Our newest pre-wrap gift basket contains 9 rolls of our most popular colors. Looking for a birthday present for a friend? This new gift basket is the perfect size. For just $22.99, you can have this adorable basket shipped free! Click here to order this pre-wrap gift basket.
To be entered to win this gift basket, we ask you to post a tournament tip here.
Give us one tip for traveling to an away tournament! If you’re active in sports like we are, out-of-state tournaments can be fun but also stressful.
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Our coach’s amazing wife booked a reservation at a great Italian restaurant in Baltimore when we went down to the NEQ volleyball tournament. She found a restaurant that had a private room and we all sat at a big horse-shoe shaped table. We all knew ahead of time what night our team dinner was and all brought pretty dresses so we’d look nice. No worries about finding a restaurant once we got to town. No standing in line on a Saturday night waiting for some boring chain restaurant to seat thirty of us together.
Our tip: Research the area before you get to your tournament and book a reservation ahead of time. Call the hotel and ask for recommendations if you don’t know the area.
First four responses receive 2 rolls of pre-wrap free! We’ll also choose one random tip to receive this gift basket. Contest ends July 15th.
Learn correct principles for “explosion training” which is very different from regular strength or quickness training. The Jump Manual is the only program to target every aspect of vertical jump explosion and quickness. Targeting each facet allows for the quickest possible results. The cumulative effect of effectively training each aspect produces results fast.
Increase your vertical! The Jump Manual is an “all in one” vertical jump training software that provides you everything you need in order to achieve your maximum vertical jump and quickness. The Jump Manual is compatible with all computer platforms, Windows, Mac, Linux.
It contains a complete workout chart showing you exactly how to get the maximum effectiveness from your workout. Get started quick, and get results every time you train.
Complete training video library with videos showing you exactly how to do every exercise and stretch.
Exact nutrition plan showing you exactly what you can eat to increase gains, and reduce injury. I will show you exactly what to eat to have your body in muscle building mode.
One-on-one training is the only way to ensure that all your individual personal questions are answered so you can have 100% confidence in your training program. One-on-one training is provided via email.
Weight room alternatives are provided for those who may not have access to a weight room. So the program can be done without a weight room – great to work on over summer vacation!
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It’s the End of the Season – Give the Gift that Helps Kick Kids’ Cancer
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It’s time to pick an end-of-season gift for your coach. This year, make the gift special. Make a donation to Coaches Curing Kids’ Cancer. They’ll send you a great gift – a t-shirt, hat, or whistle – to present your coach along with a personalized certificate. Your donation will go to cutting edge pediatric cancer research.
I can’t think of a better gift for the coach that has everything! According to Lee Corso, honoray chairman of Curing Kids’ Cancer, “Coaches Curing Kids’ Cancer is a great way to honor your coach and to raise money for childhood cancer research. I fell in love with this program the moment I heard about it.
You can make a real difference in helping fund new treatments for childhood cancer. I’m urging youth sports teams all over the nation to join us in our quest to cure childhood cancer. Your coach will love you for your generosity!
Childhood cancer research is in desperate need of funding. Just think what an impact we could make if every youth sports team in America participated.
As a coach – and a grandfather – I can’t think of a better way to help kids and honor coaches.
College football is a huge part of my life. I’m fortunate enough to be able to make a living talking about a game I love. But the battle on the gridiron pales in comparison to the battle going on in children’s hospitals around the nation. We must come together to defeat childhood cancer.
Join with me. Together we will create the winning team!
Mark my words: Coaches Curing Kids’ Cancer is going to be huge!”
Click here for more coach gift ideas.
We now have sky blue pre-wrap available in retail packaging. When you first look at it, you may think it’s the same as the traditional blue pre-wrap, but it’s a lighter shade. We think it’s pretty, and if you’re pre-wrap crazed like we are, you want to have all of the colors available. You can buy light blue pre-wrap here.
Right now, we can only get this color in this packaging. The rolls are a little smaller than our regular rolls, but sometimes you just gotta have it!
Kaitlyn and her mom, Kathy, had the greatest idea for a party give-away. Instead of handing out traditional goody bags, they made a platter full of pre-wrap cupcakes! ” I used these cupcakes for both of my daughters’ teams and everyone loved them,” Kathy said.
“Instead of giving out a sweet treat to celebrate my daughter’s recent birthday, we came up with the idea to make pre-wrap cupcakes. We stuffed white batting into the center hole and fluffed it up around the top of the roll of pre-wrap to look like white frosting. Then we used spray glue on the top to attach cake sprinkles to the batting. Lastly, we twisted a candle into the center. When they were finished they looked like real cupcakes, and the girls on my daughter’s soccer teams loved getting their own roll of pre-wrap.”
And a great Secret Santa gift.
And a great gift when you want a little something to give out to your friends at holiday time!
Our high school RHAM volleyball team will be holding our first “Dig for the Cure” event on October 21 to help raise money and awareness for breast cancer.
Is your team holding a special event in October for the same reason? Send us pictures of your team in pink, announce your event here, and share ideas for raising funds! We want your input!
