Athlete's Prayer
God, let me play well but fairly.
Help me to learn something that matter once the game is over.
Let competition make me strong but never hostile.
Always let me help my oppenent up.
Never catch me rejoicing in the adversity of others.
If I know victory, allow me to be happy; if I am denied, keep me from envy.
Remind me that sports are just a games.
If through athletics I set an example, let it be a good one.
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Help me to learn something that matter once the game is over.
Let competition make me strong but never hostile.
Always let me help my oppenent up.
Never catch me rejoicing in the adversity of others.
If I know victory, allow me to be happy; if I am denied, keep me from envy.
Remind me that sports are just a games.
If through athletics I set an example, let it be a good one.
Author unknown
COACHES NEEDED!
If you have any questions or you are interested in helping coach
please contact our Athletic Director, Mike Findling @ [email protected].
If you have any questions or you are interested in helping coach
please contact our Athletic Director, Mike Findling @ [email protected].
Get in the Game This Fall – CYO & Intramural Sports
CYO is designed for students entering 5th through 8th grade, with a few exceptions (eg, 3rd grade+ for football, 4th grade+ for vicariate boys' soccer and OLQM volleyball). This email is for CYO sign up only; we will be offering other opportunities to play sports, with sign-ups coming soon!
To play OLQM sports you must either: 1. Attend OLQM school or 2. Be a member of our parish.
To play OLQM sports you must either: 1. Attend OLQM school or 2. Be a member of our parish.
2025 FALL Sports Opportunities:
Girls Volleyball (OLQM only) - SEE LINK BELOW FOR REGISTRATION BY 8/5
Vicariate Girls & Boys Soccer
Vicariate Girls Field Hockey
OLQM Volleyball
·Registration: Sign Up Now through TeamSnap (must create a TeamSnap account to register) - registration closes 8/5.
·Starts August 11th and runs through October 28
·JV teams will practice about 2 to 3 times per week
·Varsity teams will practice about 3 to 4 times per week
·The schedule will be released from the AOD the week of August 25. First game will be the week of Sept 2.
·Physical form (MHSAA), Concussion Form, and Risk of Assumption must be completed after April 15, 2025, and before August 11, 2025.
·Your paperwork is good for the entire school year at OLQM
NO PLAYER IS ALLOWED TO PLAY/PRACTICE BEFORE FORMS and PAYMENT ARE TURNED IN.
Registration is considered complete once your online registration and payment in TeamSnap is done.
Vicariate Boys Football
Please contact the parish you wish to play for. It is the athlete's responsibility to get the necessary sign-offs to play at another parish; both ADs and priests are required to sign off. All sign-offs for OLQM must go through OLQM's AD, Mike Findling [email protected]. Two options are St. Regis and Shrine (links below)
2025 Raider Football
2025 Shrine Football
Vicariate Girls & Boys Cross Country
Our Closest program available is Shrine. Sign up link is below. If you'd like to run for a different school/parish, please email me and we can contact them together. It is the athlete's responsibility to get the necessary sign-offs to play at another parish.
Shrine Cross Country
Vicariate Soccer Girls & Boys
We are combining our girls’ and boys’ soccer teams with Sacred Heart (girls) /Kensington Hall (boys). The play will take place at Sacred Heart. You must be registered on TeamSnap to receive information. Here is the link to register for TeamSnap. If you're unfamiliar with TeamSnap, I suggest downloading the app and ensuring all communications are set to ON. This is the main source of communication between the coach and the families. All teams are run out of Sacred Heart/Kensington.
Note: The Middle School Girls will register for either the 5th/6th or the 7th/8th and the boys will register for 4th-6th or 7th/8th with Kensington Hall.
Vicariate Girls Field Hockey
Sacred Heart has offered spaces for girls to play field hockey. You must be registered on TeamSnap to receive information.
Here is the link to register.
Girls Volleyball (OLQM only) - SEE LINK BELOW FOR REGISTRATION BY 8/5
- 4th grade
- Junior Varsity grades 5th & 6th
- Varsity grades 7th & 8th
Vicariate Girls & Boys Soccer
- Boys only - 4th grade (4th-6th grade team through Sacred Heart)
- Junior Varsity grades 5th & 6th
- Varsity grades 7th & 8th
Vicariate Girls Field Hockey
- 5th-8th Grade
- Junior Varsity grades 4th, 5th & 6th
- Varsity 7th & 8th
- Freshman 3rd & 4th
- Junior Varsity grades 5th & 6th
- Varsity grades 7th & 8th
OLQM Volleyball
·Registration: Sign Up Now through TeamSnap (must create a TeamSnap account to register) - registration closes 8/5.
