The robotics team competed at Bishop Guertin on Nov. 19th in the FIRSTNH First Lego League Challenge Qualifier Tournament and will be heading to the State Championship at Windham High School on Saturday, December 3rd. Congratulations! There will be 45 teams competing.
Winter is that time of Year when we challenge ourselves, our teammates, and our competing schools to the great sport of wrestling. One thing for sure, It is Definitely time to roll out the mats and get to the business at hand “MAT TIME”
So, in two weeks, this year’s wrestling program will begin and should be an exciting one. With many returning wrestlers, it makes for a great team environment, full of personal challenges as well as future team building. For you new wrestlers trying the sport for the first time, it means a solid base of experienced athletes and coaches willing and able to teach you the fun aspects as well as the hard, tough workouts associated with this awesome sport. No one sits on the bench, and you determine how well you do. You want to become a stronger, leaner, faster, more agile and flexible person? Wrestling does that! You want to earn respect from your friends and fellow students? Wrestling does that!
Wrestling is about building Self-confidence!
Wrestling is everything you are now, building upon that, and creating ………….where you want to Be, “The Master of your own Success”.
Are you up to the challenge to create a better YOU!
The Middle school wrestling season begins the last week of November after Thanksgiving
Date:Tuesday, November 29thFIRST DAY
Where: Great Brook Middle school Gym
Time: 5:45pm – 7:45pm
Normal Practice schedules are:
Tuesday, Thursday, 5:45-7:45pm
Saturdays, 9:30-11:30am
Tournaments schedules: Typically, on Sundays
What to Bring and Wear:
Wrestling shoes and/or sneakers (No Boots, No Crocs, etc.)
Friday, December 9th will be Roller Skating Night in SMS Gym from 6:00 - 7:30pm. Will feature DJ Conway and Concessions will be sold! Benefits the SMS Drama Club.
Details:
Cost: $5 at the door
School nurse will NOT be on duty for this event. Students are expected to stay the entire time. If your student does need to leave early or is going home with another family, please notified the office or note on the permission form. Permission forms should be turned in ahead of time or can be signed in front of a SMS Staff Member when dropping off your student. All students will be entering and leaving using the gym entrance only, therefore all students should be dropped off and picked up at the back of the building.
Dear parents of ANY South Meadow School Student that would like to play a 2022-23 Winter Sport at South Meadow School, starting November 7th, 2022.
My name is Tod Silegy and I am starting my 23rd year at South Meadow School as Physical Education Teacher, Athletic Director, and Boys Soccer Coach and Girls Soccer Coach.
To play a sport at the high school level or middle school level in the ConVal district, ALL athletes must take the Initial Impact Concussion Test. This test is not a competition and there is no score, but the test does create a baseline for each athlete’s brain when it is healthy.
Hopefully this will not happen, but if your child does receive a concussion that is verified by your primary care physician while playing a sport for SMS, your child would have to sit out practices and games until your primary care physician clears your child to resume participating. Once the primary care physician clears your child to resume play, your child would have to take the Post-Concussion Impact test. The Post-Concussion Impact Test would then be compared to your child’s Initial Impact Test Baseline, and if it compares well, your child would be allowed to resume play for SMS.
Please have your child take the Initial Impact Test at home, this weekend if possible.
Below is the link to take the Initial Impact Test. Your child should be in a quiet place that will be undisturbed until completed. Click on the link, then put in the Impact Test Code, then follow the prompts until you get to the “start test.”
Ideally a parent should help your child get through the first part of the test’s demographics. The test asks for name, birthdate, etc., but also questions about add, headaches, dizziness, etc. My experience tells me many student athletes are not sure how to answer these questions. You may also click that you do not want to complete any demographics. After the test is started, your child should be able to handle the test on their own. In the end you do not have to do any emailing of results. Just sign out!
All information goes to and is stored in the ConVal Athletic Initial Impact Test data base. You do not have to send me any information.
