July 19, 2020

Previous Week’s Discussion

• None

Working Group Updates

• None

Project Updates

COMPLETED - Confirm stance on varsity pursuit

• Long-term vision includes separate varsity and club teams, all under the Michigan Rugby umbrella
• Main focus, especially in the short-term, is on the individual elements of a successful program (e.g., admissions, facility, coaching, etc.)
• Can reassess years into vision

Gather additional input or solicit additional working group help

• Trenary and Palladino continuing conversations with 2000s and 2010s players
• Conversations happening on ad-hoc basis
• All members are encouraged to continue reaching out

Share initial vision thoughts with Rec Sports development team

• Trenary emailed Rec Sports development to arrange meeting
  • They were very appreciative of the presention and the evident effort
  • Meeting will likely occur in early August
  • Kyle asked for insight into how other teams had grown endowments and whether their efforts included university development help
    • Trenary has started researching deeper to help answer
      • Initial responses indicate teams have worked with their university development units

Prioritize field/fieldhouse

• Moved to current projects and beginning discussion