·Starts August 11th and runs through October 28
·JV teams will practice about 2 to 3 times per week
·Varsity teams will practice about 3 to 4 times per week
·The schedule will be released from the AOD the week of August 25. First game will be the week of Sept 2.
·Physical form (MHSAA), Concussion Form, and Risk of Assumption must be completed after April 15, 2025, and before August 11, 2025.
·Your paperwork is good for the entire school year at OLQM
NO PLAYER IS ALLOWED TO PLAY/PRACTICE BEFORE FORMS and PAYMENT ARE TURNED IN.
Registration is considered complete once your online registration and payment in TeamSnap is done.
Vicariate Boys Football
Please contact the parish you wish to play for. It is the athlete's responsibility to get the necessary sign-offs to play at another parish; both ADs and priests are required to sign off. All sign-offs for OLQM must go through OLQM's AD, Mike Findling [email protected]. Two options are St. Regis and Shrine (links below)
2025 Raider Football
2025 Shrine Football
Vicariate Girls & Boys Cross Country
Our Closest program available is Shrine. Sign up link is below. If you'd like to run for a different school/parish, please email me and we can contact them together. It is the athlete's responsibility to get the necessary sign-offs to play at another parish.
Shrine Cross Country
Vicariate Soccer Girls & Boys
We are combining our girls’ and boys’ soccer teams with Sacred Heart (girls) /Kensington Hall (boys). The play will take place at Sacred Heart. You must be registered on TeamSnap to receive information. Here is the link to register for TeamSnap. If you're unfamiliar with TeamSnap, I suggest downloading the app and ensuring all communications are set to ON. This is the main source of communication between the coach and the families. All teams are run out of Sacred Heart/Kensington.
Note: The Middle School Girls will register for either the 5th/6th or the 7th/8th and the boys will register for 4th-6th or 7th/8th with Kensington Hall.
- Cost: $200 to play soccer
- Practice times have not been released, but would likely be 3 days per week either 3:30pm-5:00pm or 5:00pm-6:30pm. For the earlier practice time it's ok if they show up a little late. Game days may affect the practice times.
- Game days are not known at this time and will not be determined until End of August.
- Registration will stay open through August 30th
Vicariate Girls Field Hockey
Sacred Heart has offered spaces for girls to play field hockey. You must be registered on TeamSnap to receive information.
Here is the link to register.
- Grades offered: 5th-8th
OLQM CYO Sports are non-refundable, should there be any changes in your plans. Please make every effort to have your child(ren) attend all practices and games. We put our faith first and kindly ask that you prepare accordingly for faith formation class if you are a part of our parish. Our Faith Formation team has worked hard to have different catechist offerings to meet our athletics schedules. There will be no Sunday requirements for CYO sports as we would like you to worship with us at church and spend time with your family.
Please contact [email protected] with any questions or concerns.
Go Vikings!
Mike Findling
Please contact [email protected] with any questions or concerns.
Go Vikings!
Mike Findling
COACHES NEEDED!
If you have any questions or you are interested in helping coach
please contact our Athletic Director, Mike Findling @ [email protected].
If you have any questions or you are interested in helping coach
please contact our Athletic Director, Mike Findling @ [email protected].
Catholic Youth Organization
The Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) of the Archdiocese of Detroit was founded in 1933 to help metropolitan Detroit’s children live clean, wholesome lives, regardless of their religious faith, their racial background, or their day-to-day living conditions. CYO is not a department of the Archdiocese of Detroit; it has a separate and independent Board of Directors approved by the Archbishop annually.
CYO believes in becoming a true partner with our community’s young people – it helps them to enjoy their youth; it teaches them to become faith and community leaders, and after they are grown, it encourages them to work with the next generation of youth, replicating this same process over and over again throughout our community.
Since 1939, the Catholic Youth Organization for the Archdiocese of Detroit has been fulfilling its mission in service to the Catholic community of Metro Detroit. Our founding documents put forth the main purpose of CYO as “the development of Catholic life in the Catholic Youth." Now, more than ever before, as the diocese moves from maintenance to mission as directed in Unleash the Gospel, CYO seeks to reinvigorate all current programming and to create an atmosphere that will encourage young people to join the band of joyful missionary disciples.
