TeamAsha SV 2009 Final Party - Fitting Finale for the season..

I am fortunate to be part of the Team Asha Silicon Valley 2009 marathon program by being one of the Fundraising Team members. We had a terrific season, all the runners finished strong at the TA offered marathons (SF Half, Twin Cities, Chicago, SJ RocknRoll, Silicon Valley). Like every year, we celebrate this by having a party. Nice to see runners in non-running attire.

Party was a blast. It started off with couple of songs from Bharath, Megha & Satyan. Followed by Coaches speeches, award ceremony with trophies to runners, special thank-you for Coach Tony Fong being with Team Asha for the last 10 years, FR presentation by FR team, Co-ords introduction in a special way, couple of more songs, Bollywood dance numbers choreographed & performed by runners, open to dance floor.

Here some videos from the party..
Double click on videos to view in wider mode. It is currently chopping the sides. Increasing width parameter is not working. Need to figure that out.

My Camera: Announcing Prizes, Co-ord Intro, Dance1, Dance2, Rehearsal Video:

Sahana's Camera: Co-ord Intro, Dance1, Dance2

FR Presentation: This year, our team exceeded the FR goal by 50K dollars inspite of recession. This shows the quality, discipline and cause of the Team Asha marathon program & Asha. Here is the FR Presentation Deck.



Co-ords introduction: This video was composed & choreographed by Mousumi & Sahana. We had some rehearsals night before to show up crisply. It was well received by the audience. This is something different & fun way to introduce team.



Bollywood Dance1
Dance Pe Chance & Marjani. I was part of this dance. Mousumi & Sahana made us learn all the steps in just 7 days to come out synchronously. We had fun rehearsing & presenting at the final party.
Dancers are: Left-Right: Girls - Mona, Sahana, Chandrika, Sona, Mousumi
Boys - Madhu, Gaurav, Ritesh and Raju




Bollywood Dance2 - Kambaqht Ishq & Twist. This dance was choreographed by Anand & Sonie.
Dancers are: Left-Right: Girls - Sonie, Jayasree, Sudha, Sangeetha, Esther &
Boys - Sarat, Sandeep, Murali, Balu & Karthik.




Rocking the Dance floor:


Rehearsal Video:
All co-ords meet up at Mousumi's place night before the party to do a quick rehearsal. Enjoy the video..



Videos from Sahana's Camera
The following videos cover the entire portion of the dances & co-ords introduction.

Co-ord Intro
Co-ords introduction



Dance1
Dance1



Dance2

Dance2


Better video links from Sahana posted in Facebook:
Co-ords Intro,
Dance1,
Dance2.

Now, the running season is officially over for team asha. There is some pending work to do for FR team & treasury team to do some collections, recociling etc.. We will get over with it soon.

Go Asha! Go Team Asha!