New Parent Travel Meeting!
The qualifier season will be here before we know it and our first travel trip is a month away (yikes)! As we prepare to move into the most important (and most hectic) part of our season, we request that all parents of athletes new to Front Range plan to be at our New Parent Travel Meeting on Saturday, Jan 19th at 6:30 pm at Front Range. Many important aspects of travel and national tournaments will be discussed. Mark your calendar now!
Please print the travel form, fill it out and bring it to the meeting (or drop it off at the SILO before Sat.). This is to let us know if you want us buy plane fare for your daughter on the various trips. We need you to indicate (by circling “YES” or “NO”) for each trip what you want to do.
If you do not fill out this form, we will not purchase a ticket for your daughter and you will be responsible for seeing that she arrives at the team hotel by the time set by her coach and gets home herself. If you do commit, you will be billed for the ticket.
Just When You Thought You Had Sunday Free: Power #2 (Part 1)
Actually, you do have a Sunday free, this one! We regret not specifying that Power #2 is not until NEXT Sunday, January 27th and the Sunday following, February 3rd.
The Rocky Mountain Region continues the 2008 season over the next two weekends with the Power Tournament #2. This Sunday's playing sites are listed below. To see the complete list of teams, see this PDF . Click
here if you need directions to any of the sites. All sites have unique rules that govern their use; most sites do not allow coolers in the gym. Please represent Front Range well by being sure to obey the rules of the facility, as well as the tournament director. If you have any questions, please contact
your coach.
Silver: Co-Coaches Miret and Fiallos |
Colorado Springs School |
Crimson: Coach Aaron Shepardson |
Volley Shack |
Blue: Coach James Beasley |
Colorado Springs School |
Red: Coach Craig Kingsley |
ACES |
White: Co-Coaches Emilee and Michelle Hoffner |
Arena Sports |
Amber: Coach Shawn Kissman |
Volley Shack |
Royal: Coach Sasha Kissman |
RMAC |
Ruby: Coach Jolene Shepardson |
CCU |
Scarlet: Coach Erin Dilbeck |
Volley Shack |
A reminder to all of you shutterbugs out there that picture submissions are always welcome for use in future newsletters as well as for use in the banquet slide show. Please email pictures to eduardo@frvbc.com or bring a CD-ROM with pictures to Eduardo at Front Range. Thanks!
Power #1 Weekend 1 Results
If your New Year's resolution involved getting off the couch more, Front Range teams tried hard to accommodate you last weekend by playing everywhere but Denver. Here's how the teams fared last Sunday.
Blue: Coach James Beasley |
5th in16's Div 1 |
Red: Coach Craig Kingsley |
6th in16's Div 1 |
White: Co-Coaches Emilee and Michelle Hoffner
|
4th in 15's Div 1 |
Cardinal: Coach Dave Youngblood |
6th in 15's Div 1 |
Navy: Coach Aaron Shepardson |
3rd in 15's Div 3 |
Amber: Coach Shawn Kissman |
3rd in 16's Div 4 |
Royal: Coach Sasha Kissman |
6th in 15's Div 3 |
Scarlet: Coach Erin Dilbeck |
2nd in 13's Div 1 |
Pink: Coach Jennifer Pokraka |
5th in 13's Div 2 |
Boys: Coach Brett Ammerman |
5th in Men's Div 1 |
Ideas For Food At All Day Tournaments
by Katherine Lindgren
WATER WATER WATER!!!
English muffin
Granola with yogurt
Bran muffins
Cereal with milk or yogurt
Cottage cheese and fruit
Oatmeal-Raisin cookies
Triscuits
Hard boiled eggs
String Cheese
Graham Crackers
Pudding
Jello
Applesauce
Sport drinks (after match, not during or before)
Sport bar
Bagels with light cream cheese/peanut butter
Gorp-- try dried fruit, mixed nuts, popcorn, cereals and a few M&M’s :)
Vegetables and Dip - broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, peppers, tomato and light ranch dressing or a homemade dip of your own
Chicken/Tuna salad sandwiches - add celery, carrot, radish, peppers, brussel sprouts, bamboo shoots, spinach, lettuce, put in pita shells or on whole grain bread!
