The team is excited to have earned a spot in the state playoffs and we hope to have our Grant Family supporting from
all levels! We hear all the time how much our Players love the team and continue to grow into really good guys as well as have a great love of sport. We look forward to seeing what they bring in the years to come.
Varsity State Playoff Game
vs Lakeridge at Lakeridge 7pm
We would like to ask our whole Grant Football Family to be there to support our Program. Tickets must be pre purchased through OSAA at this link
https://www.osaa.org/shop/tickets
Despite our Loss last week, because of our league record we are the League Champions and have been for 4 years Straight! The first time in Grants History!
So proud of our Players and grateful to our coaches and the extra time and care they put into our players.
Senior Night Class of 2022
Senior Night was a great opportunity to Celebrate our amazing Seniors! Watching them through the years has been so much fun to see them grow into such fine young men. So much change from Freshman year, and new experiences for our new players. What a special group of guys. Many Thanks to Beaumont Flower for the roses for moms and to our John Davenport for the photos from the special night. https://www.foreyesphotos.com/f741708162
JV Players need to make sure to turn in all their equipment. It is recorded and they will be charged for lost equipment so please do soon if they haven’t already.
Photos of Jeff Game
https://www.foreyesphotos.com/f741708162
Congrats to our Players of the Week!!
Vs. Jefferson:
M.V.P.: Max von Arx
Defensive Player: Max von Arx
Offensive Player: Jaesean Pete
Lineman of the Game: Stephen del Guice
Special Team Player: Oliver Thake
Underclassmen: Benson Deible
Practice Player: Tyler Moore
Football Awards Dinner
We will have an Awards dinner and will let everyone know soon when it will be.
Coaches Gifts
We will be giving the coaches gifts at the Dinner. If you would like to show your appreciation to the coaches and their hundreds of hours of time they have put in to go above and beyond for our players, please send your donations through our PayPal on the link below
Just add coaches in the note. (If you forget no biggie, we figure that’s what it’s for at this time.
https://www.friendsofgrantfootball.com/give
Easiest way to help us fundraise without spending a $!
Enter to win the Hotel Moxy Raffle!!
Cost?? sponsorship contacts!
With a pandemic, Portland Public schools made great strides to make sure our players were able to play last season. Having two seasons in one year made it difficult to find the complete support that we needed without hitting our families too hard for donations. We were generously given gift certificates to raffle off by the Moxie Hotel downtown. Instead of doing a raffle for money we’re going to offer up a fun weekend experience for 2, for two nights, with a bottle of wine and $25 towards food and beverage and a complementary cocktail at check-in. This is for anyone to win that gives us a great contact to become a potential sponsor. All you have to do is email us with a business in our Grant Community with a name and number, along your name and number and we will do the rest!
Email us at admin@friendsgrantfootballboard.com
contact info for businesses that you think would be a good sponsor with their
contact name and number
your name and number.
For every contact name given you will be entered to win!
Thanks again. Go General’s!!
New Youth Football President!
We are excited to announce our new Youth Football President Trent Carpenter. He is exactly what we have been looking for with great ties to the young football community. We know he will be fantastic!
Trent grew up in Lake Oswego and attended Washington State University, graduating in 1998. He was involved in a variety of youth sports and began playing football in 3rd grade, and played through high school. Playing youth football was an important part of my childhood, and was fortunate to have great coaches who focused on the fundamentals of the game, teamwork, and sportsmanship.
He met his wife Hillary at WSU, and they have two boys, Bronx and Pierce, 5th and 6th grade at Beverly Clearly. He owns his own company which provides cutting systems for the forest products industry, and Hillary is an event planner. They have lived in Northeast Portland since 2011, with a 3 year ex-pat stint in Chile from 2014-2016. Their family enjoys typical Northwest activities - hiking, skiing at Bachelor, and visiting local restaurants and breweries.
Many, many thanks to Josh Haley and Eric von Arx for stepping in to make sure the season happened this year for our young ones when our last president stepped down at the last minute.
Many More Thanks
One of the things that makes football special is the amount of people and pageantry it takes to make it happen. For a team to play we have-
-75 players
-13 coaches.
-1 Athletic Director
-1 Asst Director
-1 groundsKeeper
-3+ security
-3+ Administration
-2 ticket takers
-2 bus drivers
-1 announcer
-1 spotter
-1 scoreboard
-4 chains Crew
-4 refs
-2 trainers
-1 on field doctor
-3 parents for meal
-3 filmers for Hudl
-4+ for live stream crew
-1+ photographer
-12 board members
-And a partridge in a pear tree!
We are grateful for all the wonderful souls that keep the love of football alive in a time where doing something for someone besides yourself, gets harder and harder to find. Thank you.
Special Thanks to the parents on the FOGF Board that work the games for the live stream and Setting up all the games and meals. It’s a labor of love for sure.
Karmen von Arx
Nikki del Giudice
Chad Hoffert
Jenn Mannhard
Live Stream Team:
Kurt Borchardt
Dan Kent
Casper Yu
Shawn Hindrum
We get asked a lot about Grant Gear. It can be bought in the school by your student, but stuff is limited due to shortages this year everywhere and trucking delivery issues. There is an embroidery cart next to the rock at Lloyd center that we paid to have the G and Stars logo available. You can take anything you want to have it embroidered on for a small fee.
Many thanks for a great year!
-Friends of Grant Football.