Zoom Meeting: 7:00pm CST
Board Meeting Members: Joe McLaren, Maria Carrasco, Josh Byrd
Board Members Absent: N/A
Others in Attendance: Casey O’Connell, Isa Ruiz
US Performance Center
- Visit went great! Explained the visit to the rest of the meeting members.
- Receiving information from USPC on eligibility for the rest of the team.
USA Skate Meeting
- Debrief from last week’s meeting
- Branding coming after Olympics
- Scouts of America event in Boulder, CO. Joe to attend.
Website
- Josh to update donations spreadsheet and update athletes
- Joe plans on sending donation money to athletes when they need it – receipt reimbursement. September 2nd is deadline (if needed sooner, okay)
- ACH Transfer – 2-3 business days, no fees; Joe sends a link for the recipient to fill in their bank info
- Paypal – Instant transfer with service fee
Merch
- Joe to update on sales in next meeting
Team Sponsorship Outreach
- Clayer – Maria is in talks with Tibs
- Isa and Joe working on KT Tape blog article and promotion video
- Team to help share and interact with social post
- What 5 companies can we reach out to with an intro email?
- Maria to reach out to Di about jersey options
- Explore other partnerships: Subaru, Oakley, Lyft, Vans, etc.
World Skate Games
- Talk to Daniel at USAS about registrations
- Team jerseys
- Josh has 5 design options
- Jersey production options (design ability/pricing/production time)
- Printful seems like the best option
- Reaching out to sponsors to produce
- Judi needs final design decided EOW for production
Team communications
- Josh to continue gathering headshots/bios/accomplishments from team athletes
- Team Zoom meeting (7/18): Debrief USPC & Team Jersey voting
- Google form for jersey vote – due 7/19
- Josh to create presentation deck for team meeting
Next Board Meeting: 7/31 @ 5pm PST/7pm CST
Meeting Concluded: 9:47pm CST