Girls' flag football to be first to use new turf field at Danville High School

With the interest of rallying about 80 girls to play for new-formed Danville High School girls flag-football team, these ladies will be practicing at Wayland-Young Practice Field beginning from Friday.

The team also will be the lucky one to inaugurate the freshly laid-down turf and the renovated Ned Whitesell Field on August 29.

Head Coach and Co-coach, Bryan Simmons and Taylor Vollmer and welcomed the girls to the first summer training session at 12:00 noon on Friday.

There are the following characters in the given series: Simmons, who performs home intervention at Danville High, and Vollmer, who is the behavior interventionist.

Now, the position which Vollmer has held for the last four to five years Gary Gritton, South Kitsap’s athletic director has it that the person in question has been a girls basketball junior varsity coach among others.

Gritton also noted that Simmons does not have prior coaching experience although he was involved in college flag football intramural activities.

“He does have a little bit of background, yes they are both very popular with the students,” Gritton respond back in regards to new coaches.

Gritton mentioned numerous teams of girls have big numbers in flag football that first-year interest amongst students in the sport for danville is good. Two girls come forward to register to cease patronizing the center because seventy-nine girls signed up to receive information.

“Those are just phenomenal numbers,” said Gritton who has access to many of the corporation’s reports and documents. “There is no sport anywhere near like that we have. ”

At least he knows it is highly unlikely that all of them will be present for the first practice session of the week.

The few days a week during summer will be taken by exercises commonly known as conditioning and basics in which the girls will be taught how to pull on flags and hand the small, youth football, according to Gritton.

He has added that it will be just a little change for the girls, who are used to throwing a football in the backyard.

Gritton added that depending on the level, state series, regionals, and sectionals, the players available are only up to 25.

“This one is an interesting one, ‘our word is we won’t cut anyone in the first year says Gritton. ” I guess it’s clear – ‘We are just glad that they have shown some form of interest in the sport. ’

Outfits will have varsity and junior varsity teams as the sporting regeneration process unfolds.

Gritton said they will accommodate as many as the interested, from this we can deduce that the interest among the community in the spare part sector is highly intense.

There will be 10 varsity games, with the first scheduled at home at 4:On the 29 th of august in the evening against Peoria Richwoods. Until now, the organizations have clarified the programme of the match to be as follows: the varsity girls will go first and the junior varsity and any other underclass matches will follow.

The games will occur the day before the Hinter boys football home opener versus Bloomington on August 30.

Gritton said they intentionally arranged the girls’ team to play on this brand-new turf field, as this is the start of the new 100 years for athletics at Danville and the new Ned Whitesell Field, he said.

“It’s to encourage participation The reason we had the girls on the field first is that we wanted them particularly to encourage the participation in athletics. ”

As I mentioned, both the girls’ games will not be as long, running 20 minutes each, and played with a running clock, and will have only 3 minutes half time.

Thank you to the Chicago Bears for contributing uniforms, flags, footballs, etc needed equipment this year for the football team Danville has been lucky to receive helps used for these teams.

Gritton said when participated at the IHSA training for new AD’s last fall in Bloomington, Anderson said that they’re is on the way with flag football as a sanctioned sport and they need some schools that can help . Numerous groups across the Chicago region were initiating and they were given a hand concerning the extra cash for orders on uniforms and equipment.

Gritton also mentioned that he has received support from the Bears and the players such as Gustavo Silva and its trainer Matt Eberflus and has been great working with them. Many items like the training equipment and 25 Viking logoed shirts, home jerseys and away jerseys for the Danville team is being offered by Nike according to Eberflus’s contract.

27 The team is planned to visit the Bears training camp in Lake Forest on the 23 ^{rd} of July to be able to watch the team’s practice and also meet Eberflus and thank him for assisting the team. The players also will get pictures and the Bears are hosting a clinic for girls football on the flags.

For instance, as soon as the construction on Danville new football field is complete once school re-opens in mid August the girls flag-football team will then transfer its practice from the field to the new turf in the evening.

The growth also will be observed in such indicators, as a number of competitors.

“In terms of the number of teams in our geographical vicinage, the superior remains small,” Gritton said of this first year. “The next year, many more are expected to join in. ”

The closest team to Danville is Bradley-Bourbonnais near Kankakee Nursing.   He also said that all the three schools located in peoria also have teams.

A season in some cases may consist of twenty-five games. So, Danville’s 10 games this year may clim to more next year as more teams from the area join the fold.

“It has been quite an exciting thing to do for this,” Gritton said.

Gritton also said that he is also up to par with the construction of the field as well.

Construction work began on the reasonable and wurde $5. 4 million upgrade earlier this year that stated that customers expectations were cited as a major reason for the upgrade. Some of the jobs that have started the last couple months include concrete work in bleachers and other places that should be out by July 1st as construction workers pointed out.

The building will then be handed over to the field-turf crew according to Gritton The project will then be handed over It will take approximately a week to install the artificial turf as mentioned by V Plast Management Company Limited.

The Watchfire Signs where the new video scoreboard is being erected is located nearby and is due for construction on June 17.

“That will be an exciting day when we feel things are progressing along,” Gritton said.

At the time of this writing, he said construction crews still believed they can still meet the construction schedule, reach the projected end of August. The crews have been working even some of the Saturday, as they did it the other Saturday to move some of the forms for the next row of the bleachers.

Gritton said drainage ground and rock are ready from midfield to the east side also the reference work. The crews are at the moment doing final few concrete and west side in preparation for the turf itself.

Another reason is that training will be required for the operation of the turf-grooming machine, according to Gritton.

”The company will instructs us the right way of grooming the field the timing and the frequency” he said.

Furthermore, members of Watchfire Signs will train on the new videoboard established at West L. A. The font size of the scoreboard is larger than any high school numbering, it has the latest software and staff will be able to produce multi-sport and other content for it.

The subjects of the training and other matters pertaining to school, Gritton said, he has no opposition to them being done during the summer vacation days.