UINTAH WEEK

Players, stay focused for this Friday's contest with Uintah. Take the next step to another Region X Title. This is the biggest game of your life this week...

Leg Kick!

That's all...

THIS TOO SHALL PASS

THIS TOO SHALL PASS

- PROVERB ASSOCIATED WITH PERSIAN SUFI

20-5
BEFORE YOU LEAD ON INTO THE POST I HAVE WRITTEN, GIVE IT SOME THOUGHT....

20-5?  WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU.... WHAT THIS MEANS THAT THE FIRST FIVE TEAMS WE FACEd HAVE AN OVER ALL RECORD of 20-5.  WE PLAYED A TOUGH PRESEASON AND THINGS DIDNT ALWAYS GO OUR WAY, BUT THEY WILL NOW.... THIS IS STILL OUR REGION AND 3 TEAMS HAVE TO COME TO OUR HOUSE AND PLAY WITH US.  DONT FORGET HOW THE DYNAMICS OF FOOTBALL WORK.  WE WILL BE BACK ON TOP.
THERE ARE SEVERAL GREAT THINGS THAT CAN BE TAKEN FROM FRIDAY AND FROM THE PAST SEVERAL WEEKS.  FIRST THING IS THAT IS NOW OFFICIALLY REGION TIME, THAT MEANS ALL OUT AND SELL OUT EVERY GAME.

WE ARE NOW IN THE SECOND PART OFF  THE SEASON..... PRACTICE GAMES ARE OVER AND WE SHOWED EVERY WEEK, THAT WE ARE GETTING BETTER. NOW LETS GO IN  A NEW SEASON 0-0, WATCH THE BAMBOO WE HAVE BEEN WATERING FOR YEARS EXPLODE TO NEW HEIGHTS JUST AS WE WILL READY TO TAKE

REGION X BACK!!!!

PERSEVERANCE

I have been doing a lot of thinking about where we are as a team and I have been proud of the improvements we have made in the past two weeks... However we are coming up just short.  My wife sent me this story about ultrarunner Dean Karnazes along with some quotes; she does have to live with me after all so she tries to keep my spirits up, which is GREATLY appreciated... Short Story....

In junior high, Dean Karnazes met Soap McTavish, a track coach who became Karnazes’ mentor and introduced him to the appeal of long-distance running. McTavish's basic running instructions were simple: "Go out hard and finish harder." Using this motto as a basis, that season Karnazes won the one-mile California State Long-Distance Championship held on the Mt SAC track. At the end of the race, Coach McTavish commented: "Good work son, how'd it feel?" To this Karnazes replied: "Well, going out hard was the right thing to do. It felt pretty good." The coach replied: "If it felt good, you didn’t push hard enough. It’s supposed to hurt like hell." A week after the race, Karnazes' father's job was transferred to San Clemente. These were the last comments the coach ever said to Karnazes, who has stated that he lives by these words to this day.

GO OUT HARD AND FINISH HARDER!

This is exactly what we speak about EVERYDAY: Start Fast, Play Hard, Finish Strong... Today leave everything you have on the field... What you keep you lose forever.

REMEMBER WHY YOU PLAY!

NEVER, NEVER, NEVER GIVE UP!

WHEN YOU'RE GOING THROUGH HELL KEEP GOING.

-WINSTON CHURCHILL

AND I COULDN'T RESIST THIS ONE...

YAMANASHI ALWAYS PERSEVERED!!!

LET'S GO GET THE WIN THAT WE HAVE WORKED SO HARD FOR, FOR SO LONG!

WIN THE DAY!

Alexander and The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Take a few minutes to look at this video. It's an old children's book, but I think it goes to show we all have bad days....

                                                      Alexanders bad day...

We have had a rough start this season, but it is far from over.  We, as coaches, still truly believe in all of you and we are DEVOTED to finishing this season strong and reclaiming our REGION X TITLE.  We need all of you as players, parents, boosters and student fans to stay the course with the season and SUPPORT OUR PROGRAM and, especially, have players supporting each other and the coaches.

Now we have one thing to focus on: JUAB. We will need to come out like we discuss every day...

START FAST

PLAY HARD

FINISH STRONG! 

We need to WIN this game and when we do, we can use the momentum to roll into Region play and be ready to take on a Union team that has given us fits in the past.

Let's stay on top of this and come out focused this week.  Practice like you want to play.

We will be watching film with Varsity on Monday after school in Coach Fine's classroom.  The JV team will be taking the field with half the coaching staff, in order to practice scout team plays on offense and defense.  Frosh will be practicing on the grass horseshoe field.  When we finish film and meeting, we will take the field to begin practice and prepare for a good JUAB team that beat Wasatch on Friday night.  Be prepared to play and make sure that we show the rest of our opponents that we will NOT roll over and we will NEVER GIVE UP...

WIN THE DAY!