Hello Cougars,

Thank you for coming last Saturday, Aug. 22nd to the Meet and Greet. It was a great time had by all. Special thanks to the Boosters for providing some great food and drinks to complete the day. It is now time to prepare for CVHS Fallball.

We will start our practices for Fallball on Wednesday, September 9th on the stadium field from 6:30 -8:30 pm. The rest of the fallball season we will practice Mondays from 5:00-7:00 on the soccer field and Wednesdays from 6:30 - 8:30 on the Stadium field. We will adjust our practice time on Mondays according to the available day light hours as we move further into the fall/winter.

Some of the new players have inquired about purchasing equipment and specifically about what type of lacrosse helmet to purchase. Your helmet should be purchased ASAP. (We will have a strict uniform policy at the high school level.) The helmet must be solid black in color with no other colors or schemes; we will provide the Team logos and trim. Cascade makes the best helmets in my opinion and there are a few models to consider. The Pro 7 model or the CPX model should be the obvious choices based on the comfort and the protective qualities of these helmets. I recommend South Swell Sports in Laguna Hills. They will honor a 10% discount I have set up with them for any gear you might need.

As for Gloves and Arm Pads, I will only allow Black, White, Gray or Gold/Yellow colors or any combination of these colors. No other colors will be acceptable! We will wear our team "Shooter shirts" to all practices and games and black shorts only. You may wear whatever color socks you want to practices, however on game day you must only wear our black team socks that will come in your spirit pack. There will be no exceptions for uniform infractions! We will look like a team and play like a team whenever we are together as a team...

Please come prepared on the 9th as we will be starting to implement our conditioning program and ball drills immediately. You need to bring plenty of water and maybe some fruit if you need a quick energy boost. Also everyone should be doing Wallball on their own, 100 times each hand. It was very clear during the Meet and Greet that many of you only have a one handed game. Lacrosse requires you to be proficient in both hands and this is not something that I should constantly have to remind you of on the field. You have to discipline yourselves to become strong in both hands and I am depending on you to develop this skill by investing your personal time to do so.

On another note: We have many of our Cougar Lax brothers and teammates on the CVHS Football teams. I would like you to attend all home games if possible and support your teammates and CVHS Football.

Thank you for your time

Coach Russ Wilhelm

"Hard Work"