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Bluejacket Football Mission Statement

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Mission: Cambridge Isanti Bluejacket Football is an one hundred and ten year old tradition of excellence. We believe that football contributes to the well rounded student athlete. Our mission is to create a positive high school athletic experience for all of our players. Bluejacket football will incorporate the 5 character traits outlined by the District #911 school board; respect, responsibility, self-discipline, compassion, and honesty. Bluejacket football holds young men to a higher standard. We believe our program will teach life lessons; hard work, camaraderie, and positivity. Bluejacket football players will strive to better themselves physically and mentally. Off season workout for all and commitment to the weight room are paramount …show more content…

Each fall and summer we provide the youth of our community a football camp for k-3. Kids can begin to participate in travel football in 4th grade and continue on playing until 8th grade. At both the camp and the travel football level varsity players and coaches participate. We strive to learn each player’s name. In addition to coaching Varsity players have read to our first grade classrooms for the past ten years. Community relationships are the best way to promote our program as a viable and important activity for young men and their …show more content…

Honesty with others and yourself ties all the aforementioned characteristics together. Without honesty none of them are possible. Honesty allows for constructive coaching. Players want to know what to do they want to be successful. A coach who is honesty with his players will breed them to succeed. Clear goals and communication of those goals is difficult to do but necessary. Players need to be honest with themselves. Did they do their job? Did they execute their assignment? Did they have proper technique? How successful do they want to

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