Osseo Maple Grove Hockey Association

At the October 11^th meeting, the OMGHA Board finalized the new logo which will be used beginning this season by all OMGHA teams for their apparel and will be phased in as we replace worn out OMGHA jerseys.

The Board selected the “arc” logo which tied for first in a recent survey of OMGHA membership.

At the October meeting the Board also selected both Dave’s Sporting Goods and All-Star Sports as vendors for the upcoming season.  They will be responsible for providing all team apparel for the upcoming season.  The Board has negotiated preferential pricing and other “membership” benefits from these relationships.  Team managers will be provided information in the coming days for ordering team apparel and fittings will be scheduled for each team.  The Board is very excited about these developments and feels they will be a tremendous benefit to the association.

Teams will not be allowed to use other vendors for team apparel and the new logo will only be provided to our preferred vendors.  The Board also maintained the policy adopted last year for teams who violate this new process, they will include a two week suspension of all coaches and the loss of all waived volunteer hours for the team manager and coaching staffs.

Date:    October 20, 2009

To:       OMGHA Team Managers & Coaches

From:   Amy Bonsen

            Chair, OMGHA Branding Committee

Re:       OMGHA logo and apparel

This month the OMGHA Board finalized what has been a long process for identifying a new OMGHA logo for use by all OMGHA players and teams.  As part of that process, the OMGHA Board also finalized agreements with Dave’s Sports Shop and All Star Sports which allow them to be our exclusive suppliers of team apparel.  In an effort to better manage the team apparel process we have identified what items will be available to OMGHA teams and have negotiated prices for those items. 

In an effort to also streamline the process we’ve made arrangements with our suppliers to conduct team fittings for each team.  The first fittings for all Bantam, Peewee, U14 and U12 teams will be this Sunday, October 25^th, from 12:00 to 5:00PM at the Maple Grove Community Center.  These fittings will be conducted in the arena conference room (147) and the dryland training room. If you are unable to participate on Sunday it is your responsibility to schedule your fittings and place your order directly with Dave’s or All Star Sports.  Orders must be placed as a team and must be turned into the vendor by Wednesday, October 28^th.  Any orders received after this date will be delayed for the next bulk order with Squirt and U10 teams.  Please call me at 612-817-6237 at your earliest convenience to schedule your fitting time for Sunday or inform me you are scheduling a fitting directly with the vendor.

Each team is allowed to choose the vendor they wish to use.  Both vendors have been provided with files containing our new OMGHA logo.  The following chart shows the differences for each vendor in price, shipping times and team benefits for choosing them.  Please note there are differences between vendors.  This list also includes  a description of the items we have chosen for teams. The prices include a certain level of embroidery; teams are allowed to add things like player numbers, team level or other unique items to the apparel they choose.

Thank you for your patience with this procedure. We are working to make this a simplified, unified process.