DON’T MISS…
THE 3 RD ANNUAL
LEWIS & CLARK ELEMENTARY
REGISTRATION PACKET
Registration: October 13 – 24, 2014
Informational meeting: October 29 at 6:30-7 p.m.
Tournament: November 7 – 8, 2013
Proceeds go toward class field trips,
school enrichment opportunities,
and other PTA-sponsored programs that
directly benefit Lewis & Clark students.
Lewis & Clark Elementary Dodgeball Tournament Information
The Game: Parents…this is not the dodgeball you remember (those red rubber balls)! We use FOAM
dodgeballs that make the game safe and fun for everyone, and easy for anyone to participate. This is
a double-elimination tournament which means every team plays at least two games, and many teams
will play more than two games. Each game is 15 minutes long.
Rules: Dodgeball rules for this tournament are included in this packet and are posted on the Lewis &
Clark website at: http://www.mcpsmt.org/lewisclark. (Click on “Parents & Volunteers” on the menu
bar, and then “PTA”. Find the Dodgeball info on the PTA page.)
Brackets: Grades K/1st, 2nd/3rd, and 4th/5th, and Adults. (We will have a 6th – 8th bracket if we have
enough players for at least two teams.) The Adult bracket includes parents, teachers, friends, coworkers, L&C alumni (middle school, high school, etc.)…anyone who wants to join in the fun! Teams
play only within their age bracket, vying for the championship in their bracket.
Teams: Each team consists of 8 players, and all players must be within the same age bracket.
Student teams are co-ed and will have similar proportions of male and female players, if possible.
Adult teams must have at least three (3) players of the opposite sex.
How Do I Get On A Team?: K- 5 Students: Just sign up and we will place you on a team in your
age bracket, via random drawing. We will notify you of your team the week of October 28, 2013.
6th-8th Students: Form an 8-player team with your friends, or just sign up and we’ll place you on a 6th
– 8th team or Adult team, depending upon availability. Adults: Form an 8-player team with your
friends or co-workers.
Schedule:
Oct. 13 – 24
Oct. 29
Nov. 9-10
Registration
Informational Meeting, 6:30-7 p.m. – All players and Team
Coordinators are asked to attend. Held in the Lewis & Clark gym.
Tournament (Game schedule provided at Informational Meeting):
Game times TBD, between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
Entry Fee: $10 per player. We don’t want anyone to miss out who wants to play, so entry fee
waivers are available. See Registration Form. You may also choose to sponsor other players.
Winners: Winning teams in each bracket will receive ribbons and all players will receive team
pictures with the Dodgeball Tournament trophy. Second place teams will receive ribbons.
Registration: Each player must submit a Player Registration Form with payment (or a fee
waiver request). Forms are attached to this flyer. They are also available on the Lewis & Clark
Elementary website at http://www.mcpsmt.org/lewisclark. (Click on “Parents & Volunteers” on the
menu bar, and then “PTA”. Find the Dodgeball info on the PTA page.) Adults: Your Team
Coordinator must submit all of your forms and payments together as one packet. All forms and
payments must turned into the Lewis & Clark drop box by the front office by 4:00 p.m. on
Friday, October 24 .
Informational Meeting: All players and Team Coordinators are asked to attend the
informational meeting on Wednesday, October 29, 2014 from 6:30-7 p.m. in the Lewis & Clark
gym. We will provide the tournament game schedule, discuss rules, demonstrate the game, and
answer any questions.
Contact: For any questions, please contact Sonja Skovlin (552-5157; skovlin@hotmail.com) or AB
Adams (543-2385; anneblanche.adams@gmail.com).
LEWIS & CLARK DODGEBALL RULES
How to get someone “out”
The object of the game of dodgeball is to eliminate all of the players from the opposite team by sending them
to “jail”. Players are “out” and sent to jail when they are hit anywhere (except above the shoulders) by a ball.
As soon as you are hit, raise your hand. If you were hit below the shoulders, keep your hand raised while you
go to the side of the court to go to “jail”. (Your raised hand tells the other team not to throw balls at you.) If
you were hit above the shoulders, the person who threw the ball is “out”. If you catch a ball thrown at you,
the person who threw the ball is “out”. Once you are out, you cannot throw or catch a ball and get someone
else out, until you return from jail.
