Author: Kyle Keesling

by Kyle Keesling

Changes to the Board

Now that everything is official we wanted to make the club aware of some changes made to this year’s Board of Directors.

Our esteemed Head Coaching Officer, Paul O’Donoghue, has unfortunately resigned his seat on the board due to the need for his family to relocate. A few weeks ago Paul’s wife was informed by her employer that they would be moving to South Korea. While this is an exciting opportunity for his family it has required them to act quickly.

Paul is currently in the midst of tackling all of the challenges and logistics of moving his family halfway around the globe, but from the very start to the very end of his tenure, Paul has been a tremendous asset to our club. When Paul joined our club he quickly became involved with our youth organization, and from there continued to contribute new and exciting ideas as our Head Coaching Officer. The Indy GAA has been lucky to have Paul and he will be sorely missed while he’s gone.

While Paul’s departure from the board leaves some big boots to fill, the person that is assuming his position is more than capable of keeping the ball (and sliotar) rolling. With that the board would like to welcome Andretta Erickson as the Indianapolis GAA’s newest Head Coaching Officer.

Many thanks to Dretta for stepping up in the club’s time of need, we are excited to keep moving!

by Kyle Keesling

Practices Start this Tuesday!

Good News Everyone! Practices starts on Tuesday!

We’ve received approval for our COVID-19 plan which means we can now start practices. So without further ado, here are the details:

COVID Protocols

Per required by Indy Parks and the Marion County Department of Public Health the Indy GAA was required to submit a COVID-19 Risk Mitigation Event Plan in order to conduct club activities. You can view a copy of the approved plan by clicking the button below, but let’s highlight the basics:

  • All participants will be required to have their temperatures taken and complete a brief symptom survey
    • This helps us ensure everyone is healthy enough to play and allows us to track who participates in the event that contact tracing needs to take place
  • Masks will be required when not actively practicing
  • Sharing of equipment will not be permitted
  • 6 feet of distance should be maintained between participants as much as possible
  • Practice will be split into smaller groups/pods to help ensure that proper space is given and all drills will be designed to minimize player contact

How to Help Us Start on Time

There are two simple things you can do to help make sure we can start practice on time and as smoothly as possible, they are:

  • Fill out the symptom survey prior to stepping on the fields
  • Show up 10-15 minutes early to make sure we have to opportunity to take everyone’s temperate prior to starting and verify that all surveys have been completed

If there are any questions or concerns regarding practice, or any of the protocols we’ve put in place, please don’t hesitate to reach out to board@indygaa.com.

📄 COVID-19 Questionnaire – Must be filled out day of practice →
📄 View Our Approved COVID-19 Risk Mitigation Event Plan (PDF) →
Mathes Refereeing
by Kyle Keesling

2020 Referee Training Course

We are planning to host our annual referee training course on Sunday, June 28th, at 12pm at Centerpoint Brewing, and should last until around 4.

Centerpoint Brewing Co.

This training is for you if: 

  • You need a refresher on how many steps you can take while holding the ball, or what’s an aggressive foul vs. a technical foul
  • You haven’t reffed before but you are interested
  • You just want to know the rules so you can better understand our games and you can question the refs calls

The course will start with a couple hours of the basics and then will be more advanced after lunch.  Lunch and possibly beer will be provided for attendees.   

Those who attend will not be required to ref this season, but it would be greatly appreciated if they did 😁.   

 We will also offer ref shadowing (from a safe distance) for those who are interested in reffing but may be hesitant to step out there by themselves.

by Kyle Keesling

Support our Sponsor Pick – Rad Brewing

This week’s SOS pick is Rad Brewing Co. We’ll be there at 1pm this Sunday, June 7th, taking entries for our gift card giveaway.

If you can’t make it over on Sunday, tough luck on the drawing, but you can still show Rad your support, SoS goes for the entire week!

  • Rad is now open for both beer and food sales, please visit them at 414 Dorman St. They have a beautiful, kid-friendly outdoor patio and deck so there’s plenty of room to social distance
  • You can call ahead for carryout at (317) 426-5851

Please help us show our sponsors how much we appreciate them!

by Kyle Keesling

Support our Sponsor Pick – Bier Brewery

Bier Brewery

This week’s SOS pick is Bier Brewery. It was great to see so many members, from a minimum of 6 feet of course, show their support for this great perineal sponsor of ours.

If you didn’t make it over on Saturday, tough luck on the drawing, but you can still show Bier your support, SoS goes for the entire week!

  • Bier on 65th is Curbside ONLY, You can call ahead at 317-253-2437
  • Bier North allows inside ordering for beer and food, for call-ahead dial 317-564-8565.

Please help us show our sponsors how much we appreciate them!

  • Burrows takes a mask break for a quick selfie
  • "Bier Good" says Liam