Sign online the board petition
March 4An online petition to be presented to the SVUSD board has been created. Please go to: http://www.petitiononline.com/SVUSDLAX/petition.html (You may be able to click on this link or you may need to cut and paste to your Internet browser.)
Please sign this petition and forward to any one you know who supports the Saddleback Valley Lacrosse Community.
The petition reads:
Board Members,
It has come to the attention of the Saddleback Valley Community that the status/ and or funding of C.I.F. lacrosse is in jeopardy of being eliminated throughout the Saddleback Valley Unified School District. This will have a devastating effect on hundreds of players, their families, fans, and upcoming lacrosse players.
We are asking you to:
• Not “Eliminate” Lacrosse from the Saddleback Valley Unified School District
• Not “Eliminate” Lacrosse funding from the Saddleback Valley Unified School District
Please consider:
• Lacrosse is considered to be America’s first sport, born of the North American Indian.
• Lacrosse is one of the fastest growing team sports in the United States.
• Lacrosse carries large rosters allowing many HS men and women to participate.
• Youth participation in the sport has grown over 500% since 1999 to nearly 250,000.
• No sport has grown faster at the high school level over the last 10 years.
• There are now an estimated 200,000 high school players.
• Lacrosse is also the fastest-growing sport over the last six years at the NCAA level.
• There are more than 500 college club programs, including nearly 200 women’s teams that compete at the US Lacrosse Intercollegiate Associates level, giving many opportunities to lacrosse players
• Many former SVUSD lacrosse students have benefited from scholarships and opportunities to play in college.
Possible Solutions:
• Look for ways to cut expenses within the lacrosse budget (Competitive bids for field lining etc.)
• Take proportionately from each sanctioned sport distributing the budget burden out for the least impact.
• Consider the budget cuts that have impact on the least amount of SVUSD students and families.
• If you are not willing to have the other sports shoulder the budget crunch alongside lacrosse, please continue to sanction C.I.F. lacrosse and allow programs to self fund
Sincerely,
The Undersigned
Please do not discontinue Lacrosse!
AMAZING…..the petition was started less than 24 hours ago and already over 800 sigs!!!Please tell me how cutting this sport can be a good thing when there is this much support this quickly? Cuts are good….when it comes to cuts to some of the outrageous salaries and perks some of the ‘district and state level’ folks are receiving, complements of the tax payers aka parents of these lax players! Go lacrosse!
This was our first year of lacrosse and my 10 year old really enjoyed it. I would like to see it continue to be offered to all young people. Do whatever you can to ensure that this sport program is not eliminated.
Lacrosse has been a well-respected, positive sport in the east coast for decades. It is one of the fastest growing if not THE fastest growing sport on the west coast. It has opened up numerous opportunities for student athletes who were shut out from other sports due to many reasons (competition, expenses, etc.). I personally know of some students who had been cut from other high school sports who have gotten offers to play lacrosse at colleges. There have been many scholarship offers to students in the district to good schools, including Ivy league colleges. Many schools are adding lacrosse to their programs. The cost of lacrosse at the high schools is not nearly as great as other costs. The benefits of this sport outweigh the costs by 10-fold. It just does not make sense to take it out now.
Our 11 year old daughter just started Lacrosse last year and loves playing. She wanted to continue this sport throughout high school and college. Our kids deserve better than this and should come first!!! PLEASE DO NOT CANCEL LACROSSE1
There are too many lessons being learned by our athletes through lacrosse. These will be lost if the sport is withdrawn, for allthe wrong reasons.