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Sat  12/05/09  @  Saint Thomas Aquinas High School     7:30PM 
Mon 12/07/09 @ Olathe South Varsity Tour. TBA
Tue 12/08/09 @ Olathe South Varsity Tour. TBA
Wed 12/09/09 @ Olathe South Varsity Tour. TBA
Thu 12/10/09 @ Olathe South Varsity Tourney TBA
Fri 12/11/09 @ Olathe South Varsity Tour. TBA
Sat 12/12/09 @ Olathe South Varsity Tour. TBA
Tue 12/15/09 @ Park Hill South High School Park Hill South 7:00PM
Thu 12/17/09 @ St. James Academy/Avila Hy-Vee Shootout 7:00PM
Sat 12/19/09 Truman/IEC 4:30PM
Sat 12/26/09 @ Wm. Jewell Tourney TBA
Mon 12/28/09 @ Wm. Jewell Tourney TBA
Tue 12/29/09 @ Wm. Jewell Tourney TBA
Wed 12/30/09 @ Wm. Jewell Tourney TBA
Tue 01/05/10 @ Oak Park High School Oak Park 7:00PM
Thu 01/07/10 @ Joplin Tourney/Joplin HighSchool TBA
Fri 01/08/10 @ Joplin Tourney/Joplin High School TBA
Sat 01/09/10 @ Joplin Tourney/Joplin High School TBA
Tue 01/12/10 Winnetonka High School William Chrisman 7:00PM
Fri 01/15/10 Park Hill High School William Chrisman 7:00PM
Wed 01/20/10 @ Staley High School Staley High School 7:00PM
Fri 01/22/10 Ray-Pec High School William Chrisman 7:00PM
Tue 01/26/10 @ Rockhurst High School Rockhurst 7:00PM
Fri 01/29/10 Park Hill South High School William Chrisman 7:00PM
Mon 02/01/10 Truman High School William Chrisman 6:30PM
Tue 02/02/10 @ Fort Osage High School Fort Osage 7:00PM
Fri 02/05/10 Oak Park High School William Chrisman 7:00PM
Tue 02/09/10 Winnetonka High School 7:00PM
Wed 02/10/10 @ Truman High School Truman 8:00PM
Fri 02/12/10 @ Winnetonka High School Winnetonka 7:00PM
Tue 02/16/10 @ Park Hill High School Park Hill 7:00PM
Mon 02/22/10 @ Districts North Kansas City TBA
Tue 02/23/10 @ Districts North Kansas City TBA
Wed 02/24/10 @ Districts North Kansas City TBA
Thu 02/25/10 @ Districts North Kansas City TBA
Fri 02/26/10 @ Districts North Kansas City TBA




2008 - 2009 Schedule

William Chrisman: When William Chrisman’s offense is clicking, there isn’t a more dangerous or entertaining team in the city. Led by Justin Clark and Jon Ekey, who are both headed to Illinois State next year, the duo leads a high-octane offense. If Clark and Ekey get hot along with the host of 5-foot-10 guards that round out the squad, scoring 100 or more points is not out of the question for the Bears.

Bears hitting the road

William Chrisman coach John Vickers found out during the offseason exactly what the demands are of having two NCAA Division I players on your roster.

Tournaments from across the nation wanted the Bears to take part. What resulted is a crazy schedule that includes games in four states.

“We’ve had probably seven offers to play in different places in the country,” Vickers said. “It was kind of nice to have those opportunities, but we couldn’t do all of them.”

William Chrisman will play in the MaxPreps Tournament in San Diego over the Christmas holiday break and will also play a game against Milwaukee Lutheran in Wisconsin. Add that to the already busy schedule with the Hy-Vee Shootout, the Olathe South Tournament, the Rivalry Showdown at Municipal Auditorium, a tournament in Joplin and a game at Mizzou Arena, and it is going to be a crazy season.