CYO believes in becoming a true partner with our community’s young people – it helps them to enjoy their youth; it teaches them to become faith and community leaders, and after they are grown, it encourages them to work with the next generation of youth, replicating this same process over and over again throughout our community.
Since 1939, the Catholic Youth Organization for the Archdiocese of Detroit has been fulfilling its mission in service to the Catholic community of Metro Detroit. Our founding documents put forth the main purpose of CYO as “the development of Catholic life in the Catholic Youth." Now, more than ever before, as the diocese moves from maintenance to mission as directed in Unleash the Gospel, CYO seeks to reinvigorate all current programming and to create an atmosphere that will encourage young people to join the band of joyful missionary disciples.
OLQM Basketball
- CYO sports is designed for students in grades 5th through 8th grade. At OLQM we do offer the opportunity for 4th graders to play if we have room and time within the CYO schedule. If you register your 4th grader and a team isn't formed you will be reimbursed.
- Start November 11th and runs through Feb 22 for Grades 4, 5 &6 and mid March for 7 & 8th. We do play during breaks, the only break scheduled is Dec 22 through Jan 4. The 8th grade team could play in Thanksgiving and/or Christmas tournaments.
- JV teams will practice about 2 to 3 times per week
- Varsity teams will practice about 3 to 4 times per week
- Game days - are primarily Saturdays but can be during the week as well.
- The schedule will be released from the AOD at the end of November. Please plan on a game the week of Dec 1.
- Physical form (MHSAA), Concussion Form, and Risk of Assumption must be completed after April 15, 2024, and before August 12. 2024.
- Your paperwork is good for the entire school year at OLQM
- NO PLAYER IS ALLOWED TO PLAY/PRACTICE BEFORE FORMS and PAYMENT ARE TURNED IN.
· Physical form (MHSAA) must be completed after April 15, 2025.
· Concussion Form
· Risk of Assumption
OLQM CYO Sports are non-refundable, should there be any changes in your plans.
Please note you are signing your child(ren) up for a team sport, which means they win and lose as a team. It is important that our children understand what a commitment to a team is. Please make every effort to have your child(ren) attend all practices and games.
We put our faith first and kindly ask that you prepare accordingly for faith formation class if you are a part of our parish. Our Faith Formation team has worked hard to have different catechist offerings to meet our athletics schedules. There will be no Sunday requirements for CYO sports as we would like you to worship with us at church and spend time with your family.
Protocols and forms can be found below on this page.
OLQM CYO Sports Details
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OLQM sports are a parish-based program that is dedicated to the development of youth as a student athlete by encouraging them to express catholic values, sportsmanship and fair play that leads to a positive athletic experience.
The Catholic Youth Organization sports offered by OLQM Grades 4-8th (4th grade teams may be rounded out by 3rd grades who can play up). Fall
All OLQM students and parish members are automatically eligible to participate in CYO sports offered by the parish. All students registering for any CYO sport must have a physical exam and a medical clearance on file and paid their registration fee before participating. All students registered and playing in any CYO sport must follow the policies set forth in the Athletic Policy Handbook. Any player that does not follow such policies will be dismissed from the team. All late registrations will be placed on a waiting list. All accepted late registrations will be subject to a $50.00 late fee. CYO Guidelines To learn about division standings, league manuals and rules, or other information about the CYO, visit the CYO website. Team standings are usually updated on Wednesdays. OLQM Home Game Admission Fees All Adults are $5.00 each Children through 8th grade are free of charge |
We encourage parents to read our team rules/guidelines. (below)
Team GuidelinesCYO Rules per SportVolleyball Rules
Soccer Rules Basketball Rules Baseball Rules Softball Rules Cross Country Rules Lacrosse Rules Football Rules Forms/PoliciesOnline registration, Concussion, Assumption of risk and health/physical must be completed for each athlete before they can participate.
A CURRENT-YEAR PHYSICAL IS ONE GIVEN ON OR AFTER APRIL 15 OF THE PREVIOUS SCHOOL YEAR.
If you have any questions, interested in coaching or looking for information, please email us at [email protected].
It's great to be a Viking!Athletic DirectorMike Findling
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Interested in coaching?
Contact Mike Findling @ athletics@olqm-parish.org