La Jolla Country Day School

2019 Torrey Football Team Handbook

Torrey Football Mission Statement: Perseverance, Accountability, Integrity, and Enthusiasm are the Roots of Torrey Pride and the Torrey Football Program. Torrey football players are expected to carry on Country Day’s rich traditions by enthusiastically striving for excellence in meeting the high standards that Torrey Pride demands. The ultimate goal of the Torrey Football Program is to guide tomorrow’s leaders, through the game of football, to become loving men who pride themselves on their Perseverance, Accountability, Integrity, and Enthusiasm.

Torrey Football coaches lead by example in demanding that each player is accountable, perseveres through adversity, and handles himself with integrity at all times. While each coach demonstrates his passion for football on a daily basis, it is his love of working with and teaching young men that drives his desire and enthusiasm to coach at La Jolla Country Day.

We teach and stress the idea of No P.A.I.N., No Gain. In order to gain in life and on the field, players will battle adversity. Without P.A.I.N., players will not reach their full potential.

The ROOTS of Torrey Football: ● PERSEVERANCE: o What do you do when the going gets tough? 1. Work Ethic - get after it, GRIND. 2. Relentless Effort - nothing but your BEST is acceptable. 3. Mental Toughness - be RESILIENT under pressure. 4. Refusal to Quit - never, never, NEVER quit. ● CCOUNTABILITY: A o Can you be depended on? 1. Responsibility - take care of business. 2. Discipline - make good decisions. 3. "All In" - show up EVERY DAY ready to work. 4. Trust - do what you're counted on to do. ● NTEGRITY: I o Who are you when nobody is watching? 1. Pride - always do things the RIGHT way. 2. Details - do the LITTLE THINGS right. 3. Respect - treat EVERYONE well. 4. Unselfishness - think of OTHERS before self. 5. Honesty - be true to your word, NEVER lie. ● E THUSIASM: N o D o you bring passion and energy every day? 1. Love - be CARING to everyone, and have PASSION. 2. Attitude - bring ENERGY to everything you do. 3. Belief - unwavering CONFIDENCE in getting it done. 2

4. Positivity - be an OPTIMIST. 2019 Torrey Football Coaching Staff

Head Coach: Tyler Hales Special Teams (617) 968-1864 [email protected] Varsity OC: Carmy Cesaire QB, Assistant Head Coach [email protected] Varsity DC: Martin Mays LB, WR [email protected] Assistant: Kevin Reaume DL, OL, Strength [email protected] Assistant: Deion Stratton WR, DB

Assistant: James Rossi OL, DL [email protected] Assistant: Deane Mellor RB, LB [email protected] Assistant: Brandon Payne DB, WR [email protected]

Trainer Christine Mitchell (760) 390-7903 [email protected]

Team Parents Jeff Alligood [email protected]

“Energy and persistence conquer all things.” ~Benjamin Franklin

TEAM PHILOSPHY 1) While the coaching staff views each Torrey football player as an individual and as an important part of our football program, no individual is as important to the coaching staff as the team is. Torrey football players are committed to a cause bigger than themselves.

2) Until now, because of their age, players have been mostly takers. They will learn to be givers through the Torrey Football program. They will give back to their coaches, their teammates, their school, and their community.

3) It is the primary goal of the coaching staff to foster growth, both as a football player and more importantly as a young man, in each player. All team rules have been devised and each practice is planned for the purpose of reaching this goal.

4) It is the secondary goal of the Torrey Football Program to win as many games as possible, win our league championship, and to win the CIFSDS championship.

5) It is a privilege to be a member of the Torrey football program, not a right. Every member of the program (players, managers, trainer, and coaches) is expected to earn that privilege every day of the season and during the summer preseason preparation period.

6) The football program operates on Torrey Time. If you are on time you are late. Arrive early and be prepared. In other words, for a practice scheduled at 10:00 AM you should arrive no later than 9:45. At 10:00 you will be completely dressed, loosened and warmed up and ready to work.

“What you can vividly imagine, Ardently desire, Sincerely believe, And enthusiastically act upon… Must inevitably come to pass.”- Paul J. Meyer

Helpful Websites: LJCDS Football Maxpreps Homepage: http://www.maxpreps.com/high-schools/la-jolla-country-day-torreys-(la-jolla,ca)/football/ho me.htm

Link to Hudl Login: https://www.hudl.com/login?forward=/dashboard/35197 (Torrey Football Game film – players will be invited in June)

Link to Volt Athletics Login: https://app.voltathletics.com (Online Platform for strength program – players will be invited in June)

Torrey Football Highlights: 4

https://www.hudl.com/video/2/35197/5a1fb1b864df1b247c8a1eb7 http://www.hudl.com/video/2/35197/5825564890f9932bbc315b40 http://www.hudl.com/video/2/35197/585537595cb3fc263ca78056

TEAM REGULATIONS

Preseason Preparation Much of our success during the football season is a direct result of our willingness to prepare in the summer. The summer is a valuable opportunity for our players to improve their strength, speed, and quickness as well as to refine their football skills. The summer is also an extremely important time for our young men to foster a strong team concept by spending time and working together. All Torrey football summer practices, competitions, and workouts are designed to build better Country Day young men and a better Torrey football team.

