Welcome to Rye, New Hampshire Little League!
Volunteers Needed for the 2010 Season
Please email Dianne Crisp, Rye Little
League's Secretary/Information Officer, if you are
interested in helping with the following:
Getting donations for the Raffle
Calendar secured prior to
registration night
At least 5 people working on this is helpful, more is
better - we need to have at least one donation for each day
of the season, more is better
The more people working on this - the less each person
needs to come up with for donations - the easier it is for
everyone.
Snack
Shack - we need a
couple of people who will be in Little League for a few
years to step into this role so there is a transition year
in 2010. This is a role that is for organized,
detail-oriented people who are able to oversee keeping food
ready to go / maintaining the staffing of parents to share
the work. This is a commitment from start to finish –
mid-April preparations and cleaning through July All-Stars
and cleanup.
Kathie Mickel Award
John
Sexton, Chief Umpire for Rye Little League, was presented
with the Kathie Mickel Award during the District II 11- and
12-year-old All Star tournament game between Portsmouth and
Rye at Flash Jenness Field on July 3, 2009. This award was
given to John from the State of New Hampshire and Little
League District II for his tireless efforts volunteering
his time over 30 years to the Rye Little League. During
this time, John has been on the Rye Little League's Board
of Directors, as well as serving as coach, manager, All
Star coach and chief umpire. He also implemented the
process to evaluate players for the major league.
The award was started in 2000 when Mickle, the President of
Portsmouth American League, died of pancreatic cancer after
serving the Portsmouth Little League baseball community
with years of selfless dedication and volunteer work to
keep the league functioning as well as possible. Each year
the award honors an outstanding volunteer in District II
baseball.
Thank you, John, for all your work on behalf of the
children of Rye Little League.
Read the complete story "Rye Umpire's Career Honored" from
the Portsmouth Herald here.
PDF version
All
Star Teams
Articles
from the Foster's Daily Democrat
Tazziz Leads Somersworth Little League
Past Rye (July 5, 2009)
(PDF)
Articles
from the Portsmouth Herald
Rye Umpire's Career Honored
(July 8, 2009)
(PDF)
Opener Worth Wait
for Portsmouth (July 7, 2009) (PDF)
Riley Hurls Portsmouth Past Rye (July 4, 2009)
(PDF)
Portsmouth,
Rye Chase 11/12 District Title (June 30, 2009)
(PDF)
Portsmouth 9/10s Seek More of the Same (June 30, 2009)
(PDF)
Closing
Day 2009
Congratulations
goes to the Dodgers, Rye Little League's 2009 Major league
champions
(for the second year in a row)
The
Dodgers - Rye Little League’s 2009 champions
Thank
You
Thank
you to the parents who showed support for all the players
in the league on all the teams, supported the managers,
coaches and umpires throughout the season; our volunteers
who repeatedly helped out when asked in many ways: snack
shack, scorers booth, book keepers, field maintenance
workers, announcers at the games and clean-up after the
games; the umpires, who work many long hours at the ball
field; the managers and coaches in all four levels of Rye
Little League - great job working with the children,
leading in a positive manner, teaching the game of baseball
in a competitive and positive way and leading by example in
handling wins and losses; and finally, all the Board
Members of Rye Little League.
Thanks also to the coordinators and volunteers:
Shari Turner and Beth Kendall, Snack Shack
Gina Kohlhase, Raffle Tickets
Jane Wade, Sweatshirts
Liz Durkin, Outfield Fence Signs
Nancy Gardella and John Surprenant, Website
Flash
Jenness Award
Congratulations
to Carter King, Carter Madden and Xavier Quinn, Rye Little
League's 2009 Flash Jenness Award winners. The Flash
Jenness Award is presented to the Major League player that
has consistently demonstrated by his/her actions during
games, at practices and at team or League functions, the
highest standards of leadership, sportsmanship and athletic
ability. The nominations are open to any child playing at
the Major League level. This recognition is typically given
to a twelve-year-old, yet the League can recognize a
younger athlete and on occasion, such as this year,
recognizes more than one player.
The JFS Volunteer Award
The
JFS Volunteer Award is an award that is given to a
volunteer in the 2009 season who deserves to be recognized
for volunteering their time, efforts, and abilities to the
Rye Little League in such an outstanding fashion as to be
worthy of lasting recognition and gratitude. This award is
named after John Sexton, Chief Umpire, for his long
standing service to our Little League program. This year
the award went to Christin Keehbler.
Opening Day
The 53rd season
of the Rye Little League began on May 9, 2009 with
celebrations at the Flash Jenness Little League Field.
