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Women's rugby is a growing sport in Hong Kong, with local players making up over 60% of player numbers. In 2003/2004 the domestic 15-a-side league will feature at least 5 teams and approximately 10 teams for our seven-a-side competition. Hong Kong is also home to the International Women's Sevens competition, held annually, preceeding the Cathay Pacific / Credit Suisse First Boston Hong Kong Sevens.
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Please find below the topics discussed at the first committee meeting of the 2003/04 Hong Kong Women's Rugby Committee meeting held on 25th July.

Colleen O'Sullivan is working with the Union on confirming the fixtures for the coming season. The first event on the calendar will be the Valley 15's to be held on 14th September. The women's 15s league will most likely start on 28th September.

As the new Player Liaison Officer, Doris Chow is the first point of contact for players who have a suggestion or problem regarding the women's domestic game. Doris will be keeping records of all comments and suggestions she gets so that all player's concerns can be addressed by the committee. If players have questions about national squads, they should call the National Rep, Kirsty Graham. Doris is not the person to call regarding national inquires as it is important her full time job (which often involves national club issues for the Union) and her volunteer commitments for the committee do not clash.

The date of the tour for the national 15s squad to the Gulf will be confirmed at the Director's meeting on August 4th. As soon as the dates are confirmed the committee let all players and club reps know. It will be either late October or early Nov. Manager's for all men's and women's teams will be decided at the Directors meeting on August 4th. Kirsty will begin to look for suitable 7s competitions for a 7s team to attend as a warm up to the HK event.

To date the committee have had only one player contact us formally regarding eligibility issues. The player has the committee's full support and Kirsty will write to the Union Directors on her behalf.

The beginner's course started on Wednesday 30th July and was well attended and well received. Current players are encouraged to send any novice players to the next training session on Wednesday August 6th at the IRC at 7pm.

Toni Barker has not yet received all the clubs contact lists so news updates are currently only being set to Club Reps. Club Reps are encouraged to send a full list of e-mail addresses to Toni so that she can save them the job of redistributing e-mails.

There has been an enquiry from Candy regarding a non-attendance fine for Club Rep meetings. The committee will confirm with Candy that a Club Rep or a substitute only has to turn up to 4 meetings in an entire season so there really shouldn't be a problem.
 
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One of the aims of the committee for 2003/2004 is to build clear and open channels of communication between the players and the committee so that the committee can liaise, with the HKRFU on your behalf. Below is a list of who you should contact, depending on the type of inquiry or suggestion you have:

In most cases your first contact person should be your club representative or the Player Representative - Doris Chow - doris.chow@hkrugby.com or tel 2504-8335.
Inquiries about committee meetings, liaising with the union, major decisions - Chairperson, Erin Emrick - fishqueen1@yahoo.com or tel 9639-5560
Pitches and scheduling - Vice Chairperson, Colleen O'Sullivan - cmosullivan@kcrc.com or tel 9671-4396
Issues concerning national teams - National Representative, Kirsty Graham - soigai@netvigator.com or tel 9523-3753
Feedback to e-mail announcements - Communications Officer - Toni Barker
- toni.barker@jpmorgan.com or tel 2800-1308.
2003/2004 Committee
One of the aims of the committee for 2003/4 is to build clear and open channels of communication between the players and the committee so that the committee can liaise, with the HKRFU on behalf of the players. Below is a list of who you should contact, depending on the type of inquiry or suggestion you have:
In most cases as a player, your first contact person should be your club representative or the Players' Representative - Doris Chow - doris.chow@hkrugby.com or tel 2504-8335.
Inquiries about committee meetings, liaising with the union, major decisions - Chairwoman, Erin Emrick - fishqueen1@yahoo.com or tel 9639-5560
Pitches and scheduling - Vice Chairwoman, Colleen O'Sullivan -cmosullivan@kcrc.com or tel 9671-4396
Issues concerning national teams - National Representative, Kirsty Graham -soigai@netvigator.com or tel 9523-3753
Feedback to e-mail announcements, website inquires - Communications Officer - Toni Barker - toni.barker@jpmorgan.com or tel 2800-1308.
Youth Development and Under 16s and U19s teams - Youth Development Officer - Laura Cowen - lcowan@hkis.edu.hk - or tel 9327-1416
 
Hong Kong runs a very successful Women's seven-a-side competition each year, featuring teams from all over the world. Held just before the Hong Kong leg of the IRB Sevens circuit, the 2005 event will take place on 18th & 19th March at HKFC, with the final being played at the Hong Kong Stadium. There will be 8 teams taking part, including teams from New Zealand, Australia, USA and of course Hong Kong.

The tournament is organised by a tournament co-ordinator and a committee of volunteers. If you have any enquiries about the event, or if you would like to help on the committee, please contact Erin Emrick via e-mail at fishqueen1@yahoo.com or tel. (852) 9639 5560.

Last Updated on 2 March 2005