EMS Update

Hello to all I just wanted to send out a couple of reminders.
First let me say that I am proud of our effort on Thursday. Sometimes things just don’t go your way, and I felt like our kids persevered and never gave up. I am proud of the team spirit that they displayed!
We will work even harder to prepare for Kirksey this week! Also, we will not have a jamboree this weekend, our next and last jamboree is next Saturday, October 27th from 8:30 – 10:15 at RHHS Gates Stadium (Heritage HS Stadium). We are going to persevere and finish strong!
Thank you for your valuable time and support!
Go Raiders!!!!

Elmwood Raider Football - Weekly Update

    Hello, and thank you for such an awesome turnout for our victory over Lingle last Thursday! It was a tremendous effort by all of our players!!! We are getting better every week and working very hard to be our best!! Next week we will be playing Woodland at RHS on Thursday starting at 5:30. It is going to be a great time, and we encourage all to be there and cheer us on! We will not have a 2^nd game vs. Woodland, but we are all (White and Green Team) going to be a part of the game. We are having another exciting Jamboree at RHS stadium next Saturday, Sep. 22^nd. It is going to be a lot of fun as our White Team players get a lot of playing time and face some good competition. We will start at 8:30 and end at 10:30.   Because we are playing at RHS we will have our players meet us at RHS instead of taking the bus to the RHS Jamboree. We will have our players take their game equipment and jersey home on Friday afternoon after practice for the Jamboree on Saturday. They will just make sure to bring back all of their equipment on Monday.

      Next week we will expect our players to complete their Academic Success Sheets. These are designed to help our players keep track of their academic progress in order to be their very best! We stress that school comes first, and that it is highly important to not only complete their school work but to excel.

These are easy to fill out and to complete. It does require a parent signature, a student signature, and a teacher signature. It is the student athlete’s responsibility to check their grades using our online Pinnacle Grade Book feature and to place their grades, any missing assignments, etc. on the sheet. Our students and parents now have access to their Pinnacle Grade Book as they have, or will receive their Pinnacle user name and password. It is a wonderful tool to use in the midst of our busy season and throughout the rest of the school year. These Academic Success Sheets will be due to me by Thursday of next week. It should be plenty of time to complete it.

It is going to be an exciting week as we get better and strive for excellence each and every day!!!!

Thank you for your valuable time and awesome support!!!

Go Raiders!!!

EMS Football - Weekly Update

     Hello to all, just a quick note on this weeks practice schedule. We are going to have a short week of practice next week due to our three day weekend. In order to prepare for Oakdale and to make up for the lost practice time on Monday we will go until 6:00 on Tuesday and Wednesday. This will give us some extra time to straighten things out and to become much improved for this week's opponent. We are going to work extremely hard in order to become our best. I am proud of how our team responded today with our workout. We are coming together as a family, and we are going to turn this negative loss into a positive by fixing the areas that we need to improve upon, and continuing to stay positive as we push ourselves to reach our full potential!!

I am still very excited about our team,  and I believe in them 100%. I look forward to them displaying a much improved performance next week as we take on our rival Oakdale! 

      One last thing to mention is that we have our first Jamboree at Bentonville HS Stadium next week (Saturday September 8th) for our White Team. This is going to be an exciting event as we will play a variety of teams and our players will enjoy a lot of playing time. This is going to be a great time! On Saturday, September 8th we will meet at Elmwood MS at 8am and board our bus and make our way to Bentonville HS Stadium. I will be sending a schedule of the Jamboree home with the players. 

Thank you for your valuable time and support!!!

Go Raiders!!!

Coach Hattier

 

Elmwood Raider Football Weekly Update

Hello to all,  our first official game week is here and our focus and attention is on Kirksey. I am excited about seeing our players rise to the occasion, and meet this challenge. Our players have the hearts of champions and I know that they will shine through! Here are a few things for this week that I wanted to mention.

1. Gameday is on Thursday at RHS at 5:30. We will have a second game after the first game where our White Team players will have a great opportunity to get more playing time vs. Kirksey. We have 6 second games scheduled throuout the season.  As I have said before we are all on the Green Team and we will participate in the Green Team game at various parts of the game. The only difference between a White Team player is that he also participates in the White Team games and they are going to have a great time as they will have extra opportunities to get more playing time theoughout the season.

2. We are going to have our pre game meal at 3:30 during every game day. We are only asking for $5.00 per meal and we ask that we have that money by Wednesday, and earlier if possible. Your athlete can turn that in to Coach Hattier, or Coach Tebbenkamp. 

3. I have submitted the apparel orders for our Elmwood Raider Football Gear and they should be on shortly. As soon as those items arrive I will email everybody.

4. We are taking our Team Pictures on Tuesday and we have given our players the order form for our Team Pictures. We have only a couple of these turned in so far, so please remember to turn those in with the money attached by Wednesday, or earlier if possible. They will take their team picture in their white game jersey and game pants? Please tell your athlete to bring their game pants to school on Monday so hat they can keep their game pants in their football locker and have them ready for the team picture. We have issued out our game pants for he season n your athlete is responsible to take care of heir game pants throughout he season by washing them after each game and of course not losing them. If they lose their game pants they are costly to replace so we ask that you simply help your athlete take care of them.

