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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2016
Oregon coaches to begin ‘Heads Up Football’ training
High school football pro-
grams statewide will kick off
the 2016 season with a focus on
coaching education and studen-
tathlete safety through USA
Football’s Heads Up Football
program.
Beginning Feb. 13, USA
Football will conduct more
than a dozen Heads Up
Football Player Safety Coach
clinics across Oregon.
For the good of its student-
athletes, the Oregon School
Activities Association (OSAA)
is the country’s first state high
school activities association to
require its member schools’
football coaches to enroll in
USA Football’s Heads Up
Football program for the 2016
season.
Heads Up Football establish-
es nationally endorsed stan-
dards rooted in the best avail-
able science.
USA Football, the sport’s
national governing body and
recognized by the U.S.
Olympic Committee, trains
more high school and youth
football coaches combined than
any organization in the country.
Heads Up Football is a com-
prehensive approach to teach
and play the No. 1 participatory decrease in football injuries coaches, parents and student-
sport in the U.S. for high and a 28 percent decrease in athletes.
“The OSAA is excited
school boys.
to partner with USA
Supported
by
the
Football in implementing
American College of
“Our primary goal is
the Heads Up Football pro-
Sports Medicine, the
always to try to ensure
gram,” said Tom Welter,
National
Athletic
the health and safety of executive director of the
Trainers’ Association and
OSAA. “Our primary goal
the American Medical
our student-athletes.”
is always to try to ensure
Society
for
Sports
— Scott Hallenbeck,
the health and safety of our
Medicine, the program
USA Football CEO
student-athletes.
teaches tackling and
“This educational pro-
blocking
techniques
gram will provide all of
designed to reduce helmet
contact while addressing all- concussions since employing our coaches with the knowl-
sport-relevant topics with Heads Up Football’s curricu- edge, the training, the skills and
the techniques to teach the
Centers for Disease Control lum and hands-on training.
In addition, the South Bend game of football with safety as
and Prevention (CDC) concus-
School the top priority.”
sion recognition and response; Community
Dr. Michael Koester, chair-
sudden cardiac arrest protocols; Corporation employed USA
hydration and heat prepared- Football’s Heads Up Football person of the OSAA Sports
ness; and instruction on proper program for the first time in Medicine Advisory Committee,
helmet and shoulder pad fitting. 2015 and reported a 40 percent says the Heads Up Football
More than 1,100 high decline in concussions sus- requirement in Oregon is logi-
schools and nearly 70 percent tained by football-playing stu- cal considering in 2008 OSAA
became the first state high
of U.S. youth football leagues dent-athletes.
Each OSAA member school school activities association to
registered for Heads Up
Football in 2015 for smarter, will designate one Player prohibit same-day return to
safer play. Fairfax County, Va., Safety Coach (PSC) from its play for athletes with a suspect-
Public Schools, the ninth- football coaching staff. PSCs ed concussion.
“The really exciting thing
largest school district in the will be trained by USA
country and the first school dis- Football to guide, direct and about this program is that what
trict to adopt Heads Up monitor the program’s imple- happens at the high school
Football on the high school mentation, as well as lead in- level will spread throughout the
level, recorded a 16 percent person training for fellow youth programs in each com-
munity,” Koester said. “This
will allow kids to develop their
skills in a culture that shares
the same language, same tech-
niques and same safety stan-
dards from grade school
through high school.”
“The OSAA’s commitment
to its football student-athletes
is exceptional and ground-
breaking,” USA Football CEO
Scott Hallenbeck said. “As the
first state high school associa-
tion requiring its member
schools to employ our medical-
ly endorsed Heads Up Football
program, the OSAA shares our
highest priority of advancing
player safety through the best
available science. Coaches are
teachers.
“Supporting them with edu-
cation is a powerful catalyst to
change for the better how play-
ers are taught and safety is
addressed.”
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Tonight’s STEP meeting to discuss steelhead fishing
Ryan Hatfield, owner-opera-
tor of 2NorthForkOutfitters,
will be the guest speaker at
tonight’s general meeting of
the Florence Salmon and Trout
Enhancement
Program
(STEP).
