The Sanford/Overtimers 50 and over softball league will be holding a meeting on this Thursday night, March 21st at Shenanigans Pub. The meeting will start at 6:30 pm. All interested players including women and men over 50 years of age are encouraged to attend. If you cannot attend and still want to play please reach out to Jack Kolbeck 605-366-7947.
Thank you!
Jack Kolbeck
Please join us at BB’s Pub N Grill
3400 W 49th St #102, Sioux Falls, SD 57106
We’re hosting a fundraiser for our flag pole raising event at Harmodon. There will be a keg and other activities to raise money for this project. Please invite your teammates to join you and the league at this meeting! More details coming next week!!
Please send a representative for your team if you cannot make it!
Please check out each of the candidates below.
Good afternoon everyone! I wanted to introduce some of the work that is being done behind the scenes to expand the features of our player database. On the database screen you are still able to search for teams or players. Now you can now see the little + or – icon next to players name. When you click on + icon the profile expands into the player menu. With that you can see the team a player played for last year, division, and other details.
I hope many of you find this fun or useful. More importantly please sign your player waiver for the 2019 season here! If you have suggestions for what else we can add, please reach out to Jordan, sfmsps@gmail.com.
We want to thank everyone for the great turn out last night. First and foremost we had roughly 100 league members at the meeting last night and 61 managers participate in last night’s vote. Thank you very much for sharing our excitement for the 2019 season. The league has re-elected Jeff Oltmanns and elected Josh Dougherty to serve the board for the next two years. Please take time to congratulate each of them as they hope to serve the league with their best efforts and intentions. We want to especially thank Doug Wagner for his many great years of service to the board and league as treasurer. His service to the league will not be forgotten. Finally thank you to Brad Tyler who took time and effort to run for the board spot. It is really great to see more people interested in being in this position.
As promised last night team placements are tentatively posted. Please view here. As you can see Monday’s is overfull and Tuesday is full. We are offering teams discounts to move up to Wednesday night from a lower night. If you’re interested in hearing more about that, and/or have questions or concerns about team placements please reach out to us sfmsps@gmail.com.
Next month’s managers meeting will be Wednesday, March 27, 2019 at 7PM. The meeting will be moving to BB’s Pub N Grill (3400 W 49th St #102, Sioux Falls). Look forward to seeing you. Please remember to get your player waivers signed and rosters filled out!
Please join us at Shenanigans Sports Bar & Grill
1903 S Ellis Rd, Sioux Falls, SD 57106
Please send a representative for your team if you cannot make it!
Please check out each of the candidates below.
Please join us at Shenanigans Sports Bar & Grill
1903 S Ellis Rd, Sioux Falls, SD 57106
Please send a representative for your team if you cannot make it!
Please check out each of the candidates below.
Hello gentlemen, I just wanted to let you know that I will be running for the Men’s Slowpitch board again this year as I am up for reelection.
It has been a pleasure to serve on the board for 15 years as the President. That sounds like a long time and it is but make no mistake, I still have the desire and passion to serve and help our league grow and prosper!
I am a motivated individual, including starting and running my own successful small business, Elite Lawn Care. I also have 20 years of management experience working for Target Corporation. Owning my own business is very helpful when it comes to assisting in running the league. I set my own schedule and can meet on anything at any time. In fact I contact a lot of our teams and managers during a normal business day to discuss their concerns and I try to help them resolve those concerns. Also running my own business helps give the knowledge on our financial situation each year as the league is its own small business.
With our survey coming out earlier this year I feel we took huge steps as a league to listen to you and in my opinion we listened to the overall message and as a result made some great changes to the league format! The following are some of the other things that I would like to push forward in my next couple of years on the board:
Fees: Do not raise them going forward and actually drop them if at all possible?
Recruit new young teams: We have partnered with Augie, USF, USD and SDSU’s athletic departments to get the word out on our league. We have 2 young teams coming in this year already.
Wall of Fame: Having pictures and small bios in our office of past players and important people in our league.
SD Hall of Fame: We, as league and community need to elect past players, managers and board member’s . There have been way too many talented people in our league over the years and they need to be recognized!
Canopy campaign: You will see us doing some fundraising things over the next few years and also, with the changes we’ve made to our budget our goal will be to have canopies over the entire bleacher area in the next five years. You will know where any extra money is going, it will be to this cause. We will also ask for partnership from, coed and youth leagues to help with this.
Thank you for your time and consideration of having me as a board member again this year! It has been a Great ride so far and I would love for it to continue!
Sincerely, Jeff Oltmanns (Buddha)
I’m Doug Wagner. I’ve been treasure of the SF Men’s Slowpitch League for many years. One thing that everyone needs to know with the treasurer position is that this organization is a business. I feel I’ve done a very good job of keeping the league running in the black over these years. A lot of this position is kind of done “behind the scenes”. Regardless if it’s me or someone else, in this position, i Feel it should be someone with some accounting background. The position is one that requires year round work. There are always bills to be paid, money to be collected, etc. In addition to this, you must do proper and timely filing with all IRS forms and other non profit government forms at different times of the year.
I’ve see a lot with things over the years with being a board member, player and coach. The league and gone thru a lot of changes, some good and some that I haven’t agreed to be good. One of the biggest things with the league is that people need to understand that this is adult recreational softball. It’s a chance to get away from everyday life for a couple of hours, hang out with friends and maybe have a couple of beers.
I’ve enjoyed the time and many friendships that I’ve developed over the years of being involved in the league and look forward to continuing as treasurer and working on trying to improve and grow the league if the members of the league wish to have me do so.
Thank you, Doug Wagner.
My name is Brad Tyler and I have been playing softball in Sioux Falls my entire life. This will be my 16th season in men’s slow pitch and I wouldn’t trade it for anything.
Now, to the point – here’s what I would like to bring to the table if you allow me to represent you on the board:
Board transparency
In the past everyone just put in their money and trusted everything was taken care of efficiently by the board. With league fees going up, I think the players of the league deserve to see where their money is going.
I would like to see the board set goals in relation to league growth, and a timeline for getting Friday nights up and going again.
More player and manager input
Everyone has ideas. This last year seemed like the first time the board wanted to hear any of those ideas when they sent out that email survey. I want more of that, and I would always be open to hearing ideas.
I would like to essentially give everyone a seat at the table. If you have an idea it should be heard, and we can make our league better together.
League growth
This is my biggest worry for our league, and we have to do something to grow our league now. We have gone from over 130 teams down to around 90. We must find new and creative ways to market our league to get younger teams in.
Part of this comes back to finances, and the positive steps our board took last year will allow us to do things to invest in younger teams and get them loving the same sport we all do.
Along with these, I have a few other ideas that I will explain a little more at the meeting Thursday.
Have a great day, Brad Tyler
Military Veteran who’s 2nd religion is softball. I aim to bring more teams to the league and make it more fun with mid season events. Also trying to lower team fees by taking in big sponsors. Time to Make Softball Great Again. Please vote for JD.
Tentatively all meetings will be held at Shenanigans Bar and Grill:
All meetings are mandatory for managers, but open to public.
Thank you for your patience! Managers can now add a player or release a player. If you’re a player you can sign your player waiver. Feel free to look around. If you have any questions, suggestions or comments please email sfmsps@gmail.com.
Please allow up 24 hours for all transactions (including waivers) to update.
Contact Josh Dougherty (605) 216-3355 to register. Come together and represent our great league as we help serve a hot meal on a cold day to Sioux Falls families in need.
2019 tournaments are quickly approaching. If you have an area tournament that you would like posted on our website please let us know!