Hello Everyone,
Happy Summer to All. We're getting ready for football season and I want to share some dates with you. Our first week of practice will be Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, the 13th, 14th and 15th of August. Practice times for these first 3 days is from 5:00 - 6:30PM, we'll try to beat the heat. Also, these practices will be with just helmets, shorts and cleats, we'll start full pads on Monday, August, 18th. We'll have 4 practices the week of Aug. 18th and 4 the week of Aug. 25th., times will announced later. Our first game will be the weekend of Sept. 5-6, the schedules are not out yet so I will get that info out asap.
I will be the head coach and Coach John Tasiopoulos will be assisting and heading the defense. I would like one more assistant coach and/or a person to keep stats during games, for example, down and distance, starting position etc. Anyone interested in volunteering or being involved in any way, please let me know. Also, Kathy Firth has generously volunteered to be the Team Mom and will be helping with communication, schedules, carpooling, etc.
Personally, I think it's great to have the nucleous of our original JV team back together, and we are thrilled to be coaching these players. With the addition of some new players, we feel that we have a solid team and expect to have a good year. I will have a better feel for that in late August. Everybody on our roster will play, there will be no one on our team who will watch the entire season from the bench. Winning is important, and we will try to win every game, but so is the maturation and development of our kids. We will teach the players the fundamentals of blocking and tackling, footwork, hand placement and positioning for lineman, and the team concept of offense, defense and special teams. ALL starting positions are available to the players who earn it, it doesn't matter who played where last year, this is a new season and everything is open.
PLAYERS......We will be looking for speed and quickness at the skill positions, so if you want to play quarterback, running back, wingback, receiver, safety etc., you will need to be fast and I encourage EVERYONE to be in shape. We will start the process of determining positions at the very first practice. For those returning players from last year's varsity team..............last year you were undermanned and shorthanded, this year we will not be, keep that in mind as you prepare for this season. Wilmette Catholic has some unfinished business to take care of from last year.
As always, I like to keep open communication, please feel free to share any thoughts or comments, I am a parent of 2 players as well as the coach, we are all in this together. Let's have a great year.
Rob Sernus
847-372-1953 cell
P.S. Please let me know if there is someone not on the list that should be.
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