Dear all,

Today's Beckman game will be held at Hicks Canyon Elementary School in Irvine.

The address is 3817 Viewpark, Irvine, CA 92602, USA
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Varsity will play at 5:15pm
JV will play at 4:00pm

If you have any questions please call or email me. I will continue to post updates to the website on the front page.

Ski week practice will continue as scheduled for this week. Practices may be cut short if conditions worsen as a result of the weather. We are expecting sunshine in the afternoons for Thursday and Friday.

It will be cold, so please bring something warm.

Coach Ben

Thank you to all the parents who attended the Parents Meeting last night. I hope it gave you a good idea of our team and what we are trying to accomplish. For those of you who missed the meeting last night, I will include the powerpoint presentation here for you. All of the information presented last night can be found on various pages on our website. Thank you all for giving me an opportunity to teach your daughters the game of lacrosse and make an impact on their lives.

Parent Meeting Powerpoint

Coach Ben

Our team motto this year is, "One, Two, Three, Together!"

I was inspired by an article I read Rick Reilly, the back page columnist for Sports Illustrated. He wrote an article about the tradition at Middlebury College of "Picking Up Butch". You will have to read the article to find out what it is about, but I'll tell you about how it inspired me.

After reading the article, it put into perspective how lucky any one of us are to participate in this sport. How we have the ability to do anything we wanted, if we wanted to. My second takeaway is the word together. It truly is the definition of the word team. You strip it down to its meaning, and it's just about being together, working together, winning and losing together.

If you want to read the story it is available online here.

Coach Ben

Thank you all for those who came to the lunchtime meeting. If you missed the meeting, the handout has been posted online.

View Handout