USTSF Regional and State Directors

The following is a listing of the USTSF State and Regional Directors, including contact information.

See also the United States Table Soccer Federation (USTSF) Forums for public discussions related to USA/USTSF - State Specific Posting.

Sample Regional/State Director Projects:

July 15, 2008:

Here is a project for all State and Regional Directors to get involved
with in their home states (Kathy Brainard has already volunteered as 
initial point of contact for the State of Washington).  Shelly
Langley, Mary Moore and a number of others have already successfully
been involved with this, and most State Games organizations are anxious
to provide more sports categories/events.  Most states strive for
amateur only competitions, but Shelly has run separate events for
amateur and pro.  This year, Nebraska is the only state participating
that we know about but as I understand it a total of 17 states have at
one time or another had foosball among their competitions.  

As a USOC endorsed organization, the National Congress of State Games
provides an exceptional means to provide visibility to our sport (not to
mention a precedent/pre-Olympic validation step for our sport and many
others at a similar level to ours), and many of the individual State
Games organizations will even arrange a venue appropriate to each
sport's competitions.  If promoters are looking to increase their player
bases at the grass roots level, this is just another great idea...

Note: Like Washington State's, many of the State Games
organizations will be taking on proposed sports for 2009 very soon if
not right away!! 

Here is Nebraska's list of sports for this year: 
https://www.cornhuskerstategames.com/ecomm/Sports/index.sp

And here is the foosball specific page, with contacts:  
https://www.cornhuskerstategames.com/ecomm/Sports/showSportDetail.sp?EVENT_GROUP_NO=298

AND here are the NCSG and State Games of America websites: 
http://www.stategames.org/link.sp?page=index2
http://www.thesportscorp.org/html/sportsCorp/SGA2009/index.html

July 2, 2008:

USTSF,

I wanted to forward some of the pictures from our first youth tournament held in Oxnard, California this past weekend. Our nephew is in the first picture (black shirt playing forward). This was a neighborhood gathering with the foosball tournament being one of many events for the day. We had 6 entrants and ran a (double-elimination) singles tournament. Brendan Flaherty from Warrior Custom Golf/Warrior Foosball donated really cool hats and skateboards which we awarded for prizes. Jim Stevens donated an instructional foosball video which we gave to one little guy who showed an exceptional interest in the game. I wanted to list a few things we did so that it may provide ideas for others trying to promote the sport to local youth. Please feel free to forward to the appropriate state directors.

First, we displayed the prizes during sign-ups which seemed to really be a nice, tangible way of showing them what they were playing for. We also began with a few basic rules before beginning the tournament. We talked about not spinning and clearing the points back to zero before beginning a match. There were no available coins, so we used the good ol' "Rock, Paper, Scissors" (which I found best for this age - 9 to 12 yrs) and reminded them to wish their opponents "Good Luck" before the match. They were also asked to congratulate their opponent afterwards.

I felt that by teaching good sportsmanship, it made for a more friendly rival between the players. Each game was a race to seven until the finals where it changed to a match of 2/3. We felt this held their interest better. There was one table which everyone seemed to congregate around even when they weren't playing. Soon, the players began to cheer each other on and we were very amazed at the intensity of the final matches. Henry (my husband) would also help out with some defense techniques in between matches. We let them see how we advanced the players on the paper chart and gave the winner (which happened to be our nephew) the chart to keep at the end.

Our experience was so fun and the kids continued to play foosball even after the tournament with Henry, his brother and I. We are also working on our local Boys & Girls Club (promoting/setting up donated tables) so I will post photos and more feedback once we have established more of a relationship with them.

Thanks!

~Terri

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