Future HSP Cougar Football Players and Parents,

We have started on a fourth week of Varsity Football practices for this 2013 season, but it is not too late for newcomers to join this year's team.

Practices will be held today, Tuesday, 8/13/2013, through Thursday from 3:45-6:15pm for our High School team. New arrivals should arrive 20-30 minutes prior to the start of practice to check in with coaches and to receive practice gear.

We're looking forward to having young men join our Varsity or Junior High teams who are ready have lots of fun, compete in team sports, and learn the game of football!

Please feel free to contact our staff with questions? Also check out our football program website for additional details: http://hspcougarsfootball.weebly.com.

Thanks,

Coach Taylor
[email protected]

Visit the following website to download the Mobile University App for iPhone and Android users:

http://www.leverageapps.com/mobileuniversity/index.html 

"Through native mobile technologies, Mobile University® integrates with university administrative systems and to streamline the flow of information between students and college recruiting offices."

This app is one tool that can be used to help narrow your college search, contact schools, and find available scholarships.

All HSP football players are encouraged to take advantage of this tool or a similar resource to begin your college search NOW!

“Building Young Men of Character & Integrity”











Build: 
-to mold, form, or create

Men:
-plural of man - an adult male person, as distinguished from a boy or a woman.

• man up:  Informal.  -to act in a typically masculine way, as in taking responsibility or making tough decisions: He should man up and meet the challenge.

Character:
-one of the attributes or features that make up and distinguish an individual
-moral excellence and firmness
-qualities of honesty courage, or the like

Integrity:
-adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty
-the state of being whole, entire, or undiminished
- firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values: incorruptibility


On Character:

1 Corinthians 15:33 (NIV)
Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.”

Romans 5:1-4 (NIV)
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we  have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,  through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God.  Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;  perseverance, character; and character, hope.  And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.

On Integrity:

Psalm 41:11-12 (NIV)
I know that you are pleased with me, for my enemy does not triumph over me.    Because of my integrity you uphold me and set me in your presence forever.

Psalm 25:21 (NIV)
May integrity and uprightness protect me, because my hope, Lord, is in you.

Proverbs 10:9 (NIV)
Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but whoever takes crooked paths will be found out.

2013 Dates to Remember:

Weekly Workouts in the Weight Room:  Monday, Tuesday, Thursday - 3:45 – 5:15 (earlier if you do not have tutorials to attend).  Wednesday & Friday are available as make-up days.  Lunch time is another time when players can get in the weight room when afterschool does not fit the schedule.

April 29th through May 3rd – Spring Football Practice, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, 3:45 – 6:15

July 22nd – Varsity Football Practice Starts (1st Game August 16th)

July 29th – Junior High Football Practice Starts (Tentative)


A note from Coach Taylor:

Young MEN are ACCOUNTABLE; to each other, to parents, to friends, to teachers, to themselves (wants, needs, and desires).  Be ACCOUNTABLE for YOUR behavior.  No excuses for why you CANNOT do something.  Plan ahead, commit to your plan, and MAKE A WAY!

“Take care of the little things, and the big things will take care of themselves”
-Bill Hodgin

On Thursday, February 14th we will hold a Football Interest Meeting.

Students in grades 7 through 11 should plan to attend this brief meeting to learn more about our Cougar football program, including in-season and off-season expectations.

The football interest meeting will be held in the weight-room on Thursday, February 14th, at 11:10 AM.  The meeting will last 15 minutes during the lunch period.

Returning players, bring a friend who did not play in 2012.

Dates are being set for Spring Practice a Summer Mini-Camp and for the start of Summer/Fall Practices. With enough participation we may add a Spring passing league with opportunities to stretch our abilities while challenging local schools. 

Be on the look out for calendar details following the Glory For Christ League Planning meeting on January 19th.

Players and parents please plan ahead so that Cougar Football players are not absent from these instrumental off-season and preseason events.  Calendar details coming SOON!

Our off-season is off to a great start!

What are you going to do NOW?!

Happy New Year Players and Parents!

As we continue to develop a Football Program that develops MEN of Character and Integrity we are asking each of you to pause for a moment and start to consider where you are headed.  Leaders are not prepared to lead without some sense of self and some direction; a goal or objective that they are striving to reach.

Through email or in the form of a hard copy we want you complete and submit to Coach Taylor ([email protected]) a list of all of the criteria that you currently have for college selection.  If you haven’t stopped to think about that list before, now is the time.  What do you want or need from the college experience?  We encourage you to list as many things that come to mind and not focus on the quality of your responses at this time.  You might list things like location, specific programs/majors, but it is important that you consider those things that are important to YOU.   We’ll take further steps later to narrow your focus and criteria.

Also we want you to list at least 3 colleges/universities that you are currently considering.

All HSP Football Players (Grades 8 through 11) are expected to complete the attached assignment no later than Wednesday, 1/9/2013 (the file is uploaded below).

Our coaching staff is looking forward to the opportunity to being apart of our players growth on and off the field this Spring!

Thanks!