SCRIMMAGE

VULTURES just had a scrimmage last Sunday, Sept 19th at Donaldson Park (Highland Park). The other team (white team) are on a TACKLE football team but they were willing to do a flag-football scrimmage with us which was a whole different experience for them. They tried their best not to tackle us! LOL :)

Wow, Vultures learned a LOT playing with the other team, it was a HUGE challenge! We felt that it was worth having a scrimmage even though they are very experienced.

A friend of ours, Ibraham Ali, came over and took pictures...

Credits goes to Ibby... :)



























UPCOMING EVENTS:

FLAG FOOTBALL LEAGUE (POWER SPORTS) ~THIS WEEKEND WILL BE OUR 1ST GAME~


USFFD~~~~ NOVEMBER!!! :)

Flea Market @ Englishtown

Our FIRST fundraising event: Flea Market at Englishtown, NJ.

(90 Wilson Ave., Englishtown, NJ 07726. 732-446-9644)

(http://www.englishtownauction.com/ )

Stephanie made this awesome "Vultures" banner to represent the team. (see picture below)

Attendees:

Rachel Speizer

Lauren Mackiewicz

Elizabeth Giraldi

Stephanie Tadzynski

Tara Invidiato

*note: THANKS Jessica and to her family for donating their stuff for the flea market*

Books: 25 cents each BUT get 5 for a dollar. :)

Steph's homemade potteries....

Jessica's music records

Beth's scale

(lol)

Thank you Lauren for donating your daughter's clothes. They were a hit!





We earned $180.30! :)




Next Practices will be in South Jersey:

Sunday, August 29 at 12pm

Gloucester County Community Park
Sicklerville & Hickstown Roads, Blackwood,NJ, 08012

Direction-

Rt 295 to Rt 42 SOUTH, just before the AC expressway entrance, get in the right hand lane and bear to your RIGHT taking the Sicklerville Exit for Rt 168 NORTH, proceed on Rt 168 NORTH for ~ 1/4 mile to Sicklerville Road, turn RIGHT at light onto Sicklerville Road, proceed on Sicklerville Road under Rt 42 for ~ 1/4 mile to Hickstown Road, turn LEFT onto Hickstown Road, entrance to the park is ~1/2 mile down on your LEFT.

Side Note: Coach Scotty's birthday's coming up!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, OLD MAN!

August 8 Prax & Pictures!

Practices

Sunday, August 8
about 3 hours long
Where: Thompson Park <3

Notes on practices: Two of our original players cannot make it but we were thankful that we have "subs" ~Lauren, Jessi P, & Alex~ They did a great job on picking up plays and keeping up with us. We couldn't have done it without them. Thanks girls for making an effective practices for us!! We all hope to see MORE of you in future practices. :) We did couple drills then we did a scrimmage. We all felt that it was a great practices. Most of us were sore the next few days, haha. :)

Thanks Coach Jeff & Coach Scotty for EVERYTHING, for contributing your time of travel and teaching us girls, we know that it's tough teaching girls because girls can easily get sidetrack and gossip (haha). Thanks for your patience and for believing in us. Thank you for making this to happen!!!


Here are FEW pictures for you to look at...

Coach Scotty giving one of his usual lectures. :)

"team"

After practices, we usually get together and discuss on what we need to improve...

Jessica on the left, sharing her feedbacks...
Rachel's on the right.

Coach Jeff & Coach Scotty

Rachel & Stephanie

One of the QB, Iwona...
Rocking in Pink! :)

Rachel, Stephanie, Lauren, & Alex

Jessi P., Jessica Malone, Rachel, & Stephanie

*didn't take pictures of Beth & Tara but they were there at the circle*
*MIA: Sam & Kim*

Next practices: September 19, time and location coming soon...

Vulture's Mission Statement

Mission Statement

Team: Vultures

Motto: Win or Lose, We Finish STRONG!

