St. Luke's 6th Grade Girls Christmas Basketball Tournament - CANCELLED

Unfortunately, due to a lack of interest, the girls basketball tournament scheduled for 6th Grade Girls at St. Luke during the Christmas break has been cancelled.

SU Women's Basketball for $1

Seattle University Women's Basketball play the University of Idaho on Saturday December 11, at 1:00pm and have this voucher for all CYO families to attend the game for $1 tickets. The game is at Connolly Center on the Seattle U campus at 550 14th Ave Seattle, Washington 98122

Basketball Roster Deadline Tomorrow

CYO Basketball Rosters and Signature Sheets are due tomorrow, December 3rd. Please visit the Roster page on our website to find the current forms, and also instructions for importing rosters into SportsPilot. If you run into trouble importing (some AD's have run into an error message), you can still e-mail your rosters to scott.bailey@seattlearch.org and Scott will help import your data into the online registration database.

Despite the new Roster Form, please note that the Pastor Signature Sheets are unchanged, and we need the copy of the signed form either faxed, scanned and e-mailed or snail mailed to our office.

WEATHER POLICY AND COMMUNICATION PLAN FOR CYO ATHLETICS

With the beginning of the regular season for basketball and the potential for inclement weather, I want to remind you of our weather policy as well as our means for communicating about gym closures and an inability to make it to games.

As always, CYO Athletics participants are asked to make prudent decisions in terms of safe travel in adverse weather conditions.

WEATHER POLICY – from the CYO Athletics Manual, p. 26

• It is the policy that when weather creates a challenge to attend league or tournament games, the Director of CYO Athletics, in consultation with that sport’s commission members decide as early as possible on the cancellation of such events.
• If athletic events are cancelled, the games will not be made up. If games are played during a cancelled day, they will not count in league standings.
• Due to different weather conditions in various areas, CYO Athletics suggests all adults use common sense during difficult days of travel!
• All cancellations will be posted on the CYO Athletics voicemail message at 206.654.4643 as quickly as they are determined. If your gym/field is not listed as closed, it should be open.
• Please see the baseball section in regards to rainouts.
  

COMMUNICATION – FOR COACHES WHOSE TEAM CAN’T MAKE IT TO A GAME DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER

1. If the gym you are scheduled to play at is not closed and it is determined that you cannot travel safely to your game, you are asked to call the opposing coach to notify them of your need for game cancellation. Coaches contact information will be sent out next week.
2. We are asking that people call 2 hours before their game time so that people can plan accordingly. Please have team phone trees in place to enhance communication on both sides of this situation.
3. Please communicate this to CYO Athletics by calling Tauno Latvala on his voicemail pager at 206.344.9119 so that officials are notified of the game cancellation.
4. The 72-hour notification rule is still in effect for non-weather related cancellations. Please see the manual on p. 24 for more details.
   

COMMUNICATION – CYO ATHLETICS TO THE COMMUNITY

1. In cases of severe weather, we will either cancel all games for a day, entire weekend or do it on a gym by gym basis.
2. We will communicate cancellation of games or individual gym closures via the outgoing voicemail message at 206.654.4643.
3. If power and access allows, we will also post closure updates to our blog.
4. Please be aware that we will not respond to phone calls asking us if games are being played at a specific gym. All gyms are open unless communicated otherwise.

Parking Issues This Year in Basketball

Please see the attached document from Holy Rosary Seattle’s Athletic Director Chris Teppner. They have asked we circulate this to the community so everyone coming to Holy Rosary for basketball games park in the proper parking lot so as not to conflict with parishioners parking for mass.

Also, DO NOT PARK IN THE O’DEA PARKING LOT. Use of the O’Dea parking lot is reserved for St. James parishioners attending mass. Under no circumstances should anyone be parking in that lot for CYO basketball games. There will be monitors there on sight, and any one parking there, not for mass at St. James may have their car towed. Please remind your communities, as in the case with Holy Rosary’s parking, that the rules do apply to everyone. Please respect these communities rules, if for nothing else, because it is the right thing to do.

Finally, in general, please respect each other’s facilities. This includes throwing away garbage in the proper location when you leave, and monitoring younger children to make sure they are not in areas they should not be. These are great places to use, and we would like to keep using them, so please respect and take care of these gyms.

