Eastview Extra Middle School Football Transitions to Athletic

Eastview Athletic Association Publication
Eastview Extra
May 2010
Volume 5, Issue 2
Middle School Football Transitions to
Athletic Associations
If you’ve followed the business of the District 196 school board, you may be aware
that several middle school sports have
been slated for administration by area
athletic associations including Eastview
Athletic Association, Eagan Athletic Association, Valley Athletic Association, and
Rosemount Area Athletic Association. The
first of these sports will be football, which
will transition out of the middle schools
beginning in the fall of 2010.
Football is just the first step in alleviating
some of the district’s financial burden of
the middle school sports programs. In
discussing the best way to move forward
with implementing this change, many opinions were considered as well as many
models of what the program should look
like to best serve the District 196 community.
With the tremendous
amount of work that
has gone on in previous years with regard
to the EVAA Football
program, EVAA representatives determined the existing framework could be
easily modified to address concerns by the
district and the associations. It is on that
framework that the intra-district football
program, Eastview, Rosemount, Apple
Valley, Eagan—Youth Football League,
ERAVE-YFL, will be built.
For those of you who already have children in the EVAA football program, there
should be very little change with the exception of decreased travel distances to
most of the competitions. If you have had
a child go through the middle school football program, we welcome you to the new
program replacing the current program
run by District 196.
Many hours have been spent and will continue to be spent to assure a quality program and smooth transition for all children
in the new league. Tom Muehlbauer,
ERAVE Commissioner, and Chris Anderson, EVAA Football Program Director, will
continue in expanded responsibilities
within the EVAA Football program as well
as the new ERAVEYFL. Look for information about this
exciting new opportunity and plan on attending the meeting on May 2nd, 2010, 6pm
in the EVHS auditorium.
Additionally, please visit the EVAA website, http://evaasports.org/Football/
Traveling/index.php, for the most current
communications regarding the new programs details and important dates.
This transition and the planning for it
would not have been easily accomplished
without the contributions of the EVAA
Football administration, District 196 representatives and administrators, Kelly
Sherwin, EVHS
Head Football
Cross Country—
Coach, and the
other head
coaches in the
Program Director
district.
Welcome to New EVAA Members
Do you know what the initials
EVAA represent? Have you
heard of EVAA? If you live within
the Eastview High School borders
and have kids interested in sports,
the Eastview Athletic Association
(EVAA) would like to welcome
you to our organization. We have
a very simple mission: to promote, provide, and operate various sports programs at different
levels of competitive skills for the
youth (boys and girls) of our community.
EVAA is a self-supporting athletic
association that offers baseball,
basketball, cross country, football,
lacrosse, soccer, softball, tennis,
track, volleyball, and wrestling to
community children. Annually,
over 1,500 local children participate in the eleven offered sports.
It does not compete with school
activities, but will be absorbing
athletes from three middle school
sports no longer available through
District 196 (Rosemount-Apple
Valley-Eagan).
The organization has one Board
that oversees all of the separate
programs. Each program has a
separate board that directs the
day to day processes for that
sport. The role of the main Board
is to set the guidelines for each
program. This main Board currently has twelve members that
meet monthly during the school
year to discuss program budgets,
hear feedback from participants,
select vendors, and set policies.
One example of a current policy
update is regarding background
checks. EVAA always had background checks for coaches, but
recently updated its policy to have
annual national background
checks on all coaches, program
directors, and board members. If
you would like to find out more
about EVAA, please see our website at http://www.eastviewevaa.org or join us on the third
Monday of each month at 7pm at
the Apple Valley Community
Center.
Needed
The Cross Country running program is in need of a volunteer to
help lead and coordinate this fall
sport. At this point, without a
program director, EVAA will be
unable to continue offering this
program in the fall.
Please consider taking on this
much needed role!
Please visit the website at
www.evaasports.org and go to
―Contact Us‖ to volunteer.
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Fall and Winter Sports Registration
Fall and
Fall and Winter registra-
Winter
Sports
2010 Online Registrations dates:
tions are beginning soon.
Advanced Basketball Training—Jun 1—Oct 15
Please read on for high-
In-House Basketball (K-3rd) — Jun 1—Oct 8
lights and visit the EVAA
In-House Basketball (4-6th) - Jun 1—Dec 17
website for additional in-
Traveling Basketball (Girls)— Jun 1—Sep 9
formation.
