We hope everyone is enjoying a great football season.    

We have some information to share with you, our football community, about out beloved Board President, Mark Grommesch.   Mark was recently diagnosed with cancer.   Please visit this link to Mark's CaringBridge to learn more and follow the journey.  

CaringBridge: https://www.caringbridge.org/visit/markgrommesch

 SYFA will be joining others to support Mark and his family.   Please stay tuned to our web site, email blasts, Facebook page and twitter feed where we will share with our members events and other opportunities to help the Grommesch family.  

 The first event is Monday October 29, 2018 at Pablo’s.   Plan to have dinner with your family and friends at Pablo’s that evening.  The restaurant has generously offered to donate 20% of the sales to help support The Grommesch family as they battle Mark’s cancer.   

 See the below brochure for more details. 

 Thank you all in advance for your concern, prayers and support of Mark and his family during these challenging times. And thank you for helping support a member of our SYFA community! 

 Best regards 

The SYFA Board 

BINGO Night Fundraiser - Wednesday, September, 26

BINGO at Shakopee BrewHall this Wednesday at 6:30 at the Shakopee BrewHall in downtown Shakopee.  We have some great prizes!! Each BINGO card is a donation of $1 so grab your friends, family and neighbors and come down to the BrewHall!

Please join us for Shakopee Football Tackle Cancer Night at Vaughan Field, Friday September 14 @ 7PM. The Shakopee Sabers Vs. Eastview Lightening. Together as a team and community we will “Tackle Cancer!”

These are the following winners for the beef jerky sales.

Top sellers -

Gannon Rydberg 8th grade - 73 packages

Custom Nike shoes ($200 value)

Trey Tanner 7th grade - 68 packages

Apple Airpods 

Vikings ticket drawing winners -

-Winners receive 2 tickets to the Buffalo Bills game on Sunday September 23rd at noon.

Quinn O'Fallon - 4th grade

Natan Gonzalez - 8th grade

We also had 15 players sell 40 or more packages which earned each of them a $50 gift card.

Congratulations to our winners and thank you all for another successful fundraiser. We as an association sold 4179 packages of beef jerky. 

Hats and socks will be handed out at beef jerky pickup.

Winners ---  please contact Pete Kriegl at petedevenkriegl@yahoo.com  or (952) 270-5583 to collect you prize.

Pete Kriegl 

SYFA Fundraising Chair 

Registration is Closed and Teams have been formed. If you would still like to play football this year please contact the board about being placed on a team. Good luck this year! 

Shakopee Youth Football Association and the Football Boosters Club are proud to congratulate the 2018 recipients of Shakopee Dollars for Scholars scholarships. All are top students in the their class as well, and our two contributing organizations are very proud of these recipients.

• Eric Sedlacek
• Hunter Friesen
• Sovahn Young

Congratulations and best of luck to them in their college careers!

All recipients participated in Shakopee Youth Football.  The Dollars for Scholars program is an opportunity to award SYFA kids for their hard work at school and in the community.

Join a level of sponsorship this season, and expose your company to thousands in the Saber Nation.  The attached letter has all the information you need to become a Shakopee Youth Football Booster today.  Please contact the fundraising coordinator, or SYFA President with any questions.  Pete Kriegl (Coordinator) 952-270-5583 or Mark Grommesch (SYFA President) 952-913-1970.

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