Opening Day festivities included Major League players
parading to the field from the Rye Jr. High and the
introduction of all teams in the league. The national
anthem was sung by Amelia Griffith and Curran Sullivan was
recognized as last year's Flash Jenness Award winner.
Read the complete story from the
Portsmouth Herald.
Batting
Cage Fund
On March 31,
2009, the Board and the members attending the Little League
meeting voted to install a batting cage at the Flash
Jenness Memorial Little League field in Rye. This is
all possible because of your donations! Thank you for
your time and contributions to the batting cage. The
Portsmouth Sign Company has generously donated this sign,
which will read as follows:
The following
families and businesses dedicate this batting cage to
Rye Little League on this day, May 9, 2009.
Wilson, Carroll, Kendall, Keehbler, Crapo, Lincoln,
Surprenant, Turner, S. King, Bobbett, Monahan, R.
King, Fox, Crisp, Roelofs, Hickey, Patenaude, Kohlhase,
Fenderson, Hindle, Musto, K. Madden, Shepcaro, Harrison,
Broom, LeCompte, Szmyd, Driscoll, Meade, Sullivan, Durkin,
Luneau, Naimark, J. Fregeau, Kammerer, Sanborn, Alden,
Corradi, Quinn, Leger, Nadeau, Reaney, J. Madden,
MacDonald, Connor, Fitzmaurice, Hanson, Morrissee,
Driscoll, Prinz, Chiaramitaro, Stewart, McLeod, Taylor,
Adams, Paquette, Ekstrom, Amend, Lawton, Gormley, Begley,
Malila, Wade, Petersen-Sheesley, Bourns, Choquette,
Higgins, Bourns, Rizkalla, Husslage, Amend, Morse
Seaside Landscaping, Jeffrey Carroll Landscaping,
Portsmouth Chowder,
Rye Police Department, Seacoast Ace Hardware, Anchor
Management Group,
Rye Education Foundation, GC AAA Fences Inc.,
Blue Water Mortgage, Kane Insurance, Pike Industries
and Portsmouth Sign.
Positive
Coaching Alliance
Rye LL Earns Positive Coaching Alliance Seal of
Commitment for 2009
Recognition
for providing youth athletes a positive, character-building
experience
Rye Little League
has earned the Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) Seal of
Commitment for 2009. PCA bestows this prestigious national
honor only upon youth sports organizations and schools that
officially commit to providing youth athletes a positive,
character-building experience by requiring every coach to
be trained and certified as a Double-Goal Coach.
“A Double-Goal Coach strives not only to win (goal
#1), but also to use sports to teach life lessons,”
said Jim Thompson, PCA’s founder and executive
director. “Likewise, PCA’s Seal of Commitment
helps ensure that Rye Little League provides all of its
youth athletes with a positive, character-building
experience.”
Rye Little League boasts certified Double-Goal Coaches,
serving their youth athletes, said Steve King, Rye Little
League's Director of Coaching. “Earning PCA’s
Seal of Commitment reinforces our commitment to focus on
the best interests of our youth athletes. It takes work to
get coaches certified, but we owe it to the families
participating in our programs to provide the best
experience possible.”
Click here for a PDF Parent Letter about
Positive Coaching Alliance.
About Positive Coaching Alliance
Founded as a non-profit within the Stanford University
Athletic Department in 1998, Positive Coaching Alliance
(PCA) has the mission of “transforming youth sports
so sports can transform youth.” To that end,
PCA has conducted roughly 6,000 live group workshops
nationwide for more than 300,000 youth and high school
sports leaders, coaches, parents and athletes.
Workshop attendees have helped create a positive,
character-building youth sports environment for more than 3
million youth athletes. PCA’s partnership network
includes more than 1,100 youth sports organizations, cities
and schools. In 2008, PCA will conduct roughly 1,500 live,
group workshops across the U.S., while assisting thousands
of other individuals via online workshops
at www.PositiveCoach.org.
PCA workshops
train coaches to be Double-Goal Coaches®,
whose first goal is winning and whose second,
more-important goal is teaching life lessons through
sports. PCA sports parent workshops cultivate
“Second-Goal Parents,” who focus on life
lessons through sports. PCA student-athlete workshops
produce “Triple-Impact Competitors,” who work
to improve themselves, their teammates, and their sport as
a whole.
PCA has the support of elite coaches and athletes on our
National Advisory Board (http://www.positivecoach.org/advisoryboard.aspx),
including National Spokesperson, Los Angeles Lakers Coach
Phil Jackson.
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