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2018 IFCA North-South All Star Classic:

North won 27-24 Box Score & Game Stats

Tackling Childhood Cancer

Coach Greg Barrett, his wife Molly, and their family have been taking on Childhood Cancer through the spirit of their late son Patrick. They have raised money for Precision Genomics Testing at Riley Hospital for Children. Please see the email below if you have an interest in getting involved in this worthy cause.

Good evening Fundraisers and Coaches,

We're just 6 weeks away from the kickoff of the 2018 Tackle Childhood Cancer campaign and the time has come to begin the official registration process. Please take a few moments to fill out the registration form by clicking here. Please fill out the t-shirt and shoestring quantities as well although please note that you will be able to update the quantities 3 weeks prior to your selected Tackle Childhood Cancer game.

Below are a few other items that will help you in making your fundraising efforts a huge success:

Designate a point-person for TCC: Determine a primary point person to coordinate all events and fundraising.

Pre-Sell T-Shirts: Take advantage of upcoming spirit events and collect pre-orders of shirts. If interested, an order form with your specific school t-shirt can be provided. Shirts will be delivered to school with team order and will be separated by purchaser.

Individual School Giving Pages: Again this year, individual giving pages will be set up to help solicit donations electronically. The pages will be set up by September 1st.

Set a Target for Fundraising Dollars: Challenge yourself and your team to raise a specific amount. Many schools target the Riley Red Wagon Sponsorship amount of $1924 (schools with a donation of $1924 will sponsor a red wagon for one year and will have their school name displayed on a license plate).

Fundraising Supplies: Your school, most likely has a supply of red buckets on-hand used for your Kids Caring & Sharing events but additional quantities of fundraising supplies can be ordered by clicking here.

Tackle Childhood Cancer Game: Check your school calendar and select your TCC game when time can be dedicated to helping fight childhood cancer. Coordinate with a club or service organization to help run other fundraising opportunities within the school the week prior to your game.

Additional School Participation: As you share your activities with other schools in your community or conference, please share how they can get involved by providing them our email. We will be happy to work with them to come up with activities to help participate.

*all funds donated through t-shirt sales, shoestring purchase, and other fundraising activities including the individual school giving page will be credited towards your schools Kids Caring & Sharing goal.

If you have any additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact us via email or by phone at 812-201-9711 (Molly Barrett) or 812-201-9600 (Greg Barrett)

From the bottom of our hearts, we cannot thank you enough for stepping up and helping raise money for Precision Genomics Testing at Riley Hospital for Children. It is our hope, as was our Patrick's, that together we will help other children find their cure.

Sincerely,

Greg and Molly Barrett

PS We Love You Fund

2017-18 IFCA Academic Team-updated 02/06/18

The NCAA’s outreach and education efforts related to initial-eligibility continue to remain in full swing. These efforts focus on both Division I standards for college-bound student-athletes enrolling on or after August 1, 2016 and Division II college-bound student-athletes enrolling on or after August 1, 2018. The following materials, which have been made available to high school and non-scholastic athletic communities, also may be valuable to your colleagues, as they look to assist students and parents with the initial eligibility, recruiting and college selection processes. Please refer to www.eligibilitycenter.org, or our new outreach site, www.2point3.org for even more information.

· Guide for the College-Bound Student-Athlete- The Guide is a highly comprehensive tool, that has been designed to help you understand the NCAA initial-eligibility process and to prepare student-athletes for transitioning from high school to becoming an NCAA Division I or II student-athlete. http://www.ncaapublications.com/productdownloads/CBSA15.pdf

Also, in an effort to continue to spread the word about this important new information, we are pleased to announce that the NCAA’s Initial-Eligibility course available through NFHSLearn.com has been updated with the new academic requirements and is being made available free of charge! Please visit NFHSLearn.com and take 30-45 minutes to complete the Initial Eligibility course. This course will familiarize you and your colleagues with the new academic requirements, as well as the required NCAA Eligibility Center registration and certification process for college-bound student-athletes.

Additional resources are available for parents and college-bound student-athletes. Those informational materials can be found here. If I can be of any further assistance, feel free to contact me.