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” -Aristotle

Time Conflicts The Torrey football coaching staff realizes that our players play other Country Day sports and spend quality family time during the summers. Our summer workouts are offered during three time periods each day and our competitions, practices and camps are kept to a minimum so that our players can meet their responsibilities to other Country Day sports and their families.

Country Day Athletic Conflicts During the summer, Torrey football players are expected to work around commitments to other Country Day sports and/or are excused from Torrey football commitments to play other Country Day sports. All conflicts and adjustments are to be communicated by the player to the coaches of both sports. Once the football season officially begins at fall camp, players are expected to be committed to football, and should not miss football activities for another sport.

Overlapping Athletic Seasons As stated in the LJCD athletic handbook, all Torrey athletes are to complete their present athletic season (football team in the playoffs) before moving on to their next season (basketball practice has begun). However, because the Torrey football coaching staff encourages and supports multi-sport athletes, football players are permitted to begin to transition into their winter sports while the football team competes in the playoffs. Players may attend some limited basketball practices, etc. around their preparation for the football playoffs. All such limited practices, etc. will be set by the head football coach in cooperation with the winter season head coaches.

Family Vacation Time Torrey football players are excused from all summer participation while away on family vacations. Torrey football players are encouraged to take family vacations between the end of team camp in June and the first day of football in mid-August. Players 5

are expected to participate in workouts, competitions, camps and practices while they are in town.

Weight Room The weight room is an extension of the practice field. Always arrive on time, dressed properly, with the focused and serious mind-set to improve your ability to make this a championship team. Players are expected to utilize their VoltAthletics account all year long, in and out of the season. Players who work hard in the weight room have the opportunity to join the 500, 600, or 700-pound club.

Practices 1. Football practices begin approximately 2 weeks before the school year begins. These practices are mandatory.

2. As a general rule, practices on school days will be held from 3:15-5:30 PM Monday-Thursday. Addionally, players are expected to do their “football homework” by studying their opponents through Hudl.

3. Football players will lift weights as a team twice a week during the season. Varsity players will lift Mondays and Wednesdays. JV players will lift Tuesdays and Thursdays.

4. Practice time is sacred. We will win one workout at a time. We cannot improve if we are not dedicated to practice, and we cannot defeat opponents who out practice us. During the fall season, for 22 hours per day, each young man on the team is a student, an artist, a son, a brother, a friend, a boyfriend, etc. For 2+ hours per day he is a football player. Each player must dedicate himself to football only from 3:15-5:30 p.m. each afternoon. All conflicts (appointments on and off campus, additional academic work, participation in the arts, etc.) must be kept to an absolute minimum. No player who is in school that day may ever miss a practice without first informing the head coach that he is going to miss. Any player who misses or is late to practice for any reason may miss playing time to the discretion of the head coach.

5. We dress as a team for all practices: -t-shirts must be Torrey football t-shirts from this or any other year -shorts must be Torrey football shorts from this or any other year -when in full pads you must be in Torrey practice jersey and pants -socks must be white, black, royal, or gray -if long-sleeved shirts or tights are worn, they must be white, black, royal, or gray

6. The practice field is where we improve our ability to perform as a team and reinforce our individual role in achieving our goal of making this a championship football team. Torrey football practice is a learning environment in which players are expected to show tremendous work ethic, effort, and concentration. Every

aspect of practice is designed to build better Country Day young men and a better Torrey football team.

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability. ~John Wooden Black Stripes Black Stripes are senior Torrey football players playing their fourth season for La Jolla Country Day School. Black Stripes are leaders who are respected, followed, and emulated because they are the walking embodiment of the Torrey football program’s ideals of dedication, courage, work ethic, loyalty, and team. Being honored as Black Stripes has little to do with size and talent and everything to do with heart, soul, and mind. The Black Stripes are the backbone of the Torrey football program and are recognized by the three black stripes that they wear on their white helmet.

2019 Black Stripes: Nick Albert Anthony Altala Zach Alligood Brandon Kim

Communication with Coaches When players or their parents have concerns regarding a football coach or the program it is imperative that they follow the steps of resolution, in their proper order, listed below:

1) The concerned player should speak with the coach. Open communication between the coaching staff and the players is encouraged because it is important to the team’s success. Learning to approach and speak with adults in a respectful and constructive manner young adult to adult is one of the important lessons taught by Torrey football and no player may skip this step. No coach will discuss any football problem with any parent until after he has discussed it with the player(s) involved. Players, especially younger ones, who find approaching a coach intimidating, should ask a team captain for help. 2) The player should speak with the head coach. 3) The player’s parents should schedule a time to speak with the coach. 4) The player’s parent should schedule a time to speak with the head coach. ***Parents are not to approach any member of the coaching staff with concerns before, during, or directly after a contest.

Athletic Trainer Head athletic trainer Christine Mitchell is fully certified and experienced in athletic injuries and emergency situations. She will attend every varsity football game and either she or her assistant will attend every JV game and football practice.

