2/13/2017 - This issue - our 20th - is intern Adam Theriault’s last one. I’d like to publicly thank Adam for taking on the tough task of helping start a new publication with readership in the high hundreds and no blueprint to follow. Together, we learned on the go (sometimes by the seat of our pants). Adam helped blazed a new journalistic trail and leaves the Booster Bulletin in good form for continued success. Adam will be replaced by his classmate Lauren Jeandell who, like her predecessor, hopes to study sports journalism. You can read more about both interns in our ‘In the Spotlight’ section later in the issue. Thank you, Adam; welcome, Lauren; and GO FALCONS! SRDavey, President Note : to learn more about the Booster Club, and to hear this year’s requests for capital funding from various athletic teams, please come to our monthly meeting, tonight, Monday, February 13th, at 7:30 p.m. in the AHS Community Room. For the week of February 6th - February 10th: Team Opponent Result V Boys Basketball Southington L 54-60 @Hall L 41-50 V Girls Basketball Southington L 32-57 @Hall L 25-46 Swimming and Diving Wethersfield W 97-89 Ice Hockey Cheshire W 6-2 Note : there were several cancellations/postponements due to weather. Let’s hope we have better scheduling luck this week!
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2/13/2017 - This issue - our 20th - is intern Adam Theriault’s last one. I’d like to publicly thank Adam for taking on the tough task of helping start a new publication with readership in the high hundreds and no blueprint to follow. Together, we learned on the go (sometimes by the seat of our pants). Adam helped blazed a new journalistic trail and leaves the Booster Bulletin in good form for continued success.
Adam will be replaced by his classmate Lauren Jeandell who, like her predecessor, hopes to study sports journalism. You can read more about both interns in our ‘In the Spotlight’ section later in the issue. Thank you, Adam; welcome, Lauren; and GO FALCONS! SRDavey, President Note: to learn more about the Booster Club, and to hear this year’s requests for capital funding from various athletic teams, please come to our monthly meeting, tonight, Monday, February 13th, at 7:30 p.m. in the AHS Community Room.
For the week of February 6th - February 10th:
Team Opponent Result
V Boys Basketball Southington L 54-60
@Hall L 41-50
V Girls Basketball Southington L 32-57
@Hall L 25-46
Swimming and Diving Wethersfield W 97-89
Ice Hockey Cheshire W 6-2
Note: there were several cancellations/postponements due to weather. Let’s hope we have better scheduling luck this week!
SCHEDULES Schedule for week of February 13th - February 17th:
Date Time Team Opponent Location
2/13 4:00 Indoor Track State Opens Floyd Little Athletic Center, New Haven
2/13 3:45 Swimming and Diving Platt/Maloney Away- Mansfield Community Center Pool
2/13 6:45 V Girls Basketball Farmington Away- Farmington HS
2/13 5:15 JV Girls Basketball Farmington Away- Farmington HS
2/13 3:45 FR Girls Basketball Farmington Away- Farmington HS
2/13 7:00 Ice Hockey Hall-Southington Away- Veteran’s Memorial Rink
2/14 7:00 V Girls Basketball Hall Home- Avon HS
2/14 5:30 JV Girls Basketball Hall Home- Avon HS
2/14 4:00 FR Girls Basketball Hall Home- Avon HS
2/15 6:45 V Boys Basketball Hartford Public Home- Avon HS
2/15 5:15 JV Boys Basketball Hartford Public Home- Avon HS
2/15 3:45 FR Boys Basketball Hartford Public Home- Avon HS
2/16 6:45 V Girls Basketball Torrington Home- Avon HS
2/16 3:30 Ice Hockey BCR Away- Bolton Ice Place
2/17 6:45 V Boys Basketball Windsor Away- Windsor HS
2/17 5:15 JV Boys Basketball Windsor Away- Windsor HS
2/17 3:45 FR Boys Basketball Windsor Away- Windsor HS
2/18 8:00 Ice Hockey EO Smith-Tolland Home- Avon Old Farms Rink
SAVE THE DATES • Monday & Tuesday, February 20th-21st, NO SCHOOL in celebration of Presidents’ Weekend. • Saturday, March 4th, AHS (students and faculty) vs. APD Officers Charity Basketball tournament to benefit Vie for the Kids . 9:30-2:00 in the AHS new gym. See flyer below. • Monday, March 13th, Booster Club Monthly meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the Community Room. Qualifying members will vote on capital disbursement requests to determine what the Avon Booster Club will fund this year.
