2014 TEAM DINNERS
Coordinator: Graziella Menechella (Rumble)
(1 Host/2 Helper Families)
Please Note: Personally identifying information is removed. Please refer to the team dinner schedule emailed to you (from Graziella) for contact information.
Also, scroll to the bottom for suggestions and useful tips about putting on a team dinner!
| Date/Home Game | Host | Helpers |
|---|---|---|
| 8/15/14-Friday Pre Alumni Game | Coach Dermody | Captains’ Parents |
| 8/23/14-Saturday Post Waunakee Tournament | Rumbelow 717 South Shore Dr | Bajek Ermakoff |
| 8/27/14-Wednesday Pre Verona *Desserts only after Code of Conduct meeting | Mitman 2530 Van Hise Ave | Solache |
| 9/3/14-Wednesday Pre Waunakee | Pretto 5146 Juneau Road | Herrera Balas |
| 9/15/14-Monday Pre Memorial | Clark-Bernhardt 22 Chippewa Court | Poland Benson |
| 9/22/14-Monday Pre Middleton | Thompson 311 Campbell Street | Benjamin Solache |
| 9/29/14-Monday Pre Janesville Craig | Fisher 3515 Blackhawk Dr | Rumble Altaweel |
| 10/8/14-Wednesday Pre Edgewood *Away game/Reddan Park | Bernhardt 4102 Yuma Drive | Reddan Ohnesorge |
Suggestions and Tips for Team Dinners
Team dinners are such a wonderful tradition! The boys have fun spending time together at the dinner table, and the families are really happy to see the team eat huge amounts of food and socialize.
If you are unable to sign up to host or help with a team dinner during the season, there will a possibility for you to host or help in the postseason.
Families, if you have specific requests for vegetarian dishes or items to be avoided due to allergies, please contact me, and I will pass the information directly to the hosting families.
Below are some useful tips for families hosting team dinners for the first time:
• If you are the host family, ask your player to text or call you right after practice so you have an estimated time of arrival for the hungry group.
• Have the food ready. The group arrives hungry (did I already mention that?), and can’t wait to sit down, relax, and eat.
• Helpers, please contact the host family to coordinate details about food. Besides making food, you might want to help with set up, clean up, etc.
• Suggest the easiest route to wash up before eating and/or put out bottles of Purell.
• Plan on serving the team and the helper parents. Planning food for 30-35 might be a good idea especially if you don’t mind having leftovers.
• Menus are typically an entree, salad (green or fruit or both), bread or rolls, dessert, and beverages.
• Grilling works well if the weather is nice, but you should grill before their arrival. Crock-pot, Nesco and casseroles are good options (chili, bbq pulled pork sandwiches, sloppy joes anyone?). A taco, burrito or baked potato bar is a fun option. A pizza night is also a fun idea. I hosted a pasta night last year, and it worked very well. Among the many great menus, last year we also had a Thanksgiving dinner, and a breakfast for dinner (who doesn’t like pancakes for dinner?).
• The boys will generally arrive all together and leave almost immediately after eating. Often dinners are over in 30 minutes. If you want to take pictures, take them right away.
• I am enclosing a link to the Women’s Professional Soccer that was recommended last year. It includes nutritional information and some dinner recipes (starting on pag. 175).
http://files.leagueathletics.com/Text/Documents/4243/10401.pdf
Please contact me if you have any questions about the team dinners. Please let me know if I can help you with the hosting process, including menus, and recipes. Don’t forget to send me any food information or concerns that the hosting families should be aware of. Hosting families and helpers, don’t forget to check your contact information, especially the home address of the hosting family!
Have fun!
Go West!
Graziella Menechella (Rumble)
Team Dinner Coordinator