Basketball Schedules are Posted

The 2010-2011 CYO Basketball schedules have been posted. Please remember, if your team is in a playoff eligible division, and you play 8 games in your season, your first game does not count in the standings. We do this because some divisions have an odd number of teams, and in those divisions, there has to be a Bye team each week, leaving some teams with only 7 games. Therefore, only 7 games count towards playoffs for all playoff eligible teams, so that everyone has the same number of counting games.

Basketball Referee Training Thursday

This Thursday night, November 11th, CYO Athletics is putting on a basketball referee training at St. Francis of Assisi in Seahurst. The training is scheduled from 7:00-9:00pm and will be led by the Director of CYO Athletics, Tauno Latvala. Interested referees should bring court shoes and a whistle.

Soccer Playoff Brackets Updated

The teams have been placed in the soccer playoffs brackets.

Soccer Playoff Brackets Posted

The playoff brackets are finally posted. The brackets are currently posted on the website, and will be updated with the teams on Saturday afternoon once we know the final results. Please keep a few things in mind for the playoffs.

Roster Form and Playoff Roster Eligibility Verification Form Procedure: Coaches must bring their rosters and a signed copy of the Playoff Roster Eligibility Verification Form. This form is online, must be filled out with all the kids on your roster that are present and eligible to play that game, verifying they have played the 3 of 7 and 4 of 8 games required to compete. All players on this form must also be on the original roster submitted to CYO Athletics at the time the rosters were due. Commissioners and staff will be at these games to verify all of your roster information is accurate and correct.

Please know if there is a child present, who is not on the roster or Verification form, AND THEY PLAY, your team will be subject to forfeit if it is identified by CYO Athletics they were not on the original roster. Coaches must bring BOTH of these forms to each game their team competes in during the post season.

Coaches need to make sure the rosters are in numerical order for the kids, so the staff and commission members can verify them quickly, and get coaches back to their pre-game duties.

Weekday Playoff Game Times: There will be playoff games during the week, and due to the field time we were given and the lack of fields given to us with lights, we will have to play most of those games at 3:30pm start times.

Weekend Procedure: As the playoffs begin this Sunday, Ross will be in the office on Saturday afternoon gathering the final scores and posting them. Coaches must call in their scores IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THEIR GAME so Ross can post the final playoff brackets. The number for that is 206-654-4643, and the proper email is cyoscores@seattlearch.org. The brackets will be posted by 7pm Saturday evening.

Commissioner Duties at Game: Please keep in mind the commissioners and staff members are there to verify playing time, and rosters. They are not there to referee the game. Do not look to the staff if you do not agree with a call, etc. The refs are there to ref, and it is there game to oversee.

Playing Time: Keep in mind playing time will be enforced at these games. Your kids must play 10 minutes PER HALF, or in the case of a goalie switch only they can play one half at a time. If you are not playing your kids the proper time, expect the staff member present to tell you, and ask that you put those kids in that have not played. Please see page 29 of your manual for consequences of violating the playing time policy. It is also listed below:

Infractions of the playing time policy will result in a warning for the 1st offense. If witnessed by a designated representative of CYO Athletics, warning will consist of a verbal address to the coach during the contest in question. If the playing time issue is not addressed by the coach within this game, the representative will confer with the sport commission and/or the Director of Athletics and a forfeit of the game and suspension of the coach may result.

Other than that please remember that this is CYO, and it is for the fun and enjoyment of the kids win or lose. Let’s have a great time in playoffs, and a great last week of soccer. See you out there!

Cross Country Championship Results

For those of you who have been patiently waiting, the Cross Country Results have been posted on the website. We apologize for how long this took. We had e-mailed the results, but due to the size of the file, the e-mail was unable to be opened by most of our coaches. Also, please note that the times may be off by a little bit near the end of each race. When we have the same number of times as runners, it is easier to be certain of the times. We had more races this year than normal where the number of times we received from our volunteer timers did not match the number of runners. We have posted the times we received from our timers, but we understand that these are most likely not accurate since the number of times didn't match the total number of runners. I have also attached the link to the results here.

This is an updated Results PDF, the original one did not include K-3 numbers in the Final Team total points, but that has been corrected.

Referee Training at St. Luke Scheduled

St. Luke in Shoreline will be hosting the basketball referee association training at 6:30pm on Sunday, November 7th. This is the first of two trainings being offered to interested referees for CYO Athletics basketball this year. The second training will be at St. Francis on November 11th from 7-9pm. For these dates and more information about CYO Athletics basketball, visit the basketball page on our website.

