Update #13: Lots of misc. business

Dear Team Iowa,

I have some additional information to pass on to you:

(1) For those who register and want to pay by check rather than credit card, you should make your check out for the total of registration, plus the cost of one night and one night’s tax for the hotel. If you have questions about this, you should contact the phone # shown on your confirmation that you receive via email when you register on-line. Bruce and I have no way of accessing your individual registration information.

(2) For those wanting to participate in the cycling events at the Games, you will need to furnish your own cycling equipment. There should be room on the Team Iowa bus to send bikes – especially if they come apart and go into a packing case of some sort. Per NKF National, there will NOT be a vendor available in Pittsburgh to rent cycling equipment, so you will need to furnish your own.

(3) For those needing some sort of adaptive equipment, scooters, wheelchairs, etc., these will be available to rent from SCOOTAROUND. The link below is a website specifically for Scootaround Rentals at the Games. http://www.scootaround.com/rentals/u/ustransplant/
It will be your own responsibility to contact Scootaround and make any necessary arrangements – this is not something that Bruce or I can do for you. I would suggest contacting them as soon as possible to make an initial inquiry about their equipment, dates you will need it, cost, whether or not they will deliver it to your hotel, etc.

(4) When you register as an athlete, the system will only let you register for one event taking place at a time. If you want to participate in two activities that overlap with time, you will have to choose one and participate in that one.

(5) For those wanting to be in team sports – bowling doubles, basketball, volleyball, swim team, golf team, etc. – you will need to indicate that on a survey that will be sent out later this week. We will use this information to match people up and form group teams. Please be thinking about whether or not you will want to participate in any of these “doubles”, or “team” events.

(6) Remember, all messages are going out to team members via email. If you think you may have missed something via email, you can always check the Team Iowa Blog. Thanks to Cheryl Rainford, this is being kept current. The blog website is: http://www.teamiowankf.blogspot.com/

I will try to keep numbering the messages to make it easier for you to find them. Again, please print them out and keep them in a notebook or folder in numerical order so that you can refer back to them as needed.

(7) If you have questions, feel free to contact me at the information below or Bruce Hoffmaster at phone #515-643-5288 or email bhoffmaster@mercydesmoines.org.
If you leave a message on the telephone, please be sure to provide your phone number for a return call. You MUST provide your area code as well. Thank you. We will get back to you with an answer as soon as we can.

(8) Room Block. Diane has updated list of people in the room block. If you think your name should be on it, please check that it is. Let me know if we are missing somebody or if something changes. If you notice somebody missing that you believe is planning to attend the Games, give them or call or email, and make sure they are receiving the communication messages.

Thanks, Diane