Legend HS Girls 🏀 & Flag 🏈 Head Coach - Hoops & football girls are tough 💪! Referee/Assignor-High Rock Sports 🦓 🏀 B&B Basketball Academy - Teacher
@Legend
I’ll wear a mask, work at home, take food 2go, you name it. But STOP. CANCELING. KIDS’. SPORTS.
Kids aren’t equal in this. They’re far more essential! The MORE we give them structure and opportunity the LESS they spread c19 & the happier/safer they’ll be.
@GovofCO
@CDPHE
@CoPreps
So this happened tonight! I look like a complete idiot but who cares? What a great group of girls! So thankful … 3rd Final 4 and first time these girls will get the fan experience they deserve. ❤️
@GMHSRams
@GMHS_GirlsBBall
Basketball and volleyball should never be mutually exclusive until college.
You can play both, get exposure in both, be recruitable in both, make amazing memories and friends in both, win championships in both, learn from dedicated coaches in both.
Encourage kids to play!
@RhondaCHSAA
@jryancasey
@GovofCO
@jaredpolis
@CDPHE
Let families decide! Bring back sports. You’ve managed the outbreaks by limiting night clubs and public events. Now be reasonable and let sports happen! Kids are gathering together EITHER WAY so they might as well have the structure of safe events.
@RhondaCHSAA
@CHSAA
CDC Director, Dr Redfield on July 14: “... particularly in high schools, we’re seeing, sadly, far greater suicides now than we are deaths from Covid ... far greater deaths from drug overdose above excess ... than from Covid.” Bring back sports.
@GovofCO
Let families decide!
I love the Colorado coaching community. You’re some of my best friends and I appreciate your friendships and all the smack talk over the years. ❤️ 🏀 Have fun at
@GoldCrownCO
Team Camp and all your other camps this month coaching up your awesome kids!!!!
Urgent! Support Pine Creek 🏀 Coach Jubic! She’s facing a 2 gm suspension due to a mystery tech assessed after handshakes & not in the official book. Didn’t deserve 1 T let alone 2. It’s 1 thing that women get T’d up quicker; it’s another to tack on a T after the game!
@CHSAA
Happy May 1st! The first day per
@CHSAA
that 8th graders (incoming freshmen) can practice with their high school programs for optional, off-season workouts. Welcome your new teammates and enjoy competing with some new friends today!
Just spoke with another coach whose 🏀 program is down 40%.
@GovofCO
@CDPHE
you’re ruining it for kids 😷 . Thousands are quitting during a mental health crisis putting them at higher risk of everything bad. It’s no longer the virus that’s harming kids; it’s our own policies.
Basketball girls are the toughest.🏀
Work ethic
PASSION
Compete
Leaders
Weight room
CONFIDENCE
Take charge
Take A charge
Win the winter
Sweat
Snot bubble screens
Sprint
Talk
Grit
Amped up
Bruises
Never quit
Hustle
Heart
All in
4 each other.
Takes a special type of toughness!🏀❤️
Thankful that the team I love gets to play in the Sweet 16 tonight 🙏 🏀 ���️.
@GMHS_GirlsBBall
@GMHSRams
Lucky to have this group & proud of every kid in CO who didn’t quit.
In the dark days of Nov/Dec, this day seemed impossible. Thanks
@LetCOPlay1
and
@CHSAA
for your efforts!
@GovofCO
@CDPHE
@JeffcoPH
Some comments from CO families from the Return to Play Survey:
"My daughter is an only child and now is ALWAYS inside on a screen."
"Let them play, please."
"Sports are the foundation of her high school experience"
@CHSAA
@CoPreps
@ArielleOrsuto
In her heartbreak, Jacquie told me it would be amazing if the education of young people about the love adults have for them could prevent this type of tragedy for even one other family.
No matter the struggle, your coaches, family, & teammates love you & will help you thru it.
Our condolences go out to the JPS Sports famiy,
Just Play Sports Community, It is with a heavy heart and deep sadness that I wanted to share a little bit of my week with you. Our beloved son, Cayson Jack Pearson took his life on Wednesday night. He did this after a decade long
Dad/Daughter Father’s Day Clinic
@LadyTitanSwish
In what could be considered a huge upset …
Mason, Janeen, Laney, Aubrey, Katie, Ava, Maley, Hailey, Bella, Payton (not pictured), and Buddy 🐶 take down the dads in the final minute!
Ice up, gentlemen, and Happy Dad’s Day!