Traveling Basketball (Boys)— Jun 1—Sep 3
Football — May 1—Jul 31
Next Walk-in Registrations:
Wednesday, June 9, Falcon Ridge Middle School
Thursday, August 12, Scott Highlands Middle School
6-8pm
Fall Softball — Jun 1—Aug 7
Fall In-House Volleyball — Jun 1—Aug 20
Fall Traveling Volleyball — Jun 1—Aug 13
Winter JO Volleyball — Sep 1—Nov 5
Wresting — Jun 1—Oct 24
Football
EVAA In-House and Traveling Football are already hard at work in anticipation of yet another fun and exciting football season for both players
and parents. The 2010 football board intends to build on the success of
the 2009 season where there was nearly 400 participants on 23 teams
in grades 3 through 8. The football season will run from early August
until mid October for in-house and from early August until late October
for traveling football.
There are exciting changes to the traveling football program. Due to
budget constraints, District 196 has decided to drop all middle school
football starting with the 2010-2011 school year. EVAA Football is very
excited to welcome any 7th or 8th grade football player that will attend
Eastview High School to our program! We will participate in the newly
developed ERAVE-YFL (Eastview Rosemount, Apple Valley, Eagan –
Youth Football League).
There is an EVAA Football information meeting on May 2nd at 6:00 pm in
the Eastview High School Auditorium. Anyone interested in EVAA Football is encouraged to attend this important meeting!
The in-house football program is open to 3rd—6th graders (fall of 2010).
The traveling football Program is open to 7th—8th graders (fall of 2010).
On-line registration will run from May 1st through July 31. The registration fee is $125.00 for in-house and
$150.00 for traveling.
A late registration period will run from August 1 until August 4 with a fee of $150.00
for in-house and $175.00 for traveling. Any
registration request received after August 4
will be placed on a waiting list and we will
only be accommodated as space allows on
a first come, first served basis.
Please see the EVAA Football website,
www.evaasports.org click on football or
contact EVAA Football Program Director,
Chris Anderson 612-280-8722, for more
information on the 2010 EVAA Football
season. We are looking forward to seeing
you all in August for a fun and exciting 2010
EVAA Football season!
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Important Football dates to remember:
May 2
July 26 - 29
August 5
August 9 - 12
August 16
August 17
August 27
August 31
September 2
September 7
September 12
September 17
October 16
October 20
October TBD
Eastview Community Football Meeting
EVHS Football Camp
Equipment Distribution
Player Evaluation Week
Mandatory Coaches Meeting
First Practices Begin
ELTC Football Kick-Off Event
First Games Played
Minors Night at EVHS Football Game
Picture Night
Steak Cook-Out, Rosemount American Legion
Majors Night at EVHS Football Game
EVAA Lightning Bowl
Traveling Night at EVHS Football Game
ERAVE - YFL Traveling Championship Games
Fall In-House Volleyball
Fall Traveling Volleyball
th
th
The Fall Traveling Volleyball program is an opportunity for girls in 5 —8
grade to play more competitive volleyball. It is also an opportunity to get a
head start on Winter JO volleyball. This year we would like to
field one team at the 5th-6th grade level and one team at the 7th8th grade level. We are also working to have the coaches for our
winter JO season coach these teams. Tryouts will be held in late
August and the season will run from early September to late
October. Teams will compete in the competition league at the
Midwest Volleyball Warehouse on Saturday morning/afternoon and practice twice a week. The registration and full program fee for this program
has not yet been determined but will be between $150 and $200. Please
check the EVAA website in June for final details.
This program is an opportunity for girls and boys in 3rd -6th grade to
play recreational volleyball. The focus of this program is having fun
along with some skill development. There is no tryout process and players of all skill levels and abilities are welcome.
The season begins in early September and ends in late October with a tournament. The cost of this program is $60 and
includes a team t-shirt and socks. We have had very low
turnout for our 5th-6th grade group the last few in-house
seasons. The future of this age group as an in-house activity is in
jeopardy. This will be the last season that we offer a 5th-6th grade
age group if enrollment numbers don't improve, so tell all your
friends and sign up to play Eastview in-house volleyball.