submitted by COLE YOUNG | THE KANSAS CITY STAR - 2008-12-04 23:17:02




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2006 - 2007 Schedule

Nov. 21, Fort Osage; W 91-71
Nov. 28, at Liberty; L 52-90
Dec. 1, Grain Valley; W 103-82
Dec. 4-9, Olathe (Kan.) South Tournament;
Park Hill South W 71-62
Olathe North W 89-88
Olathe South L 84-91
Dec. 12, at North Kansas City; W 82-70
Dec. 16, Hy-Vee Shootout, Avila University, Kansas City; Piper (Kansas City, KS) (Hy-Vee Shootout) L 69-74
Dec. 19, Oak Park; L 72-83
Dec. 21, Lee's Summit North; L 62-76
Dec. 26-30, William Jewell Holiday Classic, Liberty;
Hickman Mills, L 84-86
St. Joe Lafayette, W 79-71
St. Pius X, W 90-46
Jan. 4-6, Joplin Tournament;
Webster Groves L 73-92
Neosho W 83-48
Kansas City Paseo W 87-83
Jan. 9, at Blue Springs South; L 66-91
Jan. 12 (Weather), at Blue Springs; Make up game - Feb 8, 2007 L 71-87
Jan. 19, Blue Springs; L 88-91
Jan. 26, North Kansas City; W 87-81 Court Warming
Feb. 2, at Truman; L 73-78
Feb. 6, at Lee's Summit North; L 60-75
Feb. 9, at Oak Park; L 51-74
Feb. 13, Blue Springs South; L 61-67
Feb. 16, Liberty; W 73-68
Feb. 19-23, Class 5 District 13 Tournament, Blue Springs South. L Blue Springs, 72-74.

Friends and Family,

I just wanted to inform you of some post-season honors for some of our players.
  • All Conference Suburban Big 7 First Team – Justin Clark, sophomore
  • All Conference Suburban Big 7 Honorable Mention – Myshodde Miller – senior,
    Jon Ekey – sophomore, Josh Bennett – senior
  • All Area Honorable Mention – Justin Clark, Myshodde Miller, Jon Ekey
    (All Area includes Independence, Raytown, Blue Springs, Lee’s Summit, Oak Grove
    and Grain Valley – what most people call Easter Jackson County)
  • Justin Clark was also named one of the Top 50 players in Missouri by MOSPORTS.

Coach Vickers and the Bears



Friends and Family,

Our basketball banquet will be this Sunday, March 4 at 5:30 pm in the school cafeteria. I plan on having it catered with everyone chipping in with a dessert. If you are interested in attending you are more than welcome. Just please let me know by Friday so I can let the caterer know and we can order the appropriate amount of food.

Coach Vickers
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November 22, 2006

Friends and family,

Well, last night we got off to a good start on the season. We had a quadruple-header at Chrisman. All of our teams played at home against Fort Osage.

The freshmen A and B played in the small gym before a packed house. I don't know if I have ever seen more people at a freshman game before. The A team had a rough go of it against an athletic and good Fort team. The B team played a great game and led most of the way until the end and lost by only 3. Both coaches were glad to see where they are as a team and what they need to go back and work on in practice. We all feel that way right now. That first game is a great measuring stick to see where we are right now. One thing at the freshman level with what we are trying to do with our system of play. For any player learning how to play this way, the learning curve is huge and takes time and patience. The good thing is that all of our players are getting a chance to play and learn how to compete and play a role and try to improve individually and as a team.

The sophomores played Fort Osage at 5 pm as part of a triple header in the big gym. This team was coming off a tremendous come back 24 hours earlier against Lee's Summit and they were ready to get after it again. They clicked on all cylinders as they put the system to good use. Again, everyone got to play, everyone contributed and everyone scored. The effort they gave and the unselfishness and the execution of the Grinnell system was so good. Coach Beets did a great job leading his team as they finished it up by winning 92-60. Matt Lickey led the team with 16 points as Kyle Jackson and Jeremy Heffern chipped in 15 each.

The JV won a great battle with Fort Osage after the sophomore game was over. At this point the gym was packed and was hot....perfect for basketball. Coach Stacy and his team jumped on Fort from the tip. Fort kept fighting back but Coach Stacy and his team kept the upper hand and controlled the tempo wearing Fort Osage down and causing turnover after turnover. It was a very physical game at times as Josh Yakovitz got thrown to the floor and Trever Sifuentes broke his arm diving out of bounds for a loose ball. But the Bears would not be denied as Jay Rodriguez, jr. and new to Chrisman, led the way with 22. Mason McDaniels contributed 13 and freshman Michael Losch added nine points, and freshmen Chris PeGhee and Zach Dyer each had seven. Three players (Junior Jon Zicarelli, junior Kyle Robison, and freshman Josh Yakovitz) added six points in the total team effort.

