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LAST Try-out This SATURDAY (Dec 13th)!
No prior football experience is required. We'll get your up to speed in no time!!
Dec 13th @ Whitaker/Fernhill Park
Whitaker/Fernhill Park is located off NE 42nd Ave just north of NE KIllingsworth. Click here for directions.
Timing:
10:30 - 11:00 Registration ($25 - cash or money order)
11:00 - 12:00 Try-outs
12:00 - 12:30 Position drills (kickers, QBs, long snappers, etc)
12:30 - 1:00 Flag Football game for all particicpants!
Details:
Each player will run through the following drills:
40-yard dash, 800 run, Shuttle run, Vertical leap, and maximum push-ups and sit-ups in 1 minute.
Try-outs will take place RAIN OR SHINE!
Please contact us with any quesitons.
We look forward to seeing you at the Try-outs!
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Kate White Fundrasier
Former Shockwave player, Kate White, was in a major motorcycle accident at the end of September. Kate remains at Legacy Emmanuel Hospital & Health Center and is doing a bit better. She’s breathing on her own now. She’s responding to voice and touch. She is able to open her left eye and move her head around a bit and has moved her legs and shoulders.
Her family and friends have set up a fund for her medical expenses at: ON POINT BANK THE KATE WHITE FUND
Her family and friends have set up a fund for her medical expenses at: ON POINT BANK THE KATE WHITE FUND
There is also a fundraiser on Sunday, Dec 7th at Holocene from 5pm to Close. There will be live music and entertainment, silent auction items, specialty foods and drinks and of course fun games. Please come out to support Kate in her efforts in recovery from this tragic accident.
Please also feel free to visit her MySpace account. Kate was voted the "2005 Bite of Oregon Singer/Songwriter of the Year. " Prior to the accident she also just finished recording a studio album.
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It's time to get your bidding sticks ready!! 10 Shockwave players will be up on the auction block, ripe and for your bidding! Thursday, November 6th at the Egyptian Room (3701 SE Division St., PDX).
Doors open at 8pm, first auction is at 9pm. There will be plenty of raffles and prizes as well.
The Date Night for the winning bidders will be on Friday, November 14th. Drinks and a
meet and greet at the McMenamins on Broadway (1504 NE Broadway St. PDX)
and then off to the Memorial Coliseum to see the Portland Winterhawks take on the Prince George Cougars.
Food and drinks will also be provided at the game.
Please contact us with any questions.
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The 2009 season is right around the corner. We will be holding three try-outs to anyone wanting to be a part of the Shockwave. No prior football experience is required. We'll get your up to speed in no time!!
Dates:
Sat Nov 8th @ Whitaker (Fernhill Park)*
Sat Nov 22nd TBD
Sat Dec 13th TBD
Whitaker/Fernhill Park is located off NE 42nd Ave just north of NE KIllingsworth. Click here for directions.
Timing:
10:30 - 11:00 Registration ($25 - cash or money order)
11:00 - 12:00 Try-outs
12:00 - 12:30 Position drills (kickers, QBs, long snappers, etc)
12:30 - 1:00 Flag Football game for all particicpants!
Details:
Each player will run through the following drills:
40-yard dash, 800 run, Shuttle run, Vertical leap, and maximum push-ups and sit-ups in 1 minute.
Try-outs will take place RAIN OR SHINE!
Please contact us with any quesitons.
We look forward to seeing you at the Auction and Tryouts!
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Empowering Women Through Sports!
Since its founding in 2002, the Portland Shockwave, Portland Oregon's National IWFL team has delivered many successful season, including victory as the 2006 Pacific Northwest Divison Champions.
Shockwave has contracted with Skyline Strageties, Inc., a professional management firm, in order to share its success with the community through philanthropic nonprofit, booster club-like charity, Title Wave.
The primary directive of Title Wave to advance women's sports is best expressed in their tagline, "Empowering Women Through Sports."Shockwave and Skyline invite members of the community to join with them the second Monday of each month to influence and drive the Title Wave mission in advancing women and girls in a historically male-dominated sports environment.
For the short term, benefactors of Title Wave efforts are to include:
- Players of Portland's IWFL team, Shockwave, by providing scholarships to players
- Betties360, a Portland based organization working to inspire well-being in women and girls thorugh action-sports and outdoor adventure.
- All-girls sports leagues around the Portland Metro area.
Shockwave proudly sponsors Title Wave, representing Portland's commitment to eliminating the barries to increased particiaption of girls and womens in organized sports.
For more information plesae feel to contact us.
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