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Pre-Season Golf Clinic offered by the Parker Recreation Center
Posted by: | CommentsPre-season Golf Clinic Gets You Back in the Swing
The clinic opens on the Fieldhouse sports turf as participants work with certified personal trainers to build the core strength, functional stability and balance necessary for a great golf game. Personal Trainer Tim Kilduff will use resistance training, fitballs and BOSU balls to help you build your core. Tim will also focus on sport-specific training to get you prepared for the upcoming golf season.
Personal Trainer and Pilates Instructor Pam Kilduff will spend the second hour with participants teaching core strength exercises golfers can use throughout their season. She will take golfers through a series of Pilates techniques to help build full-body strength and flexibility and increase your body conditioning.
Next, get helpful golf tips from local golf professional Eric Coombs. Eric is a PGA Pro and an Assistant Pro at the Pinery Country Club. With his background in physical therapy, Eric combines both mechanical and physical techniques in his teaching style.
The final hour of the clinic focuses on the mental aspects of golf. Sports Psychologist Dr. Bill Campbell, EED has been featured on the Golf Channel, and is a mental coach to the pros, professional golf educator and author of “Hard Wired for Golf.” Learn how to take charge of your game from the head down!
The Pre-season Golf Clinic registration fees are $75 for Parker Residents and $82 for non-residents. Register online or contact Hillary Roemersberger at 303.805.3278 or by email for additional information.
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Zumba Dance Party at the Parker Colorado Recreation Center
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zumba dance party
Zumba dance your way to fitness Parker Rec Center
Zumba is in it’s 3rd month at the Parker Recreation Center and is more popular than ever.
A FREE Zumba® party is being held:
Wednesday, Feb. 17 from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Parker Recreation Center,
17301 Lincoln Ave.
Parker, CO 80134 MAP
The fitness team there thinks once you try it you’ll be hooked, so register for a fun and energetic session of the Zumba program offered on:
Tuesdays from 6:05 to 7 p.m.
Feb. 9 through March 9
Wednesdays from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
on March 3 through 31 at the Recreation Center
Fridays from noon to 1 p.m.
on Feb. 19 through March 19 at the Mainstreet Center.
What is Zumba?
Zumba fuses hypnotic Latin rhythms and easy-to-follow moves to create a one-of-a-kind fitness program that will blow you away. Our goal is simple: We want you to want to work out, to love working out, to get hooked.?Zumba fanatics achieve long-term benefits while experiencing an absolute blast in one exciting hour of calorie-burning, body-energizing, awe-inspiring movements meant to engage and captivate.
The routines feature interval training sessions where fast and slow rhythms and resistance training are combined to tone and sculpt your body while burning fat. Add some Latin flavor and international zest into the mix and you’ve got a Zumba class!
Space is limited and classes fill fast so register now at www.ParkerRec.com. For more information on the Zumba program, please contact Jaime Stevens at 303.805.3267 or by email at jstevens@parkeronline.org.
Check out the video below to see a little about Zumba and how it is for men and women of all ages and fitness levels.
Register NOW for Spring Youth Sports Leagues at the Parker Rec Parker Colorado
Posted by: | CommentsRegister for Spring Youth Sports Leagues, Need Coaches!
Spring Volleyball
registration for youth opens online on Feb. 2 at www.ParkerRec.com. The volleyball program is coed for youth in grades four to 12. Grades four to six practice and play games in Parker. Grades seven to 12 practice in Parker and play games in Aurora. The season will run from March 1 to May 20.
Outdoor boys’ and girls’ soccer leagues are just around the corner! Registration opens online at www.ParkerRec.com on Tuesday, Feb. 9. This league will begin March 15 and run eight weeks with one practice and one game per week.
Mini Mite soccer is the perfect introduction for you three year old tyke. This once per week program introduces your child to the sport of soccer in a relaxed, fun setting on the indoor turf at the Parker Fieldhouse. A spring league will begin in March on Friday evenings or Saturday mornings.
A Kinder outdoor soccer season will begin March 17 with registration also opening online on Feb. 9. The Kinder league, for children age four to six years, is coed and focuses on building skills, learning to work as a team and having fun. Six-year-olds in kindergarten may play in either the Kinder or Youth league. This Kinder league meets once per week on Wednesday, Friday or Saturday for one hour on the outdoor fields at Auburn Hills Community Park.
