Sports Opportunities

Homeschooling families in our area have formed the Red River Rattlers Athletic Association.  

While the RRRAA is new, the Rattlers have been competing for many years. Read about it all here.

The new RRRAE website is currently a work in progress. 

All the information you need about basketball (for boys and girls) is there.

Keep checking the Rattlers website for updated information!

Rattlers Athletic Association

Over the last 20 years or so, the group known as Red River Christian Homeschoolers has changed and grown in some amazing ways! What started as a handful of families meeting for park days has grown into a group that serves over 100 families in many delightful ways! One of the most impressive aspects of our group is the Red River Rattlers athletics teams, including some very talented basketball and volleyball players! And guess what? A track team is in the works!

As the athletics portion of our program grows, we need to continue to promote the Rattlers and everything we stand for. Our coaches have worked very hard over the last eight years forming relationships with public, private and homeschool groups. They know us as the Rattlers and respect our teams. We get compliments from refs, other players, and parents of other teams about the outstanding conduct of our players, coaches and parents. To continue to grow, we need a system in place that will help us deal with concerns that parents have about coaches or situations, and organize the program so that everyone is on the same page. For example, Steve Ayers is the current athletic director for the basketball team. If anyone has a concern or complaint they can address it with him and they sit down for a discussion with the people involved.

In order to accomplish setting up such a program, I believe our approach should be to promote cooperation between players, parents, and coaches of all sports. Our foundation for our athletics program needs to be founded on Christ and our conduct should follow accordingly.

In addition, it would also be very helpful if we knew what the other coaches/sports teams are doing so that we do not overwhelm our group with fundraisers or activities. Coordination of the schedules and season would be a big help. It gets to be very difficult for players and families when they are involved in more than one sport.

Basically, the point of all of this is to conduct a meeting to discuss the formation of the Red River Rattlers Athletic Association. Many parents have expressed interest in having an athletic director over each sport. These directors would form the committee over the association. This association would help to achieve many things, such as:

• Promoting cooperation between players, coaches, and parents of all sports
• Agree on a code of conduct for our coaches, parents, and players
• Create a mission statement for the group
• Verify a list of established coaches for each team and a determination of who is on what team
• Get 503(C) non-profit status, allowing a tax deduction for donations to the teams
• Provide conflict resolution

The Rattlers currently have a website: www.RRRattlers.com. We would like to develop our web-site so that all sporting events, coach’s information, etc. could be in one place. That would make it easy for schools to contact the right person for scheduling or questions. (Dallas Thunder has a good web-site, as does CHANT).

This meeting is open to all families who are currently involved with Rattlers sports or who would like to be in the future. Please join us on Friday, January 27 at the Cooke County Library in the Meeting Room. Meeting starts at 7:00 p.m. We look forward to all the great things God has in store for our group and our teams!

Go Rattlers!

Nicki Truesdell

2011-2012 Rattlers Basketball Schedule

The Red River Rattler Basketball Teams have kicked off their season. We would like to invite you to come and watch our games. Here is the schedule for November and December.

November:

10th Junior High Girls and Boys- ICCS, Denton 5:0010th Varsity Boys- Dixson High School, Dixson, Oklahoma 7:00

12th Junior Varsity Boys, Varsity Girls and Varsity Boys- Weatherford Express, Weatherford, TX 2:00, 3:30, and 5:00

15th Varsity Girls and Boys -Bellevue High School, Bellevue, TX 6:00

17th Junior High Girls and Varsity Girls- Texoma Christian, Sherman Time TBA

17th, 18th and 19th Varsity Boys- Prairie Valley Tournament, Prairie Valley, First game Thursday at 4:30

19th Junior High Tournament -Bellevue, TX- JHG at 8:00, JHB 9:00

21st Junior High Girls and Boys- Tioga 5:00

21st Varsity Girls and Junior Varsity Boys- Phoenix Charter, Greenville 6:00
21st Varsity Boys -St. Jo 7:00

29th ******First Home Game at Woodbine gym****** Victory Life Academy-Varsity Girls and Junior Varsity Boys- Start time 6:30

December:

1st Junior High Girls and Boys- Walnut Bend 5:00

1st Varsity Girls and Junior Varsity Boys- Grayson Christian, Sherman 4:30

1st, 2nd and 3rd Varsity Boys- Olney Tournament

6th Varsity Girls - Harvest Christian, Watoga, 6:00

6th Varsity Boys-Legacy Christian, 8:00

8th Junior Varsity Boys and Varsity Boys- Westlake Academy, Westlake 5:30 and 7:00

