Athletic Director's Statement on Spring Sports

In case you missed it in the athletic blog, below is an update from athletic director, Danny Erickson on plans for the upcoming spring sports season.  With the record amount of snow, there are some changes in place and the update is a great informational tool on how the first few weeks will run for our male and female athletes. 

Given the extraordinary weather conditions over the past month or so and the large amounts of snow that remains on the ground, the start of the spring athletic season will certainly be a great challenge for us all.

Members of the Canton High School Athletic Department have been working hard to prepare for these challenges and have created a schedule for the first couple of weeks which will allow for all of our student athletes to have the best experience possible. 

Here are some important things you should know about the start of the 2015 CHS Athletic season:

1. We have postponed and rescheduled ALL athletic contests which were originally scheduled for the first week of the playing season (March 30th). This allows us to treat the week of March 16th (traditionally the week of tryouts) as a week of training and tuning up rather than a week of trying out. 

2. Tryouts will begin on Monday, March 23rd, but practices and conditioning sessions will begin on Monday, March 16th. We feel that given the facility challenges we face that first week, that trying to put kids through tryouts would not be fair.

3. Upperclassmen (10th-12th graders) will train with their program's coaches the week of March 16th. Coaches may be breaking players into groups and varying training times depending on what facilities are available on each day. Much of this training could take place at indoor facilities outside of town. We will be providing bus transportation 

4. Freshmen will NOT train with their sport specific coach during the week of March 16th. Instead, CHS has arranged for Mararthon PT and Sports Medicine to provide a strength and conditioning coach from Monday, March 16 thru Thrusday, March 19 after school in the gym. A schedule will be announced soon as to when each 9th grade sport should report to the gym for training.

5. Registration is currently taking place online by visiting ourwebsite- http://www.edline.net/pages/CantonHighSchool/Departments/Athletics
In order to train with our spring programs on March 16th, you must be registered by Noon on March 11th and we must have a current physical on file.

Please don't hesitate to contact the athletic office or the varsity coach in the sport you are planning on participating in if you have any questions/concerns.

Danny Erickson- Athletic Director- 781-821-5050 x7....ericksond@cantonma.org