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If you need any kind of creative computer generated work done...check out Michael Fonville at the link attached. Michael works for Westbury Christian School and freelances in computer creative design. He worked on the professional portfolio that I used for my interview at Faulkner University. Turns out I am working at Faulkner University. It was no conicidence. Everyone I have now gotten to know that was on the committee later pointed to that portfolio as something they were very impressed by.
Friday, August 05, 2011
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Lady Eagle Summer Update
Hello again!
It has been a while and there is alot ot report about the Lady Eagles. The last I blogged, we were in a conference battle for a playoff spot. It turned out that we had to win our last two games against Mobile at home and AUM on the road. Our players made it happen and we ended up the #3 seed out of our division.
As excited as we were to make the conference tournament, we also drew a very tough and senior-laden team from Southern Poly Tech in Marietta, GA. They were #20 in the country at that point. We battled them for 45 minutes as it took them overtime to finally defeat us 59-48. They went on to win the SSAC championship.
After the season, we had our post season player meetings and I am happy to report that ALL of our players are returning next season in some capacity. We are also starting a Junior Varsity team to give more kids a chance to play beyond high school. Sarah Hughes, who was a volunteer assistant last season will be on staff next season to be the Head Coach.
On the recruiting trail, God sent us four players that should help us get better this season; Nyla Johnson from Madison Academy, Christina Hayes from Shelton State, Holli Brooks from Chickamauga GA, and Meredith Botes from Briarwood Christian in Birmingham. Our JV team is also coming together with players from Prattville, Wetumpka, Birmingham, Atlanta, and more...
Our schedule is coming together and it should be much tougher than last season. We have road games at Lee, Shorter, Freed Hardeman, Trevecca Nazarene, and Talledega early in the season to go along with our Exhibition at Alabama State University. The conference will be very tough next season. All of our division teams are returning the majority of their key players and they have recruited talented kids to go with them. It should be a very exciting season in 2011-12.
Camps went very well this summer, with the highlight being our last camp (Basketball University) where we had 34 campers in our first year who all got better and competed hard.
Our coaches are on the July recruiting trails as we think ahead about our 2012 class. We have submitted scholarship offers to three kids so far and hope that they all commit very soon so we can start coaching them and recruiting 2013's. The 2013 class will be a key class if we want to perpetuate our winning ways as we will graduate several players that play alot. Coach Kat and Hughes are in Murfreesboro, TN as we speak watching a tournament and I am heading to Houston this weekend and New Orleans next weekend to watch kids play. We are very pleased with the product we are selling right now and are trying to stretch to get players that nobody thinks we should get!
I will try to do a better job keeping up with the blog in the future and I appreciate your support of Faulkner Womens Basketball!
God Bless,
Coach Sutton
It has been a while and there is alot ot report about the Lady Eagles. The last I blogged, we were in a conference battle for a playoff spot. It turned out that we had to win our last two games against Mobile at home and AUM on the road. Our players made it happen and we ended up the #3 seed out of our division.
As excited as we were to make the conference tournament, we also drew a very tough and senior-laden team from Southern Poly Tech in Marietta, GA. They were #20 in the country at that point. We battled them for 45 minutes as it took them overtime to finally defeat us 59-48. They went on to win the SSAC championship.
After the season, we had our post season player meetings and I am happy to report that ALL of our players are returning next season in some capacity. We are also starting a Junior Varsity team to give more kids a chance to play beyond high school. Sarah Hughes, who was a volunteer assistant last season will be on staff next season to be the Head Coach.
On the recruiting trail, God sent us four players that should help us get better this season; Nyla Johnson from Madison Academy, Christina Hayes from Shelton State, Holli Brooks from Chickamauga GA, and Meredith Botes from Briarwood Christian in Birmingham. Our JV team is also coming together with players from Prattville, Wetumpka, Birmingham, Atlanta, and more...
Our schedule is coming together and it should be much tougher than last season. We have road games at Lee, Shorter, Freed Hardeman, Trevecca Nazarene, and Talledega early in the season to go along with our Exhibition at Alabama State University. The conference will be very tough next season. All of our division teams are returning the majority of their key players and they have recruited talented kids to go with them. It should be a very exciting season in 2011-12.