Blocking with balls
You can use balls to block throws. BUT if you fail to completely block the thrown ball and it hits you, you are
out.
Who is “right” if there is a dispute
If you catch someone’s ball, or are hit above the shoulders, let the thrower know. If there is a dispute about a
catch or a hit above the shoulders, the catcher or person hit is always “right”. If there is a dispute about a hit
below the shoulders, the thrower is always “right”.
Jail
Jail is on the opposite side of the gym behind the other team. There will be a line on the gym floor that
jailbirds must stay behind. (The line is adjusted for different age brackets.) When in jail, you cannot cross the
jail line to pick up or catch balls. The other team may enter the jail area to gather balls or block balls.
How to get out of jail
Players get out of jail and back in the game by catching a ball while in jail. Both feet of the jailbird must be
behind the jail line when the ball is caught. If one jailbird catches a ball, two jailbirds get to leave jail and are
back in the game—two-for-one special! If a player from one team makes a basket in the basketball hoop
behind the opposite team (above the jail), all of that players’ teammates in jail are set free.
“Safe zone” getting to and from jail
Players who are going to or coming back from jail may walk or jog outside the court boundaries to get to jail or
back to their team. While in this neutral “safe zone”, players cannot be hit. Players coming back from jail may
not pick up a ball to throw against the other team until they are back on their own court.
Getting balls to your teammates from jail
When you are in jail, you can roll (not throw) balls back to your teammates on the other side of the gym.
Dead balls
If a ball hits a wall, ceiling, basket ball hoop, or another player, or if it is blocked by another player’s ball, it is a
“dead ball”. If a dead ball hits you, you are not out, and if you catch a dead ball, the thrower is not out. (But
remember, if you are trying to block with a ball, and the thrown ball hits your blocking ball and then hits you,
you are out. You did not manage to completely block the thrown ball.)
Boundaries
The black lines on the edge of the court are the side boundaries (there is no end boundary). The area outside
the boundary is a neutral “safe zone” for players to walk to and from jail. You must stay within the court
boundaries to throw or catch balls. Balls caught or thrown outside the court boundaries do not count as “hits”
or “catches”. You may temporarily go out-of-bounds to retrieve a ball, and a hit does not count while you are
out-of-bounds.
How a “game” is won
Games are 15 minutes long. The team with the most wins in the 15 minute time period wins the “game”. If a
team wins five times in a row in their time period, the game will be over. If the time period expires and no
team has won or the teams are in the middle of a set, the team with the most players on their court (not in
jail) will win the game or the last set, respectively.
Tie breaker
If teams are tied at the end of the game period, we will have a three-minute tie breaker. Time will run for
exactly three minutes, and the team with the most players in the game (not in jail) after three minutes will win
the game.
ABOVE ALL…PRACTICE GOOD SPORTSMANSHIP
AND HAVE FUN!
Lewis & Clark Elementary Dodgeball Tournament 2014
Player Registration Form
Registration:
K-5 Students: Submit ONLY the Player Registration Form with payment.
6th-8th Students: If registering individually, submit ONLY the Player Registration Form with payment.
If registering a team, submit a TEAM Registration Form AND Player Registration Forms for each
player (all together as one packet), with full payment
Adults: Submit a TEAM Registration Form AND Player Registration Forms for each player (all
together as one packet), with full payment.
All forms and payments must be submitted by 4:00 p.m. on Friday, October 24
to the drop box by the Lewis & Clark front office.
Player name: _________________________________________________________
Player bracket (Circle one):
K/1st
2nd/3rd
4th/5th
6th – 8th
Adult
Parent/Guardian name (if applicable):
Player/parent phone number:
Player/parent email:
Payment information:
(Pay with cash or check. Make checks payable to “Lewis & Clark PTA”)
I am submitting $10 for my/my child’s registration.
I am submitting an additional $________ to sponsor other players.
I am requesting a fee waiver for my child’s registration.
Team Coordinator information:
I am willing to serve as a Team Coordinator for my child’s 8-player team.
(The Team Coordinator will distribute game schedule information to all team players and
will help team members gather before their game to be ready to play ON TIME. We will
provide game schedule and player contact info to Team Coordinators.)
