Parents and athletes please do your best to be responsible with scheduling other commitments during practice time. Looking over the calender for the next two weeks we have over 20 conflicts including marching band, family commitments and anything else. These are commitments that, if marked on the calender we can plan for and around, and we have designed a system to make them as minimally disruptive to practice as possible. However, we simply cannot continue to accomodate the growing number of "very important" things that continues to plague our participation at practice. Commiting to something as challenging as being on a rowing team means that you sometimes have to make sacrifices over things that you want and feel are important to you. But when deciding to come to me with conflicts please ask yourself if this is a nice thing for you to have or is essential for you to have. Tutoring for a student that is struggling in class may be a good example of something that is essential and potentially unplanned for. Even with something like tutoring an athlete is still expected to plan and organize their schedule so we can plan appropriately.
Our successes thus far this year are because, as a group, we have made the serious commitment to the sport and followed through in our actions. In doing so, we are committing to teaching life skills such as; organization, goal-setting, responsibility, accountability and commitment that will help give our student/athletes tools that will better prepare them for college and beyond.
