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2013 Kick Off: 98 Days

Seaholm Football Golf Outing, Dinner and Silent Auction

Shenandoah Country Club

Sunday, June 9

CLICK the image ABOVE to SIGN UP NOW

The 2013 SEAHOLM ALUMNI AND FRIENDS GOLF OUTING & DINNER/SILENT AUCTION that will be held on June 9 at Shenandoah Country Club is the principal fund raiser for Seaholm Football 2013, and we kindly ask all families to participate if at all possible.

In addition to golf and/or dinner, hole sponsors are needed - as are contributions of auction items. If you have any items you can contribute, please consider doing so.

This will be a fun day, and a perfect way for the Seaholm football family to come together early in the summer - just as school is coming to a close and just as all of the boys' off season hard work will be accelerating towards the upcoming season.

SIMPLY CLICK the ABOVE IMAGE of Shenandoah's Club House to SIGN UP NOW . . . or please contact any of the individuals listed below with any questions you may have - or to register or volunteer your support or auction items:

Golf Registration: Geoff Hill (ghill@ngkf.com, 586-216-1930) or Mike Payne (mpayne@ecommunity.com, 248-229-2743)

Hole Sponsorship: Daniel Mink: (daniel@carite.com, 713-226-9762)

Auction Items: Tom Sheppard (sheppard.thomas@ymail.com, 248-303-0374)

For three lifts (Bench, Squat and Power Clean), the Maples' current Weight Lifting Pound Club members are listed below. These players were recognized by Coach DeWald at the Annual Kickoff Meeting. Well done and keep up the good work.

700 Pound Club

Nick Karimpour 705

Dorian Hymati 715

Nick Vestevich 725

Brandon Altman 740

Andrew Barton 755 

Nick Lanfear 780

Trevor Lloyd 780

800 Pound Club

Jack Payne 815

Jack Mentag 820

Karl Marback 840

Matt Rothschild 840

Dylan Kanaan 850

Chris Hill 870

900 Pound Club

Josh Smith 905

As developments and growth are taking place in all aspects of the Seaholm Football program, the team was pleased to see three new power weight rack stations installed in the weight room this Wednesday, April 10. Facility upgrades are an important part of Coach DeWald's vision for the future and give our players the best opportunity to train, and eventually compete, to the full extent of their potential.

This new equipment not only helps the Maple Football Program, but is of course available for the use and benefit of all Seaholm athletes. Thanks to the Boosters and to the school and Athletic Department for their assistance and contribution to the continuing betterment of Seaholm athletics.

The 2013 SEAHOLM ALUMNI & FRIENDS GOLF OUTING & DINNER/SILENT AUCTION will be held Sunday, June 9, at Shenandoah Country Club. Golf will be followed by dinner and a silent auction -- with all proceeds from this fund raising event going directly to Seaholm Football.

The golf format will be a four person scramble, shot gun start at 1:00 pm. All golfers, of all levels, are encouraged to participate and enjoy this opportunity to play an early summer round with your fellow parents, coaches, alumni, players and friends of the Program.

Golf will be followed by dinner and a silent auction - again, all for the benefit of Seaholm Football. Even if you are unable to join us for golf, we encourage you to come for dinner only. Many people always do, and it is always a tremendous time.

Please click the link below to download further details and a registration form.

We hope to see everyone there !!! 

Dear Parents,

As we enter spring, I thought I would brief you on the state of the Maple Football Program.  As most of you know, we have been extremely busy since the completion of our 2012 OAA Championship season.  We are currently in the heart of our off-season workout program.  Being that the off-season is where championships are won, I am very happy to report to you that I am extremely proud of the work our young men have put in thus far.  Throughout the winter, we have held workouts five days per week.  Three days per week, the boys are in the weight room and two days per week getting personal training at the 2SP facility.

Joe Neal, the owner of 2SP and our strength and conditioning coach, has implemented a fantastic program that specifically addresses our goal of being bigger, faster and stronger.  We have already seen phenomenal growth in many of our young men because of Joe’s tutelage.  Coach Shellenbarger and Coach Boerkoel are working the boys extremely hard on a daily basis to ensure they follow the program effectively and safely, as to maximize their potential within these workouts.

