January 2025 Update
We wanted to reach out and give an update after our meetings with the CUSD District Leadership about starting High School Lacrosse teams.
After our initial meeting with the district in October, we were presented with the option of starting ASB Club Teams at each high school. We put the boys to work filling out applications, rallying signatures, and finding suitable on campus advisors as well as learning about running an ASB Sports Team through FCMAT ASB Manual. Prior to the Christmas Break we had our follow up meeting with the district to submit these ASB applications, however, the district said that after meeting with both sites admin teams there were concerns about moving forward with the ASB Club Team route.
As a result, they presented us the opportunity to be part of the “Spring Student Survey", where students vote on what sports they may want in the coming year. IF lacrosse gets the most votes, then adding Lacrosse as a CIF sport would go to the school board for a vote, and in a best case scenario we would see CIF Lacrosse at each school by Spring 2026.
What does this mean moving forward? In April (they will not give us a hard date) is when the schools will administer this survey to the students, and we need to get students to VOTE FOR LACROSSE. This student survey path is how many schools have adopted CIF Lacrosse programs AND will prove successful if we can rally the student bodies and then the board and community as a whole to support Lacrosse.
Please talk to anyone you know who attends Chico High School & Pleasant Valley High School and make them aware of this survey coming in April and encourage them to vote for lacrosse!
Friends of Chico Lacrosse will be working on a campaign to make the student body aware of the survey and that Lacrosse will be an option. A campaign of this nature will cost money and we encourage everyone with a vested interest in seeing Lacrosse in the high schools to donate what you can to Friends of Chico Lacrosses Go Fund Me. All donated money will be used for marketing materials for students, signs/posters, and paid advertising to get the vote on the April Survey we need to move forward. As we enter the 2025 tax year we will be looking at how we will be raising money for the start of each HS team to show the board there will be financial support that will be donated to offset start up costs of the program in 2026.
We are excited about this path forward but can only make this happen with the support of everyone!
If you have any questions, ideas, or desire to help please reach out.