Well done LHS!

I’m proud to say that Lincoln HS finished 8^th of 24 high schools that participated at High School Nationals in St. Louis from Feb 27 – March 3. 

Special congratulations to Elena Schaefer, who finished in the top 8 in Girls #1 Singles division.  This is the best finish ever by a Lincoln HS girl !! 

Elena also teamed with Olivia Lanaras to make it to Quarterfinals of Girls #1 Doubles !

2013 National Championship Results

2013 State Championship Singles and Doubles Final Results for LHS

Final Team Results 2013

The Lincoln Racquetball End of Year party will be Sunday, March 10 at 6 pm, at Multnomah Athletic Club (Lownsdale Room).

At this event, we will have a scrolling slideshow of photos from HS States and HS Nationals, and we will be presenting varsity letters, as well as awards for Most Improved and Most Valuable Player.

There will be a dinner buffet, including chicken picatta, a vegetable dish, risotto potatoes, salad, artisan bread, penne gratin.

Cost of the banquet is $10 for players, $18 for parents/siblings/friends.

The banquet will be free to any players who sell all 10 fundraiser tickets for the team to attend HS Nationals in St. Louis.  The ticket stubs are due to Bruce Reid at practice by Feb 3. 

Jill Ross has been kind enough to set this event up at MAC, and she will be collecting $$ for the party in February.  Don’t want to get into that prior to HS States, but wanted everyone to save the date, and to start selling fundraising tickets so you can attend the party for free.

Bruce Reid

For those going to HS Nationals in St. Louis, we will have a flight coordination meeting on Sunday, Jan 13 at 3:00 pm at the MAC 1st floor lounge area (overlooking workout area).

We intend to purchase our flights during this Jan 13 session (see plan outlined below). We expect that our fundraising will cover hotel/rental car/food as outlined below. Players will need to pay for their own flight.

Following is current list of players planning to attend, and our plan for the trip r.e. hotel, rental cars, food, other activities.

Lincoln Players: So far we have 13 players planning to attend:

Spencer Berger
Catherine Barton
Ian Blakely
Jordan Coleman
Danny Brillhart
Sierra Reid
Will Hoge
Elena Schaefer
Alex Kiriazis
Sam Moser
Clayton Ross
William Selbie
Gavin Usher

Please respond to this email ASAP if your name is not on the list but you’d like to attend, or if your name is on the list and you can’t attend.

Also, if your name is on the list above, please respond to this email to let me know if you can attend our flight coordination session on Jan 13 at 3 pm.

Flights: We plan to fly together; however, we have found that going thru travel agent or airline’s group sales results in a $700+ fare per person. So what we have been doing is getting together to purchase our tickets via the internet. Last time, we flew to St. Louis on Southwest Airlines, and flew back to Portland on Delta, resulting in a $368 round trip ticket. This scenario worked fine, although it does lend itself to more potential pitfalls if flights change etc… IF THERE IS A PARENT ON THE TEAM WHO IS A WHIZ AT GROUP FLIGHTS, AND YOU THINK YOU CAN GET US TICKETS IN THE $370 RANGE, PLEASE LET ME KNOW, I’M ALL EARS !

Hotel: Marriott TownePlace Suites, 1662 Fenton Business Park Ct. · Fenton, MO 63026. We will have 2 or 3 suites; each suite has 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, living area w/ pullout sofa, and a kitchen.

One suite will be for the girls (plus a team mom), and one or two suites will be for boys (plus me and another parent if we have 3 rooms). This hotel is located in between the two clubs, and it is the same place we have stayed the past 2 times in St. Louis.

http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/stltf-towneplace-suites-st-louis-fenton/

Rental Car: We will have 2-3 minivans, depending on final number of players. The minivans will be driven only by parents of players and/or coaches.

Food: Tournament will have food at clubs for some lunches and some dinners. We will do a team Costco run (always a fun event) to get cereal, bread and sandwich makings, fruit, protein bars, lots of water bottles, etc. We will also plan a team dinner on Saturday night in downtown St. Louis.

Other Activities (players bring approx. $50 - $100 spending money):

· St. Louis Gateway Arch - This has also been a fun activity the first two trips. There is a very small tram (like a pod) that takes you up most of the way, then walk the last 100 feet or so. http://www.gatewayarch.com/

· Washington University in St. Louis – I will take whichever kids that would like to visit this campus. My older son Dylan visited this campus on our trip to St. Louis 4 years ago, and now he is a junior there and loves it. Dylan plays baseball for WashU, so hopefully we can also watch a game !

Bruce Reid

TownePlace Suites St. Louis Fenton

www.marriott.com

TownePlace Suites St. Louis

Team-

Lincoln HS will be represented by 13-14 players at the 2013 USA Racquetball National Championships in St. Louis, MO from Feb 27 – March 3. 

Lincoln Racquetball is doing a prize drawing fundraiser for a new iPad2, to help cover costs of our trip to St. Louis for HS Nationals.

We are asking each Lincoln RB player (whether going to HS Nationals or not) to sell 10 tickets for this prize drawing.

Tickets are one for $10, three for $25, and the drawing will take place on Sunday, Feb 3.

This was a successful fundraiser for us in 2011, the last time we went to St. Louis for HS Nationals.  Many of the players going on the St. Louis trip this year were on the Lincoln team in 2011 and helped raise funds for the 12 players that went to St. Louis that year.  We ask that each Lincoln RB player support their teammates that are going to HS Nationals this year, by selling 10 tickets.

We will distribute tickets at practice this Sunday 1/6/13.  Thank you in advance for your support !

Bruce Reid

Lincoln RB Coach

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