It was a BIG night in the BIG gym for the William Chrisman Bears on Tuesday against Fort Osage.

After wins by both the Sophomore and JV teams, the varsity squad did its part, using a BIG fourth quarter to pull away for a 91-71 victory against the Indians.

Up by only four to start the fourth, the Bears run-and-gun stylings wore down Fort Osage. The Bears, fresh because of subbing a fresh unit of five players every minute, outscored the Indians 34-18 to clinch the victory.

Early on, though, the Indians gave the Bears all they could handle. Fort Osage built an 8-point first-quarter lead and the Bears did not get the lead until senior MyShodde Miller broke free for a lay-up with only two seconds left in the quarter.

For the next two quarters, the Bears and Indians fought. Each time the Bears seemed like they were about to pull away, the Indians fought back.

That, however, changed in the fourth quarter. Thanks to a small change in the defense and some timely shooting by Miller and sophomore Justin Clark, the Bears began to pull away.

The Bears style, adopted from Grinnell (Iowa) College, forced 46 turnovers. It also allowed the Bears to put up 85 shots. While they were off from behind the arc, making only 12-of-51, they made up for it from inside. Chrisman made 23-of-34 2point field goals, with Miller accounting for nine of them. Miller also made three 3-pointers. He finished with a career-high 28 points.

Clark was off his mark early, but he was there when it was needed, scoring 10 fourth quarter points. Clark made four 3-pointers and finished with 22 points.

Three seniors also played big roles. Josh Bennett scored 9 points, Andy Horner scored 7, and Eric Edwards also added 7. Edwards also took four charges. The Bears next game is Tuesday, Nov. 28, at Liberty.

The Bears have Wednesday and Thursday off to be with family for the Thanksgiving holiday and will be back to practice on Friday and Saturday. Check in at the Bears website to get the lates up-to-date information as well as read about players, coaches, practice and game schedules, see pictures and more. http://eteamz.active.com/wchsbearsbasketball/

We would like to wish all of you a safe and blessed Thanksgiving and hope to see you at Liberty on Nov. 28. We need your Bear pride and spirit there!!!

Coach Vickers and the Bears

I forgot to let you know that Regi Durr, sr., dislocated his shoulder early in last night's game. We are not sure of his prognosis at this time but will keep you posted.

We also had a number of former players in attendance last night as they were home on break from college:

Ramon McDaniels - '05, freshman basketball player at Mt. Aloysius (NCAA DIII in Pennsylvania)
Mike Richardson - '05, freshman basketball player at Mt. Aloysius (NCAA DIII in Pennsylvania)
Kyle Lee - '05, freshman basketball player at Graceland University (NAIA DII in Iowa)
Jason Clark - '05, freshman track, high jump, Johnson County Comm. College (Overland Park, KS)
Sean Casey - '05, freshman, community college

Old timer former Bears in attendance :0)

Bob Martin - WC basketball alum, class of '84
Robert Jensen - WC basketball alum, class of '85

I am sorry if I missed any of you other old timers last night. That place was packed!!!




November 21, 2006

Friends and Family,

Tonight is the Bears’ home opening game versus Fort Osage. The Freshmen play here at 5pm in the little gym. The Sophomores play at 4pm, the JV plays at 5pm and the Varsity plays at 7:30pm. All teams play Fort Osage.

The sophomores tipped off the season last night at Lee’s Summit. After a rocky start (the guys were down 26 points with 6 minutes left in the 3rd quarter) the boys decided to make a run and things started working for them. They began to get steals, easy buckets off turnovers, hit some shots and began chopping into the lead. Coach Beets said the team never gave up and momentum built as the system began to really get into gear. With one minute left the Bears had stormed back to take a 3 point lead. Folks, that is a 29 point turn around in thirteen minutes, pretty amazing. The sophomores ended up losing by three after an incredible effort and comeback. It showed them that if they run the system that they can do amazing things in a short amount of time and that no lead is insurmountable. Needless to say, they are very excited about playing tonight.