Pasta salad -add turkey (or any lean meat), cheese, carrot, tomato, avacado, pepper, radish, celery, peas
Legumes - add beans like kidney beans, lima beans, navy beans with rice and corn dishes that can be served cold. Especially good in mexican dishes!
Fresh fruit/juice - get a variety and mix it up! Apples, oranges, bananas, papaya, kiwi, grapefruit, grapes, pears, watermelon, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, honeydew, cantaloupe, peaches, dates, raisins, prunes, cranberries!
Alumnae News
Quite possibly the biggest buzz in college volleyball lately has been the recent decision of Rachel Holloway to retire from volleyball. Citing her desire to pursue some other priorities in her life, Holloway withdrew from Nebraska and elected to end her illustrious volleyball after her second year at the helm of Nebraska's powerful offense. See Nebraska's press release here and an article in the Lincoln Journal-Star's Husker Extra here.
From everyone in the Front Range family, we thank Rachel for all the wonderful memories. We have always enjoyed seeing you compete, whether it has been in a Front Range uniform, as a Cornhusker, or representing your country on the Youth and Junior National Teams. We are all lucky to have seen you play and even luckier to know you and your family. Good luck in your new pursuits!
A Language Lesson With Our Personal Soldier
Staff Sergeant Dawson strikes again!
Hello everybody,
Today is Friday the 11th of January 2008. I woke up at 0400 hours,thats 4:00 am. To my surprise, It was snowing. It actually stuck for awhile. How cool is that, talk about Global warming. I've seen it snow further up north but, not here in Balad. Our ISF section won the Goat award this week, Its kinda cool, Its the first time we've recieved it. It goes to a section or individual who does or say's something dumb. No, it wasn't me. anyway, I am going to make this Goat FAMOUS! I am going to take this goat everywhere I go and photograph him doing strange or funny thing. here's some Iraqi words and phrases that we use.
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Ah salam a'lakum!
( ah-salam-a-lake-um) May god watch over you, or bless you.
Marhaba sladicki, shlonik?.
(mar-ha-baa) hi or hello
(sla-dicky) my friends.
(shh-low-nick) how are you?
Kay-fa- ou-sa-ra, how is your family?(FRBC).
Ana bakhar.
(Anna b'care.) i am fine.
ta'haleem( i am learning).
Ta-a-leem.
Masalama,
Ma-sa-lama. good-bye or good night.
In regards to competition from Jean-Marie, Somewhere oversea's.
tell her I said, Hi. and be safe.
for the coaches," el fi yedik" (L-fi-yed-yek) put your hands up!
Soldier Up!
SSG Dawson
This Just In! A Thursday morning update from our Personal Soldier!
I was evac'd to Landstuhl, Germany. I'm at the wounded warrior center, I have to have something taken out of my chest. I kind of wish it were a bullet, but its not. I found a lump in my chest muscle, there doing test, and I have surgery next Thursday. would you make sure someone emails me the copy of your news letter? I'll keep you posted. thanks for writting, and tell everyone I said, Hi
FRVBC's Personal Soldier.
SSG Dawson
The Welcome Mat
Please help us roll out the welcome mat and welcome this year's crop of new Front Range athletes. This week, we welcome our 14 Royal newcomers to the fold. Pictured above, from left to right, are: Melanie Washechek, Afton Montgomery, Allie Lundberg,
Alexis Petit, Kelli Starbuck, Megan Turner, and Michaela Smith. We are excited to have you join our family!
And Now For Something Completely Different...
The President's Day Classic in Omaha is only 30 days away! That's 43,200 minutes, so no holding your breath! (Just hold those hotel rooms!) The average person's heart will beat about 3 million times between now and then but an athlete's heart will probably beat less than that because people in good physical condition tend to have lower heart rates.
February and March (Metro teams only) calendars are now available online. Be sure to check it out here.
