As we wind the Spring season down, its time to start gearing up for another memorable summer of Webster Lacrosse. It's an exciting time of year but it is also bittersweet. As we say hello to a lot of future Titan and Warrior families we are also saying goodbye or hopefully, maybe just farewell for now, to some of our graduating families as they start the next chapter of their lives.
Our summer tournament seasons have already started. But the highlight of the summer is always our own Webster Classic. For the High School kids, the Classic is preceded by the Titan and Warrior Camps held 6/21-6/24. To register, go to the Parks and Recreation website. For kids entering 6th grade and below, the Webster Camps will be later in the summer.
On 6/25, the little tykes will be attending the MLL game at the Rhino's Stadium on Friday, the night before the tournament. Then on 6/26/2010 we will be hosting the Webster Classic. It should be a great day. We have some powerful, competitive teams coming in at the Scholastic level and some quality clubs that share our commitment to teaching the "Game" at the youth level.
This year we have a well organized volunteer planning schedule. Participation is the standard. Don't be below the standard! Involvement is the metric by how we measure success. If there is any question at all about what is expected of your family, contact your child's program director to get clarification. As a rule of thumb, if you walk away from our tournament without doing anything, you are doing it wrong. There are plenty of hotdogs and burgers to flip for everyone.
At the Classic, we will be awarding the 2010 Gary Crandall Scholarship to our graduating seniors. We encourage as many of you as possible to attend. It is a celebration of our graduating seniors and also a celebration of our "core values." It is a celebration of our diversity as a lacrosse community, a celebration of the Webster Lacrosse family and our love of the "Medicine Game."
This summer we are also proud to announce that the Box improvement project, Phase I is now a reality. The turf is in!!! The youth programs have already started playing there. We are also making plans for competitive Box Lacrosse at the Middle School and High School levels. We will officially open the Box later this summer as we finish off the final touches. No "re-dedication" would be complete without recognizing our advertising sponsors whose names appear on the Website and who sponsor panels on the Dasherboards. We had to paint over their advertising space to rehabilitate the boards, but we are restoring their advertising space and once they are in, we would like to invite them to our official reopening later in the summer or early fall.
We will also invite our "Friends of Webster Lacrosse" to the grand reopening. The Friends of Webster Lacrosse will be acknowledged as part of our "Board of Fame." Much like the Frontier Field "brick of fame" every family that contributes to the "Friends of Webster Lacrosse" will help finance our final goals of lights, bleachers and even a score board or a sound system. Anyone interested in being a "Friend of Webster Lacrosse or a Dasher Board Sponsor should contact any one of our Board Members. We would love to have you on board for the ride.
Folks, it is going to be a great summer. Webster summers always are. Make sure your summers are spent doing something other than lacrosse. There may be moments when your lacrosse experience does not match your expectations. We understand that. Some of that has to do with growing pains since summer time is about "moving up" to the next level. But put those feelings aside and bring something to the table before you make any drastic decisions or comments. Don't lose the forest for the trees. Keep it all in perspective, enjoy the sunshine, and remember they are only young once, make it count.
"To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our lives. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is think. You should spend some time in thought. And number three is, you should have your emotions moved to tears, could be happiness or joy. But think about it. If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special.” - - " Don't give up, don't ever give up."