The meeting begins at 7 p.m.
at the Elks’ Lodge on 12th
Street in Florence.
The public is welcomed to
attend.
Hatfield will share his tech-
niques and strategies for winter
Siuslaw
from 1B
long-range shooting ability to
neutralize Siuslaw’s zone
defense.
After a pair of 3-pointers from
North Bend’s Tanner Hanneman,
the Viks bumped up their pres-
sure and held the Bulldogs to just
one more basket in the period.
However, it was enough to
leave Siuslaw with a six-point
deficit heading into the third peri-
od, where senior guard Kenneth
Thrall brought the Viks within
one point late in the period with
his own 3-pointer to make it 16-
Viks
from 1B
visiting Bulldogs of North
Bend, whose ability to platoon-
in players and press the entire
32 minutes took its toll.
With four out of six teams
carrying double-digit win-to-
loss ratios and echoes of state
play-off contentions, the
Vikings have found themselves
scrambling in a steep climb to
reach the Far West League
summit — something that is
still a ways off.
“The effort is there, we just
need to build on that,” said
head coach Clint Tatum, now
in his first year as head coach.
“They give everything they’ve
got, every game. That’s some-
thing you can build on.”
In Friday’s 52-14 loss, junior
Destinie Tatum, the team’s
leader in scoring and rebound-
ing, had six points and five
rebounds. Freshman Annabell
Tupua, sophomore Marika
White and senior Taylor
Dotson each had two points,
along with six boards for
Dotson, five for White and two
for Tupua.
Last night, Siuslaw (1-4)
hosted Sweet Home in a non-
league game (after press dead-
lines).
Thursday, the Viks will
return to their home court to
begin the second half of the Far
West League season by hosting
South Umpqua (0-5).
Tipoff is 6 p.m.
steelhead fishing in the Siuslaw
River Basin. The guide will
bring a variety of rods rigged
with various set-ups and dis-
cuss bait selection, lures and
other attractants.
He will share techniques for
both drift boat and bank fish-
ing.
“I will focus on preparation
too,” Hatfield said. “That
includes riggings and the
things I do that are helpful
before I ever get to the water to
begin fishing.”
He also plans to showcase
how he rigs his fishing rods for
different presentations of baits
and lures to the fish.
Hatfield, who grew up in
Florence, has been guiding full
time for four years. He operates
out of the Port of Siuslaw for
fall Chinook season and fishes
the Willamette and Columbia
rivers in April and May for
spring Chinook.
Summers he works for a
fishing resort on Bristol Bay in
Alaska.
Prior to Hatfield’s talk, there
will be a short business meet-
ing, including reports from the
Whittaker Creek trap and the
STEP hatchery facility.
Club volunteers have been
working the trap for two weeks
and have counted more than
400 steelhead in three working
trips to the trap.
17 with three minutes remaining.
The Bulldogs controlled the
last two minutes of the period,
holding Siuslaw scoreless and
posting five points on a fastbreak
and 3-pointer for a 22-16 lead to
begin the fourth quarter.
Sophomore forward Jared
Brandt scored a quick offensive
rebound to bring the Viks within
four points, but the Bulldogs
extended their lead with back-to-
back 3-pointers to jump ahead by
10 points, 28-18.
Slipping into a delay offense,
North Bend worked the clock as
the Vikings were forced to foul
for possession. While the
Bulldogs may have been good at
sinking the ball from beyond the
arc, their shooting from the foul
line fell short, only making three
of seven attempts.
Meanwhile, Siuslaw rallied to
within two points with scoring
from Brandt, Siegel and Reavis
before the clock ran out in favor
of North Bend, 37-35.
Reavis led scoring with 12
points. Siegel had 8, Brandt had
7, senior Preston Mitchell had 4,
and Thrall had 3 points.
Last night, Siuslaw hosted a
nonleague matchup with Sweet
Home (after press deadlines).
Tomorrow night, Siuslaw will
host a rare Thursday night game
as they tip off the second half of
league play in a rematch with
South Umpqua.
Tipoff is set for 7:30 p.m.
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