Crystal Lake Central Boys Basketball

This year's Varsity Basketball Awards Banquet will be on Sunday, March 21st at 4pm at Lou Malnati's Pizzeria.
Paper invitations have been sent home, and a copy can be downloaded here.

VARSITY BOYS BASKETBALL AWARDS BANQUET
SUNDAY, MARCH 21ST, 2010
4:00-6:00PM

LOU MALNATI’S PIZZERIA
8515 Redtail Drive
Located in the Lakewood Commons (at the corner of Redtail Dr and Ackman Rd)

Players are free, all others older than age 8 cost $15. Checks can be made payable to CLC Boys Basketball.

PLEASE RSVP NO LATER THAN SUNDAY, MARCH 14TH
via e-mail at COACHCZES@CLCTIGERS.COM
and include the number of people planning to attend. Payments can be made the day of the banquet, but we need to know hom many people are coming by March 14th!!!

This year's Frosh Soph Awards Night will be on Thursday, March 4th at 7pm in the CLC Cafeteria. Paper invitations will be sent home in the next 2 days, and a copy can be downloaded here.

We hope to see you next Thursday!

Coach Czes

Parents,
We would like to communicate some important upcoming events to you and your families as we near the close of our season!

Free Throws for Heroes Initiative

Faculty Appreciation Night - Tuesday, February 9th vs. Prairie Ridge – each player will send a personal invitation to a teacher they respect and admire asking them to attend the game.

Parent’s Night - Friday, February 19th vs. Johnsburg  – players will be recognizing parents in attendance between games (Soph/Varsity in fieldhouse, Freshmen in Auxiliary Gym)

Senior Night - Friday, February 26th vs. CL South  – Seniors and their parents will be recognized prior to the start of the Varsity Warmup.

*ALSO on February 26th vs. CL South – CLC’s Student Council has partnered with a local charity organization called KIC Leukemia (founded for '91 CLC Grad Kari Imhoff-Crewe).  The week of February 22nd-26th, they are sponsoring a "Leukemia Education Week" for the entire CLC student body.  The culminating event will be an "orange-out" at our game against CLS.  PLEASE WEAR AS MUCH ORANGE AS YOU CAN TO THIS GAME!!!  In addition, Life Source will be at the game sponsoring a bone marrow registry drive for people 18+. 

Anyone who wants to tryout for Boys Basketball at ANY level, must have the required paperwork that was handed out at the MANDATORY meetings on October 22nd and 24th. If you missed the meeting, follow the instructions below to get up to speed:

Freshmen: Tryouts will begin at 3:05pm SHARP on Monday, November 9th in the Auxiliary Gym. YOU (not your parents) MUST contact Coach Weaver (Room 200) in advance in order to get the paperwork that was handed out at the meeting prior to tryouts.

Sophomores: Tryouts will begin at 3:05pm SHARP on Monday, November 9th in the Auxiliary Gym. YOU (not your parents) MUST contact Coach O'Brien (Room 250) in advance in order to get the paperwork that was handed out at the meeting prior to tryouts.

***NOTE CHANGE***
Juniors and Seniors: Tryouts will begin at 6:30pm SHARP on Monday, November 9th in the Fieldhouse and will run until 9pm. This change was made in support of our Volleyball team's run to State. YOU (not your parents) MUST contact Coach Czeslawski (Technology Office) in advance in order to get the paperwork that was handed out at the meeting prior to tryouts.

The MANDATORY Freshmen/Sophomore Tryout Meeting will be on Tuesday, October 20th at 6:45am SHARP in Room 250 (Coach O'Brien's Room). If you wish to tryout for Freshman or Sophomore basketball this year, you MUST attend this meeting or contact a coach ahead of time. Do not be late to this meeting!

The MANDATORY Varsity Tryout Meeting will be on Thursday, October 22nd at 7:00am SHARP in Room 250 (Coach O'Brien's Room). If you wish to tryout for Varsity basketball this year, you MUST attend this meeting or contact a coach ahead of time. Do not be late to this meeting!

This morning's meeting was attended by 51 young men hoping to join the CLC Tiger Basketball Program this winter.

Preseason Calendars and information about the Davis Speed Training was handed out and can be downloaded to the right once you are logged in to the site!

In order for us to continue taking this program to the next level, each player and coach must improve their PERSONAL MOTIVATION. In life, if you want to be successful at anything you do, you must put in the time and effort to hone your skills and give yourself the confidence to perform when it counts. The more you push yourself to work when no one is watching, on days you don’t really feel like doing it, and without someone prodding you, the more pride you will take in your achievements.

From now until the day school starts, we are asking you for 44 minutes a day. Why 44 minutes, you ask? There are 1,440 minutes in every day. 44 minutes represents a mere 3% of that day and is a small investment that will pay huge dividends. Even if you take into account that the average American teenager sleeps for 9.4 hours (564 minutes), there are still 876 minutes in your conscious day, and we are only asking for 5% of that day.

Ask yourself if taking 5% of your waking day in order to prepare yourself to be a great player and teammate is worth it. Envision our program competing for a State Championship every year and you being a big part of it. Take every shot the rest of the summer as if it were to win the State Championship. If we do the work, we will have the success we desire.

There are many ways to free up 44 minutes in a day. Wake up 15 minutes early and watch one less TV show. Wake up 30 minutes early and play one less game of Guitar Hero. The possibilities are endless!!!

This website contains several workouts for you to do to fill the 44 minutes. We also encourage you to pair up with a teammate to help keep each other accountable. Having a workout partner is a great way to build relationships with your teammates and allows you to push each other.

We encourage you all to post the “Pyramid of Success” (link in the menu on the right) somewhere you will see it often (bedroom or bathroom mirror, the ceiling above your bed, next to your video game console, etc.).

Remember, the work (or lack thereof) we do in the offseason is what translates into wins and losses this winter. Don’t waste this opportunity to improve your game and our program!!!

-Coach Czes

Tigers,
Please consider the following quote from Marianne Williamson's, A Return to Love between now and November. Think about its meaning as it pertains to how you behave in public settings and how the thought behind it could help our program get to the next level.
-Coach Czes

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

-Marianne Williamson, A Return To Love