Scott,

I am very excited about organzing regional university triathlon clubs.
What a great idea!! Currently, I am a fourth year graduate student
at Yale University. We currently do not have a university Triclub. I
am a member of a local triathlon club (www.shorelinesharks.com) called
the Shoreline Sharks. Any way, I was wondering what is involved in
starting up a triathlon club at my University and if you could give me
any pointers?

Thanks,
Josh Hunsberger

PS I won't be able to race in Hammerfest this season. I just
completed Ironman Lake Placid (my first ironman) and I'm working on
balencing out my life now and easing back on trianing and triathlons.
Till next season.....

--- In NECTC@yahoogroups.com, "tricoachnyc" <tricoach@g...> wrote:
> Hello to all memebers of this group. My name is Scott Willett and I
> coach the NYU TRICLUB at New York University in Manhattan. It is
> great that we are finally seeing some interest in organizing
> regional university triathlon clubs. The NYU TRICLUB has been in
> exixtence since I came to NYu as a transfer student in 1984, so we
> have been around the block a few times.
>
> Our club comprises students, staff, faculty and alumni. We generaly
> participate in 4-6 local races each summer, and have been to
> Hammerfest before. It was a good event and would recommend it for
> all interested. Our challenge with partcipation this year is
> twofold. We have a group training for a half in Long Island, and
our
> returning students are generally not allowed to start practising
> until after physicals/roster approval and this usually means mid-
> September at earliest.
>
> I will try to get Hammerfest on our schedule.
>
> Can we set up a database to get a sense of the nature of each
> University Club - number of student (+ other) participants, races
on
> schedule, training facilities, training schedule (what you do each
> week/month) etc?
>
> I hope you are all having a great summer.
>
> Scott Willett
> tricoach@g...