Description:
The Vultures, all deaf female Flag Football players, located in Central New Jersey established in 2009. It is a league that is up to training for the Flag Football National Tournament hosted in Washington D.C. in this upcoming November. The league is lead by Jeffrey T. Werner, head coach and Scotty P. Busanic, assistant coach.

Statement:
It is the mission of the Vultures as an association to be dedicated to promoting and providing practice of good teamwork, sportsmanship, unique characters and fair play. Our primary focus is on a competitive spirit to succeed, to learn and by all means, fun for all players. Today, we are asking you to help us reach our goal to go to the Nationals and show our pride that Deaf women have the power to succeed in everyday life, in our culture, and especially in sports!

Thank You, Thompson park!!! :)

We want to THANK Thompson Park in Monroe Township for allowing us to have GREAT practices at their field since October!!!!

We are from ALL over NJ so we try to find a middle point where we all can meet up. Thompson Park in Monroe Township seems like the best place so far for all of us to meet. It's about an hour drive for most of us. The park has 675 acres of land! It has different types of fields which is compatible for us. As much as we LOVE Thompson park, we decided that will try to change locations from time to time. Our next one probably will be in South Jersey.

We want to show our appreciation to Thompson Park and by doing that, we will share on what Thompson park has to offer. Go and visit!!!

675 Acres

Facilities:
4 Tennis Courts (lights)
4 Basketball Courts
2 Handball Courts
3 Baseball Fields
1 Softball Field
1 Soccer Field
6 Reservable Picnic Groves
2 Open Picnic Groves
3 Playgrounds
Hiking Trails
Lake/Fishing
Animal Haven
Performance Gazebo
Key Feature:
Thirty Acre Manalapan Lake
2 dog parks

One nice thing about the park is that they have a dog park where they split two areas... One area are for large dogs and the other area are for small dogs. For pictures/info on the dog park at Thompson park: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mortonfox/tags/thompsonpark/

If you're interested in going... here are the directions:

DIRECTIONS:

Route 287
Take Exit for Route 1 South
Follow directions for Route 1

Route 1
Take 130 South
Take 32 East
32 East turns into Forsgate Dr.
Follow to the traffic light for Perrineville Rd. & Forsgate Dr.
Go straight through
Park is on the right

Route 18
Take Main St. (615 South – Spotswood)
This turns into Manalapan Rd. (615)
Follow 615 into Jamesburg
After intersection, 615 & 522 you will cross over Forsgate Dr. onto Perrineville Rd.
After passing Jamesburg Municipal Complex on left, park is on the left

Route 9
Turn off at Texas Rd. (520 West)
Make left onto Englishtown Rd. (613 South)
Make quick right onto Matchaponix Ave. (612 West)
This turns into Pergola Ave.
Make right at end of road (Buckelew Ave.)
Make first left onto Forsgate Dr.
Park is on the left

Garden State Parkway
Take Exit for Route 9
Get on Route 9 South
Follow directions for Route 9

NJ Turnpike
Take Exit 8A
Take 32 East Monroe
32 East will turn into CR 612 (Forsgate Dr.)
Follow to the traffic light for Perrineville Rd. & Forsgate Dr.
Go straight through
Park is on the right

PRAX ~ June 13, 2010

Vultures just had our flag-football practices last Sunday, June 13. The weather was VERY hot & humid!!! It was suppose to rain in the evening so we started around 11am and practices all the way to almost 2pm! We did several drills (some of them are even FUN!) and did a scrimmage at the end. GREAT PRAX! We all were very busy for the past month and did not have practices for almost a month. We were very impressed with ourselves that we were able to have a GREAT practice, especially in a weather like THAT!

Testing

This is our FIRST post! Bear with us, we're new with this. :) We are so excited about the flag-football tournament this upcoming November!!! We have been practicing since October 2009! This blog is for us to share our thoughts, feelings, and what we have been doing as a team. :)

Feel free to write comments on ANYTHING!!! You can suggest a post that we could do for this blog. :)

Thank you for viewing our blog!

~Vultures~