At the close of the 2012 football season, we tested all of our returning players in the areas of: height, weight, bench press, power clean, squat, vertical jump, long jump, 40 yard dash, pro shuttle, dips, pull-ups, and the amount of times they can bench press their body weight.  This was our baseline individual and team testing in December.  Last week, we re-tested all these areas to gauge our levels of improvement.  The following are highlights of where that improvement took place:

ü  Team body weight: up from 177 to 187 (up 10 lbs.)

ü  Team bench press: up from 177 to 209 (up 32 lbs.)

ü  Team power clean: up from 175 to 198 (up 23 lbs.)

ü  Team squat: up from 248 to 294 (up 46 lbs.)

ü  Team 40 yd dash: down from 5.35 to 5.21 (better by .14 secs.)

The start of spring is highlighted by our traditional WEEK OF CHAMPIONS, which takes place this week (March 25-28).  This annual undertaking is a mandatory week of morning workouts for all Maple football players.  Not only is this week tremendous from a physical growth standpoint, it most importantly takes our team camaraderie to the next level and provides us with great momentum moving into the summer.  Week of Champions takes place from 6am to 7am and consists of a multitude of training and conditioning stations and six second drills.  Our entire football staff will be in attendance at all these workouts and is very much looking forward to working hard alongside the boys.

We understand that consecutive morning workouts such as this can sometimes be disruptive to the schedule of both parents and players, but we feel this 4-day period is as important a piece to our off season workout program as anything we do.  We truly appreciate your support of Week of Champions and Maple Football as a whole.

Whistle blows each morning at 6am…don’t be late!!  Go Maples!!

To see the Maples in Action, please watch the following youtube clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfIuMY6G7Rc

As always, if you have any questions, please contact me at jimwmu72@gmail.com or 248.506.1192.

Coach DeWald

Parents,

I would like to update everyone on our progress thus far this off season. The kids are currently lifting weights every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 3:00 to 4:15 pm while our incoming freshman are working out 2 days a week Monday through Thursday at night. We also are having speed improvement sessions at 2SP, Tuesdays from 5:00 to 6:00 pm and Sautrdays from 12:30 to 1:30 pm. We welcome all Seaholm Football players to those workouts. We highly encourage our football players to participate in other sports to keep them busy and to better their overall athletic ability. However, if a football player is not participating in another sport for Seaholm we expect them at every workout session.

Our players that are working out every day are working very hard and seem to get better each day. I am very pleased with their efforts. On weight lifting days we are averaging around 25 kids and around 18 at our speed improvement sessions. I am looking forward to retesting our players in March to see their improvements on paper.

We are currently working with a "GVT" philosohy. This German Volume Training philosophy has us working our core lifts (Bench, Squat, Power Clean and Deadlift) with a high volume of sets and reps. A typical wourout would be 10 sets of 10 repetitions on these core lifts. We have 3 more weeks in this cycle and then we will go to a metabolic workout and then test the kids. I have also attached our players latest workout numbers so you can monitor your child's progress. (Please note: the attachment will be provided to you seperately, via email).

I am very proud of our progress thus far. Our players seem to rise to our expectations every day. I am looking forward to this upcoming 2013 season, in which we will try and defend our league championship. If you ever have any questions or would like to know how your son is doing please don't hesitate to call me.

Thanks,

Jim DeWald

As the Spring of 2013 approaches, and as serious off-season speed, strength and agility training is underway by the current Maple football players, Freshman Head Coach Tony Barash is pleased to report that the group of incoming 8th graders looks as solid as ever. 43 of them have committed to weight training at least two days a week . . . and many of them have committed to even more. According to Coach Barash, "They're not only strong in number, but they're athletic and physically strong as well."

