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At this joyous time of year, the National Office is grateful to our members, partners, volunteers and athletes for your tremendous efforts! AYF thrived because of your amazing hard work, creativity, and dedication to making AYF the GREATEST Youth Sports Organization! Our relationship with all of you is one thing we treasure. Thank you for the opportunity to serve you. May this be a wonderful Holiday Season for you and yours!
We wish you abundance, happiness, and peace in a new year filled with hope and greatness!
We look forward to the best that is yet to come in 2012!
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Upcoming Dates
12/31 - AYF National Championships TV SHOW airs on Fox Sports Net
12/31 - Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl, San Francisco, CA
1/2 -1/6 - AYF ALL STAR Week and Game, FL
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 The National Office is currently in the process of reviewing all AAA and Regional Scholarship submissions. All winners and scholarship recipients will be notified and awarded in Spring 2012. |
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AYF/AYC Staff
Click the name to e-mail Joe Galat President Jim TaftChairman of the Board Jessica Abramovich Executive Director Dee Grayer Football Commissioner Elizabeth Bray Cheer Director & Member Communications Arielle Krieger Director, Marketing Operations Craig Heitczman Director, Social & Marketing Communications Shannon Shy Director, New Membership Kristin Walker Director, Events Kerry Lorenca AYC Technical Advisor Diedrea Willis Step Coordinator AYF Regional Reps New England - Rick Pelletier
Big East - Craig Karahuta
Atlantic - Mike Fairfax
Southeast - Orlando Gudes
Midwest - Mike Bell
Southwest - L.E. Chamberlain
Desert Pacific- Rikki Kinsfather
Mountain Northwest- Mike Piha |
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THE AMERICAN YOUTH FOOTBALL
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
COMING TO YOUR TV
DECEMBER 31st
FOX SPORTS NET
CHECK YOUR LOCAL LISTINGS and SPORTS CHANNELS
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The World's Greatest National ChampionshipsSaw 20,000 share in fun and excitement in Florida.Thank you all for joining us, for participating, for displaying great sportsmanship and giving our kids the experience of a lifetime!
Get the Scores, Final Brackets, and Placements at:
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The 2011 Season AYF and AYC ALL-STAR Game
The AYF National All-Star Game will played at Tropicana Field on January 5, 2012 at 3:30 pm (immediately preceding the Under Armour All-America Game). Please contact us for free tickets
Our All Stars have been selected and are ready to represent and join AYF, AYC, Under Armour, a host of celebrities, NFL stars and the nations top High School players for a week they will never forget! Full highlights coming in January! Stay tuned to ESPN to watch Under Armour All America Week unfold.... |
Kraft Foods' Huddle to Fight Hunger Giving Back League of the Year Award
AND THE WINNER IS...
After the amazing work of AYF and AYC communities around the nation, The Kraft Huddle to Fight Hunger Giving Back League of the Year Award and the $10,000 Grant goes to...
NJ AYF - Jersey Shore Conference.
We also want to give a round of applause to runner up Central Florida Youth Football and Cheer for a tremendous effort. This holiday season- we are proud to showcase the power of AYF and AYC uniting with Kraft Foods' in the Huddle to Fight Hunger in a campaign to donate 25 million meals to Feeding America. Please watch the efforts of our members to Fight Hunger throughout the 2011 Football Season.  | | AYF & AYC in the Kraft Huddle to Fight Hunger |
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Championship Teams and Kraft Foods' Huddle to Fight Hunger
After competing at the AYC National Championships, over 200 girls from across the nation united together to show the power of AYC in huddling for a cause. Thanks to Julie Bolton- Cheer for a Cause, and Peggy Williams from Pro Cheer Alumni, for coordinating a performance that floored everyone!
We want to give a warm thanks to all of the amazing teams at nationals and around the nation who supported the Kraft Huddle to Fight Hunger.
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SWINK
Swink is a new service that enables every AYF National Championship player and fan to create personalized video highlights from their games for free! Once created, you can email your highlights or post them on Facebook. If you haven't already registered for your free account, simply go to www.swink.tv. Every game from the national championships is now uploaded and indexed, ready for you to search for your best plays!  At the AYF National Championships, Each player and fan that registered to use Swink.tv entered their head coach's name into a drawing. Swink.tv randomly drew the name of one lucky coach who has won 2 tickets and hotel accommodations to this year's NFL Super Bowl in Indianapolis! And the lucky winner is.... Moe Evans!
Head Coach of the Northside Hurricane's Jr Midgets, Charlotte, NC. Congratulations Coach!
From AYF Championships to the NFL Super Bowl, courtesty of SWINK.TV New Swink Contest! Win an iPad2 or an iPod Touch National championships are over, but can still relive those great moments and share them with Swink.tv. Create the coolest highlight reel and you will win an IPad2 or an IPod Touch. Using Swink's Editor, you can add your music, sound effects, pictures, transitions, effects, to a highlight reel of you and your team. On January 15th, Swink and AYF will judge the best, most creative highlight and award the winner with an IPad2. The second most creative highlight will win an IPod Touch. Finally, if your highlight has the most views on www.swink.tv you will win an IPod Touch. Hint: Get your friends and family to check out your highlight reel, send it via email or post to Facebook to increase the number of views! |
Sportography
2011 National Championship Photos are Available to View and Purchase ONLINE NOW!
Visit http://ayfphotos.sportography.com For all the great action photos from the AYF & AYC 2011 Championships. The photos will only be available for a short period of time so capture those amazing memories now!
 
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Joes' Presidents Corner
If one word describes the HOLIDAY SEASON - that word would be GIVING.
The sign over the locker room leading to the practice field says "What I held back today is lost - What I Give today will make me and our team better."
That is 'giving' alright and it is the secret to becoming a better athlete...
... I think of 'giving' in another context. The 'giving' that takes place through life's everyday problems that we all face. The giving of your most valued possession, TIME. You know of whom I write; volunteers put aside their needs and look for those who they can help. Check out a YouTube video of a great pass play or cheer stunt at the AYF/AYC National Championships, but look closer, beyond the subjects to the sidelines with the Coaches and Administrators and then beyond them to the Parents in the stands. The giving must take place for many years to create the fine-tuned athletes you see. At birth, humans are Gods most helpless creatures; they need nurturing and love to survive. Our community can rejoice in knowing youngsters have been afforded an opportunity to become student athletes due to many who have given to them.
The windows of the world are our eyes. Clear vision through your windows allow you to see others. Those in a time of need are obvious and accomplishments are clearly celebrated. However, life's battles sometimes cloud that view and the window becomes opaque developing a backing much like a mirror. The result is people who see only themselves.
This Holiday Season, American Youth Football and American Youth Cheer thank you Coaches, Administrators, Parents and our Great National Staff for keeping their eye-windows clear and focused on Giving to others. May the blessing of Giving remain in your heart year-round
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