Its Gillis Time

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This site is still under construction as of 7/10

Gillis Tourney: August 8th & 9th, 8 AM till Dark

SAME LOCATION: SOUTH GILLIS

Dockweiler Beach, between Imperial and Grand Ave.

Welcome to Gillis 39!

WOW! We are one shy of 40. There are so many amazing memories for all of us to share, whether you’ve been to one or to all 40.

This year we are creating a DVD with highlights and commentaries from all of you to give out at G-40. Please sit back and ponder your favorite memory from any Gillis tourney so we can tape it at Gillis 39. Start planning now to bring back the best costumes, camps, skits, trunks, players and teams to "Retro-G" next year. We want to see the best of the best.

Gillis 38 saw so many amazing highlights. The finals of the 2-Man had three 2nd generation Gillis players and one 1st generation player. Dave "Big Mo" Mochalski and his son Steven fell to Kyle and Jacob Denitz, whose father Marc Denitz got his "G" in 1982 with Barry Bickel.

Mike and Davis Boehle won the hearts of The Gillis by winning the Hoffy as a father/son team, and it looks like Taylor and Purtell will have to move up into the open division for a few years after winning the Hoffy Plus. Denny put together a Gillis Legends 16-Man team that was a huge highlight reel of the best of 38 years of players. We all were excited to see Mike Kantor and Debbie Grace, as king and queen, getting engaged right there at Showtime. And what a battle it was for the Showtime prize between Happy New Year, The Von Trapp Singers and The Wiggles. Also, Robby Stutzel put together one of his best projects ever with It’s a Small Gillis World. There was so much more….

The costumes at The Gillis have been a tradition since 1980 when Thompson and Polaske won the homemade trunks competition with their Cavemen outfits and Turley-Johnson came the next year dressed as Laurel and Hardy. We were the first volleyball tourney to put this element of entertainment into our weekend, but you now see so many major tourneys adding it. You all are the originals. Keep those creative juices flowing and start sewing for this year.

Again there were quite a few of the Hall-of-Famers who didn’t make it to The Gillis last year. Give them all a loving nudge and get them back to where they belong.

Thanks to all of our sponsors who help us put on the tournament each year. Your donations are really appreciated. Please support all of them whenever possible. They are all excellent at what they do and we couldn’t put the tourney on without them.

The beach was in total control last year, thank you. We again want to remind all of you that we do not condone drinking on the beach and we will have security strolling by each camp all weekend. Please help the out-of-control folks keep it together so we can continue to host this venerable tradition.

As a reminder, you CANNOT play doubles and 6-man due to limited space. You CAN play with a KIDS team and another team.

Get your costumes, skits, matching trunks and creative energy flowin.’ It’s Gillis Time!