The St. Christopher CYO Athletics Program uses "Wagdogs.com" to help manage our registrations, payments, and rosters. Not only does this website assist our administrative team in accomplishing these and other tasks in an efficient manner, it prevents repeated registrations from season to season, and year to year. Once you add your child's information to your Wagdogs account, it does not have to be repeated each year. The information is kept securely, and as a new season opens for registration, all you have to do is click the checkbox next to the new sport and your child will be quickly and efficiently registered for the new sport.
Please follow these simple (but important) instructions to register yourself, and your children for Wagdogs.
1.) First off, register yourself as a parent for a Wagdogs account by visiting wagdogs.com. If you plan on assisting as a coach or volunteer in any capacity, please check the appropriate box(es) where it says “Volunteer”.
2.) Once you have successfully registered yourself for the site, log in and visit “My Wagdogs” which is located to the left of the screen, just below your name. You can also visit that section by clicking this link: https://www.wagdogs.com/mywagdogs/ From here the site will give you the option to add your child(ren) to your account. When you add each child, be sure to add their date(es) of birth and appropriate grade(s). This will allow the system to automatically open up registration for you when each season opens.
3.) When each season opens for registration, visit “Register for a League” which is also located to the left of the screen, just below “My Wagdogs”, and select “St. Christopher CYO” from the list of available leagues. Please note that if there are not any currently open sports or activities to register for, our name will not appear. This page can also be visited by clicking this link: https://www.wagdogs.com/registration/104/signup/
4.) A list of your child(rens) name(es) should appear with either a checkbox to register them for an available sport/activity, or it will say “No available activity”. If you wish to register them for an available activity, click the checkbox and it will take you to the appropriate page to register them for the sport/activity.
5.) When registering your child, you will have the option to pay online or offline. If you pay online, all fees are refundable online from Wagdogs up to 30 days. After 30 days, please contact us directly at the Parish for a refund. Offline payments should be sent to the Parish Office in an envelope with your child’s name clearly printed on it, with their grade, sport, and uniform size shirt and shorts (if appropriate). Offline payments will be processed as they are received.
If at any time you have any questions, please contact either Lou Decree ([email protected]) or Father Steve ([email protected]).
“Beloved young athletes, athletics offers you, among other things, also the opportunity to improve your own personal spiritual state…sports are not merely the exercise of muscles, but the school of moral values and of training in courage, in perseverance, and in overcoming laziness and carelessness. There is no doubt that these values are of the greatest interest for the formation of a personality which considers sports not an end in itself but as a means to total and harmonious physical, moral and social development.”
The St. Christopher CYO program is just one of many components that we as a Parish employ to engage our youth, and to provide for them a well-rounded experience of the world around them. By engaging in athletic competitions, we seek to nurture the physical and mental well being of our students, while at the same time incorporating these into the spiritual foundation which has already been founded for them, thereby strengthening all of these components together as one.
CYO Sports is one component of a parish’s comprehensive youth ministry program which enables the partnership of parents, coaches, priests, religious, teachers and adult leaders to manage and support a sports program that allows youth to grow in their relationship with God and come to better understand themselves and the Catholic faith.
From the Archdiocese of Philadelphia CYO Athletic Ministry Handbook: 2019-2020, Section III: General Policies, A.) Code of Conduct
All participants: athletes, coaches, and parents are expected to bear the mark of the Christian witness which identifies us as a Catholic Parish community. This occurs on the courts, fields, classrooms, and in the community as well. To help achieve this standard, the Archdiocese of Philadelphia has developed a clear Code of Conduct which everyone is expected to abide by.
The following are examples of Offensive Actions and Penalties:
No CYO athlete, coach or spectator is permitted to....
a. Refuse to abide by an official’s decision
b. Display objectionable behavior by throwing equipment or any other forceful action.
c. Heap verbal abuse upon any athlete, coach, spectator or official
d. Lay hands upon, push, shove, strike, threaten to strike or physically attack an athlete, coach, spectator or official.
This list is not exhaustive.
Any athlete, coach or spectator who is found to be guilty of any of the above violations may face the following penalties:
a. Violation of Articles a thru c - Minimum five-game suspension for CYO league and/or playoff competitions. (A coach may not coach another CYO team while under suspension.)
b. Coach, spectator or athlete in violation of Article d - Minimum suspension for one full calendar year from all CYO sports.
c. Violation of above imposed penalties for conduct - If a violator disregards a penalty when properly notified, his or her team will be suspended from all competition for one full calendar year for that particular sport. The parish is responsible for enforcement.