Valor Knights Athletics

2024-2025 Season

Celebrations and Accomplishments

Valor Knight Athletics- Accomplishments

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1. Inaugural HS Football Season; 1st Playoff Win & State Semifinalist (9-4)
2. Ethan Locke Repeated as XC State Champion, Boys and Girls finished 3rd overall
3. HS Volleyball District Champs & Bi District Qualifier; (26-12)
4. HS Boys Basketball District Champs, 1st Playoff Win & Regional Qualifier (22-4)
5. HS Girls Basketball District Champs, 1st Playoff Win & State Semifinalist (17-7)
6. HS Golf District Runner Up
7. Tennis; 2 girls doubles, 1 girls single, & 1 boys doubles team all advanced to State
8. HS Baseball; 1st Playoff Win
9. HS Track; Ethan Locke-SC in 3200 & 1600, Clara Gibson -SC in 800, Girls 4x2 Relay State Champs
10. 92% Participation Rate Athletes 4th-12th

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GO KNIGHTS!

Fundraising

Our athletic department operates on athletic fees, advertising, and athletic fundraisers-

• We have expanded our sports opportunities, increased staff, including an athletic trainer.
• Teamfunded and Knight Cards are outward facing opportunities for our athletes to help us meet our needs and keep the costs of athletic fees down.
• Advertising revenue = 43k (Todd Allen)
• Golf Tournament= 23k (Adam Meyer and Brent McFarling)
• Little Knights (Kari McKown)

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Repeatable methods of raising money. Low strain on our families.

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Meet the Coaches

High School Volleyball- Mark Pozgai, Sam DeLoach

High School and Junior High Football- Stephen Byrd, Kirk Crist, Michael Foy, and Braeden Arp

High School Boys Basketball- Michael Foy, Steve Brough, Braeden Arp

High School Girls Basketball- Caleb Howard

Junior High Boys Basketball- Dave Kennedy & Kirk Crist

Junior High Girls Basketball- Jared Nazarian, Hannah Bondarenko, Elizabeth Hudson

Cross Country- Emily Turner, Derek Cowan

Golf- Jared Nazarian & Madi Elkins

Tennis- Nicole Huber

Track- Emily Turner, Derek Cowan, Rachel Hickey, Braeden Arp, Cooper Mack, Hannah Bondarenko, Elizabeth Hudson

Baseball- Stephen Byrd, Kirk Crist

Cheer- Meredith Sherwood, Chaney Franks

Where we are going?

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TAPPS 2A District Schedule for one more year.

We anticipate moving to TAPPS 3A next year. We will find out placement in December this coming winter.

Our process

• Team Culture; WE > me
• Encouraging multi-sport athletes
• Building fundamentals, strength, and speed
• Know who you are, compete with courage

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Opportunities for Growth

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• Discipleship.
• Discipleship. Collectively, our kids need to fix how we build each other up, call each other up.
• Community = Accountability
• Build identity and compete with courage.
• Everything with excellence.
• Growing program needs
• More competitive sub-varsity teams
• Encourage your kid to be more focused on development. Practice means more.
• Select = More games
• Team = More practice
• Playing time is earned and at the discretion of the coach.
• Sub-varsity funnels to the varsity.
• Practice Habits
• Encourage your kid to be flexible. Know what everyone’s job is and be able to execute it.

May 10th Physical Day

Forms are available tonight!

May 9th- JH Boys and Girls will get their vitals, height, weight completed during athletic period.

May 10th-

When- 8-10:00a

Where- Valor Gym

Summer Workouts Information

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JH/HS Girls Strength and Conditioning- 7:45-8:45am Monday- Thursday

JH & HS Boys Strength and Conditioning- Drop Off @Train Waco 7:15am, PICKUP @VALOR 10am

FB/BB 8:30am-10am @VALOR;

HS BB Mondays & Wednesdays

HS FB Tuesdays & Thursdays

JH FB Mondays & Wednesdays

JH BB Tuesdays & Thursdays

Lifting 7:15a-8:30a Monday-Thursday @Train Waco

*WE ARE LOOKING FOR BREAKFAST/CHOCOLATE MILK SPONSORS IF WILLING TO DONATE.

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Practice Times and Expectations (School Year)

Players are expected to be on time and ready for the start of practice.

