Yes he runs the GPO and does other things for Peoria players, but that doesn't make him a good state coordinator.  Unless somebody can show me otherwise, I don't really know what he has done to deserve to be the state coordinator again.  Please tell me why I'm wrong airspuds.

[damonshort]

ask yourself why lombard doesn t hold sanctioned events

asking myself this question is fruitless, as I don't know the answer. Do you?    

[Bruce Brakel]

Wilbur and Jon are your choices on the ballot.  

[airspuds]

voted for jon

[CEValkyrie]

Got my ballot today. That's 2 Jon.  

[Jon Brakel]

Thanks. I was really hoping to not lose 2 to 34 or whatever. I'm thinking we'll have a good race. Did you notice that I'm the only person running for State Coordinator that put in a candidate statement? Since there are a few contested states I would have thought a few would have written up statements.

[Bruce Brakel]

Thanks. I was really hoping to not lose 2 to 34 or whatever. I'm thinking we'll have a good race. Did you notice that I'm the only person running for State Coordinator that put in a candidate statement? Since there are a few contested states I would have thought a few would have written up statements.

I think the PDGA did an especially weak job of communicating to the membership how to get a name on the ballot and how to get a statement on the ballot.  Maybe that is a good thing: it means that only well motivated candidates are running.  

If you were living in Michigan I'd cast eight votes for you Jon!  

Meanwhile, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP TO VOTE.  IF YOU WERE GOING TO RENEW LATER IN 2005, YOU CAN STILL VOTE NOW.  

[Wilbur]

Just got my PDGA package. Seems that they omitted my statement from mine. If you are also missing it, here you go:
Bio for Wilbur Wallis  PDGA# 6583

I discovered this great sport in 1986.  I have been very active in the Peoria Frisbee Club and have served as its President, Vice President, Secretary and Director.  

As a Certified Official I have been directing tournaments for over 12 years.  I have been the Assistant TD for the Peoria Open for many years and was the TD in 2004. I have been an Assistant TD for the United States Women's Disc Golf Championships since 2002 and did the websites.  I have also been an Official at 4 Pro Worlds and helped at 2 Am Worlds. I was the Course TD at Big Creek in Des Moines this year.

As a member of the Disc Golf Course Design Committee I have designed Bradley Park, Lauterbach Park, Illinois Central College, several temp courses and was a consultant for Northwood Park, and Douglas Park.  I have had many meetings with various Park Boards to get these courses installed.  

As the current Illinois State Coordinator, I have done many Disc Golf demonstrations for Boy Scouts and schools and maintain an informational website (www.illinoisdiscgolf.com) for Illinois Disc Golf.  My goals for the next 2 years is to have better communication among Illinois TD's, have tournament dates finalized in a more timely manor (both sanctioned and non-sanctioned), to develop an Illinois Tour and to host a special tournament to select the Illinois representative to the USDGC.

Thank you for your consideration.

[airspuds]

wilbur - sorry to hear your statement didnt make it
that sux  
kinda  chad like

i was wondering about no statement
but then sometimes i wonder to much

lol

good luck  

one thing i would like to see is more IL pdga members and votes from those members

people bi^*# and moan about every little thing sometimes but they wont take the time to vote/do what they have the right to do/vote

still think there are  two parts of IL  chicagoland and southern (south of joliet)

im sure whoever wins will do their best (as both of you have always done)
for the disc golfers of IL

mike walsh
10569

[shawn]

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