This test is good for any other sport your child would like to play throughout their year at SMS, and the test is good for two years. If you child did NOT take the test last year, 2021, they HAVE TO take it this year. Thank you,
Basketball tryouts for all 6th, 7th, and 8th grade boys or girls, will begin Monday, November 7th.
Below is the tryout schedule for the 2022-2023 season:
Boys Tryouts: 2:30 – 4:00 PM on Monday 11/7, Wednesday 11/9, and Thursday 11/10
Girls Tryouts: 4:00 – 5:30 PM on Monday 11/7, Wednesday 11/9, and Thursday 11/10
Important Information About Tryouts:
Student Will Need…
A t-shirt, shorts, sneakers, and socks.
Their own water bottles. No one will be allowed to share. There is a water bubbler in the foyer of the gym and also a water bottle filler station.
Their Parent permission/Medical Form (more information below on this)
Note: Please do not buy your child new sneakers or equipment until the teams are made. School colors are royal blue and white.
All students trying out must bring with them at try outs November 7th the parent permission/emergency form and have an updated or current physical on file. Updated means that your son or daughter has had a physical within the last two years. For example: If you son/daughter had a physical as a sixth grader he/she would need an updated physical as an eighth grader. THE UPDATED PHYSICAL DOCUMENTATION must be sent or emailed to the SMS nurse, Tricia Harris. The parent permission/emergency form must be handed to the respective coach on the first day of practice. Please do not wait until the last minute. You may download the permission/emergency form on the SMS sports website if you lose the one sent home.
All players trying out should be committed to all practices and games through out the year if they make the team. If any players have a conflict they need to speak to their respective coach on the FIRST day of tryouts please.
Please Know That…
Tryouts will last for three days. November 7th,9th,and 10th.
A and B boys and girls teams will be made after Thurday's tryout.
A roster will be posted in the girls and boys locker rooms on Monday AM, or the coach may tell the players after the tryout on Thursday. Be prepared to practice on Monday, 11/13
There will be an A or White team and a B or Blue team for both Boys and Girls. The number of players on a team will be determined at the coaches discretion.
Right now we do not have a boys B or Blue Team Basketball Coach.
A long range practice schedule will be sent home later after the four teams are made. This will be physically or electronically handed out for each team by their coach
For The Girls:
All Girls basketball players trying out should plan on going home after school and return to SMS at 4:00. Please come in through the lower back gymnasium door.
Girls players must be picked up at 5:30 PM after practice from the back of the school by their parents, or they may walk home.
For The Boys:
All Boy basketball players go home when practice ends at 4:00. They can go home on the late bus, walk, or they can be picked up by their parents.
They may not stay after practice to watch the girls play.
The late bus does not drop off at homes.
Please Note: Parents picking up their child should do so in the Upper Back Parking Lot for both girls and boys practices.
Additionally, If you child makes one of the B teams and practice is 5:30-7:00 please collect your child out back at 7:00.
Player Eligibility:
Player eligibility requirements are in the 2022 SMS Student Handbook.
The athleic eligibility requirement has changed. Please look it up BEFORE the Basketball season starts.
All players must also have taken the Initial Impact Test BEFORE tryouts if possible. Please check the next SMS news letter. How to take the impact test will be on it. If you son or daughter took the impact test for a 2021 fall SMS sport, they do not need to take it again.
The robotics team competed at Bishop Guertin on Nov. 19th in the FIRSTNH First Lego League Challenge Qualifier Tournament and will be heading to the State Championship at Windham High School on Saturday,
Winter is that time of Year when we challenge ourselves, our teammates, and our competing schools to the great sport of wrestling. One thing for sure, It is Definitely time to roll out the mats and get to the business at hand “MAT TIME”
Friday, December 9th will be Roller Skating Night in SMS Gym from 6:00 – 7:30pm. Will feature DJ Conway and Concessions will be sold! Benefits the SMS Drama Club.