HS Volleyball- Texas Legends (3:00-5:30p)

HS and JH Football- Location TBD (3:00p-5:30p)

JH Volleyball- Valor Gym (3:45p-5:30p)

HS Girls Basketball- Valor Gym (3:00p-5:30p)

HS Boys Basketball- Texas Legends (3:00p-5:15p)

JH Girls Basketball- The Center (4:00-5:30p)

JH Boys Basketball- Valor / WFC (6:30-7:45am / 3:50p-5:20p)

Track- Hart Patterson (4:00p-6:00p)

Cross Country- Woodway Park (6:00a-7:15a)

League Practice- TBD

All athletes are expected to wear Valor athletic apparel that can be purchased on the Team Store

Holiday Practices

Memorial Day- High School Football and Volleyball will practice

Fall Break- High School will practice and JH will practice on Tuesday.

Thanksgiving- Practice all week, including a Thanksgiving Day walk-thru

Tuesday of the week of Thanksgiving- Varsity Basketball

1st Week of Christmas Break (Games against Live Oak & First Baptist)

Middle of Christmas Break (Potential JV tournament for those in town)

Last Week of Christmas Break (Basketball games & practices: District Play)

MLK Practice (District game the next day)

Weekend Before Spring Break (Basketball Playoffs)

Spring Break- (Potential Track/Baseball)

Transportation

For all off-site practices and games, we will use the Valor vans. We are hopeful that we will have another van or two to use before next year to assist families with travel.

• Practice
• Games
• Kids CANNOT drive themselves to games
• Weightlifting
• Train Waco

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Dividing Teams

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• At the HS level

Volleyball has the potential to have 3 teams- V, JV, JV II

Boys Basketball will have 3 teams- V, JV, JV II

Girls Basketball could have 2 teams- V, JV

• JH level our teams will be A/B.
• If an 8th grader is even with 7th grader, we lean towards the 8th grader.
• Athletic Department is involved in roster decisions.
• League level will be split evenly.

Athletic Period

We will continue to have an athletic period that will begin at 2:45p MWF and 2:50p on TTH.

This allows us to-

• Begin practices earlier and get our athletes home earlier
• Allows our teams to leave for games further away without missing class time

THIS IS NOT AN OPTIONAL TIME FOR ATHLETES TO MISS.

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Weight Room (School Year)

Madi Elkins- Strength and Conditioning Coordinator

The expectation is for ALL HS and JH athletes to lift multiple days a week. If you plan on being an athlete at Valor, we expect them to workout with us in order to be apart of them

JH Boys- 8:15-9:00a Wednesday and Friday

JH Girls- 1:55-2:40p Wednesday and Friday

HS Girls- 2:45p- 3:30p Monday-Friday; Athletic Period

HS Boys- 7:00a-7:45a Monday, Tuesday, Thursday or Athletic Period

Track/Off-Season- Athletic Period

Valor Preparatory Team Store

Practice Attire- BSN Store

• Required practice gear: Valor shorts and Valor shirts (you can buy extra at your discretion)
• Required game day attire: polos
• Optional attire and bags are available

The Team Store is open now.

HS HOT HOOPS & CENTEX SUMMER BASKETBALL

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BOYS BASKETBALL

High School Game Dates

Varsity (Small School) Division: Mondays

9^th Grade Division: Tuesdays

*Since we are a small school, we are allowed to play our kids down at the 9^th grade level,

several other schools such as Bosqueville will be doing the same thing.

Junior High Game Dates

7^th Grade Division: Wednesdays

8^th Grade Division: Wednesdays

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GIRLS BASKETBALL

High School Game Dates

Varsity 2 Division: Tuesdays

Junior High Game Dates

Middle School 2 Division: Wednesdays

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Role of the Parent

Championship teams have

Players that believe in players and coaches

Coaches that believe in players and coaches

Parents that support coaches and players

“No energy vampires” - Jon Gordon

Encourage your child to talk to the coaches on how they can improve

Treat officials the right way

Chain of Command

Assistant Coaches→ Head Coaches→Assistant AD→ Athletic Director—> Headmaster

Post game conversations- Parents should follow the 24 hour rule. Conversations following intense competition is not wise.

Conversations about playing time are at the discretion of the coach.

Utilizing practice time to determine players roles, coaches should be empowered to make the necessary choices to be competitive.

Handling Conflict

1. Conflict is inevitable
2. Invite Jesus into conflict
3. The goal of conflict isn’t to win (1 Peter 2:19-23)
4. Parent coach conversation (Matthew 18:15)
5. Parent, coach, and AD (Matthew 18:16)

Goals for 2025-2026

• Secure our identity. We chose Valor for discipleship and community.
• Correct the way we speak to each other.
• Compete for district & state titles in each sport