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2012 SHOOTOUT Schedule V4 FINAL

FIELD DIAGRAM 2012

2012 SHOOTOUT Apparel V2

Volunteer Scheduling links:

Shootout Staff: http://rlashootout.pleasebringit.com/public/5LzAJLP+4cw

Penalties and Scoring:  http://rlashootout.pleasebringit.com/public/i+kjTlvmg+M

Shootout Prep: http://rlashootout.pleasebringit.com/public/mUs6zetoMBU

US LACROSSE REGISTRATIION -

Please note that the majority of our players and coaches are registered with US Lacrosse through their group registration process. It takes US lacrosse up to 2 month to “Catch-up” with the processing of all group registrations.  As a result  many of our players and coaches may receive expiration notifications from US lacrosse.  Please disregard these notices as they are system generated and don’t reflect our group registration update.

NEW UNIFORMS -

New Uniforms – We have almost completed a rather challenging changeover to a new name, logo,  color scheme, uniform provider and introduced our boys team to the latest concept in uniforms ( 3 piece suit).   Please tell your parents not to use bleach on any Pro athletics apparel ( including white coaches shirts).   I think the kids have been pleased with what they have received.   I will continue to work with each team to address sizing issues and ask that you please return any extra apparel back to me.

APPAREL SALES  -

We are now almost done in preparing to offer for purchase our new RLA apparel.   The new apparel will include our more traditional but updated cotton hoodies,  t-shirts and car magnets AND items offered for sale and customization by Pro Athletics.  This includes full sublimation, hoodies, polos,  boys shooters, “GIRLS” shooters (sized for girls), jackets, socks and in the future equipment bags.    We are trying to manage this on-line and hope to launch this site some time later this month.

DIRECTIONS TO  OPPONENTS FIELDS

Our website now has a tab for directions which has directions to all of our fields and many of our opponent fields.  This list will be updated during the year.

LACROSSE DAY APRIL 21, 2012 -

A reminder to please mark your calendars for this day and ask that you please show your support for this sport and our program be attending the youth and high games that day and evening.  I will be turning my attention to plan for this event and will ask for help from our parents, coaches and board members.  We hope to have every RLA player dressed in their new uniforms attend the varsity game and participate on the field for introductions prior to the varsity game(7pm).  We will have contests and prizes after each qtr,  a mini game for our  youngest players at halftime, we will be hoping to conduct a used lacrosse equipment donation drive for the Trenton bridge program.  I would like to have an apparel table and food concessions as well.    I think this will be a wonderful event and a great day/evening for both youth and high school programs in Robbinsville.

SHOOTOUT 2012 – sold out again

More to come on this later in the season.

BLAKELY AND COMMUNITY PARK REMINDERS

Please ensure that all players, coaches and parents are doing their part to keep our fields clean and make sure that each team polices their area for water bottles and any other garbage after they finish practicing or playing a game.  Also there has been a few folks chipping golf balls on the field  which is not permitted as well.  Finally,  please  ask your parents to please not allow their children to use our lacrosse goals for other sports like soccer and never, sit or lean on the back of these nets as they are not constructed to support the constant weight – even of a child.  Almost all our goals were new last year and several of them are already damaged as a result of what I mentioned above.   Can I ask if anyone sees this happening to please ask that our goals not be used in this manner.

I  hope each team has success this season.  Success for me  is not measured solely  by wins and losses but by the advancement our players make in their skill and game knowledge from season start to end,  or if  players develop or grow their passion for this sport and if they are having fun!

Good luck and Honor the Game – Mike Langford / RLA President

Robbinsville’s Shoot Out — one of the regions most popular recreation boys lacrosse tournaments has sold out for the 9th straght year. 

Thank you to all of our registrants!

Coaches should be reaching out to teams in the next week or so.

March 3rd RLA/RHS Boys Coaches Clinic

Location – RHS Turf field / Classroom
Time: 2:00PM

March 4th Clinic / Practice – Weather permitting

Location – RHS Turf Field
Grade 7/8 boys = 10:00am-12:00noon
Grade 5/6 boys and girls = noon-2:00pm (half-field)
Grade 7/8 girls / 2/4 boys = 2:00-4:00pm

March 11th Clinic / Practice –Weather permitting

Location – RHS Turf Field
Grade 5/6 boys 9:00-11:00
Grade 5/6 girls 11:00-1:00
Grade 7/8 girls / 2/4 Girls 1:00-3:00
Grade 7/8 boys / 2/4 boys 3:00-5:00

In order to align with the high school program we are becoming the Robbinsville Ravens and moving to red and black uniforms.  ALL players need to be sized for the new uniforms.  Sizing will be this Sunday from 9 – 3 at the Senior Center.  One additional date will be announced.  Attending one of the sizing sessions is MANDATORY.  Thanks for your support as we take this important step.

Registration is officially closed for 2012 season and we have seen yet another   significant increase in our #’s this year. If you are interested in playing and have not yet signed up please send an email to robbinsvillelax@gmail.com with “LATE REGISTRATION” in the subject line and the following information in the body of the email.

- Player name: First and Last
- Gender
- Current Grade
- Town
- Primary contact #
- Primary email address
- Yrs of experience with lax
- Jersey size (YS-AXXL)
- Shorts size (YS-AXXL)

This will form our official wait list. We will contact you if a spot opens up on a team. We will maintain this wait list until March 11. The late registration fee is $300 which we will collect if you are contacted.

Spring registration closes 1/31/12.  We have reached wait list status for the 5/6 & 7/8 Boys teams.

RLA parents –  Happy New Year to you all and may 2012 bring you good health, happiness and success.

As promised I wanted to give you all an update on our registration for the 2012 season.   As indicated in my note to the league our #’s appear to be growing again which is great news.  Also great news is that a few parents have volunteered to be head coaches and a larger group has committed to assist each of our teams.

Unfortunately it is the head coaches that determine the # of players we can field per team.  While I am grateful for the support it still does not appear to be sufficient to accommodate what I project to be the total # of kids who are looking to play lacrosse in Robbinsville.  As of tonight we have close to 160 children registered and all teams still have a spot available based on confirmed head coaches.

As a comparison we had just shy of 100 children registered last year at this time.  On line registration has helped increase these #’s but there are still many who played last year that have yet to register. I believe we will quickly move to having to establish a waitlist for most teams in the very near future.  I have reviewed the current registration list and there are only 2 potential player who might not be eligible to participate in RLA based on the criteria defined in my last note.  I have also been in touch with most of the head coaches and they have reconfirmed their intent to coach this season.  

 Areas of need are at both girls and boys 5/6 and 7/8 head coaches.  This is still tentative as we might have some flexibility to move some of our head coaches to different age levels given they have multiple children in the program. This will be finalized in the next few weeks as we see where our numbers come out.  I would ask you all one more time to consider a head coach position.  For those who have agreed to be an assistant;  please reconsider being a head coach.

The last thing the RLA board wants to do is to turn away children who want to learn to play this wonderful sport and I promise is to do everything I can to accommodate your children but there is a very real chance we may have to limit registration for 2012.

 Summary

-Everyone who has registered to date (on-line and manual) as of 12/31 is on a team for the spring  (still need to validate 2 out of town registrations).

- Exceptions to get off waitlist ( if necessary) – Rville township residents (only)  who are willing to play goalie.

Regsitration levels for 2012 have been high.  In order to ensure that we can provide a positive experience for all players we have suspended registration until we can determine the number of teams we can support.  We expect to have this resovled by January 3rd. Any questions or issues email robbinsvillelax@gmail.com