13th *****Home Game,Tioga gym*****Junior High Girls, Varsity Girls and Varsity Boys- CHANT 6:00 start time

15th Varsity Boys- Grace Christian, Flower Mound

15th Junior High Girls and Boys- Walnut Bend 5:00

16th Varsity Girls and Junior Varsity Boys (?) Prairie Valley

17th*****Home Game, Woodbine Gym**** Junior Varsity Boys, Varsity Girls and Varsity Boys- Denton Calvary start time TBA

19th Junior Varsity Boys and Varsity Boys- Nocona, 6:00 and 7:30

20th ******Home Game, Tioga Gym**** Varsity Girls and Varsity Boys, Dallas Thunder, 6:00

If you have questions about a start time or location, please call 903-815-0346.

Go Rattlers!

Rattlers Basketball 2010-2011 Schedule

It's finally here...the Official Rattlers Basketball Schedule! We hope you will
join us this year and CHEER for the RATTLER team.

NOVEMBER:

Tuesday, 2nd Season kick-0ff: Westlake at Westlake JV Boys 5, Varsity
Girls 6, Varsity Boys 7:30

Thursday, 4th: Bellevue- Away- Varsity Girls Only 6:30

Monday, 8th: First Home Game, Woodbine Elementary- Denton Home School Varsity
Girls 7, Varsity Boys 8:15

Saturday, 13th: Poetry-Away- JV Boys 2, Varsity Girls 3:30, Varsity Boys 5:00

Tuesday, 16th: Junior Varsity Girls-Away- Trinity Christian Paris

Tuesday, 16th: Junior Varsity Boys- Away-Texoma Christian, Sherman--- Varsity
Boys 6:00

Friday, 19th: Victory Life, Durant--Away- Varsity Girls 6, Varsity Boys 7:30

Tuesday, 23rd: Forestburg-- JV Boys 6, Varsity Boys 7:30

Tuesday, 30th: Slidell-- Away-- JV Boys 6, Varsity Boys 7:30

Tuesday, 30th: HOME--JV/Varsity Girls 6:30

DECEMBER:

Saturday, 4th: HOME--Denton Calvary- JV Girls 1, JV Boys 2, Varsity Girls 3,
Varsity Boys 4:30

Tuesday, 7th: Collinsville at Collinsville VG 6, VB 7:30

Saturday, 11th: Weatherford--Away-- 3:00 JV Boys, Varsity Girls 4, Varsity
Boys 5:30

Tuesday, 14th: Harvest Christian, Watauga--Varsity Girls 6

Tuesday, 14th: Praire Valley-Away- Varsity Boys 7

Friday, 17th: American Airlines Center! Tenative Play for the girls begins at
1 Boys to follow

Thursday, 30th: All Boys Wise County TBA

JANUARY:

Monday, 3rd: TTI, Dallas Boys Away 7:30

Thursday, 6th: HOME-- North Cities Varsity Boys 7, Denton Home School
Varsity Girls 8:30

Saturday, 8th: Paris Home School at Paris JV Boys 1, JV Girls 2, Varsity Girls
3, Varsity Boys 4:30

Monday, 10th: HOME Dallas Thunder JV Girls 6, Varsity Girls 7

Friday, 14th: Heritage Christian, Away JV Boys 4:30, Varsity Girls and
Varsity Boys

Thursday, 20th: Wise County, Boys Only TBA

Friday, 21st: Grayson at Grayson Varsity Girls 6, Varsity Boys 7:30

Monday, 24th: HOME Victory Life Varsity Girls 6, Varsity Boys 7:30

Tuesday, 25th: Greenville Christian, Greenville Varsity Girls 6, Varsity Boys
7:30

FEBRUARY

Tuesday, 1st: Nazarene Christian, Crowley Varsity Girls 6, Varsity Boys 7:30

Saturday, 5th HOME Weatherford Express JV Boys 1, Varsity Girls, Varsity
Boys

Tuesday, 8th Grayson at HOME Girls 7, Boys 8:15

Thursday, 10th TTI, Dallas Boys Only TBA

Friday, 11th Phoenix Charter, Greenville Girls Only 6

17th-19th REGIONAL Play-offs at Grayson Christian in Sherman

24th-26th STATE Play-offs in Waxahacie at SAGU

Rattlers win the State Championship!

