We are excited to see such big improvements each week and are excited to have our first home game.
Varsity plays McDaniels (Madison) at 7pm 9/17
JV @ Southridge at 4:15 9/16
We will need help with the Varsity Game-
JV Parents help with Varsity games, because we want the Varsity parents to watch the game and they served before so they wouldn’t have to during games when their players made Varsity.
As a volunteer you can opt to be paid $50 for each game that you volunteer for or you can opt for the team to be given $50 for your time!
Needs for the game is:
-2 more for chains
-1 announcer and
-1 spotter
-Someone that has a love of football and understands the game is important and a good strong voice too. It would be great if you could commit to all our home games, but we will take what we can get.
(or let us know if there is someone we can ask)
-We will need help at the gate. We are giving out raffle tickets to students wearing all Black for the game to win a set of AirPods.
-We have a scoreboard guy for this week but will need this in the future as well.
Players of the Week, Game 2 Grant Vs. Sheldon
Congrats to our Players of the week. We are excited to see how the season progresses!
M.V.P.: Jae’Sean Pete
Defensive Player: Benson Diebel
Offensive Player: Kellen Segel
Lineman of the Game: Dylan Dinh
Special Team Player: Milan Clark
Underclassmen: John Kent
Practice Players: Vincent Trueworthy
Media
Interview with Coach Beck about the team: http://preptalkeugene.com/?page_id=7063
Football 101
Mom Advice on HOW TO WATCH YOUR PLAYER! (What I have learned through the years!)
Most moms watching football have a hard time watching their player let alone finding them with all those Helmets on. The trick is finding out where they are standing on the field and at what time. Ask your player to draw you the line up and show you where they will be during the different lineups. This will make it easier to find them and once you do, watch them, not the ball. These are the different line ups they could be on.
Special teams- These players are on the field either to kick the ball or to receive it.This is fun to watch the players running at another player to block or tackle. Again don’t watch the ball or you will lose them.
Defense line up- This is the line up when we do not have the ball.
Offense line up- This is when our quarterback has the ball
It can get hard with them coming and going off the sidelines so often and is easy to lose them. Knowing their number and line up position helps a lot. For each play, do a quick scan and check the field and figure out if it is Special teams kicking off, Defense or Offense, then you can figure out where they should be in the line up.
Game Basics
Each team gets 4 tries to advance the ball 10 yards. If they do this within the 4 tries they get to move to the next 10 yards and so on, trying to get it as close as they can either throwing it or having a player run with the ball . Often times on the 4th try (if they are not sure they can advance the ball anymore,) the team with the ball will opt to kick the ball (punt) further down the field because the opposing team would get to start their 4 tries in the same spot. Which might be closer to their own goal. So kicking it makes it further away from the opponents goal.
You get 6 points for a touchdown if you advance the ball into the end of the field, and a chance to kick the ball through the goal posts for 1 extra point. If the team that just made the touchdown wants to, they can opt to run a play to get it across the line to earn 2 points. If rules are broken, teams get penalized by taking away yards that they had advanced.
Advice on how to clean white uniforms
-Always air dry, never put uniforms in dryer or stains will set.
-Do a cold water soak if there are stains for 30 min. Hot water will also set the stains.
-Scrub with a tooth brush (or soft bristle brush) and use Blue Dawn dish soap (4xs cleaning power) might need multiple scrubbing.
-Rinse by hand as well as possible and then run through regular washing machine cycle with powdered detergent (works better than liquids or pods) and powdered oxiclean.
Senior Parents
For senior night we will need you to start getting a few things sent in. We would like parents or Guardians to send us a letter that can be read by the announcer (live stream and game) when your player is on the field. This is needed the week before senior night (usually our last Home Game which would be 10/29)
Things we need from Parents
Please prepare a 20-30 second letter by 10/22
Tell us who your player is,
How long he has been playing football.
His position, what he lives about the game etc.
Some love and good wishes.
Name of Parents/Guardians and family names who may be on field with player for Senior night.
Parents and family will go on field to be presented and honored before the game (any family the Senior wants.) This is a really fun night to celebrate our Seniors and the families that support them.
Also Needed- Info from each Senior
Hi Seniors! I need from these players ASAP-
Jae'Sean
Simon Porter
Karnell Deadmon
Liam Bradley
Declan Gusick
We want to make sure we promote our senior football players as much as we can!
It’s going to be a great season and we will have so much fun!!
1. text or email me your favorite action shots from last year (If you are new and or don’t have one we will work to get them.) Best Shots we should be able to see your number (ok if differs then from this year) and mainly you not a big group of players
2. Bio info.
-Name
-Uniform Number
-Position
-Favorite motto
-Favorite candy bar
-Favorite Portland restaurant, pizza place or food truck
3 Parents cells# and email addresses.
Please send letter and info with picture to Karmenvonarx@icloud.com
Thanks yous and reminders
Thank you to our live stream crew! They have been putting in a lot of hours and have been driving around, setting up and getting everything ready as well as shooting the game. How lucky we are to have them especially for these last far away games.
Dan Kent
Kurt Borchardt
John Jay
Shawn Hindrum
Also Big Thanks to the Segel family who paid for the 2 meals for the last game for the whole team and coaches!
-Donations for food for your Varsity Player are still being collected. We travel for every game so it’s the easiest way to get your player the fuel he needs. Click below to donate now.
-Don’t forget to send a water bottle with your player for every practice and game. We are not allowed to have communal water for them and there has been a lot of cramping issues.