We hope to see many of you tonight and we want to wish all of you a Happy Thanksgiving and a safe and blessed time as you see family and friends over the next few days.

Coach Vickers

Added comment by Robie Mathews:
The Chrisman Bears’ Boys Basketball team won tonight over Fort Osage . The won the sophomore game 91 to 60. Junior Varsity won I think 84 to 76. Varsity won 91 to 70. Come watch the run and gun basketball team. See you soon. The Varsity Girls Cheerleading squad won the state title, too. Way to go Bears!




November 18, 2006

Friends and Family of Bears Basketball,

We will have our annual Blue / Gold game tonight at Chrisman at 6pm. Admission is free. There will be a lot of fun for everyone and it will be your first chance to see the Bears play before they open the regular season this upcoming week.

There will be contests, prizes, giveaways and more tonight. We hope to see you there!!!!




 

November 5, 2006

Newsletter

Dear Friends and Family of Bear Basketball,

This email newsletter is to update you on what is going on in William
Chrisman Bears Basketball. Most of you know we have done this from time
to time since late summer and will be able to do it more often now that
basketball season is about to start.

Before we get into it, we would like to encourage you to visit our
basketball team's website. It contains a lot of valuable information and
is updated regularly. It will be updated after each game this season
and you can read about favorite players, coaches, records the Bears set
last season, directions to games, Bear history, see pictures,
video(soon) and get updated on former Bear players who are currently playing in
college. Add the web address to your FAVORITES list:
http://eteamz.active.com/wchsbearsbasketball/

Our preseason went very well. We averaged 35 players showing up to
condition, lift weights and play at open gym. We feel the players, at
this point, are in better shape than where we were at the same time last
year. They especially enjoyed the elimination of Miracle Mile Fridays.
That was replaced with a new conditioning version called Freaky Friday
which was a creative coaching concoction of conditioning every Friday
and every Friday was different.

We just finished our first week of practice and had 72 try out. We
still have not gotten about 10-12 football players because they have won
the district and are now preparing to advance in the playoffs. We
congratulate Coach Spotts, his staff and team and wish them well. They are
on a roll right now and next face Park Hill at Park Hill next Friday
night.

Practice went well this week and the guys are excited to get the season
started. We are far ahead this year compared to last year in regards
to teaching our system of play. All the players and coaches feel more
comfortable and experienced after the momentous change we all went
through last year. We feel like that experience is going to benefit us
tremendously this year.

We will have some new faces at each level this year and can't wait for
you to see these young men on the court. You may also get a preview of
them once they are put on the team website. One of our new faces hails
from Germany. His name is Leon Haenel. He played soccer for Chrisman
this fall and is now ready to play what he calls his favorite sport,
basketball.

We also have a volunteer coach, Clay Discher, who played in high school
against the Bears when he attended North Kansas City High School. He
then played two years for William Jewell College. He is a fine young
man and we are glad to have him around to help our players and staff.

This fall we have had a chance to go to the University of Missouri to
watch practice and spend time with the coaching staff there. The Tigers
will run a version of what our team does and we were interested in
picking up some nuggets that we might be able to implement with our team in
practice or in games. The new Tiger staff has been very friendly and
accommodating. One of the coaches had even heard of our team and what
we do and had plenty of questions about our style of play. Pretty
interesting and somewhat flattering.

We would like to remind you of our Intrasquad Game which will be
Saturday night, November 18 at 6pm in the gym. It is free and it will be
fun. All of our boys teams will get some court time and we will have some
games and prizes for fans to be a part of during the evening. Come on
out and get a preview of this year's teams.

Finally, a little news about a former Bear basketball player. Ethan
Shull, '99 grad, is now a politician. He is involved in the city
government of East Lynne, Missouri as South Ward Alderman. Wow! Who knows
what could be next?

Remember, send us names and email addresses of others you think would
like to be getting this email newsletter about Bear Basketball. We
especially want to add alumni basketball players to this list.

Thanks for your continued support and we will see you soon.

Coach Vickers and the Bears Staff




September 26, 2006

Dear Friends,

The Bears have now completed the first month of pre-season conditioning, weight lifting and playing at open gym. There have been an average of 35 boys involved who are not participating in a fall sport. The coaching staff has heard from over 90 boys who plan on trying out for basketball when practice begins October 30.

