Wake Forest Titans Football offers flag football for ages 5-7 and tackle football for ages 5-15, depending on weight. The age is the participant's age on July 31 of this calendar year. There are no tryouts. Participants are placed on teams on a first-come, first-served basis as space permits.
All participants must also complete and submit the 2011 Player Physical Form and the 2011 Parental Consent Form to the Titans prior to the first practice. PHYSICALS MUST BE COMPLETED IN 2011. Players must also submit a COMPLETE, 4 SEMESTER REPORT CARD at Orientation Day. Orientation will be scheduled sometime between June and July.
MAILING ADDRESS: Wake Forest Titans,
P.O. Box 1254,
Wake Forest, NC,
27588-1254.
Tackle football players are placed in divisions based on the Pop Warner Little Scholars age and weight requirements. Following are the 2011 age and weight requirements for Wake Forest Titans Pop Warner:
Division
Ages
Weight
Older/Lighter
Flag
5-6-7 yrs.
None
None
Tiny Mite
6-7 yrs.
35-75 lbs.
None
Mitey Mite
7-8-9 yrs.
45-90 lbs.
None
Junior Pee Wee
8-9-10 yrs.
60-105 lbs.
11 yrs.: 60-85 lbs.
Pee Wee
9-10-11 yrs.
75-120 lbs.
12 yrs.: 75-100 lbs.
Junior Midget
10-11-12 yrs.
85-135 lbs.
13 yrs.: 85-115 lbs.
Midget
11-12-13-14 yrs.
105-160 lbs.
15 yrs.:105-140 lbs.
There is no weight limit for flag football participants.
The Flag, Tiny Mite and Mitey Mite divisions are considered noncompetitive. However, the Flag, Tiny Mite and Mitey Mite teams conclude their season with "Bowl" games against other Consolidated Football Federation (CFF) associations.
Age Requirements
The Wake Forest Titans (WFT) are committed to providing our players with the best possible experience in athletics. We want our players to be engaged and excited about football at all levels. We strive to give them an atmosphere where they feel safe and can learn the fundamentals of the game. Due to the wide weight ranges, we encourage all players to remain at the lowest level until they age out of that group. This is especially true for players with little or no experience.
As most other CFF teams do, we are not allowing any 5yr old players to participate in the Tiny Mite tackle football program.
WFT strongly suggest that all 7yr old players remain in Tiny Mite division to gain proper experience in tackle football.
Please feel free to contact the WFT Football Commissioner via email at wftcommish@gmail.com to discuss any valid reasons you feel your player should move up a level. The decision is at the discretion of the WFT board if that player is eligible to move up.
Wake Forest Titans Head Coaches in 2011:
Division
Head Coach
Phone Number
Email
Jr. Midget
Mike Smedley
919.215.6848
tmsmedley@hotmail.com
Pee Wee
Chris Loeffler
919-523-2991
ChrisALoeffler@eaton.com
Jr. Pee Wee
Jeff Denny
919.818.2779
jdenny@welshpaper.com
Jr. Pee Wee
Jason Nunn
919.795.3504
golfdkn@yahoo.com
Jr. Pee Wee
Jorge Gomez
813.453.8151
JGomez3427@yahoo.com
Mitey-Mite
Angelo Deluke
919.761.4730
adeluke@nc.rr.com
Mitey-Mite
Jerry Rudiak
919.279.3266
jrudiak1@gmail.com
Mitey-Mite
Todd Weeks
919-862-3404
Todd.weeks@panduit.com
Tiny-Mite
Tim Thomas
919.426.5005
ttcethomas@earthlink.net
Tiny-Mite
Aaron Layne
919.232.7729
aclayne@terracon.com
Flag
Shannon Townley
919.609.4057
stownley@surgex.com
Flag
Ralph Parker
919.698.6840
ralphparkerii@yahoo.com
Weigh-ins for Tackle Football Participants
Each tackle football player will be weighed at check-in sessions and again at the beginning of the season to determine and confirm division assignment.
Players must maintain the weight requirements throughout the season for their division. Players will be weighed prior to each game. The first week of the regular season, players must weigh within the published weight range. Each subsequent week, the allowed weight will be increased by one pound. Players are weighed in their uniforms, minus their helmet. The following amounts are added to the maximum weight each week for equipment weight allowances: Tiny Mite and Mitey Mite: 7 lbs, Junior Pee and Pee Wee: 8 lbs, Junior Midget and Midget: 9 lbs.
Practices
The first day of practice will be August 1st at our practice field on Camp Kanata Road, Wake Forest.
What to Wear
Flag football participants should wear shorts, t-shirts and athletic shoes or cleats.
Tackle football participants should wear shorts, t-shirts and cleats. Do not wear football equipment until told to by your coach. After completing 20 hours of conditioning, players will begin wearing practice uniforms and full pads.
Every participant should bring a water bottle to every practice.
Games
All regular-season games are scheduled to be played on Saturdays. We typically do not receive the game schedule until a couple of days before the first scheduled game, and there are frequently changes made to the schedule immediately after that. We do not have any control over the schedule or when it is disseminated. We realize that this can be frustrating, but creating the schedule is very complex. We will let you know what the schedule is as soon as we get it from the Consolidated Football Federation (CFF). We do play games on the Saturday of Labor Day weekend, so plan on being here. The regular season generally runs through October. The Flag, Tiny Mite and Mitey Mite divisions usually concludes their season with an inter-league "bowl" game at the end of the season.
Teams in the Junior Pee Wee division and older are eligible to compete in post-season competition based on their win/loss record. Post-season competition may include regional and national championships and/or invitational bowls which can run through Thanksgiving or into December, if a team goes on to nationals.