Basketball Referee Training

Every year, the referee association that CYO Athletics contracts with for basketball officials hosts their own training (usually at St. Luke in Shoreline). CYO Athletics has added a second training that we will hold at St. Francis of Assisi, to accommodate interested officials who are seeking a second training option. Director of CYO Athletics, Tauno Latvala will be leading the training at St. Francis from 7-9pm on Thursday, November 11th. Interested officials must be 16 years or older by the start of the season on November 13th. For more information, please contact Scott Bailey at scott.bailey@seattlearch.org.

Location: St. Francis of Assisi - 15226 21st Ave SW Seattle, WA. 98166

For the dates of basketball games visit the basketball page on our website.

FREE Basketball Coaches Clinic at Seattle University with Coach Joan Bonvicini

Coach Joan Bonvicini and Seattle University have invited CYO Athletics coaches to their coaches clinic on October 23rd. Visit Coach B's website at http://www.coachbonvicini.com/ or click here for a PDF of the brochure.

PLC Training Scheduled at St. Mary Magdalen

St. Mary Magdalen has offered to host a Play Like A Champion Today (PLC) training on Wednesday, November 10th from 6:30-9:30pm. This training does require a minimum of 15 coaches to pre-register, or we will have to cancel. Please use the registration form and instructions found on the PLC website.

Address for St. Mary Magdalen:

8517 7th Ave SE Everett, WA 98208

PLC Training Scheduled at St. Bernadette

St. Bernadette has offered to host a Play Like A Champion Today (PLC) training on Sunday, October 24th from 1-4pm. This training does require a minimum of 15 coaches to pre-register, or we will have to cancel. Please use the registration form and instructions found on the PLC website.

Cross Country Coaches Meeting and PLC Tonight

Tonight at 7:00pm is the Cross Country coaches meeting in the Isaac Orr Conference Room at the Chancery (910 Marion St. Seattle, WA, 98104). Immediately following the coaches meeting, we will be having two simultaneous meetings.

First, from around 7:45 to 8:30, we will be having a Cross Country coaches clinic, with cross country commissioner, and Blanchet HS cross country coach, John O'Leary. This clinic is intended to help coaches who have some questions about coaching cross country in CYO, and will take place in the small conference room off of Isaac Orr.

In the main room, we will have a Play Like A Champion Today training for any coach needing to stay for the training. We hope to get started with the pre-clinic survey by 7:45, and begin the training content promptly at 8:00pm, so that we can get out on time before 11pm.

1st-3rd Grade Soccer Schedules Are Not Done

The 1st-3rd grade soccer schedules are not done yet, but we are working on them. Many of you might have noticed the turmoil with the schedules at the end of last week for 4th-8th grades, and because of teams dropping from the schedule late last week, we lost 2 full days of scheduling the 1st-3rd grades. We hope to have the schedules posted by tomorrow (Wednesday). Thank you for your patience.

Soccer Schedules Re-Posted

Thank you for your patience. Soccer schedules are now back up. Please double check your game schedule, as it might have been affected by the many changes we had to do today.

Soccer Schedules Under Construction

Kindergarten and 4th-8th Soccer Schedules were posted last night, but due to several drops, we are having to re-work many of the schedules. As a result we have temporarily taken the schedules down from public view, and will be re-posted once the revisions have been made. Sorry for the inconvenience. Please check your schedules again before Saturday, as your game for this Saturday might be affected by the changes.

Online Forms

We have now updated the online forms. On our Forms Website, you can now find Online Incident Reports and Lopsided Score Forms for the Winning Coach and Losing Coach in soccer.

2010-2011 CYO Athletics Manual Has Arrived

The 2010-2011 CYO Athletics Manual has arrived, and the content from that manual should now be accurately reflected on our website. Thank you for your patience as we finalized our 2010-2011 policies and procedures. You may find reference to Online Forms in the manual, and please be aware that we are working to create those forms as quickly as we can, so that they will be ready for the start of soccer season on September 11th. When we have published those forms, we will update you via the blog.