Recently, the Greater Kansas City Basketball Coaches Association held its coaching clinic and sign-up night. University of Missouri basketball coach, Mike Anderson, was one of the guest speakers at the clinic. He talked about his Run and Execute system of basketball he is bringing to Missouri which is similar to what our team does. It was very interesting to hear many of the similarities and some of the differences our two programs have. Coach Anderson showed some game footage of how his system worked at UAB. It looked very familiar to the Bears coaching staff who attended the clinic. As Coach Anderson said, “It is a very different way to play basketball but a very fun way to play, fun to watch for the fans and fun to coach from the sidelines.” We could not agree more!!!!

On a different note, we would like to sincerely thank a couple of life-long Bears basketball fans and supporters of the program who donated a used car to one of our former student-athlete basketball players who is now away at college. This sacrifice and contribution to this young man’s life is going to help him and his family through a tough situation and will help him in getting to class on campus, getting to a job off-campus, getting home to visit, getting to practice, etc. Your support, care and sacrifice are appreciated!!!!

Again, we look forward to seeing you and communicating with you this season. We are interested in getting as many people as possible on this newsletter list. So, if you know of anyone who might be interested, please send us their first and last name and their email address and we will add them. We are especially interested in getting former Chrisman basketball players and other alums.

We also want to remind you to visit our team website which has been updated again. You will find a lot of interesting things there about Bears Basketball. Add it to your favorites list. http://eteamz.active.com/wchsbearsbasketball/

Finally, we want to congratulate one of our players, junior guard Spencer Harris, who was just named a McCoy Medal Award winner. This award is given to the Top 50 students of the junior class according to GPA.

We look forward to hearing from you and any feedback you may have. Basketball is just around the corner!!!

Yours in basketball,

Coach Vickers and the Bears staff




September 7, 2006

Subject: WC Basketball Newsletter

Good Morning to everyone,

We have gotten very positive feedback about having this newsletter to keep all informed on the happenings of Bear Basketball. My special thanks goes out to all of you who have responded and we are glad to have new people on board as well. A special note of thanks to Coach Larry Holley at William Jewell College . Coach Holley was my college basketball coach after my days at William Chrisman and he gave me the idea to begin this newsletter. I only hope we can come close to what he does with his for the Cardinal Basketball Family.

Again, we would like to invite you to email us with other people who might be interested in getting updates and information about Bear Basketball. Just email us their names and email addresses and we will add them to the list. We would especially like to re-establish contact with Bear alumni and former Bear basketball players. Please let us know.

The Bears have begun pre-season workouts this week with open gym, weight room work and conditioning. Needless to say, we have a lot of sore boys right now walking the halls of William Chrisman. It is hard to believe but we are not too far away from basketball season. The first practice of the year is October 30.

We are also happy to report that the Bears now have their own basketball website. Coach Stacy, Andrew Gray (senior) and Craig Stoll (senior) have worked very hard to create this site. The season hasn’t even begun and it is full of great information. The site will be updated regularly and fans will find it very informative and useful. We will be posting updated stats from games and we will also be posting video highlights from games. College coaches will be able to go to our site and view uploaded video footage of our players as well. We want to invite you to go to the site and click on all the various headings to see what is there about Bear Basketball. Please add our basketball website to your favorites list and visit it often. Here is the site, just click on it and you will be taken there. www.eteamz.active.com/wchsbearsbasketball

Let us know what you think of the site!!!! We invite your feedback to this newsletter and the website.

Yours in basketball,

Coach Vickers and the Bears Staff

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August 28, 2006

Hello Friends and Family of Bear Basketball,

Most of you who are receiving this newsletter know that the basketball program is going to begin communicating with you about the Bears Basketball Program. We want as many people who might be interested in getting information about the team to get on the list. So, if you know of other Chrisman alums or others who might be interested, please send us their names, email addresses or other ways to contact them so they might be able to be on the list.

Part of the information we put on here will be to utilize our relationships with people and the community to help our student-athletes. It definitely takes more than teachers and coaches to help our young people today!!

