Monday, May 6, 2003

We arrived in St. Louis without incident. It is an easy hop from Denver. However, shortly after we arrived this afternoon, St. Louis began to have tornado and flash flood warnings. What part of St. Louis? The southwest part? Near Fenton? That's where we are. Really? What a surprise. They are expecting 3-5 inches of rain tonight. Wherever we go, there it is, the eye of something or another. What it all means tomorrow, who knows? We could play on flubber turf or we could play on grass. We could play at 2:00, or we could play some other time. It sounds like par for our course. I could see lightning out the window in my room as gray became night. By the quick thunder cracks I would say the lightning was happenening less than 10 miles away, and the bolts looked about six inches wide on the window pane. The thunder echoes rolled and roared, before rumbling and fading away. It was an impressive spectacle, but not as scarey as being at my house during a Colorado afternooner. My chimney has been actually struck by lightning in each of the last two summers.

We are staying in by far the nicest hotel we've stayed at so far this year. This is a nice thing and also a scarey thing for this troop leader. We had a meeting tonight to go over all the down sides of acting like juvenile delinquets while here at this event. The Directors are extremely image conscious as this tournament takes on an ever lengthening profile within the big lacrosse picture.

I want to practice in the morning, but I don't really care. I feel like we are coming off our best week of practice, and I can't wait to just get out there and see what it looks like. I hope we are as ready as I think we are. I know we are young, and I know we don't have some things that other teams have, like people who want to take the ball to the "hoop", for example. For the most part, the only guys I have that want to go one on one are the long poles and goalies, and they aren't the ones who are usually supposed to do that. We pretty much need to do everything together, including offense. We depend on team concepts to create individual opportunities.

I love this team, and the way they put forth effort. I "trust" them on the field in a way that I may have never trusted another team. Even though this is such a young group overall, we have some great seniors to give it balance and leadership. I like the 2003 can of mixed CSU nuts. All year we have talked about how to read and understand what to do with situations. We work on this practice and in games as well. I don't give them playbooks to learn, I give them actual situations to read, and then we talk about choices. Whatever. Finals start tomorrow, and I better get some sleep.

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