In February 2010 our Rattlers Boys and Girls basketball teams traveled to the T-CAL state tournament to compete. We are so excited to announce that the

Lady Rattlers won the State Championship

in the Class A division. Congratulations, ladies, for all your hard work!

And congratulations to Tess Hough for winning MVP of the championship game!

We are also pleased to announce that our Rattlers Boy's team, in their first year at the T-CAL tournament, made it to the last round of championship games! What a feat, considering the team is so new. Congratulations, guys! We're looking forward to a State Championship in your near future!

For more information about Rattlers basketball, click here, and for info about Lady Rattlers, click here.

Quilt Raffle Winner!

The Red River Rattlers are proud to announce the winner of the quilt raffle . . .

Don Fox of Valley View!


Don is the father-in-law of Beth Fox, and attends Cross Timbers Church with several RRCH families. He was very excited! He informed Nicki that he makes handmade quilt racks! How great is that?!

Thank you to everyone who purchased tickets in the raffle. The Rattlers raised $489.60!

Thank you to Tiffany Palmer (sister of Rattler Katy) for making this beautiful quilt, as well!

Red River Rattlers Boy's Basketball

Hey my name is Alec Hilliard I play point guard for the Red River Rattlers. September 29th of this year (Andrew and my birthday) shined a little light upon season number three for the guys with some scrimmage games in Bellevue, TX, a long way from the team that started in ’07 with about six players. We are officially a varsity team now and have played public, private, and other home-schooled teams around North Texas. This is going to be a very fun year since it is our first year in the TCAL conference and we will get to go to district and state! We have had ups and downs in our numbers, but now have a full team of 15 guys.

#1 Nick Dhooghe
#3 Andrew Flowers
#11 Kaleb Moses
#13 Sam Leach
#14 Josh Honea
#21 Timmy Teater
#22 Peter Dhooghe
#23 Trent Harvey
#24 Daniel Huffman
#32 Aaron Leach
#41 Alec Hilliard
#51 Phillip Dhooghe
#52 Dominic Dhooghe
#55 David Dhooghe
#??? Sam Fink

We are so blessed with our coach, Steve Ayers who drives us around the world to take us to our games and gives up his weekdays and Sundays to come out and shoot with us. Dale Harvey has been a big help in coaching some of the newer guys and helps us out. They both have high expectations for our team and Mr. Steve always says we work for “excellence” and out on the court our motto is “attack!” We hope to place well this year in the conference and make it to state, that is, if we can get everyone better from sickness and injuries. We love the game of basketball more than any other sport and enjoy trying to be the best we can be for the team. We have put in tons of hours over the summer with working out and improving our game. (Some players with over 375hrs.) Liberty posted a schedule so hopefully y’all can catch one of our games sometime! Our guys sure play hard!

Be blessed,
Alec H.

Red River Lady Rattlers

Hi, my name is Liberty Davidson, and I’ve been on the basketball team since we were the Bulldogs (six years ago!) Fortunately we changed our name to the Rattlers, which title we have proudly held since our second year.

We’ve had our struggles and our triumphs as a team. We’ve known what it’s like to go on a seemingly never-ending losing streak, but we’ve also known the great feeling of countless victories in a row.

Three years ago, the team welcomed a new coach, Dwayne Holman, and we joined a sports league that exists exclusively for home schooled and private schooled teams. In March, we made it all the way to the State Championship and finished as runners-up!

The Lady Rattlers have consistently improved over the last several years, and the beginning of the 2009-10 season has been no different. We have been victorious in each of our first three official games!

This year our team consists of twelve talented players:

#3Tess Hough
#5 Morgan Ayers
#14 Hayli Hough
#21Victoria Blessing
#23Liberty Davidson
#33Mallory Clayton
#2 Katy Palmer
#13 Virginia Land
#15 Teresa Dhooghe
#24 Nikki Morgan
#41 Kalie Lovejoy
#45 Allison Land

We value determination, team work, good sportsmanship, and most of all, playing our best. As Coach Holman says, “If you leave it on the court, you will be victorious.”

The home schooled boys in our group have also had a team for the last three years, and they have been doing excellent!

We are really excited about the promising season ahead for both teams. What makes it even more exciting is when YOU, our fans, show up and cheer!

All our home games are held at Radware Elementary School in Woodbine. Here’s the address:
668 FM 3164GAINESVILLE, TX 76240-9082


Please feel free to call Coach Dwayne Holman for directions, 940-447-4710

To read more about the Lady Rattlers, click here.