Good Morning Lady Titan LAX Family,

It’s SuperBowl Week!!! I don’t know about you, but I am getting really excited about this Sunday…I have a lot of information to share, so let’s get right to it:

- SUNDAY 2 FEB : THERE IS NO INDOOR PRACTICE AT LAKELAND. WE SHOULD ALL BE CHEERING ON THE CHIEFS!

Here is some additional important information for everyone, so please mark your calendars:
- MONDAY 24 FEB: LSW LAX Fundraiser at Martin City Pizza and Taproom (354 SW Blue Pkwy, Lee’s Summit, MO 64063). Any purchases after 4pm will have 10% go to the LSW LAX Club. They are also reserving an area just for us…makes plans to go eat some pizza and support our club!

- SATURDAY 29 FEB: Team Lock-in at LSW’s Aux Gym. This event will be for the team to spend the night at LSW, have fun, play games and activities and get to know each other. We are still working out the details, but we will most likely go from 8pm until 9am the next morning. Any parents interested in helping out (crowd control, coordinating food, drinks, etc…) please reach out to me at 816-977-5707. I am in need of some moms to help as only the male coaches are able to attend (Coach Casie has a prior commitment).

I know there are a lot of first-year parents who have yet to fully experience a season with us, so I wanted to share some basic information to help all of you with what’s coming up.

Starting on 2 MARCH, the lacrosse season will “officially” start, and we will move to full practices at LSW. Our designated practice field is directly behind the tennis courts at LSW unless we are forced to go indoors due to inclement weather, then we will practice at the LSW AUX gym. Practices will ALWAYS be from 5pm-7pm on Monday – Thursday (No Friday practices). The only change will be if we run out of daylight while outdoors until daylight savings time has us move our clocks forward.

Monday 2 March – Thursday 5 March : Varsity tryouts. Varsity Roster will be announced at the end of practice on 5 March.

Thursday 5 March at 7pm – Mandatory Parent Meeting: I will secure a room at LSW and let you know when I get one. I would like for parents to make every effort to attend this meeting. This will be where you can meet the coaching staff, hear our expectations for the team, expectations for parents, hear my plea for a few volunteers, you can sign up to host a team feeding, etc. Plus you can meet your fellow lax parents. If there’s enough interest, I’ll be happy to host a quick 30 min Lacrosse 101 course to those who don’t know the game.

Our games will start the week after Spring Break. The games will be scheduled during a weeknight (Mon-Fri), and we will have 5 home and 5 away. Games at stadiums with lights will usually start with a 5:30pm JV game and 7pm Varsity. Stadiums without lights (i.e. Sion, St. Teresa’s) will have a 4:30pm Varsity, 6pm JV. Our coaching staff asks for all of our players to be there for both games. Players will be in the bench area and will cheer for their teammates when they are not playing.

I have committed our team to 2 out-of-town tournaments this year. One for the Varsity, and one for the JV

Friday 27 MARCH – Saturday 28 MARCH – Our Varsity team will be going to Omaha to play 3 NE-IA teams. We will play 1 game Friday evening, and 2 games on Saturday. We will supply the Varsity roster to the LSW front office so each player can get an excused absence for that Friday so you can make the trip. As soon as I get more details, I’ll share the hotel info and game location info with the Varsity Parents. Transportation will be on each Varsity player and parent to coordinate.

Saturday 4 APRIL – Our JV team will be playing in a tournament in Columbia, MO. This will be a day-trip, so we can plan on leaving early Saturday morning, making the drive, play our games, and then go to Shakespeare’s Pizza to eat before we all go home.

I know I just shared a great deal of information, but I wanted to get it out there so everyone can start marking their calendars. If you have any questions, or are willing to volunteer for the lock-in, please reach out to me.

GO CHIEFS!
~Coach Jay