USTSF Regional and State Directors

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

This is an email distribution list (StateDirectors@foosball.com) for contacting all the USTSF State and Regional Directors at once.

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

Here are links a high quality USTSF logo graphic (in 2 formats) that can be used to create a USTSF branded item (similar graphics for ITSF are available on the ITSF website): USTSFlogo.jpg (for use on websites, etc), USTSFlogo.eps (used to make banners, flags, posters, etc). Note: These graphics are NOT to be used without explicit permission from the USTSF.

Sample Regional/State Director Projects:

September 8, 2008:

Listed on the Sponsorships page are programs for which USTSF must seek sponsors/donors and volunteers in order to fully realize their contributions to the community and to the future of the sport. As Regional and State Directors, you are part of a further USTSF program that most importantly informs the foosball world -- the every day grass roots players -- about such meaningful projects, goals and events, and are invited to actively help in any ways you find appropriate. Among upcoming fundraisers: USTSF Raffle at 2008 Tornado Worlds (now taking prize donations, with proceeds going to support Juniors and Women's teams in international competition); Larry Davis' memorabilia eBay auctions (beginning again on September 11th, 2008 featuring everything from bumper stickers to rare autographed shirts, books and Tournament Soccer posters); and USTSF's ongoing PayPal Donations button (see: www.ustsf.org; PayPal donors may specify any/all of the above programs they want to apply funds toward).

September 6, 2008:

One of the first things the USTSF Board of Directors thought of that State and Regional Directors could help with was to provide for your players (and traveling players everywhere) an accurate up-to-date listing of places to play in your state (or at least places that have weekly tournaments). These should be posted as a "sticky" message in the USTSF state forum message board for your state listed at the top of this page. Once created, please also strive to check it every couple months to be sure it stays up-to-date and doesn't have old info like most other attempts to have such a list have been in the past. If players feel they can trust the data it will be a very positive service USTSF can provide. Consider this one of the responsibilities of the USTSF Regional/State Directors. Thanks for your help.

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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