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Are Working Hard as we enter the Final Months of School |
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When this off-season began, there were some concerns about just how
committed our kids would be this year. Those concerns |
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are dwindling away as kids are working as hard as Ive seen them in the
past 3 years. We had a few of the current seniors |
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visit the weight room and they made several comments about how
impressive it is to see kids being so involved. Our attendance |
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numbers have continued to climb as we were averaging over 40 kids a day
as we entered spring sports. The varsity players have |
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been the most impressive averaging near 20 a day, but the younger kids
attendance is up from last year too. You can see attendace |
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results by visiting the football website. For Varsity Players, there is
an attached list of your total hours so far. |
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As encouraging as the attendance numbers have been, it’s the work ethic
that is most impressive. Our players enjoy working |
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together and the excitement is contagious. |
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In addition to the weight room workouts, a couple kids have gone above
and beyond by attending camps during march: |
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Matt Becker and Ray Vanputten each went to a QB Camp a few Saturdays
ago. I would dare to say its been a long time |
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Grant's History since players were heading to football camps in March.
With all that’s been happeninig and the group of kids we |
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have coming back, its easy to see why everyone is so excited about
Friday Nights Next Fall. There is still much work to be |
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accomplished this off-season, but the confidence is building that we
will get it done! |
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** 147 Days Until Birch Run ** |
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Working Hard In The Classroom |
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Fundraiser |
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The 2nd Trimester has ended and the Honor Roll Report will |
We will be having our fundraiser in the 3rd week of June. |
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be out soon. Once we know who is on it, you can be assured |
We have decided to stop trying to sell "cards" and instead |
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we will post it. Everyone needs to work hard on their |
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keep our focus in the weight room. To do so, we will be holding |
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studies and improve over the next Trimester. |
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a "Lift-a-thon". Our players will be asking for pledges and support |
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for all their dedication over the last couple months. We hope |
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One side note is that we don’t have any varsity guys who |
everyone will show their support to their work ethic and help |
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will be ineligible thus far. STAY FOCUSED! |
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the program. Thank you so much for all your efforts! |
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"Ironmen of the Week" |
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Community Projects |
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We have a program which acknowledges our fball players who |
We are working on a "reading program" with our Elem. Kids. We |
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have a great week of workouts or do something extra for our |
hope to have something officially in place in May that will continue |
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Program. We have had 5 winners so far: Dustin Guerne, Josh |
through the following years. We will have more information on |
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Alverson, Jake Mikula, Kaleb Vargo, Mark Wagner and Saxton. |
this in our next Newsletter. |
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Power Lifting: |
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We started entering Power Lifting competitions last year and had an "ok"
turnout of kids participating. This |
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year however, we nearly doubled our attendance as we had 13 different
individuals enter these events. Out of |
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the 13 players, 7 of them qualified for the state meet: Jake Garza,
Josh Alverson, John Wells, Lorenzo Lopez, |
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Kaleb Vargo, Cory Acosta and Jake Mikula. To make things even better, 3
of these players: Mikula, Wells |
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and Garza earned top 10 finishes. We also earned our first trophy with
a 3rd place finish at the Regional |
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meet. The guys did a great job representing our school and competing
hard. Great Job to all 13 kids! |
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Rocket Football Camp Dates: |
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We are very excited to be hosting the rocket camp again this year. We
had overwhelming |
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encouragement last year with the job our varsity players did in teaching
these young kids. The dates |
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for the rocket camp will be as follows: |
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July 23rd and July 24th: 1st-4th Grade 6-8:30 PM |
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July 25th and July 26th: 5th-8th Grade 6-8:30 PM |
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** We will have more
information available in the next few months ** |
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Next Issue: Complete Summer Details - Info on Camps, 7 on 7's etc,
Spring Sport update…etc |
TIGER
FOOTBALL
