7th grade football player announcement

   This message is for all 7th grade football players that you need to get your paperwork and physicals turned into Coach Hattier in his classroom 216 before we leave for Christmas Break. You must have this paperwork turned in to be able to participate in football offseason. We will have a 7th grade football player and parent meeting on Wednesday night (Dec. 12th), from 6:00 – 6:45pm in Coach Hattier’s class room 216. Our original plan was to have this meeting on Friday, but there was some scheduling conflicts so I had to move it to Wednesday.  This is a very important meeting for you and your parents to attend. We will discuss 7th grade football offseason and other important information. 7th Grade offseason will start after Christmas Break in January and will be on Tue., Wed., and Thur. from 3:15 – 4:15.

I look forward to seeing you there!!

Go Raiders!!!!

Coach Hattier

Head Football Coach

EMS Football

EMS 8th Grade Football Offseason beginning in January

Dear Parents, 

Hello to all, this is just a quick announcement from Coach Hattier in regards to Football offseason, which will begin after Christmas Break. A lot of exciting things await our football players as they transition from the 8th grade and into Roger Mountie Football as a 9th grader. For the first couple of months (January – March), our players will be driven over to the RHS football facilities on Tue., Wed., and Fri after school. They will take Bus #11 that will be waiting for them. It will leave promptly at 3:05. Their offseason will be directed by Coach Flannigan and his staff at RHS. This will be a great time to work out at a state of the art facility and to also work with our outstanding Coaches at RHS. The offseason sessions usually go until 4:30. Coach Flannigan, and the 9th Grade Coaches (Coach Hahn, and Coach Aldridge), will meet with our football players on (Thursday, Dec, 13th) morning from 7:25 – 7:50 in order to inform our players on how offseason will go. After Spring Break we will change our offseason schedule to Tue., and Wed. our 8th graders will work out at EMS in the morning before school with their 9th Grade Coaches. On Thur. they will take the bus to RHS after school for their offseason workout. Please encourage your student athlete to be at our important player meeting (Thursday, Dec, 13th) morning from 7:25 – 7:50 where they will visit with Coach Flannigan and the 9th Grade Coaches.

Also, congratulations to our basketball team for it's outstanding start! We are excited for their success!! Any football players who are currently playing basketball at EMS will simply join us for football offseason after basketball season is over.

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

Go Future Mounties!!!!!!!!!!

Coach Hattier

Just a quick announcement from Coach Hattier to all 7th grade boys who are interested in playing football next season.  In order to plan ahead of time Coach Hattier wants to let all 7th grade boys know that we will be having a football parent and player meeting on Wednesday, December 12th of next week from 6:00 - 6:45 pm at Elmwood. We will discuss football offseason and the exciting things that await us in the future. It is an important meeting so let your parents know ahead of time so that they can make arrangements to attend. Our offseason will begin after we arrive back from Christmas break. It will be on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 3:15 - 4:15. 

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Dear 7th Grade EMS Parents;

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Hello, my name is Coach Ryan Hattier, and I am the Head Football Coach at Elmwood Middle School. Your child has expressed interest in becoming a part of our football program, and we are excited about that. This is a tremendous opportunity to be a part of something very special. It is going to be a lot of fun and very rewarding as we train during our offseason in preparation for the 2013 football season. We had a meeting this morning with the 7th Grade boys in regard to the format of our offseason and our expectations. Here is the information that was provided during our meeting this morning. They also have a physical copy of this information to be completed as soon as possible and before we leave for Christmas Break. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me. I am looking forward to the opportunity to coach yur child, and I am excited about the great things that await our 2013 Elmwood Raider Football Team. Thank you for your valuable time! I look forward to meeting you in the future. We will have a parent / player meeting in the near future. Here is te information that was provided to your child this morning. If your child missed this morning's meeting then no worries we will have another meeting this Monday from 7:30 - 7:50 at the football field house locker room. Thank you again!

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Coach Hattier

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Rhattier@rps.k12.ar.us<mailto:Rhattier@rps.k12.ar.us>

2013 ELMWOOD RAIDER FOOTBALL

Welcome to 2013 Elmwood Raider Football. You have a great opportunity to be a part of our Football Family. We believe in and live out our Core Values of Team, Hard Work, Truth, and Serving Others. We are excited that you have chosen to become a valuable member on our Team. This is going to be an awesome experience as you go through Offseason in order to prepare for our 2013 Football Season. This will require Dedication, Hard Work, and Perseverance.

Our Offseason will begin in January, after Christmas Break and will go through the end of school in May. We will do our offseason workouts every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 3:15 - 4:15. We will meet at the football locker room. We will do a variety of weight training, speed training, agility and quickness training, and football skills. It is going to be a lot of fun as we improve our skills in order to be our very best for the upcoming football season.

Here is what you need to complete and turn into Coach Hattier in room 216 as soon as possible before we leave for Christmas Break.

1. If your physical is not current then you need to get a physical. Your physical is good for one full year. Physicals are relatively cheap and easy to get.

2. Have your parents fill out and complete the Health History Form, which is on the back of the physical.

3.Have your parents fill out and complete the Rogers Public Schools Athletics Acknowledgement Form. You will sign this as well.

***As you complete these forms turn them into Coach Hattier in room 216 as soon as possible before we leave for Christmas Break.

I look forward to coaching you, and I look forward to helping you be the very best Elmwood Raider Football Player that you can be!!

***Stay connected and updated with all of our announcements by visiting our Elmwood Raider Football Team Page on Facebook, and by visiting www.mountiesfootball.com<http://www.mountiesfootball.com>.

Go Raiders!!!!!!!!!!

Coach Hattier

Head Football Coach

Elmwood Raider Football

Rhattier@rps.k12.ar.us

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