Fall Registration July 24

NEWS RELEASE
FALL REGISTRATION NIGHT

The Farmington Athletics Department will hold its 2012 Fall Athletics Registration Night on Tuesday, July 24th, at Farmington High School (Recital Hall). Attendees should park in the east parking lot and enter the building through the east doors.

All Farmington School District Parents/Guardians and their sons and/or daughters, grades 6-12, who are interested in participating in a fall athletics program offered by the Athletics Department are encouraged to attend.

The Registration Night will begin at 6:00 pm for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders interested in participating in the Middle School athletics programs. Please note that during the Fall, 6th grade participation is limited to Boys’ & Girls’ Cross Country, Girls’ Swim & Dive, and Girls’ Tennis. 

At 7:00 pm, Registration Night will continue for students in grades 9-12.

It is recommended that the 2012-2013 Farmington Athletics Registration Packet be completed prior to attending this event. The 2012-2013 Farmington Athletics Registration Packet may be picked up at any of the following locations: Farmington High School, Boeckman Middle School, and Dodge Middle School or online at the Farmington Athletics website: www.farmington.k12.mn.us/athletics

Parents/Guardians will be able to turn-in their registration packet and meet with coaches to receive information on the upcoming athletics season.

A reminder that all students interested in participating in the athletics programs must complete the registration packet and have a current (within three calendar years) sports-qualifying physical examination on file before any participation is allowed.

HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAMS (GRADES 9-12)
SPORT/ LEVELS OFFICIAL/START DATE/FEE
Boys’ Cross Country Varsity/JV Monday, August 13th $165.00
Girls’ Cross Country Varsity/JV Monday, August 13th $165.00
Football Varsity/JV/B-Squad/9th Monday, August 13th $165.00
Boys’ Soccer Varsity/JV/B-Squad Monday, August 13th $165.00
Girls’ Soccer Varsity/JV/B-Squad/9th Monday, August 13th $165.00
Girls’ Swimming & Diving Varsity/JV Monday, August 13th $165.00
Girls’ Tennis Varsity/JV Monday, August 13th $165.00
Volleyball Varsity/JV/B-Squad/9th Monday, August 13th $165.00
Cheerleading Varsity/JV Monday, August 13th $165.00
Adapted Athletics (Soccer) Varsity (C.I. and P.I.) TBA $165.00

MIDDLE SCHOOL PROGRAMS (GRADES 6-8)
SPORT/LEVELS/OFFICIAL START DATE/FEE
Boys’ Cross Country** Middle School Monday, August 27th $130.00
Girls’ Cross Country** Middle School Monday, August 27th $130.00
Football 7th Grade & 8th Grade Monday, August 27th $130.00
Boys’ Soccer Middle School Monday, August 27th $130.00
Girls’ Soccer 7th Grade & 8th Grade Monday, August 27th $130.00
Girls’ Swimming & Diving** Middle School Monday, August 27th $130.00
Girls’ Tennis Middle School Monday, August 27th $130.00
Volleyball 7th Grade & 8th Grade Monday, August 27th $130.00
**Middle School students are encouraged to begin practicing on the High School Start Date: Monday, August 13th.

Please note that there will be separate 7th & 8th Grade Football, Girls’ Soccer, and Volleyball programs at both Boeckman and Dodge Middle Schools. Student-athletes in these sports will play for the middle school they attend.

A reminder that 6th grade athletics participation is limited to Boys’ & Girls’ Cross Country, Girls’ Swim & Dive, and Girls’ Tennis in the Fall 2012.

A Fall Strength & Conditioning program will also be offered at Farmington High School starting Monday, September 10th. This program is available to high school students only.

CONTACTS: Jon Summer
Athletics Director
Farmington School District
651-252-2515 (office)
jsummer@farmington.k12.mn.us

Alumni Tracker: Ex-Tigers return for Dew Run

Carson Jones batting .348 for Dundas Dukes

A large contingent of notable former Tiger athletes were among the more than 500 walkers and runners who took part in the 33rd Dew Run held, Saturday, June 16, in conjunction with Farmington's Dew Days celebration.

2005 Oscar Lubke Award winner Ben Kampf who later ran for the University of Minnesota men's cross country and track teams, clocked 20:29 over the friendly four-mile course to win the race by 42 seconds.

2011 FHS male Athlete of the Year Carl Elmer, now a wrestler at St. Olaf College, placed 11th in the 336-runner four-mile field in 24:22. Sean Fitch, the 1996 Oscar Lubke Award winner and one of the leading rushers in Tiger football history, ranked 36th in 27:25.

1987 Tiger Female Athlete of the Year Julie (Bauer) Mogensen finished eighth in her age group and 2006 male Athlete of the Year Carson Jones and fiance' Heidi Donnelly ran the race together to win the unofficial couples division. 

1996 male co-Athlete of the Year Scott Holmes ran 6:05 in the one-mile race to finish 22nd overall in a 168-runner field.

It was a busy running couple of weeks for Kampf who saw his wife, Heather Kampf, a former Rosemount and University of Minnesota standout, finished seventh in the 800-meter run at the United States Olympic Trials held last week in Eugene, Oregon.

