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E-mail This StoryWith the new school year creeping closer and closer, the Sports and Rehabilitation Center at Doctors Hospital is offering physicals, free of charge, to local area high school and middle school athletes on Saturday.
To help teen athletes put a healthy heart in their game, several doctors will be on site for consultation and to perform echocardiograms on those students who meet the selected criteria for this basic cardiac screening exam.
A team of orthopedic surgeons, internal medicine and family practice physicians, physical therapists and athletic trainers will be available to perform screenings for the athletic physicals.
Athletes are asked to come dressed in shorts and a T-shirt. A mandatory medical history form must be completed and signed by a parent or guardian and the student prior to receiving the athletic physical.
Physicals will take place from 8 a.m. to noon at The Sports Center at Doctors Hospital, 9330 Poppy Drive, West Tower, Suite 100, Dallas. The preferred time slots for each school district are:
8 a.m.-Mesquite ISD/Lakehill
9 a.m.-Garland ISD/Dallas ISD
10 a.m.-Sunnyvale ISD/Heritage Christian Academy/Wylie ISD
11 a.m.-Richardson ISD/Dallas Christian/First Baptist
11:30 a.m.-Open to all school districts not listed above.
For more information about the athletic physicals, please call 214-324-6000 or visit Doctors Hospital online at www.doctorshospital.com.
Play gets started at 2008 U.S. Youth Soccer National Championships
Games kicked off on Wednesday as the 2008 U.S. Youth Soccer National Championships got underway at Burns Park Soccer Complex in North Little Rock, Ark.
A handful of local athletes are part of the 56-team field as they take aim at a national title.
Recent Rowlett graduate Michael Roberts is a member of Andromeda 90, the defending national champions in their age bracket. Now playing in the Under-18 boys division, Andromeda fell behind 2-0 in the second half only to rally with a pair of goals of their own, the last coming in stoppage time, to post a 2-2 tie against Shattuck-St. Mary’s (Minn.).
Another recent Rowlett graduate, Shannon Gorrie, is part of the Sting 90 team in the Under-18 division. Gorrie and her Sting 90 teammates enjoyed a similar result, using a goal in the 93rd minute from Melissa Henderson to pull out a 2-1 victory over Eclipse Select 89-90.
A third player from Rowlett, Marissa Diggs, is playing with the Sting Royal 92 tem in the Under-16 division. The team rallied from a second-half deficit, but managed only a 2-2 tie against Eclipse Select 91-92.
Horn has a pair of players in Brittany Morgan and Vittoria Arnold who are members of the Dallas Texans Red 92 team. In their Girls Under-16 division opener, the team used a goal by Courtney Smith in the 47th minute to hold on for a 1-0 victory over Vardar.
Zach Nulisch, another local product, had a big impact in Solar 89’s 4-3 victory over Colorado Rush Nike in the Under-19 division.
Nulisch added a critical insurance goal with less than two minutes left in regulation that gave his team a 4-2 lead. That would prove to be critical, as Colorado answered with a score in stoppage time to close to 4-3, but Nulisch’s score turned out to be the difference.
Poteet’s Lauren Hatch is part of the Dallas Texans 91 Red team that picked up a 2-0 victory over Slammers FC in their Under-17 opener.
Rowlett football team holding registration
The Rowlett Mustangs is conducting open registration for boys ages 5-12. Registration is being held at Springfield Park in Rowlett on Mondays-Thursdays at 6:30 p.m.
For more information, call 214-680-9194, email Kelvin.curry@rysf.org or visit www.rysf.org.
Annual Wiffleball Tournament opens registration
The annual Rowlett Wiffleball Tournament is set for Aug. 2 at Herfurth Park. Registration has already begun and is set to run through July 31.
There will be three divisions in the tournament—boys 14-and-under, boys 15-18 and men 19-and-over. There are three-to-four players per team and the cost is $40 per team, which includes a T-shirt for each participant.
Each team competes in a double elimination bracket and trophies are awarded to the winners in each division.
Wiffleball came from baseball slang for a batter striking out, a “wiff.” The game, patterned after baseball, is played on a triangle-shaped field using an official Wiffle Ball and an aluminum or plastic bat.
The playing field is smaller than a baseball field, a minimum dimension of 70 feet wide by 85 feet deep. The field is prepared with foul lines and markers for singles and doubles zones and the pitcher is 42 feet from home plate.
Mesquite Chamber of Commerce tournament set for September
The annual Mesquite Chamber of Commerce golf tournament will take place on Sept. 19 at Buffalo Creek Golf Course. The course was designed by Tom Weiskopf and Jay Morrish and was one of only 12 courses in the nation, and the only one in Texas, to be selected to host the 1993 U.S. Open sectional qualifying tournament.
The format is four-player Florida Scramble and the teams will be flighted by handicap. The morning flight registration begins at 7:15 a.m. and the shotgun start will take place at 8 a.m.
The cost is $125 per player and the fee includes cart, green fees, breakfast by Whataburger, lunch by Outback Steakhouse, on-course beverages, goody bags, door prizes and awards.