Sunday PLC Training in Everett is Canceled

We were unable to receive the mandatory 15 pre-registrations for Sunday’s Play Like A Champion Today training in Everett. The training is canceled. If you still need to complete the training this weekend, please consider attending the St. Benedict training in Seattle at the same time on Sunday (August 29th), 1:00-4:00pm. There is also a training in Issaquah at St. Joseph parish on Saturday (August 28th) from 9am to noon that you may attend. Other than these two trainings, we will be offering PLC trainings following each pre-season coaches meeting.

We are sorry for the inconvenience that canceling this training might have caused. For a full list of the training dates, please visit our Play Like A Champion Today page on our website.

SEP Online Refresher Updated

The Safe Environment Program (SEP) office has informed us that the 2010-2011 online refresher is up and running, and coaches and church volunteers can now complete their annual obligation. Thank you for your patience during the updates. To visit the SEP website and login, click here and then click on "My Obligations" to login.

Technical Difficulties with our Website

For some reason we lost our scrollbars on our Athletics Website over the night, and we are trying to get those back as quickly as we can. Please be patient. We understand that without the scrollbars, a lot of the content on our website cannot be accessed.

Soccer Coaches Clinic Set for 8/21

Soccer coaches: The CYO Athletics Soccer Coaches Clinic is scheduled for Saturday, August 21st from 9:00 to 10:30am at Lower Woodland #7. The clinic will be lead by CYO Soccer Commissioner and Seattle Prep Varsity Soccer coach Andy Hendricks. The clinic is great for new coaches to CYO Soccer, and can also be valuable for coaches who may be coaching at a new grade level. The clinic is free, and all CYO soccer coaches, head and assistant are encouraged to come. For more details around CYO Soccer please visit the Soccer page on our website.

Additional PLC Location Set for August 29th

Immaculate Conception in Everett has offered to host an additional Play Like A Champion Today coaches training on Sunday, August 29th from 1-4pm. This training will be in addition to the training being offered at the same time at St. Benedict in Seattle. The training will be held in St. Mary's Hall, which is across the street from Immaculate Conception School (2508 Hoyt Ave. Everett, WA 98201). The training will require 15 pre-registered coaches, or it will be canceled. Please pre-register using the Excel registration form on the Play Like A Champion Today page on our website.

PLC Location Set for August 28th

The Play Like A Champion Today coaches training scheduled for Saturday, August 28th will be held at St. Joseph Issaquah from 9am to noon. Please pre-register using the Excel Registration Form on the Play Like A Champion Today page on our website. The training requires a minimum of 15 coaches pre-registered, or it will be canceled. Thank you to St. Joseph Issaquah for hosting and providing this opportunity for coaches to take the training on a weekend.

Adult Softball Tournament Schedule Updated

There were a few last minute changes to the Adult Softball Tournament Schedule. The new schedule has been posted to the Adult Softball portion of our website. We have also provided a map that identifies the numbers for the fields (fields 1-4 at Moshier).

Technical Difficulties with SEP Online Refresher

The 2010-2011 Safe Environment Program (SEP) online refresher is not yet functional, and volunteers cannot go online to take this refresher yet. Please be patient as the SEP office works to get this up and running.

PLC Location Set for August 29th

The Play Like A Champion Today coaches training on Sunday, August 29th will be at St. Benedict in Seattle. The training will go from 1-4pm, and we encourage coaches to pre-register for the training using the registration form on the Play Like A Champion Today page on our website.

St. Benedict Cafeteria - Entry to the cafeteria is from the South side of St. Benedict School on N 48th Street at Wallingford Ave N. The stairwell is inside the gate and near the jungle gym.

Adult Softball Tournament Schedules Posted

The Adult Softball Tournament this Saturday has been posted on the Adult Softball page on our website. Follow this link to find the schedule.

Baseball Fees Increased

CYO Athletics met with members of the CYO Baseball community last week, and decided that we should have two umpires at Championship games. CYO Athletics will also have two umpires at semi-finals as well. As a result the team registration fees will be increased to $495 per team. The website is updated to reflect this change to the team fees.

Volleyball Match Dates Set for 2011

The Double-Up weekends for Volleyball have been finalized. They will be March 12-13 and March 26-27. The full season schedule for league match days is listed on the volleyball section of our website. The season will start February 26th, and the last game of the season will be on April 3rd, with playoff tournaments beginning Wednesday, April 6th. Championships will be held on Saturday, April 16th.

