2011, Year in Review
As 2011 comes to a close we would like to reflect on what a great season it was for the Patriots and SV Sabers. We had amazing effort from an outstanding group of coaches, board members, and our Patriot and Saber families. We all worked together to achieve spectacular results. Also, we enjoyed an unprecedented amount of financial donations from local businesses and sponsors. We’re very grateful for all the support and are already hard at work planning for even greater success in 2012.
Here are 4 organizational ‘firsts’ we accomplished in 2011 -
Hosting a Preseason Jamboree
In August, for the first time, we hosted at Wilkins a preseason jamboree. Sixteen scrimmages with three other towns all from Massachusetts: Winchendon, North Middlesex and Triton, MA. The event was a big success and we are hoping to build on it in 2012.
Concussion Awareness Initiative
We implemented a new, more proactive approach to concussions. We administered ImPACT (Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing), as a means to keep our athletes safe. ImPACT testing has been done at the high school level for a few years, but this is the first year it has been implemented in NH with kids this young.
Passionately Pink Event
We teamed up with Susan G. Komen Passionately Pink for the Cure® to raise money and help tackle life-saving research, education, screenings and treatment programs in the fight to end breast cancer forever. We raised over $1,600 in support of the cause.
AED Medical Devices at Practice
We received a very generous gift of two AED Plus® (automated external defibrillators) machines from Zoll Medical Corporation. If you have not heard the story yet, check out this video on how a Zoll AED device saved a NH football players life. We are very grateful to Zoll and JPW parent Jurgen Kappers, for making this gift and keeping the safety of our players and coaches a top priority.
In addition to the firsts above we also continued our success in the classroom and on the field in 2011 with sixteen Little Scholars .Football and Cheer state champs, PeeWee regional finalist and SV Saber divisional finalist. Wishing you all happy and safe holidays, and here’s to the best in 2012!