PLC Training This Sunday

CYO Athletics has it's last Play Like A Champion Today! training for the school year this Sunday, May 3rd at 1:00pm in the Isaac Orr Conference Room. Coaches planning on attending this training should aim to arrive 15 minutes early to fill out a pre-training survey. The Isaac Orr Conference Room is located at the Chancery, at 910 Marion St. Seattle, WA across the street to the North from St. James Cathedral. Any coach planning on coaching next season should take this opportunity to get the training done when there's not conflicts with practices and other sport related events. For more information about Play Like A Champion Today! please review our website.

Congratulations Volleyball Champions!

Volleyball playoffs wrapped up with Championships on Saturday. Great job to everyone who played, there were a lot of close matches.

Immaculate Conception 6th grade girls
Holy Family Kirkland 7th grade girls
St. Louise 7th grade girls
Holy Family Kirkland 8th grade girls
St. Louise 8th grade girls

Also congratulations to our Boys volleyball champions, whose tournament wrapped up in the first weekend of playoffs.

Immaculate Conception 6th grade boys
Sacred Heart 8th grade boys

Volleyball Championships Tomorrow

The boys tournament has long been over, but the girls volleyball championships are happening tomorrow at St. Louise in Bellevue. Games start at 9:00am and games will go into the early afternoon. By around 3:30 we'll have crowned 5 new volleyball champions for 2009.

PLC Training Last Night in Tacoma

CYO Athletics would like to thank all of the devoted coaches who attended the Play Like A Champion Today training last night at St. Charles Borromeo in Tacoma. In total there were 26 coaches from four different parishes and schools who took the time out of their busy lives to attend the training. The next training will be May 3rd, in the Isaac Orr Conference Room at 910 Marion St. Seattle. More info can be found on the "Coaches Trainings" section of our website.

Jefferson Lid Project Meeting Tonight

From Bill Farmer, Friends of Athletic Fields

Dear Athletic Field Supporters –

There are a few events coming up that you should be aware of. More info below. Most importantly, especially for southeast Seattle folks, is the public outreach meeting on the Jefferson Park Reservoir Lid project next Tuesday, April 21st. This meeting is to provide an update on current construction and to gather input for “Phase 2” projects. Magnuson Park SpringFest on Saturday, April 25th includes a dedication for the opening of 3 new lit synthetic rectangular fields (baseball fields will be completed this fall). Rugby, soccer and ultimate games will be demonstrated with the Mayor and other officials showing up around 12:15 at the fields. Public meetings on the new Parks & Green Spaces Levy will be conducted at four sites during May. Start thinking about Opportunity Fund ($15M) projects for your neighborhood.

Jefferson Park Expansion Project
Community Update and Outreach Meeting
Tuesday, April 21, 2009, 6:30 - 7:45
Beacon Hill Branch Library, 2821 Beacon Ave S

Active recreation supporters should try to make this meeting on the Jefferson Park Expansion Project to remind the Parks & Recreation Department of the sportsfields that were included in the Master Plan. Many years of public process were conducted by Seattle Parks and recent changes have eliminated or reduced many of the active recreation components. DPR’s plans are to eliminate synthetic turf with no improvements for the baseball diamond or the running track that were promoted during the public process. Given Seattle Public Utilities’ restrictions on watering and fertilizing natural grass on top of the reservoir lids, the ability of natural grass at this site to withstand more intensive athletic use is very uncertain.

Beacon Hill lacks playfields and these fields were being counted on to meet some of the increasing demand for fields space in the neighborhood. Synthetic turf allows for year-round play while natural grass is shut down for at least 4 months out of the year. Funding for this project was increased with passage of the new Parks & Green Spaces Levy with active recreation support. Let Seattle Parks know that you support the design that was agreed upon during the planning public process.

Magnuson Park SpringFest
Saturday, April 25, 2009
April 25, 2009
10am-4pm
Athletic Field Dedication at 12:15
More info: http://www.seattle.gov/parks/proparks/projects/Magnuson.htm


Parks and Green Spaces Levy
Come hear about this new levy and learn about the park projects in your neighborhood hosted by the Seattle Parks & Recreation Department.
All meetings will be from 7 - 8:30 p.m.
• Monday, May 4 at Rainier Community Center
• Wednesday, May 6 at West Seattle Golf Course
• Tuesday, May 12 at Green Lake Community Center
• Wednesday May 13 at Parks Administration Building

Added PLC Training in Tacoma

If you are looking for an opportunity to take the Play Like A Champion Today (PLC) coaches training, we added another training to our schedule. Next Tuesday, April 21st at St. Charles Borromeo Parish in Tacoma there will be a training starting at 6:00pm. Please plan to arrive 15 minutes early to fill out a pre-training survey. Hope to see many of you there.

Track and Field Registrations Due This Week

CYO Athletics Track and Field Registrations are due this Thursday, April 9th. We're looking forward to a great season!

Also, any CYO coaches interested in opportunities to learn more about coaching should visit the ASEP website (American Sport Education Program). We mentioned ASEP in our October 2008 E-letter, and want to remind coaches about all the varieties of resources ASEP can provide. Use the following URL to visit their website:

http://www.asep.com/

March E-letter Sent

Welcome to the new CYO Athletics blog! We encourage you to bookmark this page (http://www.seattleoyyam.org/) or subscribe to the updates on this or any other page, to ensure you always have the most updated information from our office.This blog will be regularly updated with information, and resources. Our hope is to be able to communicate the most accurate information to you as quickly as possible. As you follow links through this blog you will find most or all of our programs represented and easily located. Because this is is still in the early stages of development we ask everyone to help us make this an effective tool. If you find something not working, or have suggestions for how to improve the page, please e-mail them Scott Bailey. Although the blog is mostly up, we will have a few pages with errors and inactive links until all the content is developed.As this site develops, we hope it helps everyone find the information they need here and on the main Archdiocese website. We will move more content to this as time goes on, so be sure to use http://www.seattleoyyam.org/ as your new first stop for updated information from OYYAM.

CYO Athletics sent the March e-letter out last night. If you did not recieve the e-letter, you may access it online in our e-letter archives