COLORADO COACH- SPRING 2019 FROM THE SPORT PRESIDENTS Baseball Vice President, Bob Maloney, from Ponderosa High School. For starters, we are incorporating baseball with our softball break-out sessions at this year’s Multi-Sports Clinic. We’re in the process of scheduling our speakers for the clinic which is scheduled for Friday, July 26th and Saturday, July 27th. This should be a good opportunity to share baseball knowledge with other baseball coaches in the state. Please let others know about our Multi-Sports Clinic offering baseball this year!! One of our other objectives is to increase CHSCA baseball memberships. Besides the numerous benefits that are already included with being a CHSCA member, CHSCA baseball coaches who are members will also be able to vote for the 2020 CHSCA All-State Team which is exclusive to active members. It is our belief that being named to the CHSCA All-State Baseball Team is an honor for both players and coaches who are voted on and named to this Team. As we move forward to make High School Baseball a more prominent part of CHSCA, please contact either Bob or me with any questions and PLEASE remember . . . in the words of the Great Yogi Berra, “Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too!” SOCCER President Justin Stephens After last year’s fantastic weather, I suppose we were due for a season like this! While the weather has been a challenge there still has been fantastic soccer played all around the state! Hyper competitive leagues and tight rivalry matches are the norm; how lucky are we? The state championship matches are again being held at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park. We are so fortunate to have such an excellent setting for these matches and are excited to again host a hospitality suite on May 22nd for the 4A and 5A finals. If you are planning to attend the matches please also plan to come up and enjoy the company of your fellow member coaches! With such great soccer being played statewide it is becoming an increasingly difficult task to select our CHSCA all- state teams; an excellent problem to have! Due to some calendar constraints, our spring all-state meeting, to select these teams, will be held on May 19th, 10:00 AM at Fort Collins High School. In the past this meeting has been held following the state final; however, with Memorial Day weekend in play and teacher/coaches leaving for the summer it makes sense to move the meeting up. We will also offer Zoom video conferencing as an option for attendance – details will be shared on our website! Please plan to join us! The all state games will again be in mid- July. If you have boys who have still not registered, please follow up with them ASAP as there are a few slots still open. Girls coaches will need to submit player information to Sean Stedeford as soon as possible following our meeting so that rosters can be built. Please watch out for updates as we confirm final details! We are very excited about the multi- sport clinic coming up July 26-27. We have confirmed several top-notch clinicians already and will surely welcome a couple more. Confirmed so far are Jamie Franks, head men’s coach at University of Denver. Alex Schultz, assistant women’s coach at Regis University, and Hardy Kalisher, head men’s coach at Boulder High School. I would also like to encourage you to visit our soccer site at http://chssca.org/ and feel free to email me with any questions, comments or ideas about how to make our organization better. We want to involve as many coaches as possible, so please get on our email list if you are not already! It has been a great pleasure to serve the association first as secretary, then as president elect, and finally as president over the past seven years. I look forward to watching new leaders move into these roles and continuing to build comradery among high school soccer coaches. Best of luck to the coaches and players still chasing championship dreams!