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The 2025 Buccaneer Tackle Football /Flag Football Program

Dear parents,

Welcome to the Hart Rec youth football program! For the 10th year, the tackle football program will be affiliated with the Pop Warner Football league. Hart Area Rec provides tackle football equipment (helmets, game socks, shoulder pads, jerseys and mouth guards) for Athletes to use, FREE.  Tackle football is offered to children, age 8 to 13-years old. Age is set on August 1st, 2025. Parents are expected to purchase cleats and padded pants for their Athletes.    


Notes:
Playing in the Pop Warner Division does mean we will travel North, I have asked that the keep it travel north as limited as possible as I know that can be a stretch, so hopefully Benzie is the farthest we have to go, with that said if there are families or athletes that need help getting Athlete's to games know that there are many volunteers willing to help.

Tackle practices begin in August with a week of conditioning before pads are handed out. Games start September. And the season is finished in October.

We will be fundraising and require all athletes to participate, we are a Non-Profit and need to raise funds to keep these sports available to our youth Athletes.

Head Coaches for this season will be:

5-6th JV: Scott Umstead
3-4th Jason Rose
1-2 and 3rd Flag: Victoria Gutierrez

As always, if you can volunteer your time to help make this program successful, then please, volunteer to head coach or assist any team we can always use more staff to help us. if you have any question regarding this please reach out to Scott Umstead (231) 736-0305



DIVISIONS:

FLAG FOOTBALL 1st to 3rd grade. (3rd grade has the option to play peewee tackle if no experience)

PEEWEE FOOTBALL: 8-10U 3rd and 4th grade (or 10 and under) year old.   

JV(Midget) FOOTBALL: 10-13U 5th and 6th grade (12 and under) year old. 

******* Buccaneer football players are REQUIRED to have a physical no later than AUGUST 9th. ***********

*** SIGN UP DEADLINE FOR TACKLE FOOTBALL IS August 9th!***

 Signups are available online at www.hartrec.com. Cost: $50 per child ( Tackle) 35 (Flag). Please add $20 dollars if outside the Hart area (Weare Twp, Hart Twp, Crystal Valley Twp, Golden Twp, City of Hart and Elbridge Twp). For more information or questions, please contact Scott Umstead at 231-736-0305

Dates to Note:
Conditioning - Week of August 12
Mandatory conditioning - Week of August 19
Pads - Week of August 26
First games - September 9

Buccaneer Tackle JV- 5th and 6th

Registration closes on 08/09/2025 at 12:00 AM
Season Dates: 08/11/2026 to 11/21/2026
$50.00

Buccaneer Tackle PeeWee 3rd and 4th grades

Registration closes on 08/09/2025 at 12:00 AM
Season Dates: 08/31/2026 to 11/18/2026
$50.00

Flag Football 1st-3rd grade

Registration closes on 08/09/2025 at 12:00 AM
Season Dates: 09/01/2026 to 11/01/2026
$35.00

2025 Buccaneers Cheer

Please read carefully to avoid paying extra fees,the skills team does not cost extra for those that are doing sideline as well.

Sideline
K-1st grade-Dinomites, they cheer for flag football.
2nd-3rd grade- Peewee, they cheer for the Peewee tackle football team.
4th-6th grade-JV, they cheer for the JV tackle football team.

Skills
Hart Rec Cheer is excited to announce that there is a new additional opportunity this fall season. Cheerleaders K-6th grade can now join the Bucs Skills Team. This team will practice after school on Thursdays and will preform routines at the Bucs home football games. This team will focus on building tumbling,stunting, and other technical cheer skills as well as learning and performing routines. This program will run in collaboration with the Varsity cheer coaches and will be geared toward preparing girls for Hart's higher level cheer programs. This additional team is open to all girls who are registered for the Bucs sideline cheer team AND girls that choose only to do the Bucs Skills Team. Please be aware that this team will require a high level of commitment. Girls will need to be in attendance at practice to be apart of stunrting groups and learn/preform routines. Please also note that summer practices in August will be once a week in the evenings until school starts. Practices will not be at the same time as sideline practices.

Information you’ll need to sign your child up
Primary email address(make sure your contact information is up to date in your Hart
Rec account we will use that to contact you)
Insurance policy carrier
Policy number
Correct township that you live in( your township pays a portion of your child’s
participation fee)
Child’s shirt size
Child's skirt size

Signing up
  • For those already signed up for sideline: Send an email to [email protected], stating that your daughter would like to join the Bucs Skills team. Please include their name and grade.
  • For those who are NOT registered and want to do both sidelinse and the Skills Team: Register for the Bucs sideline cheer and send an email to [email protected], stating that your daughter would like to be on the Skills team and sideline. Please include their name and grade.
  • For those only doing the skills team: Sign up for the skills team only.
Cost
In Hart:$40
Out of Hart:$65

How to contact us
Once the season starts we will be using the TeamReach app to communicate important
information including games, practices, etc.

Alyssa Sinclair:
Phone: 231-742-9487

Dinomites K-1st

Registration closes on 07/21/2025 at 12:00 AM
Season Dates: 08/11/2025 to 10/18/2025
$40.00

Peewee 2nd-3rd

Registration closes on 07/21/2025 at 12:00 AM
Season Dates: 08/11/2025 to 10/18/2025
$40.00

JV 4th-6th

Registration closes on 07/21/2025 at 12:00 AM
Season Dates: 08/11/2025 to 10/18/2025
$40.00

Bucs Skills Team

Registration closes on 08/11/2025 at 12:00 AM
Season Dates: 08/12/2025 to 10/18/2025
$40.00

Hart Rec

Club President: Victoria Gutierrez 
 Michigan  
Email : [email protected]
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