The Seaholm Football program is excited to welcome these incoming student-athletes, and anticipates that the numbers will grow as the off-season progresses. The current 8th graders that have already committed to athletic hard work, and excellence, include:

Maxwell Abrams, Michael Aquino, Brian Bennett, Blair Boorekoel, Jack Boyd, Jacob Brazil, Zack Brazil, Lane Cortright, Wyatt Credeur, Kyle Cummings, John Dolan, Tyler Erb, Sebastian Fettig, Clay Gilling, Graham Girdler, Luke Harding, Matthew Harrison, Zackary Jennings, Max Joelson, Josh Jolly, Michael Kaminski, John Karimpour, Jake Lievois, Shane McCarthy, Joe McElroy, Henry Mendal, Harrison Menuck, Liam Neal, Ben Nepa, Elisha Neuner, Jordan Nickerson, Nicholas O'Reilly-Trexer, Stephan Paige, Liam Pierce, Jonathon Rondeau, Matt Roskiewicz, Jackson Schreiber, Michael Schulz, Max Sherrod, Alex Shulman, Donovan Uhnavy, Andrew Wilt, Austin Woodruff

The future looked bright on Tuesday night when incoming 8th grade players and parents filled Seaholm's Little Theater for a brief orientation to Seaholm football.

Program and Varsity Head Coach Jim DeWald gave a general introduction, presented a short highlight film and introduced Booster president Geoff Hill before turning the floor over to Freshman Head Coach Tony Barash. Coach Barash outlined the Spring strength and conditioning program for the 8th graders and took questions from the parents before providing a tour of the weight lifting facilities.

For the second year in a row, it looks as though Coach Barash has done a great job of reaching out to the area middle schools and welcoming incoming student athletes.

Also present at the meeting were Varsity DB's Coach Jamie Boerkoel and Freshman Assistant Coaches Jordan Deane and Andrew Kulha. 

TEAM 1:

Brandon Altman - Darshae Edwards, Jack Elliott, Dorjan Hymati, Nick Karimpour, Philip Manning, Karl Marback, Jackson McElhenney, Ethan McGraw, Dakota Toumi, Nick Vestevich, Joe Wujciak

TEAM 2:

Andrew Barton - Joey Ashcraft, Cameron Bindi, Emmett Green, Sean MacKillop, Jack Mentag, Elijah Mimes, Dalton ink, Matthew Rothschild, Kevin Schutte, Thomas Sheppard, Brendan Sullivan

TEAM 3:

Chris Hill - Kevin Boyd, Luke Brown, Charles Brown, Riely Byrd, Colin Clark, Emrick Mareski, Justin Newberry, Teddy O'Keefe, Daniel Rebock, Laurino Scafone, Joshua Smith

TEAM 4:

Dylan Kanaan - Scott Caspersen, James Ford, Nick Lanfear, Sam McGlynn, Kerry Mott, Ryan Nolan, Austin Paritee, Griffin Pifer, Richard Righter, Nicholas Sierpien, Jacob Wrobel

TEAM 5:

Dominic Sierpien - Devyn Almore, Stephen Grobbel, Adam Klepp, Nathan Lall, Tervor Lloyd, Cameron McIntyre, Spencer Mink, Leigh Murray, Hunter Osgood, Nick Schulcz, Mitchell Wolfe

TEAM 6:

Aaron Ware - Justin Bryant, Jake Dietz, Peter Emmons, Colin Flannery, Troy Hairston II, Ryan Head, Michael Levitsky, Dorian Madden, Jack Payne, Joe Righter, Jake Rotger 

Things will start fast for the 2013 Maple Varsity. The first opponent, Ann Arbor Pioneer, is a perennial powerhouse in the Southeastern Red Conference that has advanced to the MHSAA state playoffs 8 of the last 10 seasons. The second game against Avondale . . . well, there's no question about how much respect they deserve. Rest assured that BOTH of those programs are preparing for the 2013 season NOW.

Thursday 08/29/13 Ann Arbor Pioneer Home

Friday 09/06/13 Avondale Away

Thursday 09/12/13 North Farmington Home

Friday 09/20/13 Berkley Away

Friday 09/27/13 Royal Oak Home

Friday 10/04/13 Hazel Park Away

Friday 10/11/13 Ferndale Away

Friday 10/18/13 Groves Home

Friday 10/25/13 U. of D. Home