Thursday, August 14, 2008

Week 3 in MidWest

We arrived in Topeka, Kansas on the 16th. The following day we attended the Prodigy Soccer Camp, which was a camp that a local club was putting on. We arrived around 10 a.m. and noticed that it was one of our smaller camps of about 20 to 30 kids. Basically we separated the camp into three different age groups and played individual games with them and gave out prizes. Then we let each camper shoot on a Eurosport sign which we had a hole cut out in it. If they could make it through the hole in one shoot they would win a $200 gift card. Unfortunately no one made it but everyone received catalogs and posters. The following day we did the same thing but with a different group of kids. Also the club director told a local TV news station that we where there so they sent out a reporter to interview us. I answered a few questions about our company and our relationship with Prodigy Soccer Club and that was that. After camp on the 18th we had to travel 5 hours north to Lincoln, Nebraska for the next week. On the 19th we went to the Torro Soccer Club tournament, which was an all girl club based out of Omaha that was hosting their tournament in Lincoln. The tournament was a big disappointment because it was only about 3 or 4 age groups and there weren't many games going on at once. This made it hard for us to get much traffic to the tent. Since we only received about 30 raffles we talked with our region rep and decided to not return the next day of the tournament. So from the 20th to the 24th we had off with no events scheduled in Nebraska. On the 24th we attended the Rush Festival for the Rush Soccer Club. Rush is a soccer club that has different satellites of clubs in states throughout the whole country including Hawaii. It's Eurosports largest team account with over 6,000 players. Basically the Rush Festival brought all of the clubs u-12 boys and girls teams to Lincoln for a camp/tournament experience. We set up our tent and gave players the chance o win some prizes as well as shoot on our sign to win a $200 gift card. it was a whole day event for us which was nice since we were in Nebraska for a whole week with only 2 events. The following day we would make a 12 hour drive to Detroit.

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