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What we want for your children:

• People who are positive influences in the school and community.
• People who are organized, can prioritize, and have a tremendous work ethic.
• People with a great mistake response.
• People who communicate and advocate for themselves and their teammates.

What we will do for your children:

• Try to make our athletes feel both challenged and valued every day.
• Teach our athletes to embrace the inevitable failures of doing hard things.
• Teach our athletes to win with character and to lose with class.
• Hold our athletes accountable for their words and actions.

What we want from your children:

• Be present and prepared.
• Be coachable and open to learning new things.
• Be a great leader and a great teammate.
• Be able to communicate with adults and peers in a positive way.

Building a positive culture accentuates the good times and helps us through the tough times.

But culture does not stop at the locker room door.

Please understand that culture also lives (and dies) in the car ride home, in group texts, and in kitchen table discussions. When you question officials, criticize coaching decisions, or make playing time the main topic, your children absorb it and it shows up in body language, in frustration, and in comparisons that all lead to negative outcomes.

Things to remember:

• Roles are earned.
• Growth is more important than stats.
• Adversity builds strength.

What we need from you:

• Focus on effort, not outcome.
• Be a fan, not a coach.
• Communicate appropriately with the coaches.
• Encourage your child to advocate for themselves.
• Be supportive of the team and the coaches where you are able.