Varsity Game Week!

The opening game of our 2010 Varsity Football Season takes place this Saturday, 10 AM in the Canem Cage versus the Dutchess Park Condors of Prince George, BC!  We are looking for a great turnout for the game and are excited about the opportunity to get the season started at home in front of our family and friends!

We are looking for volunteer help with the sticks, scoreboard, PA and video.  Please contact Coach Stevenson ASAP if you can provide an assist.

Scout:  Information regarding the Condors is very limited.  What we do know is that they return a lot of players from their 2009 squad, they are big up-front and they like to throw the football a lot from a spread type offensive scheme.  The visitors will be wearing their black and gold uniforms and JB will be decked out in our Whites. 

Weather:  The long-term forcast has game day as being sunny with temperatures peaking at 22 c. 

Four practices this week to get game ready!  Each practice has to be gold!!

Go Dawgs!!!

One Team, One Family, One Mission

T's and windbreaker jackets can be purchased at the E-Zone.  Our "Mission" this year is to embody our program philosophy of "Try Your Hardest-Get Better Each Day-Do The Right Thing!"

We want to do this as students in the classroom, teammates, citizens and as members of our families!  If we walk the talk, the on and off-field "W's" will take care of themselves.  Purchasing information is below:

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Sizes: Adult small to xxxlarge
Colour: Black Gildan T-shirts pre shrunk.
Pricing: $25.00 plus tax = $28.00 (please note that xxl & up are an additional $2.00)
**A portion of the purchase price will be donated back to the program.

We do need a min. order of 12 tees before we can go ahead with the order, as always you can reach me Tamara at:

Embroidery Zone
#3 - 1925 Bowen Road
Nanaimo, BC
250-751-0263 (Monday thru Friday 9-5:30)
or
e_zone@shaw.ca

Week 1 Pre-Season Concludes

A stellar week of practice John Barsby!  Hats off to all involved.  Attendance, effort, focus and intensity were outstanding.  Week two must build upon the foundation thus laid.  There is a great "Feel" to 2010!

Go Dawgs!

Practice 3

JV and Varsity squads continued to make stellar progress on Wednesday.  Most of the special teams package is in and Thursday will see the remainder of insertion complete.  Week two will be about polish and personel packages.

Attendance and attitude on field remain strong and there have been pleasant surprises on both sides of the ball.  One more to go this week!

Pre-Season Practice #2 Recap

Yesterday afternoon JV and evening varsity practices were better than our opening sessions by every measure.  The JV's set the standard with 100% attendance and an effort/mental focus to match.  Our varsity followed on in the same form and our coaching staff was very pleased with the amount of ground we covered at both levels.  The fundamental/technical building blocks are beginning to be put in place that are going to allow for tactical success on future gamedays.  Once we gain a firm grasp on our fundamentals, we can employ them in very creative combinations down the road.

We continue to work on mental depth at every position and some cross-training is beginning to occur.  This will bode well in the tough weeks of October and November.  Two more practice days this week and then it is a well earned three days to let it all imprint and to get our bodies right for week two.

For now, here is a great video that says much of what is felt but sometimes unspoken.  Am starting to feel the season approach!

Pre-Season Practices

Practice #1

Pre-Season Practices have now begun.  Player practice effort and attitude was very good at both levels.  We all know what kind of shape we are in physically and that is one area that we are going to continue to work on with games just around the corner.  We will get better!

Insertion was outstanding and "Dawg Special Ops" our "Pride and Joy" units are going to look and play terrific!

Both squads have set their goals for the year and now the "process" of achieving them begins.  Working on technique, mental depth and tempo now become our focus.

As a coaching staff we are very, very excited to announce the addition/return of Coach Lyall Woznesensky to the program.  Lyall is a retired perennial CFL All-Pro Defensive Lineman who brings a wealth of experience and surfire intensity to the practice field.  He loves coaching and working with our young people.  We just got a hec of a lot better as a program!  In addition to Coach Woz, we welcome former John Barsby greats, now alumni Chris McCormick (Coach MC) to our JV Staff and Derek "Rudy" Garside to the Varsity staff as well!

Looking forward to subsequent practices this week with great optimism!  We are going to Get Better Each Day!

Field News

Our new scoreboard/sign will be up and ready to go in time for our Sat. September 4th 10 AM varsity season opener versus the Dutchess Park Condors of Prince George.

Cleates

We have an outstanding selection of Nike, Addidas and Under Armour cleates size 7-16 for sale at the unbelievably low price of $50.00.  Mr. Mike Mize holds the cleate sales portfolio and will have shoes at the Dawghouse at 5:30 PM this evening.  If you would like to subsequently purchase cleates, just contact Coach Stevenson for the appropriate contact info.

Go Dawgs!!