When we first starting selling pre-wrap, there were hardly any places on the web to buy great colored pre-wrap. Now there are sites popping up all over the place. We’re glad pre-wrap is so popular. What saddens us are the sites that take our pictures, our words, and our ideas and use them for their own profit. We are teen entrepreneurs and have worked hard to create a site that is all about pre-wrap. Taking our photos to use on your site is NOT okay. The internet is a big place – play fair.
Wrapped up in their work, Tessa Smolinski, 16, left, and her sister Laura, 14, team up in pre-wrap.com, an Internet business Tessa started when she was 12. The company sells colorful athletic wrap that many girls use to tie back their hair. Tessa has customers as far away as New Zealand. (RICK HARTFORD / HARTFORD COURANT)
The 12-year-old girl walked up to the bank manager and said she needed a business checking account because she was starting her own business.
The bank manager stared in stunned silence at Tessa Smolinski.
“But then she explained the business and told him what she was doing,” Tessa’s mother, Teresa, said. “She wasn’t even old enough to sign her own checks.”
But she had a business plan. And four years later, Tessa’s business is doing well.
The junior at RHAM-Hebron is a standout volleyball player who has been running her own business throughout her teenage years. Smolinski — with the help of her sister Laura, 14, and her parents — operates pre-wrap.com, which sells athletic wrap that is used by female athletes as a hair wrap.
When Tessa, 16, began her business, she says she was hoping to make about $20 a week. Instead, she has saved enough to offset some of her college tuition — her mother says she has enough for about a year at, say, UConn — and the business is growing.
The business has shipped to customers all over the world. The biggest order was for 10,000 rolls in one shipment to a retail chain.
“It’s a lot about the way we market it,” Tessa said.
The wrap is a soft, thin material designed for athletic trainers as a buffer between skin and sticky athletic tape. Somewhere along the line, preteen and teenage female athletes began using it as a hair wrap.
Tessa came home from soccer practice wearing a headband four years ago, and she asked her mother to find rolls.
Teresa searched stores and malls and finally found rolls on eBay, purchasing more than her daughter needed.
The Smolinskis are entrepreneurs — father Dick runs his own photography studio in Glastonbury and Teresa is a freelancer who provides technical art for text books — so they suggested Tessa sell some of the extra rolls at her next soccer practice. Tessa sold them all and came home with $75 of orders.
The business was born.
“I was definitely surprised,” Tessa said. “It just took off.”
Laura was immediately involved in monitoring color demands. Teresa and Dick explained to Tessa the basics of running a business — where to buy inventory, how much to charge for the product, how much to put back into the business and how much could be saved.
“I just thought, if I had this much trouble finding it and the girls at soccer practice wanted it this bad, there was something there,” Teresa said. “And we thought it was something she could make a little spending money on. I was thinking to the tune of allowance money, and she could learn how to run a business.”
They immediately learned that the business would be bigger than they anticipated. Within 30 minutes of their website going live, there was an order for 48 rolls of red pre-wrap. That wiped out the inventory of red, so there was a lesson.
Soon they were scouring vendors for various colors — they now stock 12 colors. Profits rose and were reinvested into the business as the website went global.
There are orders for overnight deliveries to teams across the country. Last week, orders were shipped to New Zealand, Ireland, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom.
Meanwhile, Tessa’s volleyball season has started. She was All-Northwest Conference as RHAM won the CIAC Class M championship last year and hopes to play in college.
“With homework and sports, I do need help,” Tessa said. “So right now, I’ve hired my grandparents, my parents … our staff.”
The business earned Tessa a Future Leader Award from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. She plans to continue the business in college — she’s undecided on a college choice — while Laura runs the operation from home.
And Laura, who was in fourth grade when the business was born, has virtually grown up around rolls of pre-wrap. She recently ran a fundraiser through the pre-wrap website as a social studies community service project and sent care packages to soldiers in Iraq.
So beyond the profits from the business, the sisters have learned lessons through their entrepreneurial endeavor.
“I joke that I’m home schooling them in business,” Teresa said. “It was really important to me and to my husband that we teach the girls that you can do what you love to do.”
Tessa would seem a strong candidate for business school, but she’s considering a career as a speech therapist. But her business background will undoubtedly influence how she pursues that career.
“It would be nice having my own business in speech therapy,” Tessa said.
Enjoy the “company” of others in the fastpitch community in this fabulous event as they get together for ONE week and discuss the FUN aspects of the game. Take a break from the serious, competitive side of the softball as you learn about what others are doing to make their fastpitch life easier. Enter to win cool fastpitch softball prizes simply by contributing your own thoughts, ideas, tips, and opinions in this years categories.
Visit the Fastpitch Festival during the week of August 25-31, 2008 for YOUR chance to WIN one of the great prize packs! There is NO COST to enter. Participation is simple. Just click on one of the categories right and leave a response. That’s it! Every* response you leave will gain you an entry into a prize drawing. CLICK HERE to check it out.
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