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).

-We will re-open registration on Monday, January 2, 2012 no later than noon

-While we will still have walk up registration this coming weekend January 7/8, I highly recommend you register on line ASAP to give your child the best opportunity to be placed on a team.

-All registrations will be accepted at this time even if it exceeds our maximum #’s as we still may be able to shift coaches based on our #’s.

-Every registration is time stamped upon completion( including payment) so if necessary, waitlist order will determined by time registered.(If mailed-time will be date determined by date stamped on the envelope) — please do not put registration forms in my mailbox or under my door.

-All wait listed parents will be contacted by mid-January and then again when registration closes 1/31/12 

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