Try outs and last day to sign-up. Saturday, January 24th 2009 starting at 8:00am. 7 & 8 year olds – 9:00am, 9 & 10 year olds – 10:30am, 11 & 12 year olds – 2:30pm, 13 & 14 year olds – 1:00pm,. Fee is $120.00. Call 805-746-1246 for more information.

Fillmore Youth Football & Cheer will be holding our board meeting on Wednesday, January 21st at 6:30 at the Fillmore Senior Center on Santa Clara Avenue. We will be electing a new board. Our Vice President, Secretary, Gold Coast Rep, Team Mom Rep, Asst. Equipment Manager and others are open positions! This is the time to come and get involved and make a difference. If you have any questions, please contact President, Royce Davis at 407-7302. Hope to see you there!

Mariah Perez

Coach Harry Burns has selected Mariah Rivas as player of the week. Mariah is the daughter of Denise and Henry
Rivas. Mariah is a 16 year old Junior at Fillmore High School. Mariah has been playing basketball for 9 years
and has been on Varsity since freshmen year. In the recently concluded Fillmore Tournament Mariah took over as the starting point guard because Rebecca Herrera had a sprained ankle and could not play until the last game
of the tournament. “Mariah did an excellent job filling in for Rebecca, and ran the offense flawlessly,” stated Coach Burns. For her strong effort she received All Tournament Honors. Mariah’s teammates affectionately call her
“Sharkbait” because she stands 5’3 inches tall and is the shortest member of the Lady Flashes basketball team.
Mariah says she loves being with her family of 3 sisters and 1 brother which give her lots of support. Next to her family Mariah says “Playing basketball is my number one passion.”

The Lady Flashes Basketball Team won the Jolene Stethem Tournament for the fourth straight year. Led by tournament MVP Aimee Orozco, All-Tournament Selection Jillian Wilber, and All-Tournament Mariah Rivas filling in for injured Rebeca Herrera, the Lady Flashes completely dominated every team they faced. In the first game, they defeated Thacher School of Ojai 79-33, and then followed up by crushing Paraclete of Lancaster 78-8. The Flashes then defeated arch rival Santa Paula Cardinals 75-32 to move into the championship game against LA Baptist. In the championship game, the Lady Flashes and the LA Baptist Knights went at each other tenaciously for the first two minutes until the Fillmore five established their man-to-man dominance. The score at the end of the first quarter was 17-4 in favor of the Flashes. With Aimee Orozco, Jillian Wilber, Kyla Hernandez, Jazzmin Galvez, and Rebeca Herrera along with Mariah Rivas, the Lady Flashes preceded to blow the Knights off the hardwood. The Fillmore girls completely dominated the LA Baptist Knights in all aspects of the game, wrapping up their fourth straight tournament championship with a score of 54-30. Aimee Orozco, Jillian Wilber, and Rebeca Herrera, who made the varsity as freshman, will go down in Fillmore basketball history as the only players to win four straight tournament championships. The championship game was rescheduled from 2:30 pm to 1:00 pm so the Lady Flashes could attend the CIF football game in Twentynine Palms. The Lady Flashes will now play away against large schools in Los Angeles until January 6th to prepare themselves for league and the CIF playoffs.

At Fillmore High School, seniors Aimee Orozco and Rebecca Herrera have been named co-captions of the 2008-2009 Lady Flashes Basketball Team by Varsity Coach, Harry Bums. Orozco, a forward-guard-wing player is the most versatile player on the team and she calls the defensive alignments. Herrera, the point guard, runs the offense and calls the plays with a series of hand signals.

“Rebecca has a very high basketball I.Q. and a calm, patient manner running our Stack and Motion Offense. Aimee, on the other hand, is a purely instinctive player who can shoot from the Dynamic Duo outside or drive to the basket almost at will. The players compliment each other well on the court and they are very deserving of this high honor” emphasizes Coach Bums.

Assistant Coach Amelia Aparicio designed the new Lady Flash logo using a photo of Aimee Orozco as she dribbled a basketball. There is a golden lightening bolt behind Aimee and this idea was voted in by the entire team. The logo represents all Lady Flashes basketball players.

Rebeca Isabel Herrera is the daughter of Jorge and Oralia Herrera. She is a 17 year old senior at FHS and she currently maintains a 4.34 GPA. She began her basketball career at the age of six where she excelled and became the starting point guard for the Varsity Lady Flashes since her freshmen year. Last year Rebeca was named to the 1s1 Team All Ventura County selection. She was also awarded Tri-Valley League Co-MVP last season. Ms. Herrera has shown great commitment to community service. She was Team Captain of the “A” Team for the American Cancer Society “Relay for Life’. Rebeca also Volunteers at St. Francis ofAssisi Church and for Soroptimist International of Fillmore. More importantly she has helped spearhead numerous benefi t concerts for several FHS and community organizations, proceeds were in excess of $60,0()(). Rebeca has applied to CSUN, UCLA, UCSD but she hopes to follow in her brother’s footsteps by attending UCLA. Rebeca Herrera is the Lady Flashes team Co-Captain and she has high aspirations for her team this season.

Aimee Orozco is the daughter of John and Tracy Orozco. She is a 17 year old senior, who is been playing basketball for 11 years. She has a 4.3 GPA and plans on studying Zoology as her Major in College. The schools she has applied to are San Francisco State, UC Davis, San Diego State, Humboldt, Cal Poly SLO and University
of Colorado where she hopes to play basketball and try out for the swimming team. Last year Aimee was 1st team All Tri-Valley and 2nd team All County. This past summer Aimee participated in NCAA sanctioned tournaments in Arizona, Oregon, Tennessee and Southern California. Aimee said “’Beka’ and I used to be rivals because she was my main competition in youth basketball, but now we are very close and our goals are the same for this basketball
season.” Aimee went on to say “we would like to be Tri-League Champions by ourselves and go deep into the CIF playoffs and make a drive for a CIF Championship”.

This article was submitted by Iris Villalobos, Junior at Fillmore High School.

On Saturday November 15th the Lady Flashes Varsity Basketball Team had a BBQ at the residence of Ray and Antonia Galvez. The purpose of the BBQ was to build team unity for the 08-09 basketball season. Also, a new Lady Flash logo was introduced on royal blue t-shirts. The logo was designed by assistant varsity coach, Amelia Aparicio. It is a picture of a lightning bolt with an outline of Aimee Orozco, co-captain, of this year's team. Three senior starters spoke to the parents, team captain Aimee Orozco said the following "I'm glad we had a good turnout. Thank you for your support and hopefully we'll have it throughout the season." Senior leader Jill Wilber spoke to the parents and stated "The team and I are really excited about the season! We have high expectations and many goals. Our first goal is to win our tournament. Our second goal is to win our league as outright champs. Our ultimate goal is to win a CIF title. We have been working hard in practice so that we can achieve these goals. Another senior leader Kyla Hernandez asks the fathers to volunteer on a Saturday, to help paint their remodeled team room. The lady Flashes Varsity Team would like to thank El Pescador for donating the salad, rice, and beans for the team BBQ. Also, Vons of Fillmore for donating the water and Gatorade. The tri-tip and chicken was from an anonymous donor. All the girls want to express their heartfelt THANKS to Dr. Mike Bush of FUSD for being the chef at the BBO. Finally, Coach Burns thanked the Galvez Family for hosting the team BBQ.
The Herrera family announced that they will hold a concert at the School District Auditorium, around the first of the year to help raise funds for the girls J.V. and Varsity Basketball program. The athletes will be encouraged to sell 20 tickets each. Story Courtesy of Jasmin Galvez and Tory Ayala.