If you could recruit a double digit scorer on a top ranked Colorado 6A team who’s 2nd on the team in assists, 1st in steals, 2nd in rebounding, 1st in deflections, 1st in VPS, & hits 39% from behind the arc … you would, right??? Get to know
@MaleyWilhelm
!
Why do we still split our 🏀 fan bases, boys @ one gym, girls @ another? Let’s get both under one roof whenever we can!
4pm B JV main - G JV aux
5:30 G Var main - B L3 aux
7 B Var main - G L3 aux
More fans 4 boys. More fans 4 girls. Staff w/ 9 refs vs 10.
@CHSAA
@PGHColorado
@CHSAA
Bring back sports! Clubs have been practicing for months without outbreaks. Let families decide and opt out based on their own particular risk factors (grandparent living at home, family member at risk, etc.). Protect the vulnerable. Offer full seasons; our kids need it!
Colorado kids and families are extremely frustrated. Yet most will never be heard. Today’s your chance to stand up for what’s right! Your comments on the petition are passionate and thoughtful. Now TAKE ACTION and be heard loudly TODAY at 2pm!
It’s protest day!! Please bring your signs and masks! We have approval to park at the Gamma Construction vacant office building next to park @ 4490 E Virginia Ave if needed.
If unable to make it please take a photo with a sign and post and tag us.
@coloradopreps
At what point will health officials, administrators, and politicians realize it’s not the virus that’s torturing kids, it’s their own rules?
@CDPHE
@GovofCO
Skyhawks land an all-time great Titan … versatility, scoring, toughness, leadership, defense …
@_katielamb4
will bring so many weapons with her out to Durango. Can’t wait to see her thrive
@FortLewis_WBB
❤️ 🏀!
Nice to see this one splash 17 as a freshman yesterday. Not able to pull off the win but those wins will come. So so so proud of
@Jayda_Maves23
❤️ 🏀 💪🏼 …
When coaching club 🏀, I’m on the same team as our kids’ HS coaches. We should work WITH HS coaches, not against, 2 support kids & their school teams.
This isn’t just 4 recruiting, but what can u bring back to your school, your community?
@bandb_academy
So much talent at the Front Range League Girls 🏀 All Star Game!
South leading North 47-43.
@NGuanella
and Ella Bartsch leading scorers with 9pts.
@audravine
is one of the best passers in CO.
Bela Voglund leads North with 9.
Have been fortunate enough to coach, ref, color commentate, promote, recruit for, and write about the game 🏀. Tonight my first time doing PA announcing. Thanks
@AppletonEastBB
! I swear I had practiced saying Prestigiacomo a dozen times! 🤦♂️
@AppletonEast
Happy Tryout Week in Wisconsin!
Happy Team Camp Week in Colorado!
May all your rivals have snow days while your gym is hopping.
❤️ 🏀 Let’s coach ‘em up! 🏀 ❤️
Forcing kids to 😷 while playing 🏀 during a mental health crisis? Really
@jaredpolis
@GovofCO
??
🤦♂️ Please stop kicking them while they’re down. Give kids one breath of fresh air during this time. They’ve taken on enough of the burden.
This happened tonight! 🥹 🏀
Fond du Lac played their guts out and we dodged a bullet. A buzzer-beating memory our girls will have forever. Lilly to Lindsey for the win.
@appletoneastgbb
@AppletonEast
Hey no one died or anything … but tell someone close 2 you that they matter & make it public. Nothing worse than words @ a funeral 4 someone who can no longer take those words in.
Thanks, dad, 4 encouraging me 2 keep coaching 4 years ago when it became tough to balance w/ work.
Coaches, players, parents! Be there! Even if sports DON’T get moved up we still need to press that they approve variances for the Jan 25 start. That is not guaranteed!There’s SO much evidence of how much kids are struggling and
@cdphe
and
@GovofCO
need to listen!
WINTER & SPRING SPORTS PROTEST TO REVERSE POSTPONEMENT. Thursday @ 2PM. Creek Side Park, across from CDPHE offices. On Clermont Street, south of Virginia Avenue & 1 block west of Cherry Street. Bring your teams!! RSVP on FB
@CDPHE
@GovofCO
@jaredpolis
Low energy gym vs high energy gym …
Volunteer runner, Tatem, had no idea what the girls had planned. Said her second run was a lot more fun and helped her perform better!
#benchenergy
We’d never win a HS game without the efforts of our youth coaches. Thank you!
