SAM ATTENDANCE

Men’s Tennis
Leif Sunderland
Nick Meros

Women’s Tennis
Lindsay Pereira
Amanda Rales

Men’s Swimming and Diving
Geoff Parrish
Ryan Hurley

Women’s Swimming and Diving
Amber Bialas
Colleen Law
Leslie Swinley

Women’s Lacrosse
Whitaker Hagerman
Kendall McBrearty

Men’s Lacrosse
Joe Dewey

Cheerleading
Lindsay Zastrow
Lauren Dickman
Halley Bogart

Rowing
Alex Clair
Renee Albers

Baseball
Will Campbell
Andrew Carraway

Volleyball
Marlow Bruneau
Melissa Caldwell

Women’s Golf
Carly Truitt
Whitney Neuhauser

Men’s Golf
Brendan Flatley

Softball
Whitney Holston
Meghan O’Leary
Casey Steffan

Men’s Cross Country
James Erickson
Michael Hayes
Jordan Orr

Wrestling
Pete Ferrara
Matthew Federici

SAM Minutes

1. Introduce Ashley- 3 minutes about her role with the SAM’s.- health educator from center for alcohol education. APPLE conferences on wellness and prevention.
2. What the SAM’s are all about- goals first than expectations after- Kyle Rudzinski
a. They are a resource to your teammates. Be someone your teammates feel comfortable approaching.
b. Substance Abuse- be responsible and help your team be the same way.
3. Ashley will talk about dispelling myths about drinking.
a. Is it safe to always give a drunken person water?
i. NO. Because it accelerates absorption, making their BAC rise, causing you to vomit. Also don’t give person food or induce vomiting. Coffee will not help you sober up.
4. General overview of what the Project SAM’s do:
a. Tell people they are to commit to one project during the year, and then we will all work on Shoot Out together.
5. Expectations for each team.
a. Community service event
b. Presentations
i. Putting together a list of great presentations; New Sustained Dialogue option; etc.
c. Game Night! See who wants to help out

ICE BREAKER- two truths and a lie

GOALS- Kyle
a. Promote health and safety for student athletes
b. Promote inter-team relations between all student athletes
c. 100% completion of community service projects
d. Represent student athletes respectfully in the larger Uva/Cville community
e. Watch our for the first year student athletes.

Events/Projects:
- Game night (Meghan and Alyssa)
- Kyle- Shootout for Cancer and substance abuse awareness week- university awareness to help deter the 4th year 5th.
Ideas- This year we’re going into the community and hang out on the corner for 2 or 3 nights leading up to the Saturday of 4th year 5th with water that have labels advising against it.
- Shootout for Cancer: in the spring, we need ideas NOW of charity we want to sponsor. Mjc5t@virginia.edu for your ideas. Held in Mad Bowl.
- Mid-Autumns Carnival on September 15.
- Care packages: right before exams. SAM’s send a letter home to your parents. If they decide to send you a care package it will arrive right before exams. This raises a little money for the committee to use throughout the year.
- HOOSPORTS: want to get all SA’s out to watch each teams event.

Other:
• More social events associated with the SAAC’s.
• Joe: Want to bring Brad Corgan to UVa this spring and have a daylong event. March 23rd. This will be to bridge the gap between the town and the University. Jdd6c@virginia.edu
• Phil: Community service opportunities. Every team has to do one during the year, as well as a presentation (ie: substance abuse, etc).
o ACE- Football team started it. Go in pairs assigned to a classroom at Buford Middle School and work with the students twice a month.
o Hospital Visitation program: Kelly Quinn and Julia Falk, Pete coordinating for FORCE. Wednesdays for the first four weeks. The rest of the semester on Fridays.