CHS Players Recognized in 2008

Cougar MVP Logan Maxon was named to the boys' 2008 Honorable Mention All State Team by the Georgia High School Coaches Committee. Complete list. Cougar MVP Maddie Fink was named to the 2008 1st All State Team by the Georgia High School Association. Named to the girls' Honorable Mention All State Team were Kelly Arnhart, Bailie Borchers, Lindsay Brinker and Emma Goodnow. Complete list. Academic All-Americans were Danielle Blackard, Bailie Borchers and Maddie Fink. MVP Logan Maxon MVP MADDIE FINK 2008 awards
	BOYS		GIRLS
Cougar Award	Logan Maxon		Bailie Borchers
PTSA	Justin Lee		Meghan Jordan
	VARSITY	JV	VARSITY	JV
MVP	Logan Maxon	Defensive unit*	Maddie Fink	Hailey Lindley
Offensive Player	Beau Danek	Matthew Taylor	Bailie Borchers	Caroline Fullerton
Defensive Player	Tyler Brown	Greg Gehrhardt	Kelly Arnhart	Hannah Ramsahai
Most Improved	Ben Jenkins	Connor Nagle	Candace Ellery Erin Flagg	Val Rytov
Hustle Award	Gabriel Choi	–	Emma Goodnow	Kathleen Thomas
Coaches' Award	Brice Adler	John Kaveny	Lindsay Brinker	Caroline Wegener
	* Jamie Frost, Greg Gehrhardt, Cody Merritt, Connor Nagle, Freddy Ortiz, Stone Seabolt, Brett Zentner
1st Team All State	Maddie Fink, attacker/midfielder
Honorable Mention All State	Kelly Arnhart, defender Bailie Borchers, attacker Lindsay Brinker, midfielder Emma Goodnow, attacker Logan Maxon, long-stick middie

HOOCH GIRLS in the National Draw Women's Lacrosse Championships The National Draw, the premier women's lacrosse amateur championships, were held June 20-22 in Marlton, N.J. (outside Philadelphia).  More than 5,000 athletes representing 235 teams participated with attendance reaching 12,000. The top club programs in the U.S. sent multiple teams to this event.   Nine members of the Hooch Varsity Lacrosse Team participated  as members of the ATL Black Team: Kelly Arnhart, Lindsay Brinker, Sarah Eick, Erin Flagg, Emma Goodnow, Danielle Heady, Victoria Shiman, Lanie Dinardo, and Candace Ellery along with players from Centennial, Milton and Walton.  The ATL-Black Team advanced to the first round of Divisional Playoffs. Jillian Difazio, Hooch Varsity Coach, served as one of the Coaches for this team.   Varsity Coach Dennis Fink, coached the ATL-White Team which included 13 team members from North Fulton area high schools. Maddie Fink, Hooch Varsity player, helped to coach the NewLAX team from New England. The ATL is the new Atlanta Club Team for high school girls.

Girls DOWN NC'S TOP TEAM

GIRLS' VISIT HALEY MARVINE AT CINCINNATI LAX OPENER Marvine plays in loss to ranked Vanderbilt The Girls' Varsity traveled to Tennessee to play and to watch Haley Marvine's (CHS Class of '07) University of Cincinnati Bearcats team play the 10th-ranked Vanderbilt Commodores on a beautiful, sunny Sunday afternoon. The game was the first ever woman's lacrosse game in Bearcats history. Haley had a large and enthusiastic cheering section as just about the entire CHS varsity squad, their coaches, the parent chaperones and the Marvine family gave Haley a rousing welcome as she entered the game to tend the Bearcats' goal. The Cincinnati girls ended up on the short end of the score, 20-4, but Haley faced six shots on her goal with four saves and just two goals scored by an outstanding Commodore team. The Varsity also played lost its scrimmage 16-8 to the Ravenwood (TN) Raptors Club Lacrosse team.

Marvine Named All-American By Georgia Coaches

	Kelly Arnhart, third from left in the back row, was selected to the Vail Shootourt All-Tournament Team.

Donovan named US Lacrosse Academic All-American

Terri Dinardo The 2007 Chattahoochee lacrosse seniors honored in a Senior Day ceremony

1st Annual Tournament
A Great Success

Northview won the tournament by defeating Roswell 11-10 in overtime in the final game. Congratulations, Northview!

Congratulations also go to the following players:

MVP for Roswell: Michael Bender
MVP for Northview: Scott Schulze
Best Defenseman: Kevan Coon (CHS)

Many thanks to our parent-volunteers for all the hard work put into this weekend. You made this a great success!

It's A Snap(Fish)
Parents put up photos for all to view
Action photos of the boy' and girls' Cougar players are now on Snapfish.com. Click here to go to the site, which has dozens of photos and a slide show function to allow you to view photos quickly and easily.

Photos on Snapfish have been taken and donated by Chattahoochee parents. Other parents are welcome to upload their photos to this location.

