2011-12 Basketball Schedules Posted

The 2011-2012 CYO Athletics Basketball Schedules are posted. You can follow This Link and select Winter 2011-2012 - Basketball 2011-2012 to find your division and team.

Please note that this year there was only 7 teams registered in 8th grade girls JV, and to avoid St. Francis having 2 Byes in an 8 game/week season, St. Luke will play a double header the last weekend of the season. We have not done this type of scheduling for basketball in recent history, and we hope to have at least 8 teams per division in future years, but simply could not work around it this year with only 7 teams register in 8th grade girls JV.

BB Coaches Meeting November 9

This Wednesday, November 9th, the first of two pre-season basketball coaches meetings will primarily take place at the Isaac Orr Conference Room at 910 Marion St. Seattle. The meeting will go from 7:00-8:30pm, and there will be a Play Like A Champion Today (PLC) coaches training course that follows from 8:30-11:00pm.

We are also trying new Web-Meeting technology, that allows us to show the powerpoint from the meeting and have the audio from the meeting at a satellite site. This Wednesday, the satellite site will be Lakeside HS (NOT the Middle School), in the Kent-Evans Auditorium. Click Here for a campus map.

Please note: There will not be a PLC training offered at the satellite site, and coaches that need the training must come to Isaac Orr on Wednesday.

1 Million 4 NOLA this Sunday

In CYO Athletics, we are proud to be a place where winning off the court is more important than on the scoreboard. It is for that reason that we are excited to share an opportunity during basketball championships to live out Gospel values both on and off the court.

ONE MILLION 4 NOLA, asks people to shoot a free throw and to donate one dollar to help the families of New Orleans move home. One player from each team will shoot a free throw to connect with this effort. There will also be an opportunity for fans to shoot a free throw on site at Bishop Blanchet High School this Sunday, February 13. For more information on the cause, please go to the website at http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=m4j5lzbab&et=1104374190226&s=0&e=001Jlsn9mJJseDFdK3YE0iRNNigwUdKtgNN_U6vAfaASQZdpugxayu41V-YDr2SO89DmLul3OmgOw2C697ncuyhJ6psDlBkurAOSlf4U9TGyHRun3-PAQngCA==

St. Louise School Closed, but Playoff Schedule Remains Unchanged

Greetings CYO Athletics community,

It came to our attention today, Friday, February 4 that St. Louise school was closed today and again Monday due to a significant occurrence of flu. At this point, estimates are that 25% of the community had been out of school at some point this week due to this illness.

We understand the following to be true:

1. In these cases, closing the school is as much or more about limiting the exposure of the school community to one another as it is to the facility;

2. The St. Louise maintenance staff is using this time to sanitize surfaces that students come into contact with, above and beyond normal daily cleaning;

3. This is flu season so that it has been making its rounds around many communities in Western Washington: the virus is not exclusive to St. Louise;

4. Simple precautions can assist in preventing the spread of the flu no matter where you are and what you are doing - as indicated on Washington State Department of Health website: http://www.doh.wa.gov/FluNews/flufacts.htm#basics:

Good Health Habits
Protect yourself and others--use good health habits

Take these simple precautions to help prevent the spread of flu and other lung and breathing (respiratory) diseases:

• Get a flu vaccine every year.
• Cover your cough or sneeze with a tissue or your upper sleeve, not your bare hand.
• Use a tissue to wipe your nose, then throw the tissue away.
• Wash your hands frequently with soap and water. If soap and water are not available, use alcohol-based hand gel or disposable wipes.
• Stay home and away from others while you or your family members are sick.
• Wear a mask to cover your face in a medical office, if asked.

As always, we would ask members of the CYO Athletics community to use prudence in making decisions. We would especially encourage those who have been sick with the flu or been exposed to it keep in mind how their decisions affect other people. Practicing the good health habits above should assist in keeping people healthy. However, we cannot guarantee that players or others will not be exposed to the virus in any gym or facility in which playoffs are taking place during this time.

At this time, playoff brackets will remain unchanged as a result of this issue. Thank you.

Tauno Latvala
Director of CYO Athletics

2011 Basketball Playoff Brackets Posted

The 2011 CYO Athletics Basketball Playoff Brackets are posted HERE.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Backcourt Press in 7th and 8th AA

The question came up a lot this week: Can AA teams backcourt press all game?

The answer is "yes"

AA and AAA are both Varsity divisions in basketball this year, and moving forward. Both play by the Varsity rules of CYO Athletics, including backcourt pressing.

Knights of Columbus Basketball Tournaments

Information on how to register for the Knights of Columbus Basketball Tournaments over Winter break can be found on the basketball portion of the website. (Scroll down and click on the link directly above commissioner contact information)

Basketball Schedules have been Updated

As we warned last week, once the schedules get posted, we often have to go back and make some changes afterwards, and it is always unfortunate when that happens (but also kind of inevitable)

PLEASE RE-CHECK YOUR SCHEDULES!!

Most divisions have been at least somewhat affected by the changes, so everyone should go back and make sure they know where and when they play.

Specifically, if you are in the following divisions, your schedules have been altered:

4th Grade Girls North, 4th Grade Boys North, 4th Grade Boys East - all three of these divisions had HFK home games previously at St. Brendan, but moved back home to HFK.

6th Grade Boys North and 7th Grade girls AAA - both divisions had to have a team added that missed getting put into the schedule during the first go-around. Most teams were affected.

6th Grade Boys Southeast - St. Joseph Issaquah could not get enough players to field their team, and unfortunately we cannot completely re-make that schedule without impacting most schedules at most gyms and all othe divisions. As a result, teams will recieve a forfeit "win" for each week they are scheduled against this team.