WHAT: The 2008 Fastbreak Club Pre-Season Party.

WHERE: Flinchum’s Phoenix (Located at the end of South Milledge Avenue. Milledge will fork when it comes to Whitehead Road. Take the right fork, cross Whitehead Road, and enter Whitehall Forest. Look for the sign just to the left of the entrance. Stay on the main road for 1.5 miles until it dead-ends at Flinchum’s Phoenix.)

WHEN: Tuesday, October 7th, at 6:00 PM.

So that an accurate head count can be given to the party caterers, the Club asks that invitation RSVPs be postmarked by Tuesday, September 30th.

PLEASE NOTE: Invitations have been mailed to all current members of the Fastbreak Club. If you’re interested in joining the Club and getting up-close-and-personal with Lady Bulldog basketball, the link below will get you started…

Click here for a downloadable, printable .PDF file of this year’s Fastbreak Club membership application.

With Fastbreak Club activities (and, eventually, Lady Bulldog basketball) just around the bend, your official Fastbreak Club weblog will be getting cranked back up with regular updates…starting with the formal announcement of the date and details for the Pre-Season Party. In the weeks leading up to the season, we’ll bring you up to speed on Lady Bulldog off-season activities, player signings, updates on our WNBA alumni, and much, much more.

So check back here early and often. The fun’s just getting started.

The Fastbreak Club is looking for a few good scrappers!

If you’ve never prepared a Fastbreak Club season scrapbook for a Lady Bulldog player before, you’ve been missing out on a lot of fun! You get to show off your creativity and a players gets a unique souvenir that serves not only as a document of a season…but as a permanent testimony of your Lady Bulldog fandom. Give it a try – you’ll like it!

Each scrapper will receive:

1. Three scrapbooks.

2. Extra insert pages.

3. And as far as the budgeted money will allow: decorative pages, adhesives, embellishments, etc.

4. Guidance/training meeting. We do not want to hinder anyone’s creativity, but we do want some consistency with regard to content. This meeting will be a time to discuss ideas, different techniques, and help each other create scrapbooks that will be memorable for each player.

NEW: We hope to have a meeting with all scrappers and players which will give everyone a time to meet and get to know each other. We also want to exchange names, phone numbers, e-mails so that photos, information, etc. can be shared among the scrappers.

If you created a scrapbook for a player last year, you may keep the same player or choose another.

Please contact Brenda Rawson at nana3rawson@charter.net or (706) 543-7390 if you are interested in being a scrapper.

ATLANTA DREAM TO OFFER SPECIAL OPENING NIGHT "BULLDOG DISCOUNT"

The Atlanta Dream is offering a special discount to University of Georgia students, alumni, personnel and fans for the team’s home opener against the Detroit Shock on Friday, May 23 at 7:30 p.m. at Philips Arena.  The game will be a homecoming for three members of the Shock.  Forward Kara Braxton, forward Tasha Humphrey, and guard Deanna Nolan (pictured, L-R) all played for the Lady Bulldogs under Coach Andy Landers.    

In order to receive this special Bulldogs discount, fans must purchase a ticket to the May 23 game through Ticketmaster (http://www.ticketmaster.com/promo/f9wnl5) and enter UGAOFF as the special promotional code.  Fans that purchase their ticket entering this code will be eligible for a special post-game autograph session with Braxton, Humphrey, and Nolan.  Fans interested in attending the autograph session must contact account executive Jonathan Merritt at the Atlanta Dream ticket table BEFORE THE END OF HALFTIME in order to obtain an autograph session voucher.  The Dream ticket table is located on the main concourse outside of Portal 10.  One voucher will be provided for each ticket purchased.  The autograph session will be capped at 250 attendees. 

Braxton, a 6-6 forward, averaged 15.4 points, 7.3 rebounds, 2.0 assists, 1.93 blocks, and 1.53 steals per game during her career at Georgia.  She is entering her fourth season in the league.  Humphrey, a 6-3 forward, is entering her rookie season in the league, fresh off a standout career at Georgia.  In her collegiate career, Humphrey averaged 18 points, 8.6 rebounds, and 1.7 assists per game.  Humphrey was a three-time All-American and three-time All-SEC first team member in her four years at Georgia.  Nolan is entering her eighth season in the league, where she has emerged as one of the top players.  For her WNBA career, Nolan is averaging 12.7 points, 3.7 rebounds, 2.9 assists, and 1.3 steals per game.  She was an integral part of the Detroit Shock championship teams in 2003 and 2006.    

 
The Dream will tip-off its first regular season home game on Friday, May 23 at 7:30 p.m. against defending Eastern Conference Champions the Detroit Shock.  The team was officially announced as the 14th team in the WNBA on October 17, 2007.  The Dream will be a member of the WNBA’s Eastern conference and play their home games at Philips Arena.  Other Eastern conference teams include the Chicago Sky, Connecticut Sun, Detroit Shock, Indiana Fever, New York Liberty and Washington Mystics.  For more information and to purchase season tickets, fans can call (404) 604-2626 or visit www.AtlantaDream.net.  E-mail inquiries should be sent to tickets@atlantadream.net.

Hayley has been diagnosed with neuroblastoma, and she’s currently dealing with multiple chemotherapy sessions. As you read Hayley’s story, you’ll learn how much she loves basketball and the Lady Bulldogs. Our players and staff have expressed their best wishes in Hayley’s guestbook…along with the players and staff from the Georgia Tech women’s basketball program. It only takes a minute or two to express your own.

Thanks so much to Fastbreaker Karen Sugrue for passing along Hayley’s story.

Click here to learn more about Hayley Hunter. Her guestbook can be accessed from the main menu.

(NOTE: To see a larger version of any individual photo, just click on it.)