Register your child for spring indoor or outdoor inline hockey at this same time. Leagues for youth in grades one to four will play outdoors at the Parker Recreation Center’s outdoor rinks from March 15 to May 15 and youth in grades 5 to 8 will play indoors at the Parker Fieldhouse during the same timeframe. If you have a young tot, ages four to six years old, wanting to learn how to play inline hockey our Mighty Mite program is just for you! This program takes place outdoors.
New for spring is a coed flag football league for youth in grades one to four. This eight-week league also begins March 15 and will end May 15.
Volunteer coaches make our Youth and Kinder programs possible! Our online system will ask you to indicate whether you are willing to coach your child’s team. If you do not hear from a sports staff member within 48 hours of submitting your offer to coach, please do not hesitate to call us at 303.805.6313.
With registration opening online at www.ParkerRec.com at 6 a.m. on Feb. 2 for volleyball and on Feb.9 for the remainder of the spring leagues, you may select your team preference by practice time, location and coach. Registration forms will also be accepted at the Parker Fieldhouse, 18700 E. Plaza Dr. and the Parker Recreation Center at 17301 Lincoln Ave. Be sure to register early as leagues fill quickly on a first-come, first-served basis! For more information, contact league coordinators Kiha Sutta at 303.805.6313 or Ryan Daberkow at 303.805.6314.
Emily Hall
Recreation Marketing Coordinator
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Colorado Uplift introduction to hockey at the Parker Fieldhouse Parker CO
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On Tuesday, Jan. 26 the Colorado Elite Inline Hockey Federation (CEIHF) and the elite Rocky Mountain Talons inline hockey team program partnered with Denver inner-city youth programs to host a learn-to-play hockey festival at the Parker Fieldhouse. Led by director Mike Magera, the Hockey without Boundaries initiative and Talons players taught 80 inner-city at-risk children in the Colorado Uplift program the benefits of health and fitness through floor hockey participation
Parker Mayor David Casiano welcomed the youth and encouraged them to stay active. The event included inline hockey exhibitions, skills demonstrations and hands-on lesson instruction from the Talons designed to encourage youngsters to learn to play the sport of hockey.
As a special treat, Colorado Avalanche player Wojtek Wolski
spoke to the youth about the importance of hockey, signed autographs and assisted during lessons giving face-to-face attention to such a noteworthy event.
The Hockey without Boundaries program uses floor hockey and inline hockey clinics to introduce the sport to youth of all ages and backgrounds.
The Colorado Avalanche
has supported the program by donating several sets of hockey equipment to be distributed throughout the Town of Parker recreation programs, elementary schools and inner-city programs as part of the CEIHF youth hockey initiatives. In addition, Colorado Avalanche alumni and current players have donated their time to this very important cause by
assisting CEIHF toward reaching out to Denver’s inner-city youth community.
The Rocky Mountain Talons Elite Inline Hockey team’s home rink is the Parker Fieldhouse. For more information on the Hockey without Boundaries program and CEIHF visit www.ceihf.org or contact Eddie Delgado at 720.257.3813.
Colorado UpLift is a youth program serving over 3,000 inner-city youth. For more information on Colorado UpLift visit www.coloradouplift.org.
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Emily Hall
Recreation Marketing Coordinator
Town of Parker
20120 E. Mainstreet
Parker, CO 80138
Direct: 303.805.3263
Fax: 303.805.3123
Nothing but Net Basketball Fundamentals camp.
Posted by: | CommentsA fundamentals basketball camp for youth both boys and girls aged 6 to 17.
The camp will be held on December 21 from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Parker Fieldhouse
18700 E. Plaza Dr
Parker CO, 80134
Marcus Mason and his staff’s camp is made up of fundaments to improve your daughters or sons shooting, passing and dribbling skills as well as team building skills.
What a great opportunity for kids to have something to do on winter break and parents to drop them off to get a last day of shopping in.
There will also be a one-day Martin Luther King Day camp on Monday, Jan. 18 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Parker Fieldhouse.
For more information on Nothing But Net Camps, contact Marcus Mason at 303.921.5302 or Andy Fraser at 303.805.6310. Register online at www.ParkerRec.com with key words basketball fundamentals.
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