| Home of Lakeville YOUTH Football PO Box 533, Lakeville MN 55044 |  | |
The Lakeville Football Association provides boys and girls the opportunity to participate in organized 1st & 2nd grade FLAG Football, 4th-7th grade Spring/Summer PASSING League, 3rd - 6th grade IN HOUSE TACKLE Football and 7th & 8th TRAVELING TACKLE Football. (See About LFA or Program Tabs By Grade Accross the Top for Details) Active Programs and Home Pages Are:
Flag Program 1st/2nd In House Tackle 3rd-6th Traveling Tackle 7th&8th
LFA's purpose is to create a fun, positive experience where children learn the fundamental skills and concepts of the game while developing sportsmanship, self-confidence, and respect for others. League rules and coaching philosophy puts the safety of the players first and foremost
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| Thank You to Jeff Zellmer For Your Service to LFA | | | | posted 12/21/2011  As a board, we would like to take this time to thank Jeff Zellmer for his long standing service to our community, after eight years of serving on the LFA Board Jeff has stepped down as commissioner. Through his leadership and vision, we have seen LFA grow into the largest youth football association in the state. Jeff’s impact to football in Lakeville cannot be understated and his leadership will be missed. He has left a great legacy for all LFA Board members to live up to and he has laid the foundation for Lakeville youth football to be successful for many years to come. A heartfelt thanks from current and former Board members, your leadership, mentoring, and friendship has been appreciated throughout the years and you will be sincerely missed.
At a recent Board meeting, Jeff was presented an award from the board, it's members and our two high school coaches for his service. We wish Jeff and his family the best and know we will see him out on the fields soon given his great passion for this game!!
 | | | | New Board Members Elected and Ready to Serve LFA in 2012 | | | | posted 12/03/2011
LF A’s Annual Election was held on Tuesday November 29th. Jason Mahlman, LFA Commissioner kicked off the night by thanking our current board for their 2011 efforts given a very successful year for all grades and programs. He also thanked past Commissioner Jeff Zellmer for his leadership of the association and its members. Jeff's guidance and mentorship of the board over the many years he served helped so much to drive the success of this assocation.
After a brief review of open positions and a vote on contested positions, the following board members were elected for 2012:
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Treasurer - Gary Getchman
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Fundraising Director -Woody Kuhn
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Flag Level Director -Open - Click Here to Learn More
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In-House Equipment Director -Mike Abbott
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Director of Operations -Steven Goutierez
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Traveling Equipment Director -Gene Benhart
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North Panther Traveling Level Director -Steve Rhodus
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South Cougar Traveling Level Director - Reed Hammer
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Level Director 3rd Grade Chris Bye
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4th Grade Level Director -Anthony McWell
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5th Grade Level Director - Dan Bianchi
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6th Grade Level Director - David Lemna
On behalf of the board and our LFA Members, Congratulations and gratitude to all of our board members for their willingness to serve our football members and programs in Lakeville in 2012. If you are interested in serving our members, the 1st and 2nd grade Flag Director position is open, please click the positions above to learn more or contact a board member or Jason Mahlman to learn more. | | | | Lakeville Football Association 2011 Year in Review | | | | posted 11/17/2011 Hello to all Current or Future LFA Members/Players,
We wanted to send out a summary to all of our members and wrap up the 2011 LFA season we just completed. We hope that your child had a great season and had tons of fun learning about the great game of football. On behalf of the LFA Board, we would like to thank our parents, players, referees, coaches and sponsors for another great year of football in Lakeville. We would like to send a special thank you to all of the coaches that helped us out again this year, without their talents and commitment we would not be as successful as we are.
As a board, we would like to take this time to thank Jeff Zellmer for his long standing service to our community, after eight years of serving on the LFA Board Jeff has stepped down as commissioner. Through his leadership and vision, we have seen LFA grow into the largest youth football association in the state. Jeff’s impact to football in Lakeville cannot be understated and his leadership will be missed. He has left a great legacy for all LFA Board members to live up to and he has laid the foundation for Lakeville youth football to be successful for many years to come. A heartfelt thanks from current and former Board members, your leadership, mentoring, and friendship has been appreciated throughout the years and you will be sincerely missed. Jason Mahlman has been voted in as the new Commissioner of LFA.
Here are a few highlights for our 2011 season:
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Our recent mid-season survey gave us your opinions which further confirmed our goals, efforts and results are making a lasting impact with our families/players:
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96% say LFA is providing a safe environment for our players.
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92% of LFA players are having fun.
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93% of LFA players are developing better football skills.
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90% or more will return next year to play football.
While we celebrate these overall numbers, we know that every season gives us a new chance to improve upon these and your comments and ideas will help us focus our future efforts – thanks again for the tremendous feedback!!
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We continue to have strong participation numbers in all of our leagues. We have over 1300 players in our Flag – 8th grade programs.
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Our program costs were the same to all families as in 2010; in fact LFA has not raised our fees in approximately six years.
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We had a phenomenal first Year in our 7th & 8th Grade Traveling Football program this year in Lakeville. We would like to thank our many parents, coaches and players for kicking off our first season with great effort, enthusiasm, and patience. We learned many things from our inaugural season in the South Suburban Youth Football League (www.ssyfl.net) and we plan on taking what we have learned and making this the best traveling football program around. In our first year we had a 7th grade team take 3rd place in the league and an 8th grade team take 4th. Congratulations to all our Panther and Cougar Traveling teams in 2011!! Special thanks to Steve Rhodus, Phil Bruno and Chris Rousemiller and all the coaches for a GREAT FIRST YEAR!!
Thanks again for a great season and as always, we will see you all on the football fields in 2012!!
Your LFA Board | | | | LFA Congratulates Our North and South Football Players ! | | | | posted 11/15/2011 It goes without saying, we are proud of our football here in Lakeville and we have reason to celebrate. All of these players below got started in LFA and grew up here in Lakeville. We recognize not only their surperb efforts and results but the many volunteers in LFA and at our schools that helped them along their football journey !! Join us in congratulating all of these players on their recognition of excellence and also their fellow teammates who helped block, tackle and run their teams to glory in 2011 at Lakeville North and South !!
 Star Tribune Metro Player of the Year
Trey Heid - QB/K Lakeville North
Star Tribune All Metro First Team
Trey Heid - QB/K Lakeville North
Charlie Hayes - WR Lakeville North
Karl Finkel - DE Lakeville North
Mitch Johnson - LB Lakeville North
Star Tribune All Metro Second Team
Mitch Leidner - QB Lakeville South
Matt Heller - WR Lakeville South
Zach Ziemer - OL Lakeville North
Star Tribune All Metro Third Team
Joel Oxton - WR Lakeville North
| | | | Thank You for A Tremendous SEASON !! | | | | posted 10/25/2011  | | |
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