Friends of Grant Football September 2020 Newsletter
Friends of Grant Football Families,
We have great news to report on football! We have been told the District may soon start workouts for players with the high school coaches. This is pending approval and so our athletic office says they are being proactive and need all athletes to be cleared for workouts ASAP. We are grateful to our PIL athletic department leadership for working hard to make this happen.
The start date will be soon, but most likely will start in the next few weeks. Time/Date TBA. The program will be doing everything possible to keep our players safe. We will have temperature checks, small group specific workouts, sanitation of equipment, and players multiple times throughout practices.
Players will be required to go through Clearance so please get that done this week!
-Freshman and Juniors will need to have physicals done by a Dr. They are only good for 2 years.
-if you have already registered there is a COVID release form that has been added to family I’d that you will need to fill out. Look for an email to come soon from Erin Cole
-EVERY PLAYER will need to sign up on Family ID to register for the season. Payment is not required at this time but can be done if you want to get it out of the way.
-If your player will be doing workouts with multiple sports, they will need to fill out forms for each sport. Coaches can’t see athletes cleared for other sports on their clearance page.
www.familyid.com/organizations/grant-high-school
Before our season starts in March we also want to make sure families have the information on eligibility needs, per grade, in order to play. If your athlete is not in the range that he needs, please have them get ahold of their counselor to get them on track. We want to make sure everything is ready for football as soon as we get the go-ahead. You can contact the counselors at the school anytime with questions. They are a great resource for students and parents.
We are still in a shortfall for funds for this season as businesses have been hit hard during the pandemic. We have hard costs that have to be met to get everything we need. Please consider forwarding us businesses and contact names to Sean Mcloughlin or Sponsorship Director Sean.mcloughlin@libertymutual.com
Senior Parents:
Please email us back a favorite action photo of your athlete out of our football photo album. This will be used in the marketing and Seniors poster. We have only received one so far and we have a lot of seniors and will not have time to look through all the photos. Here is a link to look through photos of our two Photographers.
https://www.friendsofgrantfootball.com/resources
We are so excited to finally get the players on the field! Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns.
Karmen von Arx
Friends of Grant Football Board
Coach John Beck
Grant High Head Football Coach