5. Thank you to Mr. Necessary, and to Mrs. Phelps for providing us with some great pictures of our Green vs. White Scrimmage. I am going to upload those to our Team Flickr site, and all will have access to these throughout the season in order to make prints, etc. All parents will have access to this account for no cost if they simply reply to the invite email. I will be sending this invite email very shortly. You can view all of our pictures by visiting www.mountiesfootball.com, and by clicking on multimedia, and then Photo sets. Elmwood has several sets of pictures for you to view, and if you log on using the invite log on information you will be able to access them. 

6. One last thing, we are looking for a video camera person for this Thursdy to film our game. Our regular video camera person will be back next week, we simply need this week covered for video taping our game. If anybody is interested please contact me. I can fill you in on all of the specifics, it is actually a simple job. This will be a big help or this week.

7. It is going to be an exciting week, and I am ready to see our players shine on the football field!! We look,forward to,seeing a lot of green shirts as we support our Elmwood Raiders on Thursday!!

Thank you for all of your time and support!! 

8. Here is our revised White Game Schedule for the Saturday Jamboree Games. The only changes that have been made are for the following games are 

(9/22 RHHS Gates Stadium, 9/29 RHS Stadium, 10/27 RHHS GatesStadium)

This includes all of the Green and White games that all players will attend as well as the Saturday Jamborees, which are going to be very exciting as they will have the opportunity to play several high level teams in the area in each Jamboree.

White Team Schedule - 

Opponent                               Date              Time                                Location

Kirksey  2nd game             Aug. 30      5:30                            RHS Stadium

at  Oakdale  2nd Game       Sept. 6      5:30                        RHHS Gates Stadium

Bentonville Jamboree.      Sept. 8      8:30-11:30.          BHS Stadium

Lingle    2nd Game               Sept. 13        5:30                         RHS Stadium

Woodland                                   Sept. 20      5:30                       RHS Stadium

RHS Jamboree                   Sept. 22     8:30 – 10:15        RHHS Gates Stadium

at  George                               Sept. 27       5:30                      Springdale Stadium

RHS Jamboree                   Sept. 29     8:30 – 10:15        RHS Stadium

at Lingle   2nd game            Oct. 4         5:30                     RHHS Gates Stadium

Bentonville Jamboree.       Oct. 6.        8:30-11:30.         BHS Stadium

at  Lincoln                                 Oct. 11        5:30                             BHS Stadium

Oakdale    2nd game           Oct. 18       5:30                               RHS Stadium

at  Kirksey     2nd game     Oct. 25        5:30                           RHS Stadium

RHS Jamboree                   Oct. 27      8:30 – 10:15        RHHS Gates Stadium

Central                                      Nov. 1         5:30                             RHS Stadium

Here is the Green Team schedule also. As I have said before, all of the White Team players are also on the Green Team and they will dress out and go to every Green Game listed and be a part of the Green Team games. We will always do our best to have them participate in various parts of the game. It is going to be a lot of fun as we all are apart of each game as one team.

Green and White Team Schedule

Opponent                                 Date            Time                               Location

Kirksey  2nd game             Aug. 30      5:30                            RHS Stadium

at  Oakdale  2nd Game       Sept. 6      5:30                             RHHS Gates Stadium

Lingle    2nd Game               Sept. 13        5:30                         RHS Stadium

Woodland                                   Sept. 20      5:30                       RHS Stadium

at  George                                   Sept. 27       5:30                      Springdale Stadium

at Lingle   2nd game            Oct. 4         5:30                           RHHS Gates Stadium

at  Lincoln                                 Oct. 11        5:30                             BHS Stadium

Oakdale    2nd game         Oct. 18       5:30                               RHS Stadium

at  Kirksey    2nd game    Oct. 25        5:30                           RHS Stadium

Central                                      Nov. 1         5:30                             RHS Stadium

Go Raiders!!!!!!

Coach Hatttier 

EMS Football - Weekly Information!!!

Hello to all, and Saturday is almost here. Our Annual Green vs. White Scrimmage on Saturday from 6:00 - 7:30 pm at RHS Stadium is going to be the most exciting event in Benton County!! We will not take the bus to the stadium, so parents will take their athletes to RHS Stadium. Please have them their by 5:45 so that we can complete our warm up and stretch routine.

We will be wearing our complete game uniform, and looking sharp as we compete against one another. Half of the team will be in green jerseys and half will be in white jerseys. Another special thing is that our helmet decals will be on our helmets for the first time. We will have a wonderful time as we announce our players and showcase what we have learned thus far! We have been working very hard and all of the hard work that we have put in will be displayed on Saturday. The cheerleaders will also be there to cheer us on.

We will have a cool game program that we will pass out as well that will list the athletes names and numbers, etc. I promise to do my best on the correct spelling of each name for the program.

