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Congratulations Rancheros and Jaguars
The Rancho Cucamonga Board of Directors would like to congratulate the Mitey-Mite Rancheros and the Jr. Peewee Jaguars. On Monday, December 15th it was announced at the Mt. Baldy Conference Board meeting that they are both the 2008 winners of the Tony Rizzo Sportsmanship Awards for their divisions.
The Sportsmanship Award is given out to the team in each division that received the highest total marks for sportsmanship by the game Officials over the entire regular season.
Each team member will receive the special award patch shown above.
On behalf of the entire Rancho Cucamonga Pop Warner Family, we congratulate both teams and we want you to know how proud we are of your representation of Rancho Cucamonga Pop Warner Football & Cheer.
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Tiny-Mite Division Added
Rancho Cucamonga Pop Warner Football and Cheer is proud to announce that we will be adding the Tiny-Mite Division to our Football and Cheer Family beginning with the 2009 season.
The Tiny-Mite division will consist of 5 and 6 year old players. The weight range for Tiny-Mites is 35 to 75 lbs. The Tiny-Mite Division is an instructional division with several unique rules. Here are a few:
- 80 yard field.
- Coaches are allowed on field.
- No Kick-offs, punting or point after touchdown attempts.
- No score is maintained or posted and no Win/Loss/Tie stats maintained.
- Game consists of two 22 minute halfs.
- All games are on running clock except for time-outs.
We will also be adding Tiny-Mite Cheerleaders in same age group and will begin to teach the basics for Cheerleading.
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City of Rancho Cucamonga Honors Rancho Pop Warner
The City Council of Rancho Cucamonga will be honoring several groups from Rancho Cucamonga Pop Warner:
- The 2008 Jr. Peewee Wildcats who won the Mt. Baldy Championships and was a finalist in the WESCON Regional Playoffs.
- The 2008 Jr. Midgets Braves Cheerleaders who won their division in the Mt. Baldy Cheer Championships and was also a WESCON Regional Cheer Championship finalist.
- Two scholar athletes from Rancho Cucamonga that are finalist for the National Pop Warner Little Scholards - All American Scholar Athlete awards will also be honored.
The presentation will be held at the City Council meeting scheduled for Wednesday, February 18th at approximately 5:45pm at City Hall.
Anyone is invited to watch and cheer on our Rancho Cucamonga Pop Warner Players and Cheerleaders.
We are very proud of all of you!
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2009 Head Coaches Announced
The Rancho Cucamonga Pop Warner Board of Directors is proud to announce our 2009 Head Coaching Staff:
Tiny-Mites
Nick Salabaj - Cubs
Mitey-Mites
Bengals - Ken Qualley
Rancheros - John Cunningham
Stingrays - Donald Arceneaux
Jr. Peewee
Cobras - Jason Bennett
Jaguars - Mike Hangca
Wildcats - Angel Ahumada
Peewee
Barracudas - Open
Bobcats - Rick Minniefield
Wolverines - Chris Rohr
Jr. Midget
Braves - Dennis Wolcott
Eagles - Brian Caldwell
Midget
Panthers - Greg Claxton
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Thank you to Coach Ahamada
Message from RCPW President,
I want to thank Coach Angel Ahamada for a lot of hard work and countless phone calls working to secure donations for our Snack Bar! The Snack Bar a lot of new updates including stainless steel tables, sink, shelving, new state of the art deep fryer, new hood, new paint on walls, and more. Also for a thorough cleaning of the entire snack bar.
We also want to thank Larry for installing a state of the art faucet.
It is volunteers like you that keep our program one of the best in the state and certainly in Rancho Cucamonga! On behalf of the board of directors, players and parents, thank you for your dedication.
Veda Mosley
President - Rancho Cucamonga Pop Warner Football & Cheer
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Raffle Winners Announced!
1st Prize Winner - Jim Rocha
Congratulations to the following people who were our winners for 2009 Raffle. The names of the winners and # of winning tickets as follows:
1st prize winner $1,500.00 # 01947 - Jim Rocha of Rancho Cucamonga who's bother is on the Wolverines.
2nd prize winner - $1,000.00 # 08916 - William Pinero of Alta Loma.
3rd prize winner - $500.00 # 01227 - Tanya Benford of Pasadena.
4th prize winner - $250.00 # 01138 - Robert & Brenda Lombado, of Rancho Cucamonga.
5th prize winner - $125.00 # 01440 - Lorette Ritchwood of Corona.
6th prize winner - $125.00 # 07114 - Joe Ochoa of Corona.
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Rancho Cucamonga Pop Warner
Ladder System
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Wolverines--> |
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Wildcats--> |
Bobcats--> |
Eagles--> |
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Rebels--> |
Barracudas--> |
Buckeyes--> |
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Ex: Bengals feed to Wildcats, Wildcats feed to Bobcats, Bobcats feed to Eagles, Eagles feed to Panthers
**Where Draft is indicated, the returning players are put into the players draft.
Ex: when returning Dragons move up to Jr. Peewee,they are put in player draft and would go to one of the 4 Jr. Peewee teams.
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Is Youth Football Safe?
If your child wants to play football, but a parent has some fear of injury, here are some facts you should know about youth Football:
- The injury rate in Pop Warner Football is:
- Less than one-third the injury rate in high school football
- Less than one-fifth the injury rate in college football
- Less than one-ninth the injury rate in professional football
- Pop Warner’s age-weight schematic protects younger, lighter players, who do not have higher injury rates.
- Organized football among 5 – 15 year-olds has 12% fewer injuries per capita than organized soccer in the same age range.
- Organized football among 5 – 15 year-olds has 50% fewer injuries per capita than bicycle riding in the same age range.
- Organized football among 5 – 15 year-olds has 74% fewer injuries per capita than skateboarding in the same age group.
- Injuries in youth football are normally mild, and older players have a higher injury rate than younger players.
Click here to see study completed by Mayo Clinic on Youth Sports Injuries titled "Will my Child get Hurt?".
Please consider this carefully when deciding if your child should play Pop Warner Football or not.
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Join our Email List
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