Camps went very well this summer, with the highlight being our last camp (Basketball University) where we had 34 campers in our first year who all got better and competed hard.
Our coaches are on the July recruiting trails as we think ahead about our 2012 class. We have submitted scholarship offers to three kids so far and hope that they all commit very soon so we can start coaching them and recruiting 2013's. The 2013 class will be a key class if we want to perpetuate our winning ways as we will graduate several players that play alot. Coach Kat and Hughes are in Murfreesboro, TN as we speak watching a tournament and I am heading to Houston this weekend and New Orleans next weekend to watch kids play. We are very pleased with the product we are selling right now and are trying to stretch to get players that nobody thinks we should get!
I will try to do a better job keeping up with the blog in the future and I appreciate your support of Faulkner Womens Basketball!
God Bless,
Coach Sutton
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Pink Zone
I don’t know who it is for you and your family, but for me it was my grandmother, Hazel Campbell. We all know and love people dearly that are affected by some type of cancer. I would be willing to guess that you also have someone close to you that is affected specifically with the type of cancer that plagued my grandma, breast cancer. .
Women’s basketball coaches all over the country from the top coaches like Gino Auriemma of UConn and Pat Summitt of Tennessee to coaches at the smallest rural high schools in America are banding together to try to make at least a small difference in awareness and research for breast cancer. The idea is to take a week out of the season and call it the “Pink Zone” where one game on your schedule is dedicated to honoring breast cancer survivors and raising money for breast cancer research, in particular the Kay Yow Cancer Research fund. Kay Yow was a legendary coach at North Carolina State that lost her personal battle with the disease, but leaves a legacy of inspiration to coaches everywhere to continue the fight toward victory over breast cancer.
Therefore, we have declared this coming Saturday’s women’s basketball game in Tine Davis Gymnasium at 2 pm against Belhaven University to be a Pink Zone game. Here is what that means…
1. We would like for everyone that attends the game to wear something pink to honor all breast cancer survivors. Our players will have some pink shoelaces, socks, and warm-up shirts. Our coaches will be wearing pink shirts as well.
2. We are not charging any admission for Saturday’s game. We are going to have a donation station for people to make a donation to the Kay Yow Cancer Research fund. Every penny that is donated will go directly to that fund. Please consider making a donation. If you cannot make it to the game, feel free to make a donation by bringing it by the athletic office. If you are writing a check, make it out to Faulkner with “Pink Zone” on the memo line.
3. We would like to honor all of our breast cancer survivors on the floor at halftime of the women’s game…whether it is 1 or 100, we want to give them our support with a standing ovation at halftime.
4. I would like to receive a reply email with anyone who may have a loved one that is battling this disease right now or has lost their battle (like my grandma) and please share a little bit about their story….when they found out, where they are in their treatments, etc… Our team has a white board in our team room and we are going to fill it with those names so that we can keep those warriors in our prayers and draw inspiration from those champions.
We are very excited about Saturday and appeal to you for your support. Not only is it a Pink Zone game, but they are very meaningful women’s and men’s games. Belhaven is the first place team in our women’s division and our team is in a battle to qualify for the conference tournament. Also, our men’s team is playing well and they are honoring the National Championship team’s 10 year anniversary! It will be a great afternoon…Please consider joining us!!!.
Blessings,
Coach Sutton
http://www.kayyow.com/
WBCA(Women’s Basketball Coaches Association)Pink Zone History
The WBCA began the WBCA Pink Zone in 2007 as an initiative to raise breast cancer awareness in women's basketball, on campuses and in communities. The late Kay Yow, former North Carolina State University head women's basketball coach, served as the catalyst for the initiative after her third reoccurrence of breast cancer in 2006.
In 2007, more than 120 schools unified for this effort and helped make the inaugural year a success. In 2008, over 1,200 teams and organizations participated, reaching over 830,000 fans and raising over $930,000 for breast cancer awareness and research. The 2009 campaign raised over $1.3 million, reached over 912,000 fans, unified more than 1,600 participating teams and organizations, and saw 56+ schools break attendance records at their event. In 2010, over 1,800 participants came together to surpass $1,045,000 in donations and reached more than 922,000 fans across the nation. Over 22 schools broke attendance records through their participation.
