in regards to the season, i was thinking we should start the season earlier and possibly end it a little earlier.  spring gets broken up by spring break, easter, president's day, i don't know what else.  APs, graduation, senior week...

with a longer season that starts earlier, teams won't miss out on as many games due to those breaks.  having a couple of games get rained out won't matter as much.  plus, more games=more experience for everyone involved.  now i'm not sure if wafc has the permits for the fields for february and march, but i felt like the season started really late last year and was very short.

as for the tournament, in the 2 years prep has had a team, we have not been able to play in the actual tournament because we get out earlier than other schools in the area.  both years, we managed to field a team for pool play which has been after graduation for our seniors.  however, this past year, we ran into 1.5 no-shows due to prom the night before, which meant the end of the season absolutely sucked for my guys.  moving the tournament up a week or two would not only mean my team could actually play, but hopefully we'd be able to avoid teams not showing up.

speaking of  no-shows, i understand that things come up, some weekends are bad, etc.  all it takes is a phone call or email to let the other team know so that they don't waste half their day driving out to sligo and waiting around for someone to show up.

c.p.hsia.