Julie is currently playing in Norway with semi-pro side Skeid and for the past few seasons has been a member of the all conquering Shamrock Rovers squad of Dublin.
‘They play semi-pro lacrosse in the States,’ Houston observes.
Those players would then be distributed evenly among the franchises to play alongside semi-pro players on realistic salaries.
If all goes well I should have enough cash in my piggy bank by Christmas to buy a high-end semi-pro Nikon, my current selection among the bewildering range of digital cameras.
One team from the bottom division is actually cast out of professional football into what we would call semi-pro status.
The Premier One clubs want to be at the heart of player development and they want a place in Europe, both of which they need to earn, and they will only do that when they vote in favour of an eight-team semi-pro league.
Most ‘policy directions’ seem to be from-the-hip, ad hoc pronouncements from the handful of semi-pro party leaders who have some particular axe to grind.
His remit is to to produce a winning side, and as a semi-pro coach he is even prepared to temporarily compromise on Watsonians' tradition of free-flowing rugby to achieve that aim.
My maternal grandfather pitched semi-pro, a fact that likely explained why my mother allowed me to cut school twice a year, no questions asked: Opening Day and for any seventh game of a World Series.
All of a sudden, you have semi-pro club sides with meaningful competition week in, week out, providing a pool for the provinces.
The semi-pro outfit looked to be coasting to victory after leading 3-1 midway into the second half, but West Lancs side Eagley pulled the scores level.
The league is considered semi-pro, with some teams, like the championship squad of local Grenadians, displaying scary skills.
Only the other week you had a former Grand Slam captain saying we should be semi-pro.
I have some friends from high school who are beautiful semi-pro dancers.
He compères these evenings on what appears to be a semi-pro basis: he is doing 63 of them this season for cub troops all over the Washington suburbs, and has to be booked months in advance.
This expansion means that should the opportunity arise again, Newbridge will have a semi-pro soccer team to call its own.
Meanwhile, Saskia's family are thought to be trying to persuade the semi-pro footballer that she is just playing games with Maxwell and their relationship isn't serious..
He signed apprentice forms for Bradford Northern and received £150 as a signing-on fee a year later when he turned semi-pro.
He added: ‘The top drivers can look at going professional or semi-pro.’
There are certainly a number of amateur community theatre companies in and around Calgary that take advantage of their actors, but The Shakespeare Company - one of Calgary's proudest semi-pro groups - is not one of them.