From tsalagi at gmail.com  Mon Jun  2 09:40:43 2008
From: tsalagi at gmail.com (Tim)
Date: Mon Jun  2 09:40:11 2008
Subject: [armlcoachblog] [Coaching an ARML Team] Denouement
Message-ID: <1212424843781.c15780a2-04de-4dce-bb87-6b5c5ba1f73a@google.com>

I got home from ARML around 4am Sunday, then slept for twelve hours. I
made a couple of posts on AoPS and Facebook letting the students know
how proud I was of their performance over the weekend and expressing my
excitement about next year, and I sent an email to the coaches thanking
them and reminding them to get their receipts to me so I can reimburse
them for gas, food, and such. I have a few odds and ends to take care
of, mostly in terms of sending out reimbursements and making sure
prizes from the sponsors get distributed to the students, and then it's
on to next year.. Looking back over the list of USAMO qualifiers from
this year and the results from ARML, I am convinced that with some
better recruiting SFBA should be able to have THREE teams in the top 15
each year, with our A team perennially among the top three nationally.
Depending on how successful we are next year at recruiting the top
students from the Bay Area, it might even make sense to field two A
teams - one from Silicon Valley and one from the East Bay, for instance
- that could BOTH be competitive for national awards. I'll try to get
some input from the students to see what they would think of this
scenario. I think the teams could benefit from a cross-Bay rivalry and
it may even help our recruiting efforts among students outside the top
15, but I also want to be wary of depriving our top 15 of the chance to
score as highly as they possibly could..

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Posted By Tim to Coaching an ARML Team at 6/02/2008 09:40:00 AM
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