Palisades Pirates Youth Football and Cheerleading

Palisades Pirates Youth Football is asking for your help! Please check the list below and come to a meeting and see whats going on in your organization. PPYF monthly meetings are the second Wednesday of every month in Room 105 of PHS (unless otherwise specified)! Yup even in the off season.

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INFORMATION & ANNOUNCEMENTS

This is an article printed in the November Bucks County Herald featuring our Undefeated 120lb Pee Wee Bucks Mont Champions!

PIRATE WEAR WILL BE AVAILABLE ON ALL HOME GAME VENUES! SWEATSHIRTS, BLANKETS, SHIRTS, SHORTS, HATS, UMBRELLAS AND MUCH MUCH MORE! STOCK UP WHILE IT LASTS, IT'S GOING TO GO FAST!

Photo by Wendy will be taking individual, team, and ACTION photos on 9/26 (rain date 10/3) when our Pirates are scheduled to tear up the turf all day! Order Forms can be downloaded on our "Forms" page or right here by clicking the "Order forms" link.

Palisades Pirates Youth Football Association has something to celebrate! Nine of our football players were selected as a Pop Warner All-American Scholar. Join us in congratulating our fine young students for their academic accomplishments. The Pop Warner awarding process is solely based on academics (96% GPA or higher) and other extracurricular activities besides athletics. There are over 410,000 youth that participate nationally in Pop Warner Football & Spirit programs and from that number 8,100 are All-American Applicants. The awarded athletes are ranked among the top 2% of the children participating in Pop Warner. AWESOME JOB KIDS!

Pop Warner All-American Scholars
2nd Team

Tyler Marsh – 5th grade
William Sadow – 5th grade
Joseph Backowski – 6th grade
Brandon Martin – 6th grade
Nickolas Sanders – 6th grade
Bryce Shortall – 6th grade

Honorable Mention

Blake Cassalia – 5th grade
Devin Ramsden – 6th grade
Christopher Karasinski – 7th grade

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Head Coach application for 2009.
Instructions: Save this application to your computer using the title-"Coach Application-(your last name)" Complete the saved copy and email it to football-comm@ppyf.com
All coaches (Head & Asst.) must complete the online coach's certification level 1 which will then be good for three years. You can access the site for USA Football from our "Links" page.
BACKGROUND CHECKS must be obtained by all coaching staff, and field volunteers and turned into our President. You can access this site from our "Links" page.
CHECK OUT THE NEW REVISED (DRAFT) BYLAWS on the "forms" page!
Please read them over and send questions, comments & critique to president@ppyf.com

VOLUNTEER SUPPORT NEEDED FOR THE FOLLOWING. PLEASE CONTACT ANY BOARD MEMBER OR A CHAIRPERSON IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN HELPING OUT IN ANY OF THE FOLLOWING. OR PLEASE COME TO A MEETING AND LEARN MORE.

HOME GAME DAY HELP

*arrive 1 hour prior to first game

*help with setting up field (markers, etc)

*filling coolers with ice for each side of the field

*sponsor banner hanging

*running the time clock for games

*spotting (who makes the tackle, number, name)

*announcing (only if Mr. Kinsey doesn’t come back whch hopefully he will)

*stadium clean up at the end of the day

FUNDRAISING – Kara Sklodowski (Chairperson)

*fundraising table (home games only)

*individual game raffles

*end of year raffle (distribute tickets, collect ticket stubs, conduct drawing at the banquet)

NEWSLETTER – Gloria Scott (Chairperson)

*formatting and email distribution

PUNT PASS KICK – Al Marsh (Chairperson)

*field set-up, measurers, writing scores down

CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP – Dave Lodwig (Chairperson)

*sending letters to area business’s

*phone contact with business’s

*ordering banners

WEBSITE – John Blanchard (Chairperson)

*reviewing website and verifying all information is correct.

PICTURE DAY – OPEN POSITION

*organize/schedule time & date with photographer

*distribute information to each team

*manage the picture day picture taking

SCHOLASTICS – Ella Marsh (Chairperson)

*assist with reviewing report cards for participants, compiling notebooks to submit to league & All American candidates. (majority of time is needed in August)

PUBLIC RELATION HELP (NEW COMMITTEE)

*Submit articles/events about organization & teams to the local newspapers

*Team/PPYF Program (ex. team picture w/names, schedules of each team)

*Mass e-mail distribution (research needed to be done – possibly I-CONTACT)

*Possible Spaghetti dinners, Beef & Beer, etc.. (open for ideas)

CHEER COMMISSIONER – OPEN POSITION