Fall sports athletes forms

Fall sports athletes forms

August 9, 2001

BY JIM THOMAS
Journal Sports Editor

Summer vacation is winding down. It’s getting to be that time of year again to get ready for fall, winter and spring sports. All area prospective high school and middle school student-athletes should make sure they get all their needed forms filled out in order to participate in fall athletics.

Montezuma-Cortez High School will compete in boys and girls cross-country, football, softball, volleyball, boys tennis, boys soccer, boys golf and cheerleading. Dolores, Dolores County, and Mancos will compete in football, volleyball, and cheerleading. Mancos, though, will compete in cross-country.

Boys golf practice began informal workouts on Aug. 1 under new head coach Jack Jacobson and boys tennis informally started July 31 under the direction of new coach Jim Harkendorff. The Panther golfers will open the 2001 season with a three-day trip to the Grand Junction area. They will play at Bookcliff on Monday and then go to Tia Rado on Tuesday, Aug. 14, and travel to Rifle on Wednesday, Aug. 15. The boys tennis players will open their season on Friday, Aug. 17, at Fruita-Monument and then play at Montrose on Friday, Aug. 18.

Football, volleyball, boys soccer, softball, boys and girls cross-country, and cheerleading officially get under way on Monday, Aug. 13. Boys and girls cross-country is expected to have a new coach in place with final approval of that candidate being made at the August RE-1 School Board meeting.

MCHS second-year head football coach Karl McGee said the practice schedule for the first two weeks for varsity and junior varsity will be all day on Monday and Tuesday (8 a.m.-6 p.m. with lunch provided) and then 8 a.m.-noon Wednesday, Aug. 15, and 6-8 p.m. Thursday and Friday and then a 7 a.m. scrimmage and a senior trip to Sheep Mountain to follow on Saturday. The second week will go 6-8 p.m. Aug. 20-23. A game-day walk through will be held Aug. 24. A special event is in the offering on Aug. 25 but details are still being worked out.

Panther head volleyball coach Lindy Mortensen reported practice will start at 8:30 a.m. Monday in Ron Wright Memorial Gym. Practices will generally run from 8:30-11:30.

MCHS second-year head softball coach Charlie Rosenbaugh said he wanted to remind all girls to get their physicals and get all papers completed. He said the first practice will be at 5:30 p.m. Monday at Parque de Vida Softball Field. For more information, phone Rosenbaugh at 565-4162 or 565-1070.

The Panther boys soccer team will workout between 7-9 a.m. at Parque de Vida (south fields) and again from 6-8 p.m. at Norman Johnson Memorial Field, according to second-year head coach Todd Starr.

All MCHS student-athletes need to be sure to have all their required paperwork filled and signed. Most schools will have papers available by the first of August. Insurance waiver, physicals, parent/guardian release, and others such as travel/conduct papers inked, according to MCHS athletic director Allison said.

The Mancos High School and Mancos Middle School student-athletes should be getting ready for the 2001 fall athletic season. Official practice begins on Aug. 13 for the high school for football, volleyball, cross-country, and cheerleading. Official practices begin Aug. 20 for football, volleyball, and cheerleading the middle school.

According to Colorado High School Activities Association rules, before a student-athlete can participate in sports, they must get a current physical and have several forms completed before starting workouts. The forms needed are phyiscal, insurance varification, student-parent warning, and code of coduct. All forms will be available in the administration office for those who have not picked them up yet.

The required participation fees are $20 for MHS students and $15 for MMS students. A family is only responsible up to $100 for a full year for those with more than one student athlete.

MHS football will get under way at 7:45 a.m. Monday while volleyball will get started at 5 p.m. For more information, phone volleyball coach Mona Shepherd and/or new football coach Gordon Shepherd at 553-7279.

Dolores High School will kickoff the 2001 football season at 7 a.m. Monday with a breakfast for players and their parents or guardians in the school cafeteria. Also, the team is extending an invitation to the cheerleaders, administrators, school board members and interested fans.

The first practice will be held following the breakfast. Two-a-day practices will generally run from 7:15 -9 a.m. beginning Tuesday. Evening sessions will be held from 5:15-7:15 through Aug. 17. On Aug. 18, one practice only will be held from 8:30-10:30 a.m. During the week of Aug. 20-24 practices will be held from 5:15-7:15 p.m. For details, phone second-year head coach Don Story at 882-7288.

At Dolores County High School, football practice under veteran head coach Ken Soper will start at 9 a.m. Monday with a meeting at the school. Participants need to bring completed forms. Equipment will be checked out at that time. Sarah (Sutter) Glover, a standout volleyball player at MCHS several years back, will be the new head volleyball coach. She will be assisted by former DCHS graduate Shannon (Beanland) Buffington. They will also practice beginning at 9 a.m. in the gym. Glover replaces one-year coach Scott Crawford who resigned this summer.

Cortez 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 this Wednesday, 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.