The Physical Education team at South Lake

Middle School is back and excited for another

fun year of sports, games, and activities! For

those of you that are new to SLMS, my name is

Vince Doan and I am one of the PE teacher.

Sports and fitness is a passion of mine so I hope

to inspire students to make positive choices

when it comes to their health and fitness. Along

with teaching PE, I also run Lunchtime Sports,

Tournament of Champions, and Guys Got Game.

I am very excited about this upcoming year and

wanted to share what we have been doing in

my PE class this past month.

Name: Nick Mirkovic

Grade: 8th

Period: 3rd

Teacher: Mrs. Benner

Name: Elyse Arragon

Grade: 8th

Period: 3rd

Teacher: Mrs. Benner

The first full month of school is in the books! We are off to a great start in physical

education class. We started dressing out the first week of the September and since then

students have played Mamba ball and Team Handball. They have been practicing basic

throwing and catching skills. We also had a Fun Friday where students participated in a

friendly competition of Capture-the-Flag against Mrs. Benner’s class. We ended this month

with a review of the Physical Fitness Test (PFT) that they will be participating in March.

Students practiced fitness areas including: curl-ups, push-ups test, and the mile run.

Our next activity: Flag football!

Your 2017-2018 PE Department

Pictured here: Myself, Mrs. Benner and our PE

Instructional Assistant, Coach Garcia.

Lunchtime sports started the second week of September for the 2017-2018 school year.

Students were given one week to fill out a roster to compete in the Mamba ball tournament.

We have about 250 students signed-up for lunchtime sports! 7th grade participants compete

Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. 8th grader participants compete on Tuesdays and

Thursdays. Each team plays at least 4 regular season games prior to the play-offs.

Check out next month’s newsletter to see which team will be crowned champion!

Name: Kru Martinez

Grade: 7th

Period: 1st

Teacher: Mrs. Benner

Name: Maria Kattan

Grade: 7th

Period: 4th

Teacher: Coach Doan

Guys Got Game (G3) is a brand new program at SLMS led by myself. It is an

all-boys program created to build confident young leaders through

athletics and team building activities. There will be two sessions of G3, fall

and spring; lasting 12 weeks long. The fall session will be all 7th grade boys

and will focus on the transition to middle school. While the spring session

will be all 8th graders and focuses on transitioning into high school. The fall

session is already under way! We currently have 27 boys in the program.

I am very excited for this year’s Harvest Cup

Soccer Tournament! There were about 35 boys

and 20 girls that came to try-out for this year’s

team. The boy’s team is led by Coach Miller and

the girl’s team is led by Coach Corfield. Thank

you to both coaches for volunteering their time

and thank you to all of the athletes that came

out to try-outs. This year, the tournament is

currently scheduled for October 22nd. Final

schedule will be sent out to confirm.

Hope to see everyone there!

“Today I will do

what others

won’t, so

tomorrow I can

accomplish

what others

can’t. “

– Jerry Rice

Contact

Vince Doan

vincedoan@iusd.org

949-936-6753

Students in my class will start the Flag Football unit the first week of October. It will be our first

official full unit and will last 3 weeks. Flag football activities are scheduled for Mondays, Tuesdays and

Fridays. Students will be participating in fitness activities on Wednesdays and Thursdays. On

Wednesdays they will participate in cardio and Thursdays will be our strength-training day. Students

will also participate in another physical fitness practice test to support progress. Along with these

various activities, the 7th graders will begin their first SEAMS lesson with Officer Gramer. SEAMS (Self-

Empowerment at Middle School) is a six session, interactive lesson that focuses on the needs of middle

school students. With the first full month behind us, there are lots of exciting things in PE to look

forward to in October!