Winter JO Volleyball
This program is an opportunity for
girls in 5th-10th grade to play competitive volleyball. Teams for U12,
U14 and U16 age groups are offered. These teams practice twice
a week and compete in the Midwest Volleyball Warehouse Power
league as well as independent
tournaments. All players also have
access to positional clinics for setters, hitters and defensive specialists. All 9th and 10th graders that
attend EVHS also have access to
the strength and conditioning pro-
gram put on by the EVHS volleyball
coaches. All teams are coached by
paid coaches that receive direction
from our volleyball board as well
as the EVHS Volleyball Coaching
staff. Tryouts will be held in November and the season will run
from late November to
early April. Registration for the
program is $150. The full program
fee is $575 for U12 and $700 for
U14 and U16.
Basketball
With the beautiful weather outside, it seems
odd to be discussing winter basketball for 2010
-2011 season, however, try-outs are less than 5
months away and summer is a great time to
hone dribbling and shooting skills.
This past winter season marked the first year
of 4th grade boys and girls traveling basketball
with much success. Great job by coaches Paul
Gilles (girls) and Ken Boehm (boys) for this
inaugural season of 4th grade basketball .
This past year also marked an almost perfect
season by our 7A girls team and head coach
Melissa Guebert with a record 48-1 with their
lone loss being by 1 point at the State Tournament. Super Season!! (See the story on page 6
of this newsletter.)We are confident the 20102011 basketball season will also be a memorable year for our children of EVAA Basketball.
mately 2-3 practices per week, including
Wednesdays and weekends at Dist 196
schools, Eagan Community Center, Apple Valley Community Center, Rosemount Community
Center, Apple Valley Community Center and
other possible sites including Bloomington,
Eagan or south metro gyms where available.
Practices can be scheduled as late as 9:45pm
on weeknights. Each team has an opportunity
to participate in Minnesota State Tournament.
Each EVAA basketball parent is required to
work a shift at home tournaments (generally
girls teams and parents work the boys’ tournament and boys teams and parents work the
girls’ tournament).
Equipment and Uniforms
All teams will be provided all the equipment
needed for their season including a uniform,
The EVAA Traveling Basketball program is open shorts and jersey(s). Equipment is returned at
to boys and girls in 4th-8th grades who reside in the end of the season normally after State
the EVHS attendance area and for residents of Tournament in March. Logo-wear will be availthe City of Apple Valley. Tryouts for the 2010- able for purchase at the Parent/Player meeting
scheduled after tryouts .
2011 season for all ages will be held in early
September (depending on gym availability).
Cost
Tentative Dates:
Girls: Sept 11 &12 (location TBD)
Boys: Sept 11 &12 &
Sept 18 & 19 (location TBD)
The season runs from October through midMarch with an average of 8-13 weekend tournaments during the season. There are approxi-
ers on team and the number of tournaments
played (range $160-$250) per family. Spectators (parents) of tournament games pay admission fees (normal $5.00 per day) except at our
Eastview boys and girls tournament where no
fee is charged for EVAA parents.
Coaches
Applications for coaching positions will be
available at registrations and can be obtained
online. Applications need to be completed and
forwarded to girls /boys Program Director NO
LATER than August 31. Anyone interested in
coaching or with questions can contact the
Program Director. Interviews for coaching will
be completed by late September and applicants will be notified after player tryout selection.
Volunteers
Volunteers are the life blood of the EVAA
Traveling Basketball Program..... without
them there is no program! Thanks
to our coaches, assistant coaches, parents who
handle tournament duties as scorekeepers,
concessions and admissions, and to the Board
Registration fee is estimated to be $135.00 and of Directors for their leadership guiding the
basketball program for the benefit of all our
includes, pre-tryout clinics, tryout evaluachildren. If you are interested in being an intetor fees, insurance, gym time, team equipgral part of leading/guiding the basketball proment, uniforms, training (including Eastview
coaches, MSOB, Wear Out the Nets, etc) during gram as a Board Member please contact us
at [email protected] and
season. In the event a child is not placed on a
team, all fees will be refunded ($100) with the share with us your interest to serve. It is fun
and rewarding!!!
exception of the $35 tryout fee. Individual tournament fees, vary per number of play-
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Eastview Extra
Spring Dig Volleyball Champions
Congratulations to the Silver Division
Winners at this years Annual Spring Dig
Tourney at Eastview High
School! Team members include
Meghan Chicos, Stephanie Eilts, Jessi
Ford, Sydney Kloster, Kali Palo, Jennifer
Salter, Lindsay Stenzel, and Sifora Teklab. Not pictured: Paige Harris. The
U14's Eastview Junior Olympic team
has worked hard this season and it is
always a nice reward to earn a medal
for the effort!
