General Information

Practice/Attendance
Players should plan on arriving 15 minutes prior to a scheduled practice time, to ensure that they are dressed and the courts are cleaned and prepared for practice to begin on time.

Practices are mandatory unless any of the following exceptions occur. Family Emergency Illness/Injury High School sport conflict College Visiting/Testing Inclement Weather (check the website for cancelled practices)

NOTE: Missing practice for homework and studying (including finals) is not considered an excused absence. This is an important part of our student athlete’s time management skills. Exceptions may be made on a case-by-case basis, but are not encouraged.

*Please contact your coach when you will be missing practice and make plans to make that practice up that week with a team that is close in age and level.

Multi-Sport/Multi-Activity Athletes
Please provide your coach with a practice and competition schedule prior to the start of your season. AVALANCHE/CLUB FUSION programs allow for multi-sport/activity athletes. Practices missed due to an extra-activity school function are excused. The athlete will have the opportunity to make-up a missed practice by attending another team’s practice, in the same week of the missed practice. However, missed practices can have effects on a team, and a player’s playtime by position at events could be effected by these absences.

Major Tournaments
Please plan your schedules around the Junior National team’s list of dates for major tournaments (National Qualifiers, Regional Qualifiers, etc.) and when potential conflicts arise, contact your Coach immediately.

** Note: Major Junior National tournaments (qualifiers, nationals, etc) are a priority over other sports and activities. Junior National player’s attendance is mandatory and they are responsible financially for these events.

Coach/Player/Parent (24 hour rule)
Issues do come up during the season. We have a communication plan (24 hour rule) between coach/player/parent that will be strictly adhered to. When issues arise please do not approach the coach at practice or an event. Wait 24 hours, to call the coach to set up a meeting to address and discuss the issues. The order of communication will be: 1) Coach and Player 2) Coach, Player and Parent 3) Coach, Player, Parent, Club Director.