@appletoneastgbb
Travis Fischer
Matt Erickson
Maddox Erickson
Tom McDonald
Ross Nissen
Lisa Ross
Larry Baier
Ken Mauer
Chad Schafer
Kyle Hopfensperger
Jess MontMarquette
Eric Demerath
JasonNeubauer
Forget the 24 hour rule, how 'bout the 24 month rule? Let your kid go thru some struggles. Coaches can read body language, see the frustration, & will help the kid thru it if you give them the chance. Your kid will be better off that you didn't complain at the first setback.
@coloradopreps
@CDPHE
standards are impossible and leaving too many kids home who deserve to be playing. They make zero consideration for mental health and the importance of high school athletics. Protect the vulnerable and let kids play!
In states west of the Mississippi, players may remove their mask 2 play in MN, AK, MT, ND, SD, ID, NV, TX, NE, UT, KS, AR, IA, MO, AZ, OK, LA, & CA.
They may not in CO, OR, & WA.
All, work w/ your leaders at
@CDPHE
to plz b real & get this right 4 kids.
@GovofCO
@coloradopreps
@JeffcoPH
@CDPHE
@GovofCO
If you shut everyone down due 2 Covid dial L3, please use common sense/flexibility & add variances for kids! A giant gym with a 30ft ceiling is clearly NOT the same as an enclosed classrm. Stop punishing kids w/ rigid, blanket closures!
@JeffcoAthletics
What a gorgeous day! 🌞 🏔️ ❤️ Shoutout to Douglas County Schools
@dcsdk12
for thinking outside the box and letting kids have after school activities. Can’t wait for practice this aft with
@LadyTitanSwish
. 🏀 Lots to work on!!
After making a splash in CO her soph. season, Grace is showing no signs of slowing down. We win at 50/50 balls, taking charges, racking up steals, deflections, assists because Grace is ruthless as a hustler & extra pass creator. Sag off & she’ll slay from behind the arc, too.
26 days since we’ve played … to say I’m wicked excited to coach this
@GMHS_GirlsBBall
team tonight is a massive understatement! So so so so so so lucky and thankful to have this talented group.
@LHSLionsBball1
is huge and will be TOUGH 😳.
Two great ones from the Rams’ legendary class of ‘22
@GreenMtnHSgbb
going places. Jasmine McColl on
@RegisUniversity
Dean’s List👩🎓& Shea Murphy
@RegisRangers
all
@RMAC_SPORTS
Honorable Mention - Women’s Lacrosse. Rangers ➡️ RMAC Finals Sunday at noon. Go 🐏 Rams! Go Rangers!
If u saw
@LadyTitanSwish
play June u saw a Maley explosion. Excelling in our fast-paced style, Maley brings energy & selflessness. Tough guards who defend/rebound w grit? Yes, please! Ended June with 18 pts vs
@30coachv
. Can’t wait 2 see which
@RMAC_SPORTS
were paying attention.
@jryancasey
@BenParris04
Keep pushing
@CDPHE
to be reasonable. There are countless ways to reduce spread without forcing kids to sprint in a sweaty, disgusting mask they keep touching. Let kids be kids. They’ve paid the heaviest burden. Use research in all the states who’ve played for months w/out masks.
CO B/G 🏀 Coaches! Plz like/RT if you agree we need to let kids play Nov/Dec! ~85% of CO fams want this so I’m compiling a list of coaches backing a real season. We can do better than a club free-4-all for 2 mnths and then a gutted season. DM if u pref 2 b private. Let’s step up!
@Lights2TheWorld
@CHSAA
@CDPHE
@GovofCO
Via countless email exchanges with
@CDPHE
, it’s become apparent that they operate as if the mental health crisis simply doesn’t exist. & what kids have endured for >11 months makes no difference. It’s eerily cold. Parents & coaches left to pick up the pieces.
Have coached
@SammiBeyer
for three workouts and can already tell what a great leader and competitor she is. She’s been well-coached by
@broadway21
and has had a champion’s work ethic to get to this point. I’m lucky I get to coach her as a senior!
No more cuts/closures/cancellations & outrageous quarantines 4 kids. None. They’ve carried 2 much burden for 10 months now. Time 2 give some normalcy 2 kids. Let’s direct every effort, test, & dollar towards the vulnerable & their caretakers.
@CDPHE
@GovofCO
@coloradopreps
Can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em …
@Jayda_Maves23
smoked me in some HORSE this aft. Then we teamed up and crushed a boys player and coach in some 2v2. Better to play with her than against her! 🏀
@GMHS_GirlsBBall
@westerncowbb