CYO Athletics Registration Fees for 2010-2011

The Registration Fees for each sport are now posted on the website. At the bottom of the main Athletics Page on the website is a listing of all the sports, and the Registration Fees for each sport are listed on each sport-specific page. The only sport where CYO Athletics had to raise fees for the 2010-2011 season was soccer.

2010-2011 Dates Posted

The dates for the 2010-2011 sport seasons are posted on our website, including registration deadlines, dates of games and playoffs.

We are still finalizing the volleyball game schedule, and the fees, and will update you once we have those.

Co-ed Adult Softball Schedules Posted

Please find the CYO Co-ed Adult Softball Schedule Posted under Schedules. You can also find it by clicking here.

AA & AAA Meet Changes

We received a call from the Highline school district that they are having a championship soccer game at Highline Stadium on Saturday at 7:00pm. According to the district it is their policy that if a school in the district has an event in the stadium, any other event regardless of confirmation of use gets bumped. Therefore this is where we are at.

We feel that it is better to keep this meet on Saturday rather than move it to Sunday, not be able to start until Noon, and have the meet last until about 9pm, or later.

Therefore we are going to start the day pretty early, and we will need to hustle through each meet.

The AAA Meet will now start at 8:30am with the coaches meeting at 8:00am.

The AA Meet will start now at 1:30pm with the coaches meeting at 1:00pm.

We know this is not ideal. Of course we would prefer to not have the added pressure of getting this thing done, and out of there, by 6:30pm, but it is what it is, and it is out of our control.

Since this is going to need to go very quickly we need everyone down at the field at 8:00am, volunteers and coaches, for the AAA meet coaches/volunteer meetings. In addition I need everyone ready to go by 1:30pm, for the AA Meet.

The awards ceremonies. Pictures , etc, are going to need to be moved along so as soon as the kids get their trophies, as we are going to have to get everyone out and moving. We understand, once again this is not ideal, but we are going to be very pressed for time.

2010 CYO Baseball Playoff Brackets Posted

To find the dates and locations of this year's baseball playoffs, please click here.

CYO Athletics Needs Your Photos

CYO Athletics would love to have e-mailed photos from CYO Athletics events that we would be permitted for use in our publications and on our website. If you have digital copies of photos from CYO Athletics events, please e-mail them to cyo@seattlearch.org

Thank you so much for your help! As you can see, our website doesn't have very many photos, and our Track and Field webpage doesn't even have a picture from Track season, but instead Cross Country.

CYO Volleyball Playoff Brackets are Posted

Volleyball Playoffs are posted on the CYO Athletics website. You can find them in the drop down box in the top right-hand corner of the website, under CYO Athletics or by clicking here.

CYO Volleyball Scores Needed ASAP

CYO Volleyball coaches in the 6th-8th grade divisions should e-mail their scores in to cyoscores@seattlearch.org as soon as possible. You can also call 206-654-4643 to report the score. We are putting the brackets together tonight, and all missing scores will go down as a loss to both teams.

Baseball Rosters Due Today

Just a friendly reminder to all baseball coaches and AD's with CYO baseball teams that today is the Roster Deadline. Please send those to Ross Brownell, and he will check for them when he returns to the office on Monday morning.

Volleyball Schedules adjusted for 3/13

March 13th schedules have been changed for some teams, so every volleyball team should recheck their schedule on 3/13 to see if their game was moved or not. The 7th and 8th grade girls teams for St. Joseph Seattle have been given TBA's for this day, due to a parish funeral. Coaches who now have a TBA scheduled that day should contact the opposing coach to schedule the game at a new time, and communicate to Ross Brownell at the CYO Athletics office when that game will be played.

SU Soccer Coaches Clinic CANCELED

The Soccer Coaches Clinic scheduled for Saturday, March 6th with Seattle U has been canceled. We were unable to get the minimum number of pre-registered coaches for SU to hold the clinic. We will work with SU's men's soccer team to schedule a coaches clinic another time.

American Sport Education Program

American Sport Education Program (ASEP) has downloadable resources for coaches and parents. For ASEP the question no longer is "Should coaches be trained?" but "How should coaches be trained?" ASEP has been offering the answer to this question since 1981 through the development and implementation of coaching education courses and resources. ASEP materials have been used to educate more than one million coaches, officials, sport administrators, and parents over the past 20-plus years. You can find a link to ASEP's website on the Coaches page of the CYO Athletics website by clicking here.

