COLORADO COACH- WINTER 2018-2019 FROM THE SPORT PRESIDENTS FOOTBALL President Harrison Chisum Happy New Year, I want to start off by thanking everyone for all that you do for this sport. They call this the offseason but I am sure majority of you there is no such thing! Hope everyone had a great holiday season and wish everyone the best in 2019. Our All-State voting has taken place and teams have been selected for the games in June. Thank you to those that did the voting process! Also, thank you to those that came to the CHSAA office for the All-State meeting that represented your league and your athletes. Please be aware of all of the deadlines for paperwork that is needed for the games. Please feel free to contact me with any questions about the process. Congratulations to the following coaches that were selected to coach in June: North: Rob Busmente from Sterling, Wayne McGinn from Loveland, Jay Madden from Pomona, Paul Lowe from Range Christian and Jerry Browne from Smoky Hill. South: Al Melo from Harrison, Ron Ortivez from La Veta, Andy Watts from Pueblo East, Damon Wells from Rifle and Zach Carlton from Palmer Ridge. Hope the rest of the year goes well and sure a lot you will run into each other at clinics! Hope to see everyone in June in Alamosa for the All-State game! Again thanks for all that you do for the sport of football! SOCCER President Justin Stephens For many of you, preseason is in full swing! As tempting as it is to “just play” I would encourage you to spend some time on body maintenance and injury prevention. Good, basic strength training can be so vital for your players, and a healthy team can be a successful team! Old school ideas about strength training included awkward hours in the gym or weight room, trying to balance usage with the football or track teams. However, you can do everything you need to do to keep your team strong, healthy and fit right on the soccer field with only basic equipment. You should be dedicating time every session to body maintenance and strength training. There is no player in your program who can help you while they are out injured; keep them on the field! FIFA has developed “The FIFA 11” exercise program. These are exercises which can be performed on the field with nothing more than body weight and a ball. Once the routine is created these exercises (which should be performed after warming up) take only 15 minutes and are scientifically proven to help with injury prevention, including serious knee injuries. Check out the program at http://bit.ly/thefifa11 and consider adding it to your team’s daily routine! Please also consider attending the CHSCA multi-sport clinic this July! We promise another round of highly qualified clinicians and excellent sessions! We are entering the final planning phase for the clinic and will be announcing dates and clinicians very soon, so stay tuned! Please plan to join us for our spring all- state meeting! It will be held at Fort Collins High School on Sunday, May 19th at 10:00 am. We will be moving forward with the new process for all- state nomination and voting. Coaches must be members to nominate players from their teams, and every coach will have a ballot. Please share this with any coach you believe would have interest in their players being nominated and would benefit from membership! I’d like to also take this opportunity to once more congratulate the fall soccer state champions. We crowned our first 2A boy’s champions, in addition to our other classifications: 2A Crested Butte – Than Acuff 3A Kent Denver – Arty Smith 4A Air Academy – Espen Hosoien 5A Arapahoe – Mark Hampshire Good luck to one and all as you take on the always exhausting and often thankless work of coaching young athletes! We appreciate all that you do! Regional Coach of the Year Award winners: Mark Hampshire, Arapahoe and Mario Garcia, Windsor