08-09 SEASON OFF TO A START
All three levels of the Lindbergh Flyer basketball program have started the 08-09 campaign. Although the starts have been rough, the teams continue to work hard at practice to become better every time they take the floor.
The freshman team got their feet wet with high school basketball by starting out the season in the Webster Groves tournament. Although the Flyers didn't manage to pick up a win, they did learn what it takes to compete at the high school level. They opened up at home against Vianney and turned a 15-point first half defecit into an exciting game only to lose on a heartbreaking last second shot. The sophomore Flyers opened up the season by hosting the Lindbergh JV Round Robin tournament. They opened up with a loss to the Statesmen of Webster Groves to only bounce back and beat the Fox Warriors in the next contest. The sophomores would drop their last game of the round robin tournament to Kirkwood. The Flyers couldn't turn the momentum around though as they would drop their 3rd game to Vianney.
The varsity Flyers have been off to a very rough start to the season. After waiting almost a month to play their first game, the Flyers hosted the Vianney Griffins, and Vianney came out firing on all cylinders while the Flyers simply seemed to never get comfortable at all. With only a day of practice before their next game, the Flyers opened up play in the always competitive Webster Groves Invitational. In the first round, the Flyers played much better and had an inspired third quarter to cut a 20 point lead to 10. The Career Academy Phoenix would however pull away in the fourth quarter as the Flyers continued to struggle to get up and answer the bell. Lindbergh would come out the next night and face conference-foe Marquette in the consolation semi-final, but once again the Flyers had an incredibly tough time scoring and would drop another game to the Mustangs. Lindbergh played in the 7th place game on Saturday morning against Lee's Summit. Missing four players due to the ACT, the Flyers had a short bench to utilize and would drop another game to the Tigers. One exciting news from the weekend was the showing that freshman Blake Welch put on in the 3-point contest at the tournament. After an opening round score of 15 of 18 points to take the lead, Welch would finish 2nd in the final round of the 3-point contest.
All three levels will welcome the Mehlville Panthers on Friday to Lindbergh as they hope to turn their early starts around and pick up wins before the Christmas Break hits. Tipoff times are 4:00 (freshman), 5:30 (sophomores), and 7:00 (varsity).
SUBURBAN WEST CONFERENCE SCHEDULE / RESULTS AND STATISTICAL LEADERS (Courtesy of MaxPreps.com)
PICTURES FROM WEBSTER INVITATIONAL
Some wonderful individual pictures are available for purchase from Randy Kriewall of Kriewall Photography from the action at this past weekends varsity tournament. Randy is a former basketball coach and has an amazing knack to take great action basketball pictures. Randy will also be taking pictures at our tournament in January as well. To view the pictures, click on the link below:
Pictures from Kriewall Photography from WG Tournament - CLICK ON THE ORDER ONLINE LINK AT THE TOP
JUNIOR FLYERS BASKETBALL OFF TO GREAT START!
The Junior Flyers Basketball program is off to an amazing start. There were unprecedented numbers that showed up for tryouts, and a total of 96 players will be playing basketball in the Junior Flyers basketball program this year. Congratulations to the following players for representing the Flyers basketball program in the innaugural year of the Junior Flyers Basketball program:
| 8th Grade Gold | 8th Grade Green | 8th Grade White |
|---|---|---|
| Mitch Arends | Eric Balmes | Aaron Brandon |
| Nick Brohammer | Josh Finnegan | Chris Davis |
| Anthony Heumann | Schaeffer Gregerson | Scott Hartwig |
| Angelo Lombardo | Zech Mengis | George Lacy |
| Nathan Merkel | Taylor Nifong | Brad Mackeen |
| Devon Nunez | Branden Rheinecker | Tim Phillips |
| Patrick Ries | Patrick Schmeerbach | Kenny Schmidt |
| Patrick Shuff | Dylan Shrum | Keith Sturgeon |
| Ryan Weiter | DeMango Griffin | Ray Wilson |
| Claude Bleu | Brenden Turlington | |
7th Grade Gold |
7th Grade Green |
7th Grade White |
| Brett Bond | Jack Bartley | Erik Broome |
| Jordan Desnoyer | Phillip Bergmann | Alex Butler |
| Tony Dollefeld | Trevor Casey | Sam Gardner |
| Garret Krueger | Oliver Foreman | Taylor Geringer |
| Erin Mehmetaj | Evan Forthaus | Matt Guile |
| Justin Muehlheausler | Chuck Houska | Mike Guile |
| Henry Patterson | Dragan Ivos | Austin Holtzman |
| Adrian Scott | Brian James | Ben Rohr |
| Greg Vaughn | Carl Lovely | Ben Rupp |
| Jordan Watt | Shane Maxwell | Michael Rupprecht |
| Andrew Palazzolo | Jonathan Schroeder | |
| Christopher Trevisano | Douglas Stubbs | |
| Chris Williams | ||
6th Grade Gold |
6th Grade Green |
6th Grade White |
| Noah Dukesherer | Jacob Anderson-Little | Clayton Coffman |
| Tom Ebert | Bennett Bulmer | Nick Duepner |
| Jeremy Haffner | Colin Gentry | Caleb Henry |
| Cameron Macko | Lucas Lubsch | John McNamara |
| Kenny Massa | Grant Meine | Joe Patterson |
| Zach Roth | Aaron Peek | Caleb Wells |
| Steven Washington | Anthony Schramm | Jonas Dailide |
| Jeremy Weiler | Johnny Weber | Charlie Martin |
| Joe Galen | Justin Woods | Kenyon McCoo |
| Andrew Spillars | Christian McCoo |
2008-2009 LINDBERGH BASKETBALL THEME
This year's theme gets back to the roots of our program. This theme describes the qualities of what it takes to play basketball for Lindbergh High School. We will get back to our roots. We will do whatever it takes. Simply put...
WE WILL PLAY LIKE A FLYER!
To view this year's theme, click here.
Announcements
- NEW - Food for thought - some small articles and quotes
Contact Your Son's Coach by Email (Just click on link below)
- Varsity - Jason Wolfard | Eric Cochran
- Sophomores - Keith Cochran
- Freshman - Scott Luczak
Downloadable Documents
- 08-09 Varsity Game Schedule
- 08-09 Basketball Calendar - Player Planner
- Sophomore Game Schedule
- Freshman Game Schedule
- Copy of Player Contract
- Copy of Parent Contract
- Coaches Requirements
- Program Mission Statement
- Tryout Evaluation Criteria
- The Three A's of Playing Time
- Powerpoint presentation from the banquet
- Golf Tournament brochure
STORIES / GAME RECAPS
- Boys Basketball Preview from Suburban Journal
- Suburban Journal Story on first game of Webster Trny vs. Career Academy
PAGE FOR PLAYERS ONLY
TALK TO YOUR COACH FOR THE USERNAME AND PASSWORD
For all current players, click on the link below to enter the players only website. You will need the login and password from your coach.
