2009 was a great season!  Lacrosse continues to grow, and the HVL enjoyed another year of success and popularity. Our first Community Day brought players and fans together from across the Hopewell Valley, all of our teams demonstrated new skills and and energy through the season, and individual players moved their games another notch higher.

While the HVL doesn't have specific summer or off-season activities, consider the other options - camps, clinics, fall and winter leagues - for playing and enjoying the game throughout the year. 

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Hopewell Valley Lacrosse is always looking for folks with the time and energy to help ensure the success of the league. As families come and go, work and home changes impact availablility, and players age out of the league, there is a constant need to find new energy and interest in our parent volunteers.

If you can offer us the commitment to assist in any of the following ways, please feel free to contact me (at president@hovallax.com) to discuss these further. In some cases, we are hoping to find folks to fill (and grow) these roles over a period of a few years.
 

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The Role of the Parent
Monday, May 12, 2008

To parents of HVL players, as the game schedule gets underway it is well worth reminding you all of one of the most important contributions you can make to your child: be a Second-Goal Parent. Please read, take the time to think about it and how you can put these thoughts into action.
From the Positive Coaching Alliance: The Second Goal Parent Model We've established that Positive Coaches are "Double-Goal" Coaches (they 1-strive to win AND 2-teach life lessons). So there are two groups focused on the responsibilities of the first goal: coaches and athletes.
As a parent, you have a much more important responsibility. Your job revolves around around the second goal (making sure your child draws from the sports experience the lessons that will help him or her to become a successful, contributing adult). And while this is not easy given the seductive nature of the first goal, it can make all the difference in your child's life. A win-at-all-cost parent might look on his child striking out with the bases loaded to end the game as a tragedy. But as a Second-Goal Parent, you see the silver lining.
This is an opportunity to encourage your child to develop resilience! Failure on the athletic field becomes a teachable moment for life lessons, if you play your crucial role, the role of the Second-Goal Parent.