Winter 2010 Volleyball 2010 Schedules Posted

The Volleyball Schedules are posted. To find your schedule, you will need to select Winter 2010 - Volleyball 2010 in the E-Scheduler. The schedule is not simply under "Winter" anymore, but Winter 2010. You can find the E-Scheduler on our Blog under "Schedules" or on our website under "Schedules", or by clicking here.

Response to Tebow Super Bowl Ad, Sally Jenkins, Washington Post

I heard some of the concerns about this discussed on sports radio the week prior to the Super Bowl. One of the callers asked for the "separation of Church and sports". My response was how can you ask athletes to not be who they are? This an article worth reading and reflecting on from both sides of the issue of Pro-Life and Pro-Choice. Here it is.

SU Hoops for Haiti

Seattle U Men's Basketball is fund raising for Haiti, on Saturday February 27th. If you use this voucher, you will receive the opportunity to purchase a $10 ticket for the 7:10pm game at Key Arena, with 100% of the proceeds going to Catholic Relief Services, and their rebuilding efforts in Haiti. For more information on CRS and their efforts in Haiti, visit their Website.

VB Beginner's Clinic Location Changed

The Volleyball Beginner's clinic tomorrow, Saturday, Feb. 6th, is no longer at St. Matthew. It has been relocated to St. Louise in Bellevue. The time frame is still 9am to noon.

Volleyball Coaches Clinics - Beginner and Advanced

There are two FREE coaches clinics available for CYO volleyball coaches.

The first clinic, for Beginner coaches will be this Saturday, February 6th at St. Matthew in Seattle, from 9:00am to noon. This Clinic is led by Head Volleyball Commissioner Paula Lavallee, and is highly recommended for all first time CYO volleyball coaches.

The second clinic is the more Advanced clinic, and will take place Monday, February 8th at St. Catherine in Seattle, from 7:00 to 9:00pm. This clinic is led by the Seattle University Head Volleyball coach, Shannon Ellis, and is recommended for all CYO volleyball coaches.

Each year, coaches ask if they can go to both, and YES this is a great way to get some of the basics, as well as some of the more advanced coaching skills.

For more information around CYO Volleyball, visit our website.

CYO Basketball Championships

Basketball championships will be this Saturday at two locations.

8th graders will be at Lakeside HS starting at noon (14050 1st Ave NE Seattle)

6th and 7th graders will be at St. Joseph Seattle starting at 9am (700 18th Ave E, Seattle)

There will be a game moved to Sunday, February 7th to avoid the conflict with the Eastside Catholic Middle School Speech Tournament. The 8th Grade Girls AA Championship game will be at noon on Sunday at St. Joseph Seattle.

Second VB Coaches Meeting Rescheduled

The Volleyball Coaches meeting originally scheduled on February 17th (Ash Wednesday) has been rescheduled to Tuesday, February 16th in the same room, the Isaac Orr Conference Room at the Chancery (910 Marion St. Seattle, WA). The meeting will go from 7:00-8:00pm and will be followed by a Play Like A Champion Today coaches training from 8:00-11:00pm in Isaac Orr.

Please remember that each team is required to have a coach representative come to a coaches meeting (either the meeting at 7:00pm February 9th or this one on February 16th). The head coach will be suspended for a game for any team not represented at a meeting, and teams in 6th-8th grade will also receive a forfeit "Loss" for that game, even though the teams can still play, with another coach for that one game.

All returning CYO coaches (either having coached volleyball in the past or any other CYO sport) must have completed the Play Like A Champion Today coaches training prior to the start of volleyball, and trainings will follow both coaches meetings, on Feb. 9th and 16th. These, however, will be the last trainings offered prior to the start of volleyball.

Coaches Need to Bring the Following to Playoff Games

Basketball Coaches - please remember to bring the following to EVERY playoff game:

1) Pregame Prayer - bring enough copies for all your players to share and read.

2) Roster - bring a copy of your roster, ideally showing all your jersey numbers and listing the players in numerical order.

3) Playoff Roster Eligibility Verification Form - this form should also list the players, with jersey numbers included, in numerical order. Please list every eligible player on your official roster, and inform the CYO Commissioner or Staff on site if any of the players listed are not at the game so we know to expect them in the next game or not.

