Sign-ups for Spring Evals are now open! We have scheduled the evaluations for the Spring 2019 FCA teams to be held on Monday, January 21, 2019. We realize this is a holiday weekend, so we want to give you time to plan. Evals schedule: 8-9 am — K, 1st, and 2nd graders (Mini) 8-9:30 am … More Spring Evals 2019
FCA grew to eight teams this spring: one Mini, one Junior, three Minors, and three Majors. We began practicing indoors in mid-January after our evaluation sessions and moved outdoors in March. Our season kicked off with our first games in early April. All eight teams played 7-8 IBLA games. Our A- and B-level teams also … More Spring Season Recap 2018
FCA grew to six teams this spring: one Mini, one Junior, three Minors, and one Major. We began practicing indoors in mid-January and moved outdoors in March. Our season kicked off with our first games in early April. All six teams played 8 IBLA games, as well as attended the Border Wars Tournament in May. … More Spring Season Recap 2017
**Monday February 27** We have arranged a service opportunity for our players and parents this spring. In selecting the activity, we aimed to give players (and parents) a chance to increase the capacity of their servant’s heart and work together as a team off the field. Serving and Teamwork are two of four key FCA Lax values. We also want our … More Service & Teamwork
We hope to have the practice and special-event calendar set by mid March (these are now posted on each Team page, listed above). Game schedules will be set by late March. For now, this is what we know: The initial outside practice dates: – Monday, March 13 (cancelled-weather) – THURSDAY, March 16 – Saturday, March … More Spr17 Practice Schedule
We are still in need of one or two U12C and three U10 players for the Spring 2017 season. If you have a 3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th grader who would like to play with us (or know of one), please email us (fcalaxchicagowest@gmail.com).
Areli Sportswear has just sent us the mock-up of our new 2017 uniforms. We’re pretty excited!
Our spring league, the Illinois Boys Lacrosse Association (IBLA), changed its age groupings for the Spring 2017 lacrosse season based on recommendations by U.S. Lacrosse, which is the national governing body of youth lacrosse. The changes are as follows: Majors – 7/8th Grade – A, B & C levels – 10 v 10. All counts … More New Age Groups, Spr17
Because we had SO MUCH FUN we are doing ANOTHER Wall Ball Challenge. The second Challenge (U11, U13) is to get more than 15 catches with your non-dominant (or off) hand in 30 seconds! The Challenge for U9 is more than 10 catches with your non-dominant (or off) hand in 30 seconds! Take a video … More Wall Ball Challenge #2
We have put together the practice schedule for the Spring 2016 season (March to June). Here is a PDF version for printings/downloading. We will post our game schedule on each team’s schedule page once they are released in mid-March. >> Games begin the weekend of April 9.