Overall, the WBCA Pink Zone has raised nearly $3.3 Million, has reached almost 2.7 Million fans, and has unified over 4,700 participants in only four years.
The WBCA's charity of choice is the Kay Yow Cancer FundTM, in partnership with The V Foundation. The WBCA strongly encourages all donations from WBCA Pink Zone games to be given to the Fund. The late Kay Yow, the Fund's namesake and former N.C. State head women's basketball coach, served as a catalyst for starting the WBCA Pink Zone. After three bouts with breast cancer, Yow passed away in January 2009.
Women’s basketball coaches all over the country from the top coaches like Gino Auriemma of UConn and Pat Summitt of Tennessee to coaches at the smallest rural high schools in America are banding together to try to make at least a small difference in awareness and research for breast cancer. The idea is to take a week out of the season and call it the “Pink Zone” where one game on your schedule is dedicated to honoring breast cancer survivors and raising money for breast cancer research, in particular the Kay Yow Cancer Research fund. Kay Yow was a legendary coach at North Carolina State that lost her personal battle with the disease, but leaves a legacy of inspiration to coaches everywhere to continue the fight toward victory over breast cancer.
Therefore, we have declared this coming Saturday’s women’s basketball game in Tine Davis Gymnasium at 2 pm against Belhaven University to be a Pink Zone game. Here is what that means…
1. We would like for everyone that attends the game to wear something pink to honor all breast cancer survivors. Our players will have some pink shoelaces, socks, and warm-up shirts. Our coaches will be wearing pink shirts as well.
2. We are not charging any admission for Saturday’s game. We are going to have a donation station for people to make a donation to the Kay Yow Cancer Research fund. Every penny that is donated will go directly to that fund. Please consider making a donation. If you cannot make it to the game, feel free to make a donation by bringing it by the athletic office. If you are writing a check, make it out to Faulkner with “Pink Zone” on the memo line.
3. We would like to honor all of our breast cancer survivors on the floor at halftime of the women’s game…whether it is 1 or 100, we want to give them our support with a standing ovation at halftime.
4. I would like to receive a reply email with anyone who may have a loved one that is battling this disease right now or has lost their battle (like my grandma) and please share a little bit about their story….when they found out, where they are in their treatments, etc… Our team has a white board in our team room and we are going to fill it with those names so that we can keep those warriors in our prayers and draw inspiration from those champions.
We are very excited about Saturday and appeal to you for your support. Not only is it a Pink Zone game, but they are very meaningful women’s and men’s games. Belhaven is the first place team in our women’s division and our team is in a battle to qualify for the conference tournament. Also, our men’s team is playing well and they are honoring the National Championship team’s 10 year anniversary! It will be a great afternoon…Please consider joining us!!!.
Blessings,
Coach Sutton
http://www.kayyow.com/
WBCA(Women’s Basketball Coaches Association)Pink Zone History
The WBCA began the WBCA Pink Zone in 2007 as an initiative to raise breast cancer awareness in women's basketball, on campuses and in communities. The late Kay Yow, former North Carolina State University head women's basketball coach, served as the catalyst for the initiative after her third reoccurrence of breast cancer in 2006.
In 2007, more than 120 schools unified for this effort and helped make the inaugural year a success. In 2008, over 1,200 teams and organizations participated, reaching over 830,000 fans and raising over $930,000 for breast cancer awareness and research. The 2009 campaign raised over $1.3 million, reached over 912,000 fans, unified more than 1,600 participating teams and organizations, and saw 56+ schools break attendance records at their event. In 2010, over 1,800 participants came together to surpass $1,045,000 in donations and reached more than 922,000 fans across the nation. Over 22 schools broke attendance records through their participation.
Overall, the WBCA Pink Zone has raised nearly $3.3 Million, has reached almost 2.7 Million fans, and has unified over 4,700 participants in only four years.
The WBCA's charity of choice is the Kay Yow Cancer FundTM, in partnership with The V Foundation. The WBCA strongly encourages all donations from WBCA Pink Zone games to be given to the Fund. The late Kay Yow, the Fund's namesake and former N.C. State head women's basketball coach, served as a catalyst for starting the WBCA Pink Zone. After three bouts with breast cancer, Yow passed away in January 2009.
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