Publicity Committee Guidelines

The objective of the Publicity Committee of the Maroons Soccer Club is to publicize and celebrate the achievements of the teams competing in leagues and tournaments. Each of you has kindly volunteered to serve as Publicity Representative for the team on which your son or daughter plays. You will function as the link between the activities of your team and the Maroons Club as a whole, as well as the general public. Each week for the last five years my son has written and I have edited an article submitted to The Ridgewood News. The piece summarizes the games played by each Maroon team for which I have received a report from the Team Publicity Representative. After I send the article to the newspaper, we lose a bit of control of the process. Often, the article appears in its entirety. However, at times it is truncated due to lack of space available. A few times last year, the article did not appear at all. Space in The Ridgewood News is often based on the amount of advertising sold. When advertising sales are strong, there is less space available for sports articles. I alternate the order in which teams appear to ensure fairness between younger and older players, and boys and girls teams. The system that we have used for the last five years has been quite successful. We write the article on Monday evening and submit it to the newspaper on Tuesday at 8:00 a.m. The article then appears in the Friday Ridgewood News.

Your procedure is as follows:
1. Write or type a brief summary of the weekend game played by your team, whether they win or lose. You may photocopy the enclosed form and write the information on it, or compose your own brief report.

Include the following information.
a. Team name (i.e. U12 Girls White Team) and Opponent
b. Score of the game
c. Keeper (if desired)
d. Goal scorers and those registering assists
e. Players who made offensive/defensive contributions

It is essential that over the course of the season each player be mentioned at least once. I have included a sample publicity form and several sample summaries for your reference. Please note that length is essential. We are not allotted a great deal of space in the paper.

2. E-mail your summary form to me at parker.weil@baml.com before 4:00 p.m. on Monday. Include the summary in the e-mail message itself, not as an attached file.

3. Any reports received after Monday afternoon cannot be included in that week's report. We will try to incorporate them into the next week's article. The article will appear in Friday's Ridgewood News and will be posted on the Maroons website.

Thank you for your consideration and for your assistance.

Parker Weil Publicity Chair
e-mail: parker.weil@baml.com
Home # (201) 493-7161

PUBLICITY REPS NAMES NEEDED:
Coach or admin mgrs, please send team name (G/B U-# color), rep name and rep email address to parker.weil@baml.com .