All three of these can be found on the "Coaches" page on our website.

Please also be reminded, our commissioners and staff are at games to see that the pre-game prayer is being said, and that every child is receiving the proper playing time. They are not there to officiate the game, and should certainly not be confronted in an effort to overturn a call made on the court.

Also we ask that since the commissioners/staff are monitoring the playing time of each child, teams should expect to provide an official score keeper, and scoreboard operator. They can be an assistant coach, a parent, or if these people are already provided in each gym then that works great too. This, once again, is very much appreciated and makes jobs a lot easier for everyone.

2010 Basketball Playoffs are Posted

6th-8th Grade CYO basketball brackets are available on our website in PDF format.

Basketball Playoffs

The Playoff Brackets for 6th-8th grade CYO Basketball will be posted by tomorrow at noon at the latest (earlier if we can). We will provide you the link both on the Blog and the Website, but it won't be posted through our E-Scheduler, so please check the Blog and the Website for the brackets.

We will be putting the brackets together tonight, which means you have until 5:00pm to give us any missing scores. Please check! We would hate to see a win taken away because we simply never knew about it.

Second VB Coaches Meeting Rescheduling

As many of you probably noticed, the second volleyball coaches meeting was scheduled for Ash Wednesday. We are in the process of moving this, as to not conflict with anyone's mass schedule that evening. We are still planning on having a second meeting available for coaches who are unable to attend the first one on February 9th, but will finalize that early next week.

There will be Play Like A Champion Today trainings offered after both coaches meetings, and this will be the last opportunity to take the training prior to the start of volleyball season.

It is not mandatory that you attend both volleyball coaches meetings, each team in the program must simply have a coach representative attend one of the two meetings. Both meetings should cover the same information, and will show the new Lystedt Law video at both. This video is required by state law for all youth sport coaches. Any team not represented at the coaches meeting will have to suspend their head coach for one game, and in addition recieve a one game forfeit if in 6th-8th grades.

Basketball Score Reporting Reminder

As we approach the last weekend of the regular season for CYO 4th-8th grade Basketball, we would like to kindly remind the 6th-8th grade coaches to please submit all the scores from your games to cyoscores@seattlearch.org or by calling 206-654-4643.

When we make playoff brackets, we never assume that a team won or lost a game, so any unreported scores will go in the standings as a "loss" for both teams. This means that a team listed as 3-1 (with 3 game scores unreported) will be assumed to have gone 3-4 and will be seeded behind a team listed at 4-3 (with all of their scores reported), for example.

1st PARENT LIKE A CHAMPION TODAY - ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI HOSTS

A sincere thank you to the parish/school community of St. Francis of Assisi for hosting our first Parent Like A Champion training last night from 7-8:30pm. Kati Skeltis, Athletic Director, did a lot of the work preparing the community for the evening. The session was strategically timed during the junior high youth ministry time at the parish so it encouraged families to drop their youth off and come over. A strong turnout of over 30 parents and grandparents were treated to great hospitality by the welcoming crew at the door and the food and beverages catered by Mick Kelly's Irish Pub were enjoyed throughout the evening.

The training, led by CYO Athletics Staff Scott Bailey, Ross Brownell, Clint Richardson and Tauno Latvala with additional support by St. Francis AD Kati Skeltis was well received by the group. A good conversation was had during the training and afterwards in some Q&A time between the trainers and participants. We are pleased that the training was found to be so worthwhile for the group.

For more information on the Parent Like A Champion program please go to the website at the University of Notre Dame. If you would like to schedule a parent training for your school parent association/club or family ministry program, please contact Scott Bailey at scott.bailey@seattlearch.org.

PLC Training this Saturday at St. Luke Confirmed

The Play Like A Champion Today training this Saturday at St. Luke from 9:00am to noon has been confirmed with the minimum number of required preregistrations, and will not be canceled. Please try to show up 10 minutes early if you can, as each training begins with a survey, and we want to be able to start on time so that we can end on time.

Added PLC Training in Shoreline

St. Luke in Shoreline has offered to host a Play Like A Champion Today training on Saturday January 16th from 9:00am to 12:00pm. Please preregister for this training using the registration form on the CYO Athletics website.

New CYO Athletics Website

Please access the CYO Athletics website by visiting http://www.athletics.seattleoyyam.org/