Concussion Testing

Country Day’s athletic trainer uses a software tool called ImPACT (Immediate Post Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing) in evaluating and treating head injuries. A computerized exam utilized in many professional, collegiate, and high school sports programs across the country, ImPACT assists Country Day’s trainer and team doctors in successfully diagnosing and managing concussions. Student-athletes who participate in sports with a higher risk for concussions take a baseline test and then are tested again with ImPACT only if a possible concussion has occurred. Student-athletes are given an informational letter and consent form that must be signed and returned to the athletic trainer prior to baseline testing.

Being a Big Blue Torrey Football Parent Our players’ parents are an important part of our Torrey football family because our players can only be successful as players and young men with the complete support of their parents. All Torrey football parents are expected to:

1. Believe in and support the philosophy and goals of the football program. 2. Demonstrate trust in the coaching staff and athletic trainer. 3. Never come onto the playing field unless waved on by the trainer or a coach. 4. Ensure that all players who do not drive arrive at practices, games, and team functions on time. Remember Torrey Time! 5. Understand and practice the distinction of “hurt or hurting”. 6. Follow the proper steps of resolution when communicating concerns to coaches. 7. Watch games from the stands or a respectful distance from the team area of the sidelines (behind the fence). Never be near or talk to players or coaches during a game. Never attempt to coach your child or other players from the sidelines or stands. 8. Be a positive, model spectator. Never yell at or harass officials or make comments to others regarding the judgment or decisions made by coaches.

“Prepare your child for the path, not the path for your child.”

Alma Mater Tradition After every JV and Varsity game, home and away, players demonstrate pride in their school, pride in themselves, and gratitude to their supporters by singing the School Alma Mater. Players are expected to muster up the courage to sing loud and proud to their fans, regardless of the outcome of the game. Below of the words:

TORREY ALMA MATER

All Hail, to Alma Mater praise, To Country Day, our voice we raise.

Our loyalty we pledge to you, With colors proud, the white and blue.

Memories of friendships made, Through time and travel will not fade.

As years go by and pass away, We pledge our hearts to Country Day.

IF by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies, or, being hated don’t give way to hating, and yet don’t look to good, nor talk to wise;

If you can dream-and not make dreams your master; If you can think-and not make thoughts your aim, If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two imposters just the same: If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap by fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings, And never breathe a word about your loss: If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”

If you can walk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much: 9

If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty second’s worth of distance run, Your is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And-which is more-you’ll be a Man, my son!

Recent Torrey Football Alumni who played in college:

2018: Spencer Alligood, Tufts University Chase Mangini, Tufts University 2017: Braxton Burmeister, University of Oregon Casey Mariucci, Columbia University Drew Schmid, Columbia University Brennan Goring, Western State University, Colorado Josh Reyes, La Verne University Ryan LaRiccia, Dordt College 2015: Cole Goldklang, Washington University in St. Louis Christian Hayes, West Point 2014: Vincent Paolucci, Wake Forest Jordan Poland, University of Arizona 2013: Sage Burmeister (and Basketball), Idaho State; Humboldt State Ziad Damanhoury, Nevada Eddie Garcia, Concordia College Moorhead Nate Michalski (and baseball), Williams College Josiah Poutoa, Southwestern College Marco Scavuzzo, University of Southern California Tyler Sheflo, Wisconsin Lutheran, 2012:

Daniel Henry, New Mexico (Ravens) Nick Schlossberg, University of Southern California 2011: Hunter Khaleghi, Robert Morris Mical Bailey, Trinity University (TX) Ruben Pena, Trinity International (Ill) Junior Togiaso, Cornell University 2010: Montell Allen, University of San Diego Gonnor Gerhart, Rose Hulman University Indi Lavarias, DePauw University Stephen Dennis, University of San Diego 2009: Doug Rogers, Middlebury College Kees Thompson, Princeton University (Sprint Football) 2008: John Hansbrough, Occidental College Travis Golia, Stanford University

Torrey Football Alumni playing other sports in college: 2018: Carson Greene – Baseball, Stanford Alex Cho – Basketball, MIT 2017: David Wylie, Baseball, St. Marys University Ben Petty-Hull – Baseball, Dixie State University AJ Dhus – Baseball, Wheaton College David Brewster – Lacrosse, Chapman University 2015: Darien Brown - Track and Field, Loyola University, New Orleans Greg Coffman - Crew, University of California, San Diego Jack Desany - Rugby, University of San Diego Grayson Lyman - Soccer, University of California, Los Angeles 2014: Brandon Wachs - Baseball, Harvard 2013: Dustin Hughes - Baseball, Utah Colin McMahon - Lacrosse, Dominican 2012:

Mark Atkins - Baseball, Trinity University, TX Sammy Ayala - Baseball, Chicago White Sox Organization 2011: Anthony Torres - Baseball, Point Loma University 2010: Derek Hatfield, Track and Field, Johns Hopkins

Other colleges Torrey Football Alumni have played at for at least one year: Chapman College Cornell Princeton (Sprint Football) Stanford University Trinity International (Ill) Trinity University (TX) University of San Diego United States Naval Academy