The schedule for this week has been posted to the site. Both juniors and seniors will be at the turf Tuesday and Thursday.

Please check the great new videos posted to the site from the 2017 provincials, the seniors trip to Baltimore earlier this season and the trip to Denver last spring. Video credit to Caleb Kueber! Videos can be found here – http://www.teampages.com/clubs/2598/videos

No other reminders for this week. Have a good week leading into Spring Break.

Great job by all players within the Spartan lacrosse program. What a fantastic 3 days in Coquitlam and Vancouver and an excellent opportunity to display Claremont lacrosse. 4 teams in the semis of tier one lax, 3 in the finals (which is weird??) and then 2 BC champions!!! Congratulations.

And…equally as important quiet and respectful stays while at the hotel and travelling as a program while on the ferries.

Special thanks to parents and bus drivers Grant Pepper and Nathan Stevens for their willingness to help out and drive the boys from field to field and hotel. Can’t thank them enough and I hope the boys did too!!! As well to Chris for ‘manning the ship’ so often as I was often back and forth due to also coaching girls basketball BCs.

Was great to see so many parents out supporting the boys as well. Hope that was enjoyed.

Full size photos of the teams after the wins are available under the Photos section of the site.

Thankfully Monday is a Pro-D day where most staff are off for the day and I/we can all catch our breath. Tues and Wed we will be at school for PE and training, Thur we will be at the turf, and Fri will depend on weather.

Looking ahead we have only 2 weeks prior to spring break and traditionally after spring break for the month of Apr we will do a little less lacrosse at school as indoor seasons are doing tryouts and have their start ups. First though we have a trip to Seattle at the end of March (which is during spring break) for our annual entry to the Northwest Invitational.

Team list will go up this Tuesday and information will go home later this week. Traditionally a Gr 11/12 trip which we also try to involve a Gr 10 or 2 for a total of approx 25 players. We will leave either late Thur (Mar 30) or early Fri (Mar 31) morning and return Sun early evening.

Enjoy the Monday off – use the time to catch up on school days missed last week.

Coach Reisig.

Claremont Lacrosse swept the Tier 1 provincials capturing the title in both senior and junior!

Great job by all players within the Spartan lacrosse program. What a fantastic 3 days in Coquitlam and Vancouver and an excellent opportunity to display Claremont lacrosse. 4 teams in the semis of tier one lax, 3 in the finals (which is weird??) and then 2 BC champions!!! Congratulations!

Full size images of each winning team are available under the Photos section of the site.

Here are the games for tomorrow.

Juniors: semi finals at 9am:
Claremont 1 (Shaun as goalie) vs New West at Mercer
Claremont 2 (Brian/Jack as goalie) vs Royal Bay at Charles Best

Seniors semi finals at 11am:
Grade 12 vs New West at Mercer
Grade 11 vs Centennial at Charles Best

1pm junior final TBA
3pm senior final TBA

Message below was sent earlier from Coach Reisig but recapping again to ensure everyone sees it and have it posted to site.

Hope everyone had a good weekend – congrats to our 7 grade 9/10 athletes also on the school basketball team as they captured the Island championships this Sat at Belmont.

This week we are at the turf both Tues and Thur with both classes – if weather cooperates I’ll be adding a 3rd session for each with that being Mon for the sr group and wed for the jr group. For now, those will be planned for at the school.

Friday is a pro D day – enjoy the day off!!

Attached is the schedule for the high school BC tourney slated for Feb 27-Mar 3 (we only travel Mar 1). I would ask that teams understand that the tie breaker rule for seeding often comes down to penalty minutes. The best your team can do in a round robin game is; win (2 points) and get a +5 for goal difference and have zero penalty minutes. The point being, there is no need to run up the score. Winning 5-0 with no penalties is far better than winning 25-0 with 3 minutes of penalties!

Reminder if not already done – I need the Team registration form sent to the BCLA individual player registrations to Deb Heard at the BCLA office. PLEASE INDICATE THE TEAM AND DIVISION ON ALL REGISTRATIONS! Put the school name in the top box (Association/Club) on the BCLA form (many jr guys are done, many sr guys are NOT).

Early this week I will post the teams as they will be for the tournament. The jr teams will be split as evenly as we think possible and 1 and 2 will be just the numbers attached to them. The sr guys will be split by grade and the 12’s can be Claremont 1 and the 11’s Claremont 2.

All boys will travel over together Wed, Mar 1 (likely the 9:00 am ferry) and will return together Fri early evening with both buses likely booked for the 7:00 p.m. ferry. Buses are booked and huge thanks to Mr. Nate Stevens and Mr. Grant Pepper for their willingness to help and drive the boys for the 3 days. It will be a challenge, but Chris and I intend to go back and forth between the 3 fields and 4 teams to make sure at least one of us at each game to coach and supervise. Parents are welcome to attend and support the teams and I may be able to help you secure a room.

The boys will room with one another and in teams wherever possible. Strict rules, bed and room checks, curfews, and in general rules and expectations will be in place and made very clear. That being said it is impossible to be at every place at every moment even though we will try but…if a young man chooses to break any of the rules said prior to the trip or while there they can expect to be sent home immediately, be suspended from the program and banned from any trips in the future for at least one year. Possible further consequences from school admin could follow!

Cost for this trip will be minimal and I wish could be nothing but entry fee for 4 teams, bus and ferry, and hotel is a little too much for program fees to absorb – am guessing approx. $80-100 per player. Will send permission forms and $$ amounts home later this week.

Any questions, let me know – thanks.

Coach Reisig