T-Birds Football and Cheer: 2025 First Practice Week
T-Bird Parents,
New T-Bird Families: Welcome to the 2025 Season! Find all past T-Bird newsletters on the News section of our website.
Congratulations on completing the first week of the 2025 T-Birds Football & Cheer Season! We hope your athletes had an excellent first week experience on the Monte Vista Practice Fields and at the Commons. In case you missed it, long-time T-Bird Football Coach, Jeff Jones, came back on night one to lead the charge for our T-Bird Football athletes (opening night speech). It set the tone about T-Birds' tradition and we are incredibly grateful for Coach Jones' time and commitment to the T-Bird program over the last 20 years.
A big THANK YOU to Rowena Wood Photography and also T-Bird Volunteer Peter Ensrud for capturing some amazing action shots this week. If you took a photo or video of your T-Bird Football or Cheer athlete in the last week, be sure to tag @srvthunderbirds with the hashtag #TBirds2025. We would love to repost photos from your athlete's first week! ☀️
🏈 Football: What to Wear (Week of 7/21)
Location: Monte Vista Practice Fields
Link: T-Bird Football Program
What to Wear/Bring
- Helmet with tethered mouthguard
- Muscle shirt (given at T-Bird Day)
- Practice Jersey (given at T-Bird Day)
- Shorts
- Football Cleats
- Water Bottle (T-Bird one distributed at T-Bird Day or one-gallon jug)
- **ATHLETES WHO COMPLETED ALL 5 PRACTICES THIS WEEK: Shoulder Pads and Integrated Pad Pants.
- If your athlete missed a practice in week, not to worry, they can make up the next night. We will take attendance nightly until all players reach their 5 practices before they can move to full pads.
- Note: We will NOT have a make-up practice this Saturday for those athletes who missed a practice this week. This will give our T-Bird Coaches a much needed breather to recharge for Monday.
📣 Cheer: What to Wear (Week of 7/21)
Location: Monte Vista Commons
Things to Know
- Premier Cheer: Tuesday, 7/22 and Thursday, 7/24 (6pm - 8pm)
- Champion Cheer: Wednesday, 7/23 (6pm - 8pm)
- What to Wear: Please wear cheer/tennis shoes, comfortable pants/bike shorts, tank/shirt, hair in a pony tail, bring poms, and water to every practice.
- Must be NSID-verified to participate in practice.
📅 Quick Event Schedule Glance
🏈 Friday, August 1st
Last Day of Football Premier Tryouts
Location: Monte Vista Practice Fields
Football teams will be finalized by Sunday, August 3rd. Premier and Champion Football teams will start practicing with their respective teams on Monday, August 4th.
📣 Wednesday, August 6th - Thursday, August 7th (JPW/PW: 9am - 12pm; JV/Varsity: 1pm - 4pm)
Cheer Camp
Location: California Spirit Elite - 6800 Sierra Ct., Suite P - Dublin, CA
Get ready to jump into the season with energy and enthusiasm at Cheer Camp! Please refer to your cheer coaches for more details.
🏈 Saturday, August 9th
T-Birds Football Jersey, Pants, and Equipment Bag pick-up
Location: Monte Vista Practice Fields (Time TBD)
Football athletes will pick up their game jerseys, pants, and equipment bag for the season. Times will be finalized in the next couple of weeks.
Note: Final EBYFC League schedule is still pending and will be shared as soon as it is finalized. Please see earmarked dates below to plan (minus location and time). Each team will play at most per weekend on a Saturday or Sunday. T-Bird Parent Meetings happening next week, times TBD.
📰 Quick Shoutouts
- 🛒 Looking for more T-Birds Gear? Keep shopping our T-Birds Merch Store any time! We hope you enjoyed the new selection of T-Birds Gear on our online store. If you couldn't find the size you were looking for, please let us know!
- 🙋 Looking for Volunteer Roles? We'll also have a bunch of game-day Volunteer roles open throughout the season. If you sign up for the POINT App and Join the T-Birds team (see Volunteer Handbook), you'll get alerts when new volunteer opportunities are made available. Here is the Volunteer sign-up link to bookmark.
Fly High!
SRV T-Birds
Contact: srvtbirds@gmail.com
Follow us @srvthunderbirds