Contact: For any questions, please contact Sonja Skovlin (552-5157; skovlin@hotmail.com) or AB
Adams (543-2385; anneblanche.adams@gmail.com).
Be sure to complete the release and waiver form on the back of this page.
RELEASE OF LIABILITY, WAIVER OF CLAIMS, ASSUMPTION OF RISKS
(By signing this document you waive certain legal rights, including the right to sue. Please read carefully!)
ASSUMPTION OF RISKS:
I, (print your name)_____________________________________________________, am aware that participation by me or my child,
(print child’s name) ____________________________________________________, (“Participant”) in the Lewis & Clark Elementary
Dodgeball Tournament involves certain inherent risks, dangers, and hazards including, but not limited to bruises,
abrasions, falls, twisted ankles, and other bodily injuries associated with this participation.
I understand that I am responsible for Participant’s own health, medical, dental and other applicable insurance. I
freely accept and fully assume all costs, risks, dangers, and hazards and the possibility of personal injury, death,
property damage, expense and other loss or inconvenience resulting therefrom or from acts or omissions of the
Missoula County Public School District or the Lewis & Clark PTA, and their employees, representatives, agents and
volunteers (“Releasees”), to the extent allowed by law.
RELEASE OF LIABILITY, WAIVER OF CLAIMS:
In consideration of the Missoula County Public School District and the Lewis & Clark PTA allowing Participant to
participate in the Lewis & Clark Elementary Dodgeball Tournament, I hereby agree as follows:
1. TO WAIVE ANY AND ALL CLAIMS that Participant has or may have in the future against the Missoula County
Public School District or the Lewis & Clark PTA, and their employees, representatives, agents and volunteers,
arising directly or indirectly from Participant’s participation, to the extent allowed by law.
2. TO RELEASE THE MISSOULA COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT AND THE LEWIS & CLARK PTA from any and
all liability for any loss, damage, injury or expense that Participant may suffer or that Participant’s next of kin
may suffer as a result of Participant’s participation, to the extent allowed by law.
3. That this agreement shall be effective and binding upon Participant’s heirs, next of kin, executors,
administrators and assigns, in the event of Participant’s death or incapacity.
4. That the terms of this Release and Waiver of Claims shall apply, and have priority over any previous agreement
or written agreement, representation, terms or conditions to the contrary.
5. This agreement shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of Montana.
6. Any litigation involving the parties to this Agreement shall be brought within the State of Montana.
I HAVE READ AND UNDERSTOOD THIS AGREEMENT PRIOR TO SIGNING IT, AND I AM AWARE THAT BY SIGNING
THIS AGREEMENT I AM WAIVING CERTAIN LEGAL RIGHTS WHICH PARTICIPANT OR PARTICIPANT’S HEIRS,
NEXT OF KIN, EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS, OR ASSIGNS MAY HAVE AGAINST THE MISSOULA COUNTY PUBLIC
SCHOOL DISTRICT AND THE LEWIS & CLARK PTA.
____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________
Participant Signature (or Parent Signature if Participant is a minor) Date
____________________________________________________________________________
Participant’s Emergency Contact
__________________________________________
Emergency Contact’s Phone Number
This agreement must be completed in full, signed, and dated before participation.
Lewis & Clark Elementary Dodgeball Tournament 2014
Adult TEAM Registration Form
Registration: Each Adult & 6th-8th team must submit one TEAM Registration Form WITH all
individual Player Registration Forms and all payments.
Name of team: _________________________________________________________
Team Coordinator name: ________________________________________________
Team Coordinator phone number:
Team Coordinator email address:
(The Team Coordinator will distribute game schedule to all team players. We provide schedule to Team Coordinators.)
Names of players:
1. _______________________________________________________________
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Additional players (may be used as substitutes)
9.
10.
11.
12.
***Make sure ALL individual Player Registration Forms & signed Liability Waiver Forms are submitted
with this Team Registration Form.
Payment information: (Please make checks payable to “Lewis & Clark PTA”.)
We are submitting the total amount of $_______ for our team registration.
All forms and payments must be submitted by 4:00 p.m. on Friday, October 24
to the drop box by the Lewis & Clark front office.