Jones, along with twin brother Tyler Jones are back playing amateur baseball for Dundas of the Cannon Valley League this summer. Carson is the second leading hitter (.348) for the Dukes who own a 14-7 record....Ex-Tiger Kyle Rains who went on to play baseball at Gustavus Adolphus College is playing summer ball for the Hampton Cardinals.

Former Tiger multi-sport athlete Jamie Steffen had another big season coaching the pole vaulters at Apple Valley High School. Three of Steffen's female vaulters competed at the Class AA state meet and two placed among the top four in the event...Ex-Tiger girls track coach Dick Daymont was an official at the state meet.

A pair of former Tigers, Sammy Schmitz and Jon Holmes, along with ex-FHS coaches Terry Holmes and Gerry Greupner cruised to an easy win in the Louie Schmitz Foundation best-ball fundraiser played last Friday at Fountain Valley.

Earlier in the week Schmitz, the defending  state amateur champion, lost in the round of 16 at the Minnesota Golf Association's (MGA) match-play state tournament...Former Tiger state meet golfer Greg Werner, now a member of the Minnesota State, Mankato team, recently qualified for the MGA Publinks Tournament.

Former Tiger three-sport athlete Bob Brownawell, a Doctor of Osteopathy, is currently serving a five-year surgery residency at Mercy Hospital in Des Moines, Iowa...Ex-Tiger Ben Froehling who went on to play football at Wisconsin-Lacrosse will teach and coach sophomore football at Wayzata next fall...

Doug Dingman of the FHS Class of 1977 coached his Prior Lake team to a third place finish in the Minnesota State High School Clay Target State Tournament held recently in Alexandria...Zach Warweg of New Prague, son of Dave Warweg, another 1977 FHS grad, won the state individual shooting title.

Track: Girls receive state academic honor

 Not only did the Tiger girls excel on the track where they finished tied for fourth at the Class AA state meet, they also did outstanding work in the classroom.

Coach Tom Hart and his staff recently received the good news his team had achieved the gold level of Academic All-State distinction determined by the Minnesota State Track and Field Coaches Association.

The award was determined by averaging the highest grade point averages of 10 members of the team's section entrants. Farmington's composite grade point average was 3.93 on a 4.0 scale.

" It is awesome to have student athletes who are as good in the classroom as they are on the track," Hart said.

Boys Golf: A team on the move

Coach Jon Holmes and his team checked out the Section 1 leader board...

and liked what they saw.

Tiger coach Jon Holmes said the best way to describe his senior-dominated 2012 squad was "a team on the move."

"From our first meet to our last there were very few times when we took a step back," he said. "We continued to improve.

"That was very evident in our conference play. We started in sixth place, then went to fifth, fourth and third and we had an impressive team score of 312 at the conference meet at the The Chaska Town Course."

Holmes also gave his Tigers credit for their 316 team score in the opening round of the Section 1AAA Championships where they advanced to the final round for the first time in many years. Farmington eventually placed sixth in the section meet.

Six of the seven varsity players earning letters this spring were seniors: Tom May, Mitch Reed, Jake Hanson, Ryan Kelly, Tony Lalani and Josh Cordes. The lone underclassmen to earn a monogram was eighth-grader Erik Holmstrom.

May had a brilliant senior year, earning all-Missota Conference honors for the first time and advancing to the Class AAA state meet where he finished in a 35th place tie in an 88-player field.

Coach Holmes and state meet qualifier Tom May

Holmes said the 2012 campaign could have been even better had a fourth scorer emerged from the six-player varsity squad.

"Everyone seemed to take his turn at finishing third behind Tommy and Erik," he said, "but we just struggled to get that fourth posting to really give us that breakout team score."

With only Holmstrom returning from this year's team, the Tigers might be looking at a rebuilding project in 2013.

"We will be very young," Holmes said. "We have a couple of juniors with JV experience and Grant Hauswirth played a tournament or two with the varsity this year.

"Other than that we will have to hope the younger guys get in a lot of junior tournaments over the summer and gain some experience."

25 Tigers receive Missota honors

A dozen Farmington High School athletes received all-Missota Conference honors this spring; 13 more earned all-league honorable mention.

The Tiger honorees represented six of the nine spring sports. Because only three conference schools sponsor boys and girls lacrosse programs, all-conference teams were not selected.

Farmington all-conference selections:
Girls track: Nadia Lorencz, Alyssa Parco, Izzie Ferm, Megan Graham and Alicia Hett
Boys track: Reid Taubenheim
Softball: Ashley Betzold, Allie Rice, Brooke Searles,Toni Hunsinger
Baseball: Spencer Merle
Boys Golf: Tommy May

Honorable Mention:
Boys track, Chad Retterath,Tyler Lerbakken, Tommy Weigel, Justin Hyytinen, Eric Stoeckman and Tanner Grubb; Baseball, Jake Baskerville and Ty Vincent; Softball, Taylor Haakana and Amber Doyle; Boys tennis, Blake Olmscheid and Ben Cline; Girls track, Jessica Arey