The Chattanooga Bocce Club

Chattanooga Bocce, Bocce in Chattanooga, Chattanooga Recreation, Tennessee Bocce, Chattanooga Games, and any other phrase I can think of get on to search engines!  Whatever else, this is just the beginning of what will be a well developed web site for the Chattanooga Bocce Club and a resource for all those interested in bocce in the Chattanooga area. We will be loading this site with access to pictures. One of our friends/members may soon launch a Chattanooga Bocce Blog.  From your current and very amateur web site master Frank Knight, Welcome!!!   

The Near Future

By the end of 2008 or sometime into 2009, we will have a beautiful four court indoor bocce club.  Bocce in Chattanooga will never be the same!!!!!!!!!!!  Click on Where We Play on the menu bar above for more information.

You (as in: It's All About)

Where and when you can learn to play bocce:

1.  See the Tournaments paragraph below and join us for one of our monthly "Recreational Tournaments" which you will see on our Events Calendar along the right side of this page. Click on the item underlined for more details.

2.  Peruse our members list.  Do you know anyone?  Even if you don't, all of our members would welcome calls about bocce, and would probably be happy to meet you for some introductory teaching at a bocce court near you.

3. Venues at which we play bocce are described in the Where We Play item on the menu bar above (click on it).

Tournaments

Tournaments: We sponsor a "Recreational" Tournament open to all generally on the last Saturday of the month

beginning at 10am with a rotating location. See Events at right. This is a fun jump-start way to learn bocce. We choose up teams with beginners teamed with experienced players. We also have a members only "Competative" Doubles Tournament generally on the second Sunday of the month (not on 2008 Mother's Day) at 2pm at rotating locations, also listed in Events. Both kinds of tournaments will be through at least September. We also manage the annual Calvanese Singles Tournament, Chattanooga's "bragging-rights" bocce tournament for the year. This is open to any (member of the Club or not) resident of the Chattanooga area (50 mile radius) and has a prize of $500. It is held every October.  The 2008 date is October 18th. Please e-mail me at z1boccez2@hotmail.com with inquires. Feel free to call my home phone/Bocce Club phone #: 886-4179. You don't have to be experienced at bocce to enjoy it. We are anxious to expose folks to this great game. You can still catch the front end of the growing bocce tsunami in Chattanooga.

More About The Club

The purpose of the Club is to encourage the playing of bocce in the Chattanooga area. We are on the alert for situations where the Chattanooga Bocce Club and the CBC "Foundation" might assist in the construction and cost of building bocce courts. This would be a situation or location that we judge to have a high probability of producing regular playing of bocce on that court, the developement of a bocce microcommunity around that court, as well as a committment by management or other persons at that location to promote bocce there. Examples: Restaurant/Bar. Golf Club/Tennis Club (clubs could keep their older members longer). School. Church. Work site. Apartment Complex. Retirement Center. Social Clubs. Private homes of bocce afficianados.

We have been involved in service oportunities such as teaching and assisting in the play of bocce at one or more divisions of the Parks and Recreation Department and at the Discovery Museum. The bocce court at Heritage Park was a project of the Parks &Recreation Department, and if they judge it useful or desirable, other courts might be built in other popular City parks.

Most of our members are anxious to talk bocce. See if you know any of our members, by clicking on Members on the menu bar above, and then click on the persons name for more information. We are available to facilitate bocce parties or to teach bocce, it's just a matter of contacting one of us and making arrangements. Join us for one of the opportunities to play bocce as discussed above and as listed in Events to the right. The events for the entire year will be visible if you click on any of those listed to the right.

Benefits of Club membership: Learn bocce, or more bocce, from us. Receive e-mail information and reminders about bocce activity in the Chattanooga area.  Closer networking and socializing with other members.  Qualify for closed tournaments such as our monthly doubles tournaments and special events such as our limo road trip to the Annual Memphis Bocce Tournament and our annual membership meeting.  Stake your claim to a voice in the growth and direction of bocce in our area as we become a hotbed of bocce activity in the mid-South.

To join the Chattanooga Bocce Club (which is open to all): E-mail me at z1boccez2@hotmail.com or call 886-4179 to receive an application; or get an application directly from Buzzy Hamilton or me (Frank Knight); or give or send your name, address, phone number, and e-mail address along with $10 to Frank or Buzzy. Reiterating, dues are only $10/year.

Events Calendar/Highlights

Check our Events in the box to the right. Click on the underlined event of interest for details.

Note the Highlights/PressRelease zone at the bottom of this page. Click on the underlined entry to read the details.

Our Menu Bar

In the Menu Bar above:

Clicking on Home brings you back to this "Welcome" page.

Clicking on About will be all about the CBC. It's under construction. Progress has been made on the bylaws submenu.

Clicking on Equip. & Lingo finds comments and information on equipment

necessary to play bocce and on bocce vocabulary, being developed.

Clicking on Event Archives will find you a chronochological list of our past

events and tournaments, being developed.

Clicking on Forum Please ignore this item. A virtual blog will be set

up separately soon.

Clicking Members reaches the CBC membership directory.

Click on "All Members" to sort them alphabetically. Click on the

underlined name of the member for details on that member.

Clicking on Rules is under construction.

Clicking on Where We Play will give you the names, addresses, and

details of the courts in the area on which we play regularly.

Clicking on Court Construction will help with advice on this subject.

Dr. Kate Hays' Five Benefits of Competative Sports:

1.  As you strive to be your best, you keep getting better.

2.  Your sense of engagement and excitement motivate you to play or work out regularly.

3.  Sport is a wonderful way for you to connect with other people who share your interest.

4.  You focus on goals, whether improving your score or proparing for the upcoming season.

5.  You get a psychological boost from identifying with people who are at the top of the sport.  When you see a star athlete, you think, "Yeah, I'm doing that too".