One last time... *drumroll* Thank you IL13 sponsors!! Austin Deaf Disc Golf Association - donated 5 discs Anthony Strong convinced his Christ Deaf Lutheran Church to donate $50 Bearded Brothers for their magically delicious samples that every player got and the ladies were spoiled with extras. Beaver State Fling for sponsoring a tee sign Box4Discs for the creation of their trotterboxes for every player’s pack and the opportunity to have all my sponsors logo plastered onto these boxes Chain Reaction - Joel Kelly donated $100 worth of product sponsorship Colonial Springs - O.G.erow donated his entry fee to help make this event a banging succcess David Tomlinson - sponsored a hole tee DDGA - Donated $500 in seed money and then another $500 down the road. Donated shirts, discs and dvds oof 2007-2010 nationals to raffle Deaf Island - Sponsored a tee-sign DGA - For sponsoring a deaf disc golfer. For providing discs to every club that reached out and negotiated with them. Provided major major tournament sponsorship because they love Deaf Disc Golf!! Throw DGA, y’all. Disc-Lexia - creator of the iL13 full color stamp. One of a kind, ladies and gentlemen.. Definitely stands apart from all other other deaf disc golf stamps. Also donated several different Deaf+Art for Disc golfers Dynamic Discs - for rollin’ into town strapped to the hizzy and handling 100 crazy customers without a hitch. Their product sponsorship was off the hook and I’m sure every amateur left the event feeling the DD love. Be sure to check out Am-Worlds this year happening at DD’s HQ FarDogs Allstar Team - for their mad cooking skills. The beans were out of this world. What was your favorite? Beans? Pork? Potato? Fly High Disc Golf - sponsoring a tee-sign, oh my.. private deaf course - look forward to it hosting DNC someday!! Flying Hands DGCD - for their amazing hand drawn art. Eye poppin’ skills.. Cant wait til your committee kill it at IN16. Custom art drawing for everyone in the player pack? better get started now!! Gerardo DiPietro - for taking the time out of his busy schedule and surgeries to talk with me, to arrange most of WA12 leftovers to arrive to iL13. To ensure the former WA12 customers are satisfied, to mail some of the water-discs, and more. Thank you homie! Gorilla Boy - your bags are one of a kind - thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to stitch every inch of this bag for the first 50 players who showed up at the door to collect. You rock! Hilton - for sponsoring the event, providing me a discount on rooms, over $40 discount every night, for discounting the conference room every night, and providing me the necessary resources to ensure every player enjoyed their time there! Hyzer Flip - for the last minute product sponsorship, you were a hit at the raffle. Thanks to Cale Owens and/or Allen Brokaw for surprising me with your schwag! James Clark - for the teesign sponsorship and the continuous emails offering ideas, suggestions, and resources to help me grow! Congrats on your hard work, James! James Forgy Jr - For 3 years of being patient with my emails as I asked for ideas, creations, cancellations, new ideas, new challenges, videos, etc... for manning the registration booth so I could go play doubles, to opening up your house each and every night for the players to hang out, providing side recreational games, and keeping the gravy train rolling! Kent, Brean, Alanah, Madison - my family put up with a lot of stress in the past 3 years as I navigated sponsorship, time, and money to ensure this event could become a success. I owe them a neverending resounding thankyou. Seriously folks, I will never be able to repay my family for all the time they lost out on with me as I was trying to satisfy you players. Las Vegas Disc Golf Club - product sponsorship of $100 Michael Gay - for reaching out to me and offering his services to treat some of my staff with an unexpected amazing artwork.. MNDDGA - product sponsorship MonsterHouse - product sponsorship Mr Disc Golf - product sponsorship above and beyond what was expected. When I opened that special delivery box, all I could think of was some expletives and then I had to wipe the drool off my face as I handed these tasty nuggets to the unsuspecting players that won them in the raffle. Nichola Landry - for taking initiative to facilitate sponsorship between another agency and myself. for a tee sign sponsor. For cheering us on from afar. We are blessed to know Miss Nichola. Paragon - The ink, the cloth, the engraving for DT at the last minute, and so much more. Truly one of the backbones for this event. I would be lost if I did not have Paragon. How many of you are wearing your Paragon shirts? If not, SHAME ON YOU! tell your deaf disc golf club to order some Paragon shirts NOW! NOW! do it. do it. PDGA - for donating seed $ to get this event rolling. For being patient with me through email communications. For providing online access and database for me to update and reflect tee times, your scores, and all that jazz. Thank you PDGA! I hope you all are members or will become a member of PDGA! Scott Kendziorski and the Silent Chainbiters - your volunteer work, donation of special discs, rocs, and CE’ish quality - I am proud to be a local member of this fine organization. SDGC - Springfield Disc Golf Club - tee sign sponsor, 6 brave souls volunteering across the course trying to keep water coolers filled with ice and water, the spotters, the