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Aug 7, 2001

This fall the middle school is excited to begin the sports season by offering volleyball and football to all incoming seventh and eighth-grade athletes.

The sports schedules offer a variety of schools to compete against at several levels of competition. Cortez Middle School is a member of the San Juan Basin League that includes many schools from the surrounding area. These schools participate against Cortez in football, volleyball, basketball, wrestling, and track throughout the school year.

Fall sports for seventh and eighth-grade students will begin Aug. 15. Football players will meet at CMS cafeteria at 9 a.m. to hand in paperwork to the coaches and be issued uniforms. Volleyball players will meet at 4 p.m. in the main gym in the middle school and these girls will also meet with the coaches and hand in paperwork.

These athletes will need to have an updated physical from their doctor that is dated after July 1 in order to be compliance with school policy. Permission slips, proof of insurance, consent to treat, warming of risk statements and rules of play are included in the packet of information that were given to interested athletes during the May sports meetings. This paperwork for fall sports can also be obtained from the middle school or at Cortez City Park Municipal Pool. Several local doctors’ offices will also be given copies of the forms needed for physicals for seventh and eighth grade student-athletes.

Youth football for fifth and sixth grade RE-1 Montezuma-County School District students will begin with registration on Aug. 30 at 5 p.m. in the cafeteria. Practices will begin on Sept. 4 at 5:30 p.m. at the Dolores Road Soccer Field. Youth sports players do not need a physical but paperwork still needs to be completed by registration time.

Phone CMS at 565-7824 for more information on these sports program or phone CMS Athletic Director Jamie Haukeness at 565-9113 for more details.