WINTER CONTACTS
Sport Head Coach & Email Team Rep & Email Captains
Boys Basketball Kris Pedra [email protected]
Holly Zacchio [email protected]
Robby Zacchio, Charlie Reiss, and Jordan Williams
Girls Basketball Jamaal Lee [email protected]
Jennifer Jeandell [email protected]
Marita Galligher, Lauren Jeandell, Heather McGuire, and Olivia Donahue
Wrestling John McLaughlin [email protected]
Cheryl Edwards [email protected]
Blake Edwards, Mike Lancaster, and Alec Wyatt
Swimming & Diving
Diana Cesaro [email protected]
Susie Downey [email protected]
Annie Hayes, Kyle Emery, Sarah Preleski, Brendan Downey, Sam Johnson, and Jared Culbertson
Ice Hockey multi-town co-op
Scott Percival [email protected]
Fawn Murray [email protected]
(Avon captains): Peter Hoffman, Danny Shayler
Cheerleading Nancy Deschenes [email protected]
Bonnie Burns [email protected]
Co-Ed Indoor Track Courtney Fusco [email protected] Al D’Adario [email protected]
Diane Oberhausen [email protected]
No official captains (Seniors)
IN THE SPOTLIGHT : Adam Theriault passes the torch
When the Booster Club adopted the idea of producing a weekly newsletter this fall, our goal was to streamline communications with members, coaches and athletes, and to reach a new audience of folks who don’t yet know about us. We hadn’t anticipated just how much work putting out a weekly publication is. Enter Liz Brisco and her successful Student Internship program. After a brief discussion with Liz, we realized we had a legitimate Internship opportunity right here with the Booster Club - and Liz helped us fill it.
Senior, Adam Theriault, was our first semester intern. Adam was here for our inaugural issue and all of the challenges a first effort brings. An AHS Varsity Baseball player (who plays year-round), and overall, self-described sports-lover, Adam signed up for the internship as a way to improve his writing and reporting skills. Adam credits his Booster Bulletin internship experience with helping him improve as a writer and communicator. “I appreciated the encouragement and support I got from the athletics department, Booster Club members, and everyone who reads the Booster Bulletin,” he says. In addition to being part of the baseball team and the Booster Bulletin staff (which includes being Booster Club student representative), Adam is a member of AHS Student Government and the FRIENDS Club - a social justice awareness club. He will attend Endicott College in Beverly, Massachusetts this fall. Thank you, and good luck, Adam! Adam’s second semester replacement is fellow senior, Lauren Jeandell. Currently co-captain of the AHS basketball team (and formerly co-captain of the Field Hockey team), Lauren aslo rows Crew, so she has a broad and true appreciation for Avon Athletics. Lauren looks forward to refining her interviewing and writing skills, as Booster Bulletin intern. She also is eager to learn more about the teams and athletes that make up the Falcon family. Lauren is a member of the National Honor Society and is Editor of the 2017 yearbook. She looks forward to her next ‘chapter,’ at either Temple University and the University of Delaware (she is still deciding). Welcome to the Booster Bulletin, Lauren!
Incoming Booster Bulletin Intern, Lauren Jeandell, left, and outgoing intern, Adam Theriault, pose in front of the AHS Internship (Liz Brisco’s) office.
Swim team senior co-captain and powerhouse, Kyle Emery, is shown here ready to launch into a race at the CCSU pool. (Photo taken by Booster Club member - and Kyle’s Dad - Bob Emery.)
The Girls Basketball Team celebrates Senior Day this week. Congratulations to …
… graduating players Olivia Donahue, Lauren Jeandell, Marita Galliher and Heather McGuire.
❏ The Collinsville Press reported on the Swim and Dive team’s tough contest against Middletown last Monday. Read about it here.
❏ The Valley Press reported on the second (and more challenging) Avon v. Northwest Catholic Boys Basketball match up in this article.
LINKS Booster Club January meeting notes and financial report (along with all previous months’ meeting notes and financials) can be found here. Full season schedules, scores and standings are available at the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference. Visit the CIAC website.
The Avon Athletics website is your source for forms, up-to-date announcements, and a copy of the AHS Athletic Handbook which provides essential information for athletes (and fans), to visit click here.
For additional info, forms and other calendar items, please visit our Booster Club website.
To see what the Avon athletics fan base has to say, check out the Falconatics twitter page here.
Nothing to report
ANNOUNCEMENTS Senior, Jeremy Zarwanski, is organizing a basketball tournament matching AHS faculty and players against the Avon Police Department. All proceeds will benefit Vie for the Kids . And the The Baseball team is planning for opening day with a unique fundraising event. Check both flyers out below, and please come support fellow Falcons:
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