Congratulations Eastview Lightning!
Success isn’t something that just happens—success is learned, success is
practiced and then its shared.—Sparky Anderson
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Track and Field
TRACK is up and Running!!!
After months of preparation, the K - 6
grade track program is off to the races!
With over 130 kids registered, enrollment is about 75% over the previous high
enrollment. While this has presented
several logistical issues, the great team of
coordinators, over 20 dedicated coaches,
and many supportive parents, have made
the season operate smoothly.
Meets for the K-2nd grade teams
(currently six
teams of 16 children each) are
on Friday evenings. Come on out and
cheer them on! They are truly a delight
to watch.
Meets for the 4th-6th grades are on Saturday morning. Most meets are away at
locations such as Prior Lake, Farmington
and Eden Prairie.
Special thanks to the EVAA Board for a
grant to purchase new hurdles. They are
gorgeous and have prevented many
skinned knees!
Wrestling
The youth wrestling program had a very
successful preseason clinic with another
year of over 100 wrestlers participating.
This was a great way for wrestlers to
warm up for the in-house season and for
other kids to give wrestling a try in a fun
and safe environment.
The EVAA in-house program had many
great successes. The K-2nd grade group
learned fundamental wrestling technique
and worked on many drills to develop
general athleticism. Practices were divided into two categories, clinic days and
competition days.
There were several EVAA in-house wrestlers that extended their season and
wrestled at the MYAS state tournament.
Placing 4th were Tom Delich and Jack
Schliesman. Jaden Welborn, Brett Hestness, Sam Penders, and Zach Praus placed
5th. Fourteen other Eastview youth wrestlers qualified for and wrestled in the
MYAS State Tournament but did not
place.
If you are interested in trying wrestling,
there is an upcoming local option that is
also affordable. The Eastview Wrestling
Program will be hosting a camp this summer, July 19th – 22nd. The camp runs from
The 3rd –6th grade group had a similar
9am to noon and includes athletic develseason with a couple of additional compe- opment drills and wrestling skills that
tition days. They also focused on funda- apply to all levels of athletes from beginmental wrestling techniques and general
ners to advanced. The camp features lots
athletic skill building drills, but were able of attention from high school coaches and
to move a little faster and get into some high school wrestlers and many awards
intermediate techniques.
for the kids. Information for the camp
and a registration form are on the GenA highlight of both EVAA groups was
eral Wrestling page of the EVAA website
their dual meet competition in Eastview’s or e-mail Eastview Head Wrestling
Main Gym next to the mat where EastCoach, Kurt Habeck, at
view High School wrestled Wayzata!
[email protected].
Both EVAA age groups capped their season by wrestling in an individual in-house
tournament.
From the President
By Scott Selby, EVAA President
As the incoming President of the Eastview Athletic Association, I am honored to have the opportunity to continue the work that has been demonstrated by our organization’s founders and previous boards.
I would be remiss, if I did not take a moment and thank
our previous President, Chuck Lloyd for his courageous
leadership. In short, Chuck took the EVAA organization
and placed it squarely on his back. His dedication, commitment and attention to detail has successfully
steered our organization through a variety of issues.
Additionally Chuck has led our organization to a solid
financial foundation. I would also like to thank our previous board members for their service.
It is with great pleasure that I welcome the incoming board members
to our community. Volunteers have
have always
always been the backbone of EVAA
and I encourage you to participate in
been the
any manner that your talents and time
allow. I want to thank our new board
backbone of
members and volunteers in advance
for the time and energy that will be
EVAA
put in place to continue the momentum. This diverse group of thinkers
will continue to keep the EVAA goal
of ―delivering a rich and varied sports
environment‖ front and center of all decisions and build
upon our heritage within the community.
Volunteer s
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to your
board members. And if you happen to see any of the
volunteers helping enhance your child’s sports experiences, please stop and show them your appreciation.
Right: Jaden Welborn
just after he earned a
win at the MYSA State
Tournament.
Left: Alex Lindstrom
wrestling in a match at
the MYSA State Tournament.
