New Football Sectionals Announced

The IHSAA announced the new football sectionals today. Looks like we'll be sharing a bracket with McCutcheon, Kokomo, and West Lafayette Harrison. Two of those teams we've had a pretty good track record with in recent years, and Kokomo is a newcomer. We look forward to competing against these teams come tournament time!

Middle School 7on7 Pictures

Coach Gilbert passed along some photos to me from last night's 7on7 workout at HSE. 40 Rocks showed up to play in the rain! Our 7th and 8th graders are going up against players from HSE, Fishers, and Noblesville over the next couple of weeks. This is a great opportunity for us to get better in the offseason, and it's a lot of fun. I've always been a fan of 7on7's. Feels sort of like organized backyard ball.

I've started a Summer 2013 album online here where I will be adding any photos we receive (feel free to email some of your own if you have some!), and I'll be sharing my favorites here on the blog.

Go Rocks!

Collegiate Rocks

Those of you paying attention on Twitter probably noticed a flurry of announcements being shared last week regarding a few college-bound Shamrocks. I wanted to post something on here to say congratulations to the following Rocks that will be continuing their football careers at the collegiate level:

Cory Sucese - Aurora
Stephen Curry - Wittenberg
Deryion Sturdivant - Wabash

We expect to hear great things about you guys!

2013 Offseason Video

For anyone who missed the video or wants to see it again, here is the link.

The challenge has been made.  

Do you have the resolve to finish the job?  

Every rep, every set, every sprint, every drill, every play, every day, every time!

Resolve!

Finish!

Video: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bnaIa2Iq78

Spring Community Service Project

In addition to our Build the Rock update, I have another post today. This one an announcement about an opportunity to serve the community. Shamrocks will be working with Habitat for Humanity, and likely be doing the foundation and early stages of building a house. This is a great chance for some team building and to give back.

The opportunity will be on Saturday, May 4th from 9AM to 4PM. Any football player over the age of 16 (sorry for the age restriction!) is encouraged to come and donate what time they can! We will be working at 350 S. Washington Avenue in Cicero, IN. Slap that into your friendly neighborhood GPS and come on out!

In order to help us, we need players to officially sign up through Habitat's Hamilton County Website. In the top bar select "get involved." Scroll down and click "volunteer now." Find the date and click on "Westfield Football." Finally, click on "sign in." Should take all of five minutes. If you have problems, let one of the coaches know (or email us!).

Hope to see you there!

Coach Sattison is in the Field

Coach Sattison is our eyewitness reporter for Build the Rock progress. I've convinced him to send me bootleg pictures and updates as construction progresses. He'll be using Twitter a lot, but I'll try to snag some for re-posting here (and to our Facebook page). Here's coach...

Here was a snapshot of the construction I took yesterday. It's really hard to focus on school with all of this going on right outside my window! It looks like they are nearly done surveying and have brought in some pipes to start actually digging into the ground to start the foundation. I couldn't help but think how perfect this timing is. We have finally started some skill development outside our normal weight training, so as a team we are laying the foundation for our upcoming football season as well! I know they say "a watched pot never boils," but I will try to blog updates as often as possible! For a daily picture update, follow me or our football account on twitter: @coach_sattison and/or @ShamrockFB, and as always, its a great day to be a Shamrock!

-Coach Sattison

Breaking Ground!

Some of you may have seen this go out across our twitter feed (@ShamrockFB) earlier this week. Consider this an update on the Building the Rock campaign. Ground has been broken!!!

Academic Top Ten: Spring Break Edition

As a Spring Break treat, we've looked into grades!

I know, you're all excited, reading this on your mobile devices down in Florida with the rest of Indiana on the beach. Did you caravan down there? I remember on one of my own breaks not too long ago, we stopped at a random Steak and Shake just outside of Atlanta. It was maybe 2AM (we were driving through). Walked in, and the entire place was filled with the same people we'd hang out with on a random Saturday night! Many of the end destinations were different (PCB, Daytona, etc), but apparently we were all making the Atlanta Steak and Shake a hot spot for a night. And who doesn't have stories about Atlanta traffic, am I right? (Gotta hit it at night!)

Ah, the joys of being a Hoosier on Spring Break.

Anyway, I promised a top ten before I got all reminiscent on you. While you're out enjoying your sand and sun, remember that grades are still very important to us Shamrocks. Enjoy your break, but be ready to work when you get back. We're building something special here!

In a very particular order, here are the top ten GPA-earners in our family:

1. Mitch Turley
2. Johnny Crawford
3. Matt Kinney
4. Ben Huntley
5. Madi Turley
6. Will McCool
7. Sam Trompen
8. Renzo Alvarez
9. Turner Edwards
10. Paul Waite

Great job, Rocks! I'm sure all ten of you are hitting the books hard right now instead of getting a tan... right?