Mission : To create a positive team sport experience while developing cheerleading and football fundamentals. These fundamentals reinforce the core values of sportsmanship including the challenge of competition, thrill of victory, reality of defeat, significance of commitment, and the ability to appreciate the importance of working together as a team. The life skills of responsibility, goal-setting, hard work, sportsmanship, self-control, teamwork, leadership, and perseverance are stressed on and off the field by our volunteer coaches and representatives. Our goal is to develop and guide each student athlete to reach his or her maximum potential.
Washtenaw Junior Football (WJF) has been in the greater Ann Arbor community since 1970, formally known as Ann Arbor Junior Football. Youth (Pee Wee) football is often the first "team" sport many children ever participate on, and WJF introduces bigger concepts like; sportsmanship, discipline, respect, perseverance, teamwork, endurance, etc.
Washtenaw Junior Football will be accepting only fully completed paperwork for roster spots for VETERANS ONLY on June 7th, from 10am until 2pm, at Scarlett Middle School. At the end of veterans registration, any remaining roster spots will go to the first players bringing completed paperwork to the open registration on June 14th, from 10am until 2pm, at Scarlett Middle School. Competed paperwork means all forms, medical exam, and fees paid. Please note that if you have had checks not honored in the past for any reason, WJF will not accept any payment other than cash and bank checks. If there is a reason that you cannot abide by these rules, you contact the registrar BEFORE the above registration dates, but there is no promise to hold any spots if you cannot make the registration and have completed paperwork. Veterans must be aware that no unit switches will be allowed by the Downriver Jr. Football League, as WJF has redrawn the boundries for each unit because of the new high school opening. The league has accepted WJF boundry proposal, but said no unit switches will be allowed. You will have to play for the unit you played for in 2007.
If you are interested in being a Assistant Coach for any of the WJF football teams, please contact the Head Coach for your respective team. If you are interested in being a Cheer Coach please contact the Maize Cheer Director for Maize unit cheer teams and contact the Blue Cheer Director for all Blue unit cheer teams. All coaches will need to be CPR certified (Paid by WJF if you attend our CPR training classes) and have a background check done (also paid for by WJF). The blue unit football coaches will be; Mike Bertoia, Freshman; Charles Curtis, JV; Heath Boston, Varsity. The Maize unit football coaches will be; Don Sims, Freshman; Stan Schwartz, JV; Todd Richardson, Varsity. The coaches contact information will be available on the contact page in May..
Washtenaw Junior Football would like to begin regular newsletters (email format) and a yearbook for each unit. Please contact your unit vice president if you could help with these projects. The newsletter will update members about the registration process and current going ons. Photographs will be available through the website if people would like to take and send pictures to the gallery. There is a FTP upload folder ready for pictures (the photograph area will remain behind a password. Contact the Webmaster to get the password. Note: currently there are only Freshman Blue Cheer & Football Pictures). Yearbooks would include team pictures as well as some at large pictures and notes/letters from coaches and parents. WJF would like the yearbooks to be self funding which means selling advertising to fund it and/or charging a small fee to cover printing costs.
The Mayo clinic conducted a study on contact youth football and found that children were not any more likely to get hurt playing football than other activities. Read the article yourself.
If you are interested in helping the organization grow and improve, please contact a board member about how you can contribute beyond game day needs. We expect to continue to see a growing demand for players, and are beginning to investigate expanding the organization to include another set of teams. We will need more volunteers than we have now to accomplish that. Until the adult positions have some commitments, we will be unable to move any further toward this goal.
2007
Washtenaw Jr Football qualifies 4 teams for the playoffs. Congratulations to both Freshman teams, JV Maize and Varsity Blue.
2006
Maize Freshmen win the DJFL Championship and the Maize JV finish as runner up
Varsity Maize Cheer Team placed 5th in the Downriver Cheer Competition
Washtenaw Jr Football qualifies 3 teams for the playoffs. Congratulations to Freshman & JV Maize and JV Blue.
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