Congratulations Lightning Wrestlers!
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JO Volleyball
The Eastview Lightning JO Volleyball team recently wrapped up a
great season. They completed in
the Panther Challenge in early
February in Spring Lake Park. This
was a small tournament with only
4 teams but a good first tournament for a young team. The team
played solid volleyball and won the
tournament. A few weeks later the
team competed in the Silver Division of the NCR Presidents’ Day
Festival tournament. This is a huge
tournament and the silver division
included 36 teams. This team
played flawless volleyball through
Saturday’s pool play and did not
loose a single set in three matches.
This continued through Sunday’s
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pool with the team losing only one
set in three matches. The team
entered bracket play tired but
energized by their success. The
team played three matches in
brackets; all were hard fought and
two of the matches went three
sets. The team came out on top
and won the tournament. It was an
amazing two days of volleyball and
the team was victorious because of
focus, determination and the ability
to gel as a team. When one player
became tired and needed a break
another player stepped up their
play.
Congratulations Thunder Bolts!
Team members include Devynne Anderson, Abby Dettmer, Syd Dose, Hayley Ellingsen, Maddie Guentzel, Emily King, Amanda Oelke, Alita Prommachai, Paige Runing, and Ashley Surratt. The team is coached by Megan Cain, Kristin Dettmer, and Stephanie Uittenbogaard.
To feature your team in the newsletter, please go to the website at www.evaasports.org and use the
‘Contact Us’ link.
7A Girls Basketball — State Third Place
The 2009-2010 Eastview Lightning 7A Girls
Traveling Basketball Team, under Coach
Melissa Guebert, achieved an impressive third
place finish in the State championship that was
played out in Rogers, MN in March. This tal-
ented group of young hoopsters made an unprecedented record of 48 -1 during the season.
Going into the play-offs, they remained undefeated and the team to beat in the tournament.
In a semi-final match-up against a strong Eden
Prairie team, the Lightning fell one point short
in a game that could have went either way.
Eden Prairie was a team the Lightning had defeated twice before in the regular season but
couldn't find the third time charm this
time. While Eden Prairie eventually lost to a
talented Farview team (whom the Lightning
had also beaten twice during the regular season, including a suburb match-up at Eastview
High School in March), the girls, their coaches,
parents and fans found no reason to be disappointed in a season that everyone involved will
remember for the rest of their lives. 48 - 1 in
any sport is an admirable feat. As stated before, this group of young ladies representing
Eastview Girls Basketball will be a strong force
to reckon with in years to come.
Congratulations Eastview 7A Girls for
Third Place at State and a 48-1 record!
Team members include Melissa Barry, Illea
Decker, Madison Guebert, Maddie Haworth, Hana
Metoxen, Claire Pueshner, Shelby Trusty and
Maria Woehler. The team is coached by Melissa
Guebert, Tom Barry, and Kurt Pueschner.
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EVAA Board Meetings
EVAA board meetings are held on the third Monday of each month,
7pm, at the Apple Valley Community Center. Anyone interested in
addressing the EVAA board may do so during Open Forum which
begins each meeting promptly at 7pm. No meetings are held in the
months of June, July, and August.
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Don’t Forget to Register for Fall and Winter Sports
Directors
Maryjane Brewer
2010 Online registration dates:
Brad Carlson
Advanced Basketball Training—Jun 1—Oct 15
Fall Softball — Jun 1—Aug 7
Mark Dannecker
In-House Basketball (K-3rd) — Jun 1—Oct 8
Fall In-House Volleyball — Jun 1—Aug 20
Brad Ericksen
In-House Basketball (4-6th) - Jun 1—Dec 17
Fall Traveling Volleyball — Jun 1—Aug 13
Rosie Lisenby-Munz
Traveling Basketball (Girls)— Jun 1—Sep 9
Winter JO Volleyball — Sep 1—Nov 5
Marty McIsaac
Traveling Basketball (Boys)— Jun 1—Sep 3
Wresting — Jun 1—Oct 24
Manuel Oliveros
Lisa Schlosser
Football — May 1—Jul 31
Michael Schmidt
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Scott Selby
Wednesday, June 9, Falcon Ridge Middle School
George Singer
Thursday, August 12, Scott Highlands Middle School
Sarah Trachet
Lee Spelbrink
6-8pm
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