Transcript 2009 Girls Basketball Parent Night Thursday, January 15 4

Kaneland Harter Middle
School Spring Sports
Orientation
Thursday, March 21
Sportsmanship
• Failure to display proper sportsmanship may result in
a student not being permitted to further participate
in athletics for up to one year, or as listed under the
attendance policy
• If character is what you do when no one is watching,
then sportsmanship is that conduct with everybody
watching. Bob Ley
Athletic Goals
• Kaneland Harter Middle School Athletics
strives to:
– Build a successful and competitive program
– Learn fundamentals of track and field
– Embrace and respect competition
– Build a cohesive program from community feeder
programs to Kaneland High School
– Help students understand the role of sports in
their lives
Expectations as our athletes leave KHMS
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Proper warm up and cool down, including an active or dynamic warm up each day
Form drills used in practice and knowledge of what good form looks like
Form drills used as a part of competition
How to warm up before a race, when to warm up, what to do in between events
We want them to understand that track is a team sport and by the time they get to
high school they are expected to stay until the end of the meet unless they have a
legitimate excuse for leaving. We encourage our athletes to stay until the end of
the meet to support their team.
We encourage athletes to try different events. They are going to grow and change
and what they are good at now might be different when they are fully grown.
We want our athletes to pay attention to teammates in other events
400 is a sprint not a distance race
Practice is an essential element of this sport
Key elements such as flexibility, strength, speed, and injury prevention come from
doing the little things at home and at practice
Track is a sport about setting personal goals and having everyone being successful
Expectations as our athletes leave KHMS
• All jumpers should know how to get steps, how to measure
them out, and have a standard starting point for jumps
• Relays need to include handoffs that are executed the same
way as the high school teams. This would include the use of
markers and getting steps all necessary for handoffs.
• Come out of a starting block for any race 400 meters or less
• Attend a high school home meet if possible
• Boys – April 20 Girls – April 6 or 13
Sports Boosters
• President: Mr. Ryan Delahanty
• KHMS parents are welcome to join KHS sports
boosters
• Website is www.kanelandsportsboosters.com
• During the last two school years this group has
funded trips to Normal, and Peoria for Cross
Country and Track
• Applications are on the table
Prairie Conference 2013
• Oswego Plank, Oswego Thompson, Oswego
Bednarcik, Oswego Traughber, Oswego Murphy,
Yorkville, Sandwich and Plano
• All meets at 4:30, dependent on transportation
availability of the visiting school
• Saturday meet in Lisle April 27
• IESA Sectional in Sycamore May 11
• State Meet in Peoria May 17 and 18
Eligibility
INELIGIBILITY MEANS
• One or more failing grades (F)
• More than two warning grades anything above an (F)
• Ineligible athletes may continue to practice with team but
may not participate in or travel to any athletic contests
• The warning week from previous years is no longer valid
• Grades in all classes are used to determine eligibility
including exploratories
• Eligibility runs Monday through Sunday
• The AD may build in a 2 week buffer at the beginning of a
season
Code of Conduct
1. Attend school, practices, and contests/performances.
2. Travel on school arranged transportation for all away from school
events.
3. In all activities, participants must maintain eligibility standards as
established for such activities.
4. Be responsible for all equipment and/or clothing issued for the
activity and the return of such equipment at the end of the activity.
5. Adhere to all rules set forth in the student handbook.
6. Display conduct becoming a Kaneland Middle School representative
including the respect for people and property at all times.
7. No use, possession, or distribution of alcohol, and other controlled
substances on school property or at school sponsored events.
School Holiday Practices
• Effective immediately, coaches are discouraged from having
practices on holidays and holiday weekends, such as Labor
Day, Thanksgiving, Columbus Day, etc. This certainly includes
practices that involve parents providing transportation to and
from practice. In the event that practice is necessary due to
contests scheduled immediately after the holiday in question,
those practices are to be structured as optional or open gym
formats. Players should not be penalized for their absence,
i.e. losing the ability to start or play significant time in the next
scheduled contest.
2013 Spirit Pack
• Program is totally optional
• Funds raised will be used to support Kaneland Harter Middle School Track
Program
• Process is completed totally online
• Items range from sweatshirts, tshirts, shorts, other track related items
• Sale is currently ongoing
• An account has been set-up with mylocker.net
• At home page on the right side search for Kaneland Middle School in Sugar
Grove, Illinois
• On the next page, select the activity of Track and Field
• Continue shopping until you are ready to checkout
• Here is the link http://www.mylocker.net/illinois/maple-park/kanelandmiddle-school/index.html
Fee Payment
Parents wishing to pay athletic fees online, in
addition to lunch money, PE clothes, etc. may do
so using the
Kaneland Web Store at kaneland.org.
Select Harter Middle School
Select HMS Athletics
Select Sport
Print a receipt for your records
Participation
• Students who are present in PE class that day
and do not participate in PE will not
participate on athletic teams on that day. This
includes students with a no dress or without
appropriate shoes for that class.
• There will be consistent communication
between the PE Dept. and the Coaching Staff
www.highschoolsports.net
• Select “Harter Middle School”
– Select “Athletics”
– Select “Athletics Calendar
– Create an account
– Select “Team Subscriptions and Notifications”
– Use pull-down menu to add schools and teams
Parent Pick Up
Practice and Events
• We ask that students be picked up at the Student Events
Entrance promptly at the conclusion of practice.
• Practice times will be firm, events will vary based on arrival of
both teams, length of game, etc.
• Any student who is not picked up within 30 minutes of the
end of the scheduled event will face the following
consequences:
– 1st Offense Warning
– 2nd Offense – 1 full competition suspension
– Subsequent Offenses - 1 full competition suspension
Picture Day
– Basketball Team Pictures, Wed. April 3rd
after school
IESA Rule Change
At it’s June 2012 Board of
Director’s meeting, the IESA
adopted a new rule in regards
to participation in club or AAU
sports. Basically, the
participation requirements
are now totally set by the
individual school district.
Individual coaches already
have rules in place in regards
to attendance, etc.
Those stated rules will now
be followed with no
exceptions.
Resulting discipline based on
the type of infraction.
In all cases, school contests
supercede “club” activity