Practice is on for Friday, September 3, 2010


NEW PRACTICE TIME CHANGE!!

Begining Tuesday, August 31st, practice time is 5:45pm to 7:30pm.




Practice:

Attendace this season is below average. We have had 18 practices and have yet to field a complete Varsity Team. Accordingly, we are behind schedule. Nonetheless, we will continue to work with the boys who are participating in practice to prepare them for the opening game. Those boys, regardless of ability, who have the best attendance ratio, can expect to be first on the depth chart.


It is very important to make all the practices! We are a team and if a player is not there it really messes up practice! Thus far we have not been able to practice at 100% due to missing players.

The Junior Program has formed into three (3) teams: While we hope this is our final version, we reserve the right to make adjustments based on the Junior Program needs.

BLACK: 

Acevedo, Allen, Belyy, Black, Cass, Cove, Dietz, Fitzgerald,
Fusco, Gelinas, Gentile, Goldberg, Horowitz, Kelleher, Lemke, Levsky, McGeary, Prast, Schwartz, Sergentanis, Smith N, Vahadji, Walker B, Wright

RED:

Brock, Byrne, Comey, Daviau, Dhamodharan, Dion, Duquette, Katz, Leveillee, McBride, McLaughlin M, Mishol, Moseman, Olson, Ryan L, Shea, Skole, Stathis, Szczepanek, Vasquez, Walker M.

WHITE:

Bonavita, Brown, Burger, Burns, Calabrese, Cieplik, Cruz, Danalis, Davis, Hornsby, Hurley, LeHouiller, Mafuz,
McLaughlin D,   O' Connor Panetti, Ryan C, Scheidecker, Scolari, Shenker, Sierra, Smith A, Wiles.
  

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Varsity Games are available. We are looking into why the White Varsity schedule only has 7 games. Please be patient.

FYI....the times listed start with the PeeWee's, the Juniors an hour later and so on for the Seniors.

As soon as the JV becomes available, we will post it. The White team will be playing the JV schedule this season.


BLACK SCHEDULE:

Date	Start Time	Teams	Game Location	Varsity
9/11/2010	4:45 PM	Longmeadow @ Northampton	Northampton	Varsity
9/19/2010	12:15 PM	Spfld CYO @ Longmeadow	Longmeadow	Varsity
9/26/2010	12:15 PM	Longmeadow @ East Longmeadow	E. Longmeadow	Varsity
10/3/2010	12:15 PM	Longmeadow @ Wilbraham	Wilbraham	Varsity
10/9/2010	4:45 PM	Springfield 5A @ Longmeadow	Longmeadow	Varsity
10/17/2010	12:15 PM	Longmeadow @ Agawam	Agawam	Varsity
10/23/2010	4:45 PM	Holyoke @ Longmeadow	Longmeadow	Varsity
10/30/2010	4:45 PM	East Longmeadow @ Longmeadow	Longmeadow	Varsity

RED SCHEDULE

Date	Start Time	Teams	Game Location	Varsity
9/12/2010	12:15 PM	Longmeadow 2 @ Amherst	Amherst	Varsity
9/19/2010	12:15 PM	Belchertown @ Longmeadow 2	Longmeadow	Varsity
9/25/2010	12:15 PM	Longmeadow 2 @ Chicopee	Chicopee	Varsity
10/3/2010	12:15 PM	Palmer @ Longmeadow 2	Longmeadow	Varsity
10/10/2010	12:15 PM	Quabbin @ Longmeadow 2	Longmeadow	Varsity
10/16/2010	4:45 PM	Longmeadow 2 @ South Hadley	South Hadley	Varsity
10/24/2010	12:15 PM	Westfield @ Longmeadow 2	Longmeadow	Varsity

Attendance:

One of the primary objectives of this program is to underscore the responsibility of being a member of a team. Attendance at practice is critical for the safety and well-being of each player and affects the morale of the team. Football is a highly organized, building block sport which requires thought, timing and coordination among 11 participants during each play. Missing practice may mean missing important fundamentals. It is our experience that players that miss too many practices, regardless of their skill levels are more easily confused in a game situation. This confusion sometimes distracts from the enjoyment of the game and perhaps jeopardizes the player’s safety.  At no time will a coach play an individual who he/she thinks is not appropriately prepared to participate.

Coaches take a great deal of time to organize practices. Each minute of practice is planned so that every player has a maximum amount of participation. A coach must know how many players will attend to plan the best drills, exercises, instruction and scrimmage. It is inconsiderate to the coaches to neglect to tell them in advance about the limitations in a player’s practice schedule.

When a player knows that he is going to be absent, he/she has the responsibilty to notify their coach in advance.  Players with unexcused absences can expect reduced playing time.

Weather:

Players should assume practice will be held regardless of the weather conditions unless a coach contacts them or posts a notice on a predetermined web site.  It is the parents and players responsibility to ensure that players are dressed appropriately for weather conditions.

Lightning – Longmeadow High School is equipped with a lightning detection system.  The system will sound an alarm if lightning is sensed within 2 miles of the school.  It is possible that the alarm will sound even though there does not appear to be a threat of bad weather at the field.  If conditions are clear after 20 minutes an “all clear” signal will sound.

If the LHS lightning alarm is sounded during practice coaches will immediately remove all players from the practice or game field.  If the high school is open players will be moved to the gym area.  If the school is not open coaches will do their best to move players into door alcoves for protection.  Each team head coach will decide if practice is over, or if the team will wait for lightning to pass.