1. There is practice this Friday from 6:00 - 8:30 pm. Once again there is practice this Friday from 6:00 - 8:30 pm. It is important that all of our players are there for practice! We will sharpen our skills for our Green vs. White Scrimmage on Saturday, and we will also pass out our official game uniforms and equipment. Our players will take all of this home and suit up at home before they arrive at RHS Stadium on Saturday. They will also take home their practice cloth in order to wash them over the weekend. They will bring their practice clothing back to school on Monday for practice.  

2. Our practice schedule for when school begins next week is 3:15 - 5:30. 

We definitely stress the importance of our players being at practice every day in order to work as one team and to strive to be our very best! 

3. A big thank you goes out to Mrs. Carr, and Mrs. Hatch.

Mrs. Hatch provided our locker room with some awesome lettering for inspirational quotes. It looks great!! Mrs. Carr provided our game socks for last year, and has chosen to help us out again this year. We will all wear the same game socks, and this year's socks looks awesome! 

One more big thank you!!!!!!

4. The due date for turning in our 316 Sports Apparel from was Aug. 15th. I have turned those in and the apparel should arrive in a week or so.

As soon as it does I will notify you. 

The due date for turning in our Team Graphics Apparel form is Aug. 23rd. 

The due date for our Team Picture form is August 28th.

We look forward to seeing everybody at this great event, and please come all, and be loud as we cheer on our 2012 Elmwood Raider Football Team!!!!

Go Raiders!!!!!!

Coach Hattier

Sorry for my error on this weeks schedule - EMS Open House is on Thursday and not Wednesday.

Sorry for my error on this weeks schedule - EMS Open House is on Thursday and not Wednesday.

Hello, and I do apologize for my error on the schedule for this week. Our Elmwood Open House is on Thursday and not Wednesday as I originally stated in my earlier email today. So instead of taking off on Wednesday for Open House we will take off on Thursday for our Elmwood Open House. Sorry about that! Here is our correct schedule for this week. Thank you for your valuable time and understanding!

Have a great weekend!!

Go Raiders!!

Coach Hattier

Our schedule this week is as follows - ***All Practices are at Elmwood Middle School.

-Monday - 6:00 - 8:30 pm

-Tuesday - 6:00 - 8:30 pm

-Wednesday - 6:00 - 8:30 pm

-Thursday - We have our very important Open House Night at Elmwood, so we will encourage all of our players to be at Open House Night in order to meet our teachers and to prepare for the upcoming school year. This will also be a good day of rest. 

-Friday - 6:00 - 8:30 pm

-Saturday - Elmwood Raider Football Introduction Night at RHS Stadium

from 6:00 - 7:30 pm. 

Elmwood Raider Football - Weekly Information

Elmwood Raider Football - Weekly Information

Hello to all, we had an outstanding week of practice last week as we worked very hard towards being our very best!! I am a strong believer in that "you reap what you sow". Right now we are sowing good seed with a lot of sweat and hard work. In due time we will reap a harvest of goodness!!!!

Our athletes have displayed a lot of character and dedication and it is going to pay off as we improve with every practice!!

Our schedule this week is as follows - ***All Practices are at Elmwood Middle School.

-Monday - 6:00 - 8:30 pm

-Tuesday - 6:00 - 8:30 pm

-Wednesday - We have our very important Open House Night at Elmwood, so we will encourage all of our players to be at Open House Night in order to meet our teachers and to prepare for the upcoming school year. This will also be a good day of rest. 

-Thursday - 6:00 - 8:30 pm

-Friday - 6:00 - 8:30 pm

-Saturday - Elmwood Raider Football Introduction Night at RHS Stadium

from 6:00 - 7:30 pm. 

***We will be in our official game uniforms, and we will introduce our players and team at our awesome home stadium!!! This is going to be an exciting night as we showcase all of our hard work and display what we have learned in practice in our team scrimmage!! We encourage all of our family, friends, and student body to be there as we cheer on the 2012 Elmwood Raider Football Team!!

***Please have your athlete there by 5:45 in order for us to stretch and warm up as a team.

     Our shipment of mouthpieces have arrived so there is no need to worry about purchasing that item. I do want to remind all parents who have not turned in required signed paper work to do so as soon as possible. It is very important that we have those signed documents on file. Here are the required documents.

- signed Concussion Form.

- signed District Rules and Acknowledgement Form.

- Completed Physical if this is not already completed.

Thank you for your valuable time and help in getting these completed and turned in.

      Thank you to Mrs. Phelps as she sent some really cool pictures of our First Annual Elmwood Raider Father Son Super Bowl. I have uploaded these pictures to our Rogers Mounties Football / Elmwood Raider Football

Team  Flickr Page at www.mountiesfootball.com. You can view these pictures by clicking on Enter and by clicking on Multimedia, and Photo Sets. This will take you to our Team Flickr page, which contains a variety of Elmwood Raider Football photo sets including our most recent set of the Father Son Super Bowl pictures. I will be sending an invite to join this page in the next week or so.  You can view all of our pictures right now, but once you accept the free membership with our invite email you will be able to print them off and create a variety of collages, posters, post cards, etc. throughout the season. Thank  you again to Mrs. Phelps for taking these pictures.

Have a great week and Go Raiders!!!!!

Coach Hattier