RATTLER NEWS LETTER
Brown Appointed PYSEA Athletic Director
Mr. Dennis Brown has been appointed as the 2007 Youth Athletic Director of PYSEA, Inc. by its board of directors. Brown will oversee of all the athletic programs operated by PYSEA starting with the Baby Rattler & Rattler football and cheerleading program. Director Brown is employed with Gulf Power and has been a coach with the Rattler program for over ten years.
Director Brown stated, " I'm grateful for the opportunity to lead the PYSEA's athletic programs and especially look forward to working with the coaches, players, and parents in the upcoming football season." Brown has indicated that in addition to have a successful year in football one of his main goals is to restore the rattler baseball and t-ball program. You may contact the director at adbrown@pysea.org
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2006 Highlights
In 2006 the Baby Rattlers completed its first year in the newly formed Gulf Coast Youth Football league by winning three of the league's five championships. The Rattlers also won the GCYFL District One championship in all five age groups.
The Annual "Soul Bowl" between the Pensacola Tigers and the A & G Rattlers was a huge success in 2006. The series took on an additional flare when Derrick Brooks Charities agreed to be the new sponsor of the games. The series officially became the Derrick Brooks Charities, (DBC), "Soul Bowl". Derrick Brooks is a former Baby Rattler player, all American player at Florida State University and current all-pro linebacker with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The 2006 "Unity Trophy was present to the Rattlers who defeated the Tigers 4 to1 games.
Congratulations to head coaches Mickey Wade of the Mini- Mites who won is first championship as a head coach. Wade joined head coaches Dennis Brown of the Midgets who won his second championships and head coach Antoine Simmons who won his first championship with the Juniors.
Simmons also has won a championship at the Mighty Mite level.
Magee Field To Get Extreme Makeover
A small Pensacola city ball park will soon be expanded into an athletic complex. This fall, Magee Field will be expanded into a two-block athletic complex...with a regulation-size football field, new bleachers, a press box, baseball field, basketball courts and more. The park will be used by hundreds of children.
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The home of the "Baby Rattlers" is in for an extreme makeover. Today the city council will vote whether to purchase a vacant lot on Bobe Street between Martin Luther King and Davis Highway.
With this purchase the city can go ahead and start the Magee Field expansion which will include both a baseball diamond and a football field.
The goal of the project is to revitalize the Baby Rattler Sports Association. Henry McAway/Baby Rattlers Sports Assoc.: "It will be a great uplift to the community. Everyone is for that you know and want to get in on the program. I had people already ask me about buying signs to put on the fences once the field gets built."
$750,000.00 has been budgeted for the project.
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A local park will soon be getting a makeover. Thanks to a grant from the Florida Recreation Development Assistance Program.
Today, State Representative Holly Benson presented a 200 thousand dollar check to the city's parks and recreation department for improvements to Magee Field. With the addition of the grant to the original 750 thousand allocated from prior local options sales taxes and another 300 thousand from the recent passed option sales tax the project is expect be approximately 1.2 million dollars.
Engineers say the goal is to have construction complete by September of 2007.
Stories courtesy of WEAR TV3
Volume 1, Number 2 Rattler News football.pyesa.org. August 2007