The Newberg Varsity Cheer is our March Girls Athlete of the Month.  The girls have done a tremendous job supporting all of our Newberg Athletic Teams!  In addition, they had a tremendous year in competition, placing second in the Cheerleading State Championship in the 6A small school division.  Congratulations!

Tommy Sciciliano  is the first four-time Oregon Class 6A wrestling champion. He posted a career high school record of 101-6. Siciliano is the only wrestler to win four individual titles at the Reser’s Tournament of Champions. He is a four-time Pacific Conference champion and was 2010 runner-up at the senior nationals at 125 lbs. He was also selected as the 2010 National Wrestling Coaches Association High School Wrestler of the Year for Oregon.

Girls Swimming °© Relay Teams
Cassie Beecher, Meghan O°ØHalloran, Alysha Bush, Catherine Mays, Hannah Miller-not pictured

Three relay teams all set school records at the Pacific Conference District Meet.  Two of the relay teams are district champions!  Congratulations ladies!

AJ Grant
Senior
AJ is averaging almost 20 points per game, leading the Tigers to a first place position in the Pacific Conference.  However, it is AJ°Øs strength of character and his daily actions as a first class individual that have earned him this recognition.  Congrats AJ!

Newberg Booster Club

Minutes – February 17, 2010

In attendance:  Tim Burke, Valerie Hamilton, Leonard Farr, Cheryl Gardner, Doug Corder, Sam Petrie(student), Jordan Danielson(student), Jon Halstead, Mary Jane Bachmeier, Stacie Wolfe, Carol O’Halloran ,Joan Broadwell.

1. Review January Meeting Minutes
∑ Tim handed out January minutes, as prepared by Jill McKenzie.  Motion to approve minutes made by  Doug Corder.  Seconded by Mary Jane Bachmeier.  Motion passed

2. Financial Report – Kathy Jones/ Valerie Hamilton
∑ Kathy had a family emergency.  As such, it is recommended that we table all requests until officers can vote via email

3. Requests
® Baseball – Sam Petrie and Jordan Danielson – baseball.  Baseball is heading to Arizona over spring break.  They are requesting $1600 for help paying for transportation (van rental) once down there.
® Girls Tennis – Jon Halstead – Request for $400 to pay for a ball cart to replace the shopping cart that has been used in the past.  Also purchased would be training discs and 60 soft spin tennis balls for training.
® Boys Tennis – Dave Brown – no one here.
® Grad Night – Valerie Hamilton – Grad Night has requested booster wear for their auction.  Items suggested to donate are flip-flops, sweatshirt and sweatpants.  Auction will be held in April.

4. Athletes of the Month:
∑ AJ Grant and Austin Woods nominated:  AJ was chosen.
∑ Girls Swimming Relay Teams and Newberg Cheerleaders were nominated.  Girls Swimming Relay Teams were chosen.

5. Old Business
® Crab Feed – 130 tickets sold.   Good participation in baskets.  Food was fantastic – local families donated wine to sell by the glass.  Need more involvement for people to lead different aspects, as opposed to Lisa and Valerie taking on and directing the event.  Specific sport teams can take on certain tasks.  We need to list tasks, assign those tasks to teams/coaches.  Kids can donate a few hours of time and repay adults for their support.
® Teams can be preparing baskets seasonally.
® Although financial report isn’t available tonight, a guess is that the auction brought in about $7,000.  As this event grows, we need to branch out to alumni.  Other ideas include having businesses sponsor tables of 8.

6.    Spirit Events
® We have had two events.  McMinnville, on Thursday, February 25 will be the last one.

7.    Committee Reports
∑ Concessions – Cheryl Gardner
Winter review – A lot of different names are on the list, which is great.  We still have a handful of steadfast volunteers.  Tiger Cub Cheer Night caught us off guard, in terms of stock, so Tim will give heads up next year.

Playoffs:  Girls Basketball will host a game at 7pm on Tuesday, March 2.  Boys will host a game on Wednesday, March 3.

Spring concessions:
Track, baseball, softball.  Probably no tennis.  We still need someone to wire the concessions trailer.
Special Middle School/Club Events.  There will be two middle school track meets and one middle school district wrestling tournament on March 10.  Tim will get the two track dates out to Valerie and Lisa.

∑ Tiger Gear – Kathy Miller – need to get a table out to display the booster gear so it is in front of people.  Mary Jane will help organize, while Paula Kriz models the booster wear.

∑ Field of Dreams/Track Project– Tim Burke
$50,000 was deposited from A-dec foundation.

∑ Scrip – took a little break.  We will get this back up and running full speed after a lull for the crab feed.

8.  New Business
∑ Booster Club Mission Task Force
i. Valerie is suggesting a task force to talk about the direction of the booster club.  The feeling is that groups are still fragmented back into their own programs.  While things are better, are they what we as a program want/need?  Use this as a checkpoint to determine course of the club in the future.  How do teams view the boosters?  What do they see?  What do they want?  Global approach to all programs…is this working for teams?  What are the obstacles that prevent this group from exploding into a larger, more functional group?  Can Claudia Stewart put together a zoomerang survey that would help generate more feedback?  Must involve the coaches.  Coaches must actively demonstrate support for boosters, buy-in and get support from their parents.  How do we accomplish this task?
ii. Action:  Doug suggested a summer project?  Need to organize it now.
∑ Golf Tournament…any interest in getting this going?
∑ Elections in May…

Meeting adjourned at 8:20pm.

Next Meeting –March 17th - 7 PM in the NHS Library – Wear green!

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