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50 – 50 At End of Practice Every Day

April 15, 2003

LATER IN THE DAY – AFTER PRACTICE

The harder we practiced today the harder it rained. When we finished a huge wind started to howl. Then they all did push-ups and sit-ups together while being pelted with cold raindrops hurled from the black and gray clouds that were by then not far [...]

Keep It Simple Stupid

Saturday, April 19, 2003

The game was played in wet and somewhat muddy conditions. Everyone had their warrior look going pretty good by the end.

GAME #13 – (#2) CSU 7 – (#6) CU 5 Our record is now 11-2 –

We won a very big game today, beating CU in Boulder. We got off [...]

RMILL Championship 2003

Saturday, April 26, 2003

RMILL CHAMPIONSHIP CSU 8 BYU 7 – CSU 2003 RMILL CHAMPIONS

CSU record now stands at 14-2

HOLY PEAK TO PEAK BAT MAN

What a game! I thought we had won games in just about every way imaginable this season, but I was wrong. We found a new way today. We [...]

Old ‘Souls’ Sometimes Try Mine

April 28, 2003

We are coming down the stretch.

I don’t want us to “over train”. I even told two players today that I don’t care if they even practice this week. I want their focus to be to get healthy. I used to have a no practice, no play rule, but that went out [...]

The Same Page Is Good

April 30, 2003

During practices, I often ask them verbal questions about what we are doing that they all (should) know the answer to. If everyone, to a man, knows the specific answer to a specific question, then aren’t we always on the same page?

Meet Me in St. Louis (refrain)

Thursday, May 1, 2003

TIME, TIME, SEE WHAT’S BECOME OF ME

So, we are half way to next Tuesday, when we leave for St. Louis. Practices have had a good feel. These next few days are the only ones we have left for some ever-precious practice time. We will do as much as I can [...]

Form Follows Family Function

Friday, May 2, 2003

FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION

When we are truly successful as a team we are also a cohesive family. It might sound strange to say that I demand that we function as a true “Family” unit, but I do. Within that I am Papa. We are only as good as we are all [...]

Anticipation – The Night Before The Big One

May 9, 2003

I do not have any idea why, but I am more calm tonight than I was last night. I must admit that I was a little shook up when our big Defenseman Schmidy (#37) went down yesterday. He has been my anchor in so many ways, he is a truly gifted leader, [...]

Come On Up For The Rising

Saturday, May 10, 2003 8:00 CDT USLIA National tournament – St. Louis – Championship game

CSU 6 UCSB 4 – Colorado State University – USLIA 2003 National Champions

In a somewhat less than beautiful game we emerged as the “last team standing”, true to our “rallying cry” from day one, and used every time we [...]

No Fear

May 14,2003

I’m not sure of the exact number, but of our 18 victories this year, way more than half had both teams under 10 goals for the contest. Most all of the games we played were one or two goal games. These are nerve racking, but I enjoy the intensity, I really do. I [...]