After 22 years, the Lithuanian Athletic Club - Zaibas announces a new Board of Trustees effective immediately:

Pete Titas – President

K C Petraitis – Vice President (Vacancy)

Ed Kizys – Treasurer

General Counsel – Tomas Tatarunas (Vacancy)

Ray Guarino – Recording Secretary

Vidas Tatarunas – Trustee

Vytas Apanavicius – Trustee

Rick Boruszkowski – Trustee

We wish the new team best wishes to continue the mission of promoting athletics to its  Lithuanian youth!

As previously announced, the 2013 LAUNA Juniors Basketball Tournament will be held May 4-5th weekend in Lemont, IL. Chicago “Lituanica” will be hosting this year’s tournament. Tournament directors will be Aurimas Matulevicius and Donatas Siliunas.

Tournament will include both Men’s ( A and B class) basketball, Women’s basketball, Junior’s basketball, volleyball, and table tennis.

Tournament will include both boys and girls in the following classes: A (born 1994-1996), B (born 1997-1998), C (1999-2000), D (2001-2002), E (2003-2004) and F “Molecules” (born 2005 or younger). As in years past, the molecules class and possibly E class will be coed.

We invite all LAUNA clubs who have completed their 2013 LAUNA registration to participate in this classic event. It is important to complete the preliminary registration by March 20th, 2012 . After that date more detailed information on tournament format, team registration fees, etc. will be shared with the participating clubs.

2013 LAUNA Tournament Venues http://goo.gl/maps/cbozq

Final registration with rosters and tournament fees will be required by April 20th, 2013. Hotels Gym locations Thank you and hope to see a large turnout!

Zaibas intends to send the following the teams to this year’s LAUNA tournament:

Basketball: Men’s B (1), Boys C, Boys D, Girls D, Boys/Girls E, Molecules (Class F)

Volleyball: Mens, Women’s, Coed

Table Tennis ?

Chess ?