Be ready to follow CYO third, fourth and fifth grade basketball championship action on Facebook, Twitter and my BLOG beginning tomorrow afternoon and finishing next weekend with sixth, seventh and eighth grade championships.
Lots of exciting action! Don’t miss it!
Nearly 600 high school youth participated in the CYO High School Basketball season this year with a snow storm forcing the end of season tournament to be moved to the following weekend. CYO Basketball Director, Jenna Bass did a masterful job of finding gym space to finish of the season for the men and women and “make it happen!”
In both boys and girls Championship play, the closing minutes of the games found the teams in very close proximity to one another and tied in several instances. Jesuit managed to pull it off with 5 of their 8 players with three missing due to their class retreat.
Central Catholic Men gave Jesuit a great game and it was anyones to have up to the end with a final score of 56 – 53 Jesuit.
Dulcich’s Jesuit Women’s team made it clear they came to play. After an 8 – 0 start, Petrusich’s Jesuit Women’s team came alive and tied the game. After a back and forth through out the game pattern, Petrusich’s Women went ahead by 5 and Dulcich Jesuit could not catchup. A great contest between two groups of senior women who enjoyed playing one another.
CYO Championships 2nd place Central Catholic Paddy Ellis 15, Joseph Wilson 45, Gunnar Vik, Cole Warner 22, Matt Hart 40, Michael Haines 24, Sam Gomez 25, Will Paustian 23, Cole Boileau 41, Dante Carnevalie. COACH Brian Vik, ASSISTANT COACH Jeff Paustian
CYO Championships 1st place Jesuit Tommy Kaempf 41, Nebea Fekede 14, Jack Tayler 12, Christian Thurley 20, Kaeden Klein 50, Brendan Rude 52, Justin Krack 25, Jack Hamburg 45. HEAD COACH Jim Kaempf, ASSISTANT COACH Dave Sebastian
Jesuit High School Girls CYO HS Championship team 1st place Molly Petrusich 35, Megan Wark 34, Robin Hackman 40, Megan O’Mara 43, Sydney Sirgy 33, Molly Donlon 45, Anne Shields 5, Lauren Brandt 3, Sarah Shank
CYO Championships 2nd place Girls team. Rachel Dulcich 20, Megan Furster 30, Abby Wachter 2, Frannie Orlando 55, Cece Wehrley 0, Alex Gill 44, Clare McCarthy 33, Mollie Handkins 1, Maddie Connall 21, Teresa Anctil 34, Julia Shafter 22, Maddy Mathews 32.
The 2013 CYO Championship Volleyball playoffs provided plenty of action and excitement for all in attendance. The eighth grade playoff game between St. Matthew of Hillsboro and Christ the King of Milwaukie, was one of the most exceptional CYO volleyball contests I have seen in a long time. The teams each split a game, going into over time and in the final game of the match the teams were nip and tuck to the very end when St. Matthew prevailed. People got more than their moneys worth!
Some 1300 young women participated in this years volleyball program with all but a few teams participating in the end of season tournament.
The teams, coaches, and parents are to be commended for the participation and support they show to one another and to their teams.
Third Grade CYO Volleyball Champions – St. Francis, Roy and Visitation Verboor “The Fighting Dutch”
Third Grade CYO Volleyball Second Place St. Clare
Fourth Grade CYO Volleyball Champions Cathedral School
Third Grade CYO Volleyball Second Place St. Anthony
Fifth Grade CYO Volleyball Champions The Cathedral School
Fifth Grade CYO Volleyball Second Place St. John Fisher
Sixth Grade CYO Volleyball Champions St. Agatha
Sixth Grade CYO Volleyball Second Place St. Pius X
Seventh Grade CYO Volleyball Champions All Saints
Seventh Grade CYO Volleyball Second Place St. Cecilia
Eighth Grade CYO Volleyball Champions St. Matthews School
Eighth Grade CYO Volleyball Second Place Christ the King
The 2013 CYO Football season concluded November 10 at Kiggins Bowl in Vancouver, WA with three championship games, one each for third and fourth, fifth and sixth, seventh and eighth grades.
CYO Region 8 Stayton, OR Rams third and fourth grade St. Mary’s School
Third and Fourth grade Championship Region 4 Falcons from Clackamas County – Christ the King, St. John the Baptist & St. John the Apostle Schools.
Region 13 Spartans from Holy Cross, Madeleine and Holy Redeemer Schools in North Portland.
Fifth and Sixth Grade Champions from Region 6 Beaverton Knights from Valley Catholic, St. Cecilia, St. Pius X, Holy Trinity
Seventh and Eighth Grade Region 3 Kings from South East Portland St. Agatha, St. Ignatius, Holy Family, St. Stephens
Seventh and Eight Grade Champions from Region 6 Beaverton Knights from Valley Catholic, St. Cecilia, St. Pius X, Holy Trinity
Each of the CYO sports is made up of a CYO Sport Director, Sport Commission, and Commission Chair. Mark Lee is the CYO Track and Field Director, Paul Boileau is the Track Commission Chair and six individuals sit on the Commission. Additionally, each of the Clubs that participate in CYO track and field have several coaches.
We are very blessed at CYO to have so many outstanding individuals helping produce the track and field regular season meets and the end of season Championship events for third through eighth grade participants.
These pictures were taken at the 2013 Coaches meeting prior to the final day of competition. Who do you recognize?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP8s40R6O34&feature=youtu.be
Send me your CYO version of the Harlem Shake and I will post it to my BLOG and to the CYO/Camp Howard Website!
Scheduling Championship tournaments is much more than what it looks like to the person picking up their child’s schedule only to wonder what CYO was thinking! Some of the issues we face each year include the following:
CYO is always looking out for the best interests of the teams. This is always our intention.
Check out our Champions of Faith info and get a glimpse of last years event:
http://www.champions-of-faith.org/
We are getting ready to launch our second CYO CHAMPIONS OF FAITH BENEFIT DINNER. It will be held October 2nd at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. I am still amazed at our first dinner and what a fun event it was. Joey Harrington scored a major touchdown for us with a touching and heartfelt talk on his football career. His connection to CYO, Camp Howard and the Catholic School system made everyone in the room proud.
This years dinner features another outstanding CYO product, Karen Gaffney, who has found herself an esteemed speaker on behalf of Downes Syndrome. Karen, with the help of her parents, set out to achieve some goals and as a result has accomplished some pretty incredible milestones. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear her speak at the Champions of Faith Dinner this October.
Maija Pham won the Cub Girls long jump with a jump of 14’9.75″ to win the event at the CYO Meet of Champions May 20th at Jesuit High School.
Champion: Maija Pham
2 Emily Wenzel
3 Shannon Smith
4 Grace Rosebrook
5 Emma Treasure
6 Olivia Straw
7 Mia Hermann
8 Alyssa Hughes
1 Roth Morgan, 2 William Mundy, 3 Junior Martinez, 4Sam Romeo,
5 Gavin Bohling, 6Ben Pulido, 7 1584 Tyrese Hebert, 8 1615 Max Czysz
Roth Morgan won the CYO Cub Boys Championship with a throw of 103’8″ at the CYO Meet of Champions May 20th.
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