BYSA FOOTBALL WEEKLY

BYSA Football Parent Newsletter

September 9, 2009

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GAMES THIS WEEK

Our games are spread out this week! Winooski does not have any JV teams so we were forced to spread out. Please note the instructions below based on the team your child plays with.

Senior Tide Black

The 7^th/8^th grade Black team will be playing Saturday night at Winooski “under the lights”. The game will begin at 7:30pm. The team will meet at the Berlin Park and Ride at 5:30pm. Please see the driving directions to Winooski, however we would like all players to meet at the Park and Ride to assist the players that do not have rides. Players should arrive to the field by 9:00am.

Senior Tide Blue

The 7^th/8^th grade Blue team will be playing Saturday morning at Barre City Elementary. The game will begin at 10:00am. Players should arrive to the field by 9:15am. Please see the note about concessions.

Junior Tide Black

The 5^th/6th grade Black team will be playing Saturday night at Winooski “under the lights”. The game will begin at 6:00pm. The team will meet at the Berlin Park and Ride at 4:00pm. Please see the driving directions to Winooski, however we would like all players to meet at the Park and Ride to assist the players that do not have rides. Players should arrive to the field by 5:00pm.

Junior Tide Blue

The 5^th/6^th grade Blue team will be playing Saturday morning at Barre City Elementary. The game will begin at 8:00am. Players should arrive to the field by 7:15am. Please see the note about concessions.

Rip Tide – SEE PAGE 2 FOR MAP

The flag team will be playing a jamboree in Essex. The games will begin at 1:00pm. They will play in three games. Please meet your coaches at the Berlin park and ride no later than 11:30am Please see the driving directions, field map and game times on the back of this newsletter. Players should arrive to the field by 12:30pm. There is not enough parking at Maple Street Park to accommodate all of the teams. Additional parking is available a short distance east on Maple Street at the ADL Middle School. Volunteers will be on hand to direct cars. Parents can drop off players at Maple Street and then park at the Albert D. Lawton Middle School.

PARENT REPRESENTATIVES

Flag – Lisa Lafebvre-Barr 479-1130, 249-0838

5/6 Blue – Erica Johnson – 485-9201

5/6 Black – Christine Blanchard – 479-5765, 272-6584

7/8 Blue – Angela Valentinetti – 479-5771, 828-3176

7/8 Black – Tanya MacAuley – 476-7916

Please post these phone numbers on your refrigerators for any questions you may have. However, your players should still call THEIR HEAD COACH if they will not be able to attend a practice or game. The coach’s phone numbers are at the bottom of every newsletter and on the homepage of the website.

PLEASE contact your parent rep with ANY concerns. We can not fix issues that we do not know about!

BIG PICTURE

OK… We are going to try this one last time! Tuesday only about 30% of the players showed up to practice with their game jerseys and a large number of the 5/6 team didn’t come to practice. This FRIDAY all teams should be prepared to take the big group picture at 5:30. Flag will not have practice but should come to get their picture taken, please!

PARKING

We have had some recent issues with parking. The school will be handling all future parking issues. They have asked the police to ticket cars parked in the no parking areas (along the road). We no longer have any responsibility to be the parking police (YAH!)

Tuesday, September 15^th and Thursday, September 17^th are Open House days at Barre City Elementary. Because we share their parking lot we ask that football parents either park at the pool or at the very end of the parking lot to allow parents access to the school.

Lost & Found

We have a lost and found box in the shed. It is growing! Please ask you player to check it if he is missing anything.

RAVENS FOOTBALL

Our flag football team has been invited to participate in the half time of the next Ravens game this Sunday at 1:00. Flag players should arrive before 1:30.

Our flag team will separate into two teams and scrimmage on the field during halftime for about 15 minutes. Remember… all BYSA Football players get into the Ravens games for free if they wear their game jersey. Parents and siblings are $5. If you are a flag parent and are only coming for halftime, please let the ticket people know when you come in and you will not have to pay, but you need to leave right after halftime.

RAFFLE TICKETS

Remember to keep selling raffle tickets! The tickets are only $1.00 each and every cent goes back into our BYSA program. Each player is required to sell at least 20 to offset our expenses.

SATURDAY GAME CONCESSIONS

This Saturday’s home games will be the Blue 5/6 and 7/8 teams. We would like the 7^th/8^th grade Blue team parents to cover the concessions for the 5^th/6^th and visa- versa. The parent reps may be contacting you if we do not have enough volunteers to cover the games.

WINOOSKI DRIVING DIRECTIONS

(for 5/6 and 7/8 Black)

· I-89 N toward Montpelier/Burlington (41.1 miles)

· Take the US-2/US-7 exit, Exit 16, toward Winooski/Colchester. (.2 miles)

· Turn left onto Theodore Roosevelt Hwy/US-2/US-7/Ethan Allen Hwy. (.4 miles)

· Turn left onto Normand St. (.2 miles)

· Winooski High School, 80 Normand Street

ESSEX DRIVING DIRECTIONS

(for flag)

· Merge onto I-89 N toward Montpelier/Burlington (28 miles)

· Take the US-2 exit, EXIT 11, toward VT-117/Richmond/Williston. (.3 miles)

· Turn Right onto W Main St/US-2/Theodore Roosevelt Hwy.

· Turn Slight Right onto River Rd/VT-117. Continue to follow VT-117. (7.2 miles)

· River Road turns into Maple Street. Park on the left, parking is on the right at Albert D. Lawton Middle School