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)

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The Dodgers - Rye Little League’s 2009 champions


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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.

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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.
  

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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.

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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


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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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