A few notes about Snapfish: You must be a Snapfish member to view and upload photos. Joining the site is free. If you upload photos, you get 20 free prints. Snapfish sells 4"x6" prints for only $.12 each. Neither the photographer nor Chattahoochee Lacrosse receive any income from these sales.

Georgia Tech Shootout Draws Players Dave Adams Click for more photos

Project Open Hand
Boys' Lacrosse Lends a Helping Hand

The Chattahoochee Boys Lacrosse team and friends volunteered for their first Project Open Hand on Sunday, January 14. Project Open Hand delivers 4,000 meals a day to people who cannot get out on their own to feed themselves. The boys wrapped, labeled, bagged, tied and organized the meals. The time went by very quickly and the kids had a lot of fun doing it. We appreciate the dancing by Danny, Jac and Ms. Kodish!  Beau was a natural in the food area and Alex looked really cute with his hair net! I think the boys were talking about starting "the hairnet gang". 

The boys’ lacrosse team has committed to this volunteer program every month. What a great way to give back to the community! This worthwhile organization depends on over 100 volunteers a day to help prepare and deliver these meals. To volunteer, contact Jill Maxon (jill.maxon@yahoo.com), and for more information about Project Open Hand visit their website at www.projectopenhand.org.

Georgia Special Olympics
Hooch Girls enjoy volunteering
In support of team trainer, Jennifer Everett, Chattahoochee Girls Lacrosse sponsored a group of volunteers at the Georgia Special Olympics on January 21. Jen, an athlete in the bowling venue at the games, is on a unified team with her sister Sarah Everett (also a member of the CHS Lax community). The volunteers encouraged and guided the athletes as they bowled. Jennifer was thrilled to have the support of the Hooch community behind her. The Hooch Lacrosse volunteers enjoyed participating so much that they plan to make this an annual tradition.  Hooch Pride!

The Georgia PTA and the Georgia Special Olympics partner together to encourage schools and teams to participate in Special Olympics as buddies, unified partners, coaches and volunteers.  For more information about volunteering contact Georgia Special Olympics at 770-414-9390 or visit www.specialolympicsga.org.

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girls' LACROSSE AT SPECIAL OLYMPICS     Front Row: Haley Marvine, Kinsey Travitz, and Daniella Blackard Back Row: Katie, Laura, Jen and Sarah Everett

The UNC Tournament brought together 14 teams from as far away as New York and Maryland for some stiff competition. The girls outscored their opponents 34-11 in a total of six 15-minute games, including one shut out for the Hooch. Congratulations ladies!

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Team Dixie getS to Final
Marvine records two shutouts
Team Dixie – led by Chattahoochee goalkeeper Haley Marvine – reached the Indian Prairie Showdown championship game in late July, losing 10-8 against a team from Florida.

Their record in the tournament was 7-1 in the very hot and humid conditions outside of Chicago. Marvine recorded at least two shutouts in the competition.

Team Dixie, an elite girls’ lacrosse travel tournament team sponsored by Dixie Chix Lacrosse Academy, finished seventh out of 24 teams in the Vail (Colo.) Shootout, a national tournament held June 26-30. Team Dixie moved up two divisions from last year to participate in Vail’s gold division, facing the tournament’s toughest competition.

	Coaches & girls who participated in tournament
	Front Row:  Rachel Berryman, Lauren Brinker, Ally Sheffield, Kinsey Travitz Back Row:  Coach Tom Donovan, Haley Marvine, Bailie Borchers, Maddie Fink, Candace Ellery, Courtney Bobik, Cassie Dinardo, Christy Donovan, Daniella Blackard, Ashlyn Random, Kerri Carson, and Coach Rich Bobik

Additionally, seven Hooch girls played in the championship game. 

We are looking forward to seeing the girls continue to utilize what they have learned in the upcoming fall league

The Alumni Game
We had over 27 player alumni, along with 4 coaches/alumni coaches, to play in our alumni lacrosse match on Saturday. The ending score was 8-8 and as you can see everyone was still smiling at the end of the game. This should be the first of many annual alumni contests!

List of alumni players participating:
Sev Martin, Jordon Rowe, Ilya Lyubich, Troy Danek, Jeff O'Dell, Kevin Magyar, Taylor Williams, Mike Yeager, Michael Aurelio, Adam Holzwarth, Jesse Fink, Kevin McCue, Mike Marinelli, Kyle Meloney, Matt McCelroy, Jason Ducker, Mike DiMaggio, Kyle Lyons, Drew Turner, Andrew Gibson, Brian Kacinko, Phillip Hoot, Ryan Hoot, Adam Weinstein, Chris Lee, Sean Canavan, John Mentzer and Tom Dell, Joe Losurdo, Gary Colangelo and Peter Schmitt. Ball boys and ball girls are also pictured.

Team Sponsor
Cingular is our first Chattahoochee lacrosse team sponsor! Thank you, Cingular!