Forms: Required paperwork to participate in this trip!

• Parent Permission Form
• Health Form
• Youth Information Form

Here is some important information that you need to know:

DEPARTURE: SUNDAY, December 18th, 2011 at 7:00 AM. Everyone must be at St. Louis by 6:00 AM to help load the bus!

LODGING:
Blowing Rock Conference Center, Corriher Lodge
Blowing Rock, North Carolina
(828) 295-7813

RETURN:
THURSDAY, December 22nd, 2011 at approximately 8:00 PM

TOTAL COST:
The cost will be announced after we know the number of attendees and after our Crafts Fair.

The total cost includes transportation, lodging, ski equipment rental, lift tickets, two (2) meals each day while at the lodge and a retreat t-shirt. Each participant’s cost is based on the number of days that he/she will ski/snowboard.

Balance payments are due Sunday, December 11, 2011.

If your high school youth wants to play this summer, please let us know via the contact page. Even outgoing seniors can play.

Again, please let us know via the contact page if your child is interested in playing. We hope you will encourage them to join us as a player or a spectator. It is a great way to stay in touch with youth group friends during the summer.

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We are proud to announce the 5th Annual Blue Streak Invitational Basketball Tournament! Thank you for your team’s participation in what has become one of the premier tournaments in Memphis. All the information your team needs is on this page.

Dates: December 17th – 21st

Game Sites:

• St. Louis Catholic Church
• Holy Rosary Catholic Church
• Christ United Methodist Church
• Christian Brothers High School
• Mullins Methodist Church
• Memphis Catholic High School

Entry Form Download

Boys Tournament Brackets:

• Boys – 5th Grade (rev 12/16)
• Boys – 6th Grade
• Boys – 5th & 6th Grade Combo
• Boys – 7th Grade (rev 12/13)
• Boys – 8th Grade (rev 12/15)
• Boys – 7th & 8th (rev 12/15)

Coaches’ Packet: Rules & Info

Girls Tournament Brackets:

• Girls – 5th Grade
• Girls – 6th Grade
• Girls – 7th Grade (rev 12/16)
• Girls – 8th Grade
• Girls – 7th & 8th Round Robin

If you are a tournament volunteer, click on the button below.
Last year we had over 1100 players in 5th – 8th grade, playing in five gyms over four and a half days in a total of 171 games.

The tournament benefits the Blue Streak Scholarship Fund and St. Louis Youth Group Mission Trips. We would like to thank all who have participated in previous years either as sponsors, participants or fans. Our tournament finals are played before a standing room only crowd. It is something to experience. The atmosphere is electric, the fans are pumped up and the kids think they are playing in an NBA final, not to mention you will see some pretty good basketball. Because our tournament is such a huge success, we were able to make substantial contributions to both of our organizations.

Here is some information about the programs that will once again benefit from the tournament:

• Blue Streak Scholarship Fund, Inc. is a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization devoted to giving inner-city Memphis children the benefit of a Catholic school education. Students receiving Blue Streak scholarships attend Diocese of Memphis Jubilee Schools — schools located in our city’s poorest zip codes. Over 80% of Jubilee School students come from families living at or below the poverty level. Created by area Catholic school alums as a grassroots project in 2003, Blue Streak has, in less than eight years, raised and distributed approximately $600,000 in scholarships to Jubilee School students. Our volunteers are Catholic and non-Catholic, and come from all over the Memphis metropolitan area. We are excited about the impact that our efforts will make on the lives of the students of the Jubilee Schools, their families, and the Memphis community. Visit their website at BSSF.net for more information.

• Catholic HEART Workcamp (CHWC) was started in 1993 by founders Steve and Lisa Walker in Orlando, Fla. CHWC was born out of their desire to foster the spiritual growth of each participant through the sacraments, Catholic faith sharing and prayer as they live as Disciples of Christ through serving others. That first year only a few camps were held with 100 volunteers. Last year 32 camps were held with over 11,000 participants.St. Louis Youth Group has participated now for six years. In our first year there were 39 St. Louis Church youth who traveled to Mobile, Alabama. While there, they painted houses, cleaned yards, picked up trash from Hurricane Katrina, and stocked food pantries. The trip was such a success that the next summer 75 St. Louis youth attended the Workcamp in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Once again, they worked extremely hard in the community painting, building fences, performing general clean up and cutting trees. The group size grew again the following summer and was split into two separate trips visiting Lexington, KY and Tampa, FL. Since that summer, St. Louis youth have attended CHWC in Omaha, NE, Bluffton, SC, Twin Cities, MN and Davison, MI.

  In the summer of 2011 more than 160 St. Louis youth will serve the poor and underprivileged in Oklahoma City, OK and Philadelphia, PA. This number speaks volumes about our youth and their commitment to be the hands and feet of Christ to the world.

Attached is the registration form that we will use. To speed up the evening and to ensure accurate information is given, parents should complete this form at home and send the completed form with their child on Sunday. Of course blank forms will also be available that night. As always there is no cost associated with joining our youth ministry.