VFW

Dear Force Parents,

We are scheduled for practice this Saturday at Valencia HS from 2:30-4:00 p.m. and also on Sunday at Mariners from 5:00-7:00 p.m.

We are trying to set up a scrimmage this Saturday against the 6th grade team to help us prepare for the tournament in San Francisco.

Our press break and press still need work so it is important that we have all the players at practice to help then prepare for the full court game.

Please let Jon or I know if you cannot make either practice this weekend,

Thanks,

 Mark

Dear Force Parents,

We have more information for the San Francisco Tournament. We are scheduled to play in a 5th/6th grade division. There will be 6 teams divided into two pools, each pool will have one 5th grade team. There are only 6 more practices to prepare us for the full court pressure so it is important that everyone tries to be at practice.

 We will be running full court to prepare our timing for our press, press break, offense and defense. In order to have it run efficiently we need all the players to have as many opportunities as possible to run through everything. We will be having a second practice on Sunday afternoons at either Mariners, Columbus Tustin or the Cultural Center. We will try to schedule it in the late afternoons so please try to arrange your schedule accordingly.

When we return from San Francisco we will only have one weekend to practice for our own VFW Tournament.  We will probably practice twice that weekend too in order to prepare for the different teams that we could play at our VFW Tournament.

Please let Jon or I know if there are any questions regarding anything above.

Thanks,

Mark

Dear Force Parents,

We have officially been scheduled for the San Francisco Tournament as of today. We will have two games on Saturday 9:00 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. and one game on Sunday morning.

In order to prepare for this tournament we might be practicing twice a week for the next three weeks. The additional practice day would be if we can secure a gym.

We will have Saturday practices from 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Valencia HS, Large Gym in Fullerton. If we have practice on Sunday it will be at Mariners in Costa Mesa in the late afternoon. We should know in a day or two if the remodel is completed and ready to use again.

Please let Jon or I know if you are not going to be at practice this weekend.

Thanks again,

Mark 

Dear Force Parents,

We will be having a special practice this Saturday September 8th at the South Coast Chinese Cultural Center in Irvine from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. We will be having a full practice but will be having visitors watching our practice.

WPC and the Cultural Center have been very generous in letting us use gym time (over $1,000) this summer for our tournament practices. As a "thank you" we have volunteered to help their "pee wee and midget" coaches in learning new drills, offensive plays, inbound plays, defenses, press breaks, etc. for their own teams.

We will be running a full practice so please be sure to be ready at 3:00 p.m., you can arrive early and shoot free throws as nobody is scheduled before us but not too early maybe 2:30 p.m. at the earliest.

It is very important that all 10 players be at practice this weekend so that we can run 5 on 5 drills.

Please let us know if you cannot be at practice this Saturday,

Thanks,

Mark

Dear Force Parents,

I'm sure we are all trying to get back into that school schedule by now, hope everyone had a great Labor Day weekend. Well, it's time to start practicing for our two October tournaments. As of Thursday we do not have any gym time for either Saturday (VFW) or Sunday (our own). There is still a chance that we will practice this weekend as we have not heard back from VFW yet.

We will schedule about six practices to prepare for San Francisco and will have two more additional ones before our own VFW Tournament later in October.

Please check the web later tonight or tomorrow morning to confirm this weekends schedule.

Mark