With the season starting, the team begins to work toward adding another title to the Hall of Cham- pions. “Our main goal as of now is just to rebuild the starting positions that we’ve lost and keep our focus towards hopefully bringing home a 5th state title,” Captain Kelly Malewitz ‘16 said.

Last year, out of the 10 players out on the field, seven of them were seniors. “It’s going to take some work but between all four grades we have the talent” Malewitz said about this years team,“ I think that after we get used to the new dynamics of our team we’ll be able to main- tain the same strength as previous years.”

The pressure to win a fifth State title in a row is on, but the team feels optimistic that they can accomplish this feat. “There’s a lot of pressure but I think we are a deep enough team and have the talent to bring home a fifth,” Malewitz said.

In recent years, the team has been unstoppable during the regular season. This has allowed the team to seek games against teams from other states, bringing a challenge to the team. However, this year the team faces an in-state challenge, Rockford High School.“ Our toughest competition is probably going to be against Rockford or our out of state game against Loyola,”Malewitz said.

This upcoming season will be a fresh start for the varsity boys lacrosse team. The school hired Rick DeBlasio in the offseason to become the team’s new head coach. “[DeBlasio] brings a different style of coach. He always has a good plan for practice and has laid out what our goals should be for every game,” Captain Matt Solberg ‘16 said.

Luckily the team has not been faced with the challenges that often come with a new head coach. “There haven’t been a lot of significant changes because he [DeBlasio] was on the coaching staff last year. We also have a lot of the same assistant coaches,” Solberg said.

The team wastes no time once games start as they face Okemos, Ann Arbor Pioneer, and Detroit Catholic Central in three of their first four games. “It’ll be hard coming out to such a hard first few games. We should be ready for them though because our coaches have been preparing us well,” Solberg said.

The team has several goals for the duration of the season. “The main goal for this season is to accomplish our games goals, a few of them are to score around 16 goals a game and try to limit our opponents to only four goals,” Sol- berg said, “another goal of ours is to win a state championship.” After losing to Okemos in the semi-finals last year 14-10, reaching the State Champion- ship would be a great accomplishment for this year’s team.