Prescribed Burn Steep Creek, Boulder Mt. summer 2009

FB Camp

He$$ Week

Well He$$ week has come and gone and all of our kids survived. Our two-a-day practices were very well attended and we were able to get in some good conditioning and reps.

Each morning we began with warm-ups and dynamic stretches. Then our kids were put into four groups for 5 minute rotations at various skill stations. Next we alway followed our individual time with a group competition. "Find the Bag" was the kids' favorite. We set up six lines of kids with only 5 bags in various positions on the field. After a few up-downs, the kids turn and sprint to a bag. One person is always left not getting a bag, so they get to run to the far fence and back.

Then we had three great sessions in the weight room. Each day consisted of ten different stations. Any station was four minutes long, with each member in the group (4 in a group) getting 10-12 reps on that particular lift or movement.

Some of the lifts included: wall balls, squats, high pull sumo deadlifts, pull-ups, up-right rows, lunges, step-ups, hang cleans, bench, and dips.

CTE Conference

I went to Park City this last week to the Health Science CTE conference. It was held at Park City High School. Talk about an amazing place! Park City is so beautiful this time of year. I was also very impressed with the high school. Big and beautiful, nothing second-rate at that school! The conference was very informative. One of our key note speakers was Eric Heiden, winner of 5 gold medals in the 1980 Olympics in speed skating. He and his wife are both orthopedic surgeons in the Park City area. It was pretty cool to hear about his life and his Olympic experience.

First Stadium Workout in the books!!

Nice job tonight to all of those football players who came out to the first ever stadium workout! It was fast and furious and made everyone sweaty!! But we were done and out in 35 minutes!
Congrats to Cory Johnson who had 152 foot contacts during the jump rope session!! Way to go Cory!! Thursday we'll see who has the fastest 40 time and agility times.
So spread the word, get everyone in the weightroom tomorrow or Friday morning, and we'll see you again on Thursday.

Don't forget the prizes for those with best attendance through our summer prep workouts!!

Funding Cut

I found out from my principal that the state has cut funding for alcohol and drug prevention in schools. I'm not sure exactly where the money comes from, but it accounts for between $500-$1,000 to our school to help in teaching alcohol, tobacco, and drug prevention. We used this money to help fund all of our Red Ribbon Week activites, prizes, and assemblies, as well as other activities throughout the year. I think we will be ok for this coming year because there should be enough in the health budget, but I'm concerned about the year after and subsequent years. Statewide, I'm curious to know what kind of impact this will have on our young people in the next few years.

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