Championship programs are different. If you believe that people will live up to expectations then you are on your way to understanding why we do things the way we do.  Yes, we don't need all the stuff we have.  We could play lacrosse without all the accouterments.  We don't need  the players names on the backs of the jerseys or two helmets or six combinations of uniforms.  We don't need players bags, mobile applications, wall papers, websites, Twitter, Facebook or activity buses that look better than any college programs.  None of that stuff is necessary.  However if you strive for the minimum that is usually what you get.  Our boys will practice in a season for over 200 hours and they will devote at least 6 weekends in that four month period to lacrosse.  Our middies will run close to six miles in a game or close to 84 miles in a 14 game season and we are not counting practice, scrimmages and tournaments.  Most of that running is at a full sprint.  We ask a lot of our boys.  They have to schedule their day tightly to get their school work done and participate in the sport.  These are life lessons they are learning as a member of the team. They get 4 days off for spring break instead of 7 or 8.  When others are beaching it our guys are running wind sprints because they want the prize.  They are working when others are not because the taste of defeat in that last game has a lingering bitterness they would like to wash from their palettes.  

Is lacrosse expensive?  I would argue it is not.  A DUI ticket or MIP is probably $8,000 once the attorney's get through with you.  Rehab for a child that has gotten into something that will ruin their life is probably double that.   If you play lacrosse you don't have time for much else and even a 16 year old brain can discern the consequences of abhorrent behavior and his position on the team.  He understands that not only has he let himself down but he has let his teammates down as well.  That is good peer pressure.  Many parents have contributed, sacrificed, and supported their children in the years before you to bring our program to this level.  We cannot let them down, we cannot let our players down, we cannot let our coach down, we cannot let our school down.  To stand on the top of the heap at the end of the season takes a commitment of time, funding, and incredibly hard and tedious work.  This lacrosse program might be the only time in your child's life that he can say for one day, one season there was nobody better than his team of which he was an integral part.  So please show your child that you care and you are willing to do what you can to proliferate what others have done before you. When we win that 6th Championship in April you will feel like you were on the team and that Championship is as much yours as it is theirs.  Trust us when we say that is one of the best feelings in the world.  You might not ever feel that again.

Now is the time to work for the prize. Shortly we are going to be reaching out for parents to fill positions to support the team.  Please carefully consider our request.  That is your membership into the club.  Your right to feel like it is your team not just your sons.  High achievement takes a village.  When you see a turtle on top of a fence post you know he didn't get there by himself.  Let's do this.