Alumni Game Letter - Info

Bearcats Soccer Alumni:

Just wanted to touch base with you and let you know that we have kicked off our 2008 high school soccer season at Brookland-Cayce HS. Our biennial Alumni Game will be held on Saturday, February 16 at The Cage at 1:00 p.m. We hope that all former alumni will make it back to BCHS to participate in this event. Don't worry if you feel "too over the hill" to play in the match, just come and be a part of the atmosphere. I think that the recent graduates of 2005-06-07 should give us ample "young players" to battle the Varsity, but I know of some old guys that have been rounding themselves back into shape in order to compete once again.

I am ordering t-shirts for the event from Lesesne Industries and need to get them some numbers ASAP. The t-shirts will be ash gray and 100% cotton. The cost will be $10 per shirt. If you would like a t-shirt, please reply to this email as soon as possible. We also have car magnets for sale at $5 each and are a great way to support our soccer program. You can pay at the Alumni match, but if sending a check, please make it payable to BCHS and include your phone number, address, and driver's license number.

Special thanks to Will Eudy, '95 (will@scsoccer.com); Alex Koutrakos, '94 (alexk94@sc.rr.com); and Troy Lesesne, '01 (lesesnet@cofc.edu) for their efforts in putting together an Alumni/Varsity Team dinner/get-together for Friday, February 15. Details will be posted on our website at www.scsoccer.com/bcsoccer soon. This will be a pretty neat event and will feature a video presentation of the last two decades of Bearcats Soccer.

As for the Varsity, we have a very talented varsity group with a goal of winning the Class 3A State Championship! Our season officially kicked off Monday morning, January 28 at 12:05 a.m. on The Cage! Our opening session was covered by WLTX and featured on Monday's 6/11 p.m. editions. Pretty exciting stuff for the boys and we even had our season "blessed" by Cayce United Methodist Church pastor Michael Henderson (a former soccer player at Brevard College in NC) who led us in prayer prior to kickoff.

For those that don't know, I update our Bearcat Soccer Blog quite frequently during the season and this is the best place for the latest information on Bearcats Soccer. The link is -- http://bc-soccer.blogspot.com/.

In other notes, we have had more than 70 prospective players (7th-12th grades) come out for the first two days of tryouts at Granby Education Center (old Busbee MS) and we should have around 60 kids competing on our B-Team, JV, and Varsity sides this Spring! We are extremely excited about the turnout and the growing nature of the B-C soccer program.

Remember to check out our website for schedules and such. I look forward to seeing each of you in the next couple of weeks!

"BEARCAT PRIDE"

Coach Heise