This site is dedicated to the Jaguars, the Jets, and the Buccaneers, who represent the Buckeye Youth Football Association, Inc.(BYFA). Our players and cheerleaders are drawn from the Buckeye Local School District which is located in Medina County Ohio. The 2008 Season will be our 13th Season for the youth football program here at Buckeye, and the 5th under the BYFA, Inc.. The Jaguars began play in 1996, the Jets were added in 2000, and the Buccaneers joined us in the 2001 season.
Since the 1999 Season Buckeye teams have made 6 appearances in the Championship Game, 3 by the Jags and 3 by the Jets. The Buckeye Jets returned to the Championship Game in 2007 and lost a close one to the Brunswick Jets, but went 9-1 on the season and finished League Runner-Up. They won their first BYF Championship in 2003 which was a follow up to finishing as the League Runner-Up in 2002, in their first appearance in the Championship Game.
The Jaguars won back to back Championships in the 1999 & 2000 seasons. They made the playoffs 6 straight seasons from 1999-2004. They appeared in the Championship game for the third time in 2004, finishing 9-1 as the League Runner-Up. In 2007 after a 2 year absence they returned to the playoffs.
The 2004 season brought the Bucs their first Varsity Squad and they went 3-5 overall. They have sustained their growth and fielded another strong Varsity that went 5-4 during the 2005 season, making the playoffs. They slid back to 5-3 in 2006, but they have a strong JV base that makes the future look bright. The next goal is for the Bucs to make an appearance in the Championship Game and win!
One Buckeye Football Family With One Goal: Buckeye Pride!
We are committed to building a successful program that helps Buckeye Bucks high school program build a winning tradition. The Bucks have made 3 State Playoff appearances in the last 4 years. Over the past 12 years there have been over 450 different players, 210 cheerleaders and 80 coaches involved with Buckeye Youth Football. The program has gotten better every year, we grew from 38 kids our first season in 1996, to about 170 in the 2006 & 2007 seasons, with our peak at over 200 during 2003. Our web site has a page for each of the 3 teams broken down to squads by division for players and cheerleaders by division. It also has a listing page for each of our opponents in order that we may add them to appear on our schedule and standings pages.
Feel free to click on any of the menu items to the left and explore the team sites, rosters, pictures, schedules, history, etc. Updates are done to the pages as we get new information. Please click on and sign our Guestbook at the bottom of the page we would like to have your comments! Thanks for dropping by!
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Cleveland Gladiators Tickets
On Saturday, June 21st the Cleveland Gladiators of the Arena Football League will take on the Columbus Destroyers at Quicken Loans Arena. The Gladiators are offering discounted tickets to the game for you to experience arena football. It will also be Bernie Kosar Bobblehead night.
Please click on the flyer below to get more information on ticket pricing and ordering.
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Gladiators Flyer
Cleveland Browns/JPD Football Camp
The Cleveland Browns in conjunction with the NFL's Junior Player Development will be holding a FREE Introductory/Developmental Football Camp for tackle football players ages 11-14.
This camp will be held at the Brunswick High School football stadium from June 23rd through June 27th. The time will be from 2:00PM until 5:00PM. The registration deadline is June 1, 2008. All players must have a registration from and physical form turned in before the camp begins. Players who have competed in 7th or 8th grade football are not eligible for this camp.
To download the flyer for more information and the registration and physical forms please click on the links below. For other information you can look at either www.clevelandbrowns.com or contact Mark Maruna at mirandamaruna@aol.com.
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Browns Clinic Forms
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New Director Added To BYFA
Chris Calta has become a Director for the Buckeye Youth Football Association, Inc. The BYFA By Laws provide that all Head Coaches are also Directors. When Scot Asvestas was forced to step down as Head Coach prior to the beginning of the season last year, Chris took over with the provision that at the end of the year he would decide if he wanted to remain as Head Coach or not, pending the approval of the Directors. Chris did a great job last year and is committed to being the Head Coach for several years yet. Based on that decision he also has taken Scot's seat as a Director.
We are happy to have Coach Calta on board, and as always anything that goes wrong will be duly blamed on the newest Director.
Notes For The Upcoming 2008 Season
It may be basketball/wrestling/Indoor Soccer Season, but it won't be long before registration opens for the 2008 Football Season. There will be some changes made for the upcoming season and some dates to keep in mind for the month of August. If you go to the CALENDER menu item and browse through the coming months you will see dates already in place. The practice dates could change as we finalize the schedule, however the one posted pretty much follow last year's schedule. The tournament listed is the Medina Bees Kick Off Classic. Right now we are looking at entering the Varsity teams, there will be more on that latter as we finalize that decision. The JV, Pee Wee and Flag will not participate in the tournament this season.
The Medina County Fair - July 28th thru August 3rd
Football Practice Begins - Monday, August 4th
First Night of Contact - Thursday, August 7th
Picture Day - Saturday, August 16th
MBYF Tournament (Varsity Teams) - Saturday, August 23rd & Sunday, August 24th
Season Opens - Saturday, August 30th
The biggest change for the 2008 Season will be the addition of the Pee Wee Division. This will be a tackle division for the 7 and 8 year olds in full pads with a maximum weight of 105 pounds. That means the JV Division will be 9 and 10 year olds. The Varsity Division will remain 11, 12 & 13. The cutoff date for age to be placed in the respective divisions will still be June 30th. The other particulars on rules for the Pee Wee Division are being worked out as a result of the meeting in March Brunswick, Buckeye and Strongsville. This change has been talked about for about 3 years and now it is coming to fruition.
The Flag Division will only contain 1 Squad this season that will play under the name 'Buckeye Bucks'. Any players that have older siblings playing will move onto that squad when they turn seven and the others will be drafted to a squad as we have done in the past.
The creation of the Pee Wee Division and the realignment of the age groups should help with both playing time and not having such a big age spread in the JV Divsion. This change will also mean that there will be less need to move kids up and they will placed in the age bracket that according to their birthday. This will go for both football and cheerleading.
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