Fraser Valley Ringette Association

COVID-19 Coach Training

As a part of our gradual return to ringette, all coaches are required to attend training on the Return to Ringette Guidelines. Ringette BC will be offering virtual COVID-19 Coach Training Sessions on the following dates:

Wednesday, August 19th at 7:00PM
Wednesday, September 16th at 7:00PM

To register for a Training Session click here!

Dear Members,

Due to Covid-19 we are facing many unknowns pertaining to our 2020/2021 Ringette season, we are hopeful that with the recent guidelines we can proceed as close to normal as possible.  With the information coming to us with respect to the Return to Play Guidelines, we as a board are working diligently to set our association up with success.  We are preparing as usual and your registration will assist us with our pre-season planning.
We will be opening up our registration, please note, we will be keeping our tiering of early bird pricing BUT we’ve shortened the window to accommodate our start date, in addition, we’ve extended the full payment date to help out during these times.
Ringette BC has released the “Return to Ringette (Play)” guidelines.  The purpose of the document is to help provide our members with a guideline for us to get back on the ice in the safest way possible.
The guidelines in the document are subject to change based on the updates and information about COVID-19, the recommendations from government and health organizations.

The Fraser Valley Ringette Board will continue to work together and move forward in line with RBC guidelines for our RTP, we will see some changes in numbers of participants and how we ‘used’ to do things… but in the ever-changing times, we will have the mindset of safety to ensure that we can continue sport and community.
Click for the Ringette BC (RBC) Return to Play (RTP). Below are the timeline and pricing for our season.  What we are pleased to offer is an initial $50 for the first payment, which will confirm your ability to use the early bird pricing, while giving us a better sense of our numbers.
Our plan at this point is to provide practice, development with modified games as laid out by RBC.  This will also be dependent on the numbers of registration and our ice.
If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me and I will try and answer to the best of my ability or find the answers if I don’t have them.  I will be participating in an RBC meeting this coming week to help with the rollout.
Membership updates will be provided regularly.

July 15-31/20 – $425.00 held with $50 deposit (3 equal payments of $125.00 Aug 15, Sept 15 and Oct 15)
Aug 1-15/20 – $450.00 held with $50 deposit (3 equal payments of $133.33 Aug15, Sept 15 and Oct 15)
Aug16 & on – $500.00 (3 equal payments of $166.67 Aug 15, Sept 15 and Oct 15)

Sincerely

Nicole Burdes:
President, Fraser Valley Ringette Association

My name is Nicole Burdes andduring our virtual FV AGM I accepted the nomination for the Fraser Valley President.  I’m excited to take this opportunity to be able to continue to work with our board members, you and your families in this new role.As of our AGM, we had board members who had fulfilled their term and I’d like to thank them and their families for their volunteerism with Fraser Valley Ringette Association. The time and energy spent working for our association and sport is greatly appreciated!

The outgoing board members are:

President – Ben Bowcott

Ice Scheduler – Diana Place

Tournament Director – Nicole Borges (Burdes)

Director of Coaching – Nicole Tjepkema

Director of Athlete Development – Eric Lapp

Director of Promotions – Saralyn Schwartz

Ways and Means – Tina van de Weteringe Buys

Past President – Sharon Smit

Secretary – Delaina MacDonald

Please welcome the volunteers that are either moving to a new position or are new to the board and those completing their terms. We do have 1 position that remains open: Director of Ways and Means

The new/current board members are:

President: Nicole Burdes

Vice President:  Glen Sandve

Registrar – Jennelle Woykin

Secretary:  Nicole Tjepkema

Treasurer: Jailene Smit

Ice Scheduler:  Colleen Jeffrey

Director of Officials:  Kevin Braithwaite

Tournament Director:  Diana Place

Director of Coaching:  Jill Clapton

Director of Evaluations: Taylor Teauge

Director of Athlete Development:  Dawn Savage

Director of Promotions: Megan Labbe and Tara Guesford

Equipment Manager:  Michelle Sallee

Ways and Means:  VACANT

Past President: Ben Bowcott

I was just wanting to send out a preliminary notice of board member changes as well to keep you informed of any news regarding COVID-19 and our return to play for the 2020/2021 Ringette season.  We are still awaiting the Return to Play plan from Ringette BC, as are all of the leagues within our province.  In the interim, we are working behind the scenes with the arenas and board members to have as much of a battle plan as possible so that when we do get the guidelines from Ringette BC we can move forward.  We will not inundate you with emails, but rather will be posting any and all updates/news via our social platforms and association webpage.  Please, if you’ve not already done so, fill out the Association Survey to help with us gathering information.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at president@fvringette.com.

Sincerely, Nicole Burdes

Hi everyone. As you are all aware, registration for the upcoming ringette season is delayed until we have the green light from RingetteBC and the provincial health authorities. In order to do some preliminary planning however, please take a few moments to complete the following survey. Click here: Survey Link

Thanks everyone.

In the words of Bonnie Henry, be calm, be kind, be safe.

FVRA

Hi everyone. This is just a quick note to let you know that although we normally have our registration open by now, we are awaiting news from the BC public health officials before opening up for next season. You can check back here for updates, and once we have any information to share you can expect an email in your inbox if you subscribe to the Fraser Valley Ringette news bulletins. I hope you are all staying healthy and safe.

Ben

FVRA President