Wow! It's been a busy last few days for our program. All of our returners and newcomers moved in on Saturday and we had a team dinner that evening to let everyone spend some time together, then we had our first team meeting on Sunday night. This is the first summer that the NCAA has allowed us to work with our players during the summer. We get to be on the court with them 2 hours a week and the then we can spend another 6 hours a week doing strength and conditioning or other things. For the first couple of weeks we are doing groups of 4 twice a week for 40 minutes and then for the last 40 minutes we are doing a full team practice. Our team is also working with our strength coach on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings at 6:30AM. It's always tough for the new freshman to be away from home for the first time and then on top of that to be taking college classes for the first time and then on top of that to complete college workouts. But our newcomers are doing awesome so far! They are obviously a little behind in the workouts because they've never done them, but all of their attitudes and work ethics have been great so far. They also are all very interested in making sure they are successful in the classroom which is extremely encouraging. The summer is a great team for our team to come together and make strides to improve from last season. It also gives all of the players a chance to get ahead academically and take some of the tougher classes so they don't have to during the season when we may be traveling more.
We are also hosting our team camp this weekend on campus and Coach Deacon Jones has done an outstanding job at getting some of the best talent from Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi to campus this weekend for a great camp. There are a lot of other team camps and AAU tournaments going on this weekend and Coach Jones was still able to get 51 teams signed up for camp! That goes to show you how much people enjoy coming to Lafayette and want to be a part of all of the exciting things that are happening with the Ragin' Cajuns! GEAUX CAJUNS! -SG
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