This brings me to a couple of opportunities that have arisen for someone out there to help out a couple of our fellow Bears. One of our current senior players is in a Marketing class at Chrisman. Part of his credit for this class is to have a job and work a certain amount of hours during the week. He is looking for something local that might be in something other than food service that would perhaps be understanding of his school and basketball schedule. If anyone has a contact, please reach me ASAP. Email or call 816-628-5152.

The other opportunity is for a former player in our program who is now in college nearby. He is in need of a vehicle to get to and from campus and to and from his home here in Independence. He is currently having to desperately search for ways to get to campus from his apartment and to get home on the weekends. If anyone knows of a cheap but dependable vehicle we might find for him, please contact me ASAP. Email or call 816-628-5152.

These are two opportunities to help a couple of fine young men, a current Bear and a former Bear. Could you help out?

Now for a few updates:

2002 WC Bears: John Davenport is beginning his final year at William Jewell College and is healthy and cleared to play basketball again after some major knee issues and a broken thumb the last two seasons, BJ Surry, after sitting out a year after Jacksonville University, has been accepted at William Jewell and will be completing his final year of eligibility playing for the Cardinals with his good friend and high school teammate, John Davenport. Marquise Lewis, a high school teammate of John and BJ, is finishing his final semester at Ottawa University and his final year of eligibility in basketball there. Matt Habermehl, high school teammates of John, BJ and Marquise, is in his final year at Missouri Southern in Joplin and figures to play a major role on his basketball team in the very competitive MIAA, Division II basketball league. JR Wells, high school teammate to all these players, is completing his education degree at UMKC and will join the WC Bears staff this year as an assistant coach. JR also recently became engaged. JR is filling the void left by Rachel Bradberry, former WC girl's basketball player and assistant boys coach last year, who is now the head girl's varsity basketball coach at Lone Jack High School. Rachel also just got married to former Bears player, Nate Donaldson.

2005 WC Bears: Jeff Ivory has returned for his sophomore basketball season at Otero Junior College in Colorado. Ben Kisner has returned to Lindenwood University in St. Louis for his sophomore football season.

2006 WC Bears: Jason Clark is a freshman at Johnson County Community College on scholarship to high jump, Kyle Lee is a freshman at Graceland and will play basketball there, Mike Richardson and Ramon McDaniels are freshman at NCAA Div. III Mount Aloysius in Pennsylvania and will play basketball there. They are also roommates.

CoachTerry Parker, Physical Education teacher and longtime coach at WC, will return to the Bears staff this year as assistant varsity coach. Coach Parker has coached basketball at Chrisman 17 of his 19 years. The Bears are thrilled to have his experience and character on the staff. He will be a tremendous asset to our program.

The Bears had a basketball meeting last week for all those interested in playing basketball this year who are not involved in a fall sport. Forty-six young men showed up to meet the staff and get information about the upcoming pre-season workouts.

Coach Stacy, assistant Bears coach, recently read on MOSPORTS.COM that the Bears were mentioned as one of four teams in the KC metro area as a "must see" team this year. The Bears were mentioned along with Rockhurst, Raytown South and Paseo.

The Bears continue to have positive feedback after hosting a national coaches clinic on the Run and Gun style of play the Bears implemented last season. Over 50 men's and women's high school and college coaches attended the clinic last spring from all over the United States. Many high school and college coaches who have heard about the clinic have contacted the Bears staff with questions about the system of play and have requested a copy of the DVD that was filmed of the clinic.

Yours in basketball,

Coach Vickers and the Staff




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"July 24, 2006 "

From: John Vickers jvickers@indep.k12.mo.us
Subject: Chrisman Basketball Email List

Dear friends of William Chrisman Basketball,

We are going to begin a supporter list for Bears Basketball and we are wanting to generate a list of boosters, alumni, friends of the program, family members of current and former players, Chrisman staff, etc. who you think would be interested in getting updated information on the boys basketball team.

We are looking at developing a monthly e-newsletter as well as updates after games, events, etc. This will be a great way to get information out there about what is going on in the program and allow you to feel more connected to what is going on in Chrisman Basketball.

Please send us names and email addresses of people you know may be interested in being added to this list. We will generate this email from time to time to update the announcement that we are doing this so this won't be the last time you see it.

Please help us in getting as many friends and family of Chrisman basketball involved.

Thanks very much,

Coach John Vickers




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