VFW

Dear Force Parents,

We are approaching the Tigers Tournament in less than three weeks. We were a little off in our last WLA Tournament so we are going to try and get everyone back up to speed without compromising other activities.

We will have our optional Jason Wright clinic this Friday 5/2 at 9:00 p.m. in Huntington Beach, Jason will continue to work on the boys shooting skills, this is important as they have now moved into the mens ball and we need to correct their form if they changed their shot from the womens ball. The new basketball is now a little bigger and heavier than before.

Our Tigers practice for this weekend will be on Sunday 5/4 at Mariners from 6:30-8:00 p.m., we had to schedule it a little later due to Mariners having an event earlier in the afternoon and for any conflicts of schedules that the FOR Tournament might bring.

We will be practicing next Friday 5/9 at the Buena Park Boys & Girls Club from 7:00-9:00 p.m. and will not be having a Jason Clinic this night. We have scheduled this mandatory practice as we will not be practicing on Mothers Day, Sunday 5/11. We are also looking for another possible location during the week as we need more time to work on all our situations. We will keep you posted.

On another note, the FORCE family would like to say "THANK YOU" to Coach Scotty and Tracie for their generous gift of $500.00 to our boys FORCE fund. This is the second time that they have donated to our boys. Last year their donation purchased our teams shooting shirts and also helped in our fees to this years 2008 Las Vegas Dodger Tournament. Thank you again Scott & Tracie for always being there for our boys !!!

We also are going to be very active this year in trying to build our fund up for our 2009 tournament season. We will be doing different activities that will add dollars to our fund. The first is the JW Clinic on 5/10 that we will be coordinating, it should add a few dollars to our fund depending on the number of players attending. We can also ask Caroline if she would coordinate with the boys her idea of recycling plastic and cans? The biggest effort will come from selling ads to our VFW Tournament in October, remember we receive 50% on all ads over $700, last year we received close to $400 back from VFW for our fund. Let me know if you have any other ideas that our boys could do to help in their tournament fund for next year.

Let us know if you cannot make practice this Sunday at Mariners.

Thanks,

Mark