manpower covering my rear patoot. It is so hard to find good volunteers who will put forth time to make sure everyone else enjoys their time. Skulboy - the man behind the skull stamps. His artwork is legendary. I was able to borrow his time from Hollywood as he made magic happen as I required 13 secrets in each design. Soul Flight - for sponsoring the ladies. For your shirts to slap onto some gorgeous women throwers out there. The extras were met with some serious evening roshambo games to see who would take home your gear. Spartanburg DDGC - tee sign sponsorship TalkDG - the creation and maintenance of this website offerred some seed money to make iL13 grow. The publicity encouraged recognition. The support and love was amazing The Dow family - creating scorecards, providing me tech support, and got a CC movie on Saturday for all you players to enjoy mindless entertainment. The Driscolls - tee sign sponsorship, donation of extras so I could put them in the hands of rec players. Being there for me through good times and bad, especially since we both have attended 10 nationals together ;-) Tom Osborne - tee sign sponsorship. Some man, who I never met trusted me with his money and tee sign. Simply amazing how the grapevine works. WA12 - 12th national becomes 13th national, how? where else, WA12. Waterloo - over $250 of product sponsorship. I hope someday to tackle on this temp course in Austin and say Water looooooLOOOllllooooooo :-) WTF - women throwing frisbee - those key chains in every player pack. Providing me the opportunity to sponsor a deaf lady disc golfer at their event, allowing me to sponsor their Women Texas States championship. Tic for Tac - Texas and Women go hand in hand. Delta Sigm Phi - this organization provided me a network of resources that I tapped in order to grease the iL13 wheels. Without knowing you and your experiences throughout college, I would be half the man I am now. David Robson - access to the measuring wheel, providing 100 pencils for every man, woman, and child. The poison ivy expert, printing scorecards for me. the use of his garage for storage even when he was out of town. Ahmazing. Deadhead Glass - have you seen this artwork? So good, that I am ordering one for my 9mo old daughter! Let’s put our $ back into the deaf community and order some deadhead glass. GripEQ - donation of one GripEQ bag and the flag/banners that waved around HQ. The lucky winner was Scott Martin. Be sure to thank Jeffrey Roberts and the GRIPeq company for your raffle winner ;-) Michael Mafffucci - donation of 10 discs, 5 towels and putting up with my wild and crazy emails. May karma come back and repay you for this splendid donation that many deaf disc golfers could not wait to get their hands on. Daniel Sweet - donation of 5 Prodigy discs Springfield Visitor Bureau - product sponsorship, networking resources, and the opportunity to work with various Springfield vendors. Cameron Todd - your artwork is out of this world. I wish I won this raffle. Former World Champion creating this artwork for Deaf Disc Golfers shows just how loved this community of deaf + disc golf has become. Treat this painting well, John Hurlbut or I’ll be coming after you! tommyknocker.. tommyknocker.. Corey Hill - for sponsoring the ladies. Ladies make our world go round, whee Prodigy - Thanks to Jeffrey Roberts - Phil Arthur and company donated $500 worth of product sponsorship. Zing Minis - product sponsorship from Indiana. The scented minis.. y’all - Zing. Home to IN16. Let’s get crackin. Springfield Park District - Without their communication and hard work, the park would not look good without the help from the SPD crew.. They tirelessly mowed four times in 2 weeks, weedwhacked every morning, chopped down dead limbs and many many more efforts the week before and every morning before the DNC played J. Michael Houston, the mayor. I cant thank you enough for your support and donation to iL13. Truly a pleasure to know you and how you embrace the opportunity to work with deaf + disc golf Steven Hopkinson - for taking the time and energy out of his busy schedule to collect and mail all of the leftovers in Seattle, Washington to iL13. Jim Trotter - my right hand man. He made the world go round. What I could not do, he was there for me. When I made a boo boo, he was there to correct me. At times, he was able to knock some sense in my scrambled brain. Thank you Trotter for taking the time out of your schedule to be there for iL13 and so much more. Dana Vicich - for being the #1 rated illinois Disc golfer and sponsoring this tournament with light discs for the ladies and signature discs for the challengers. Good luck on the tour, Dana! Gary Holte - for creating wooded artwork iL13 collectibles and providing a percentage that will help the future DNC. Jeffrey Roberts - your gift of gab is legendary. your network is unreal. The way you get in other people’s face and collect - you are my hero. Keep up the good work Jeff. The world needs more people like you. Beaver State Fling - product sponsorship. EVEN when we had the same date - BSF and iL13 were able to support each other. Last but not least, Dustin “Dew” Warren. For all the good times, the bad times, and the new things we have been through in the past 11 years.. You were there for me when I needed you the most.
Posted on: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 18:01:30 +0000
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