| BLAZER ATHLETICS NEWSLETTER Volume 4, Number 8, February 12, 2015 BASKETBALL The Varsity Basketball team has a record of 7-13 and is looking to get their 8th win against St. Joseph Academy this Saturday heading into the postseason. See the draw for the OHSAA state basketball tournament here. The JV team got their first win of the season over Gilmour Academy 31-12 and hopes to end their season with win number 2 over St. Joseph Academy this Saturday. Upcoming Games: Saturday, February 14 vs. St. Joseph Academy @ HBS - JV @ 1:00 p.m./Varsity @ 2:30 p.m.; Saturday, February 21 vs. Cleveland JFK @ HBS - Varsity @ 1:00 p.m. (OHSAA Sectional Semi-Final) SWIMMING & DIVING The Varsity Swimming & Diving team finished the regular season with wins over Magnificat and Solon. The team also came in first place at the Orange Relays and had a particularly strong showing at the Northeast Ohio Classic. Hathaway Brown hosted the Blazer Invitational on January 31 and came in second place. Mary Motch '16 broke the Varsity 100 yard Backstroke record at the Northeast Classic with a time of 58.05, Emma Bryan '15 broke the Varsity diving record with a score of 248.05 for six dives at the Magnificat meet, and the relay team of Julia Armitage '16, Maggie Cha '17, Iman Eulinberg '15, and Mary Motch set the pool record during the Blazer Invite for the 200 yard Medley Relay with a time of 1:50.62. Congratulations to all the swimmers who put on a good showing for the Blazers at the JV Championship Meet. Upcoming Meets: Varsity Swimming Saturday, February 14 @ Hawken School - Gates Mills Campus @ 2:40 p.m. (OHSAA Sectional Swim Meet); Varsity Diving Wednesday, February 18 @ CSU's Busbey Natatorium @ 11:30 a.m. (OHSAA District Diving); Varsity Swimming Friday, February 20 @ Busbey Natatorium @ 3:00 p.m. (OHSAA District Swim Meet); Varsity Diving Wednesday, February 25 @ C.T. Branin Natatorium @ 9:00 a.m. (OHSAA Diving State Finals); Varsity Swimming Thursday, February 26 @ C.T. Branin Natatorium @ 5:00 p.m. (OHSAA State Swim Preliminaries); Varsity Swimming Friday, February 27 @ C.T. Branin Natatorium @ 5:00 p.m. (OHSAA State Swim Finals)
GENERAL Varsity and JV spring sports begin on February 23, 2015. Times vary for each sport; please contact the head coach of your sport for further information. The mandatory OHSAA Parent/Athlete Meeting will be held in the Dining Hall on February 24, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. Recently we rolled out the Hathaway Brown Athletics Road Maps, a new educational and physical fitness resource for HB girls and their families who are interested in learning more about the 11 athletics disciplines available at the developmental, Middle School, JV, and Varsity levels. These Athletics Road Maps were created as a way for us to share the knowledge and expertise of HB’s coaching staff and the members of our athletics and physical education departments. Families can use these maps as tools to get their children on the right path with athletics at a young age. Check them out on our website: www.hb.edu/roadmaps (portal password is required). Don't forget to check out the Blazer Athletics Camp offerings at www.hb.edu/summer. FINAL FORMS We are very excited that our Athletics Department has partnered with FinalForms, an online application that will enable parents and students to complete and file all of their mandatory Athletics & Medical forms electronically. FinalForms is available for all Hathaway Brown Student-Athletes online at: Once you go to this site, you will need to set up separate accounts and passwords for both parents and student-athletes. Please follow the instructions in the Parent Playbook (found here) to set up these accounts and register your student-athlete. The ONLY form that you are still required to actually print, complete and return to Jody Duecker in the Athletics Department is the OHSAA Physical form pages 1-4. The OHSAA Physical form must be completed by a doctor, and by law we are required to have a signed copy on file before the student-athlete's first day of practice - no exceptions. Once your student-athlete's OHSAA Physical form is received by the Athletics Department, we will input the expiration date into FinalForms and then you will receive automatic notifications when your student-athlete's OHSAA Physical and forms need to be updated. Registering your first child will take about 5-10 minutes. Registering additional children will take about 2-3 minutes each. Information is stored from season to season and from year to year, and also shared within families - eliminating the need to enter the same information more than once. Your only annual requirement will be logging in to verify the existing information for your child by re-signing each form. We realize that you may have already filled out some of these forms earlier in the year, but we are asking you to fill them out again in this online format so that we may begin to convert everyone to this new system. If you have turned in your OHSAA Physical form for the season already, you DO NOT need to re-submit that form as we already have it on file. Once you have completed the registration of your student-athlete, please download and print the Online Athletics Form Confirmation Page (found here) and return it to Julie Lozon in the Athletics office as soon as possible. Thank you for your assistance in streamlining our paperwork process in the Athletics Department. Should you have any questions, please contact Julie Lozon at jlozon@hb.edu.
BLAZER SPIRIT CLUB
A special thank-you to the Blazer Spirit Club for all of their help this winter with Senior Recognition days. The group, which has some great ideas and is gaining momentum, is headed up by Stacy Langenderfer along with Lisa Mortimer and Amy Paine. If you are interested in helping out, please contact one of them for more information. MIDDLE SCHOOL UPDATE Middle School Spring Sports (lacrosse, softball and track & field) for the 7th and 8th graders will have a preseason schedule in March and then kick into high gear in April and May. Practices in March will be once a week from 3:30-4:30 p.m. in the gym. In April and May there will be a daily practice schedule. The 8th graders will have an adjusted athletics schedule in April due to the musical. The softball team will practice on Monday (March 2 and 9), the lacrosse team on Tuesday (March 3 and 10) and track & field on Wednesday (March 4 and 11). After spring break, the softball and the track & field teams will practice from 3:30-5:00 p.m., while the lacrosse team will practice from 4:00-5:30 p.m. The OHSAA mandatory spring sports meeting for athletes and their parents is scheduled for Wednesday, April 8 at 5:15 p.m. in the Margery Stouffer Biggar '47 and Family Dining Hall. If you have any questions, please contact Julie Kerrigan-Ettorre (216.320.8765 or jettorre@hb.edu). CREW CLUB CYRA appreciates the rowing interest and support of HB at both the MSC (Middle School Crew) and the Team (9th-12th grade) levels. Please visit the CYRA website to view the available programs for Spring 2015. Don't forget to stop in the Brown Bag to get the latest Blazer merchandise. Come out and support all of the HB Athletics Teams! Go Blazers! 
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