And we did it again!!

Undefeated season and,

like in 2006,

the 2007 First Division Cup!.

Congratulations Beaconsfield!!

Académie de rugby du Lac St-Louis (CRP)

I am proud to announce the re-launch of the Académie de rugby du Lac St-Louis .

For your information, the model of the CRP (as established by the Fédération de Rugby du Québec) is meant to group together those young players interested in competing for spots on the U-16 / U-18 Québec provincial squads.

Our Lac St-Louis sides will be competing against other CRP teams from different regions (Sherbrooke, Québec City, Ormstown, Trois-Rivieres) throughout the summer in tournament play. This will help increase their skill level by playing competitive rugby against other developing players from their within their peer group.

Those players who demonstrate exceptional skills for their age in tournament play will be given the opportunity to represent Québec at the provincial side.

Practice for the Académie de rugby du Lac St-Louis will take place on Wednesday, from June 22st to August 8st from 7:00PM to 9:00PM. The practice will take place on the pitch at Beaconsfield High School and both boys and girls are welcome to attend. Players should dress accordingly for practice. The official schedule for practices, the tournament season, along with registration dues and forms will be made available after that practice.

THE 300 Academy in fall/winter for development skills and Lac St-Louis Academy for play in summer and acces to Quebec provincial team , represents an extraordinary combination for every teen who want to get really involved in rugby

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to direct them to Guillermo Gulli via email at guillermogulli@yahoo.com or by telephone at (514) 695-1295.

Thanks in advance for your cooperation,

Yours in Rugby,

Guillermo Gulli

Summer Camp 2007!!

We finish our first summer camp with success!! 44 students, 5 coaches (nationals and internationals ones) , new rugby techniques and a lot of FUN!!! Thank you and see you all in our Fall/Winter Program. Mr Gui

Summer Camp 2007

We're going to run a SUMMER CAMPin the frist 2 weeks of August 2007! From boys and girls over 10 years old. Rugby and Falg Rugby (no contact, safe and fun). Get back to our website and download the REGISTRATION FORM

...and we WON the First Division Cup, Quebec 2006. Congratulations BEACONSFIELD !!!

Watch the trailer !! http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/300.html

WHY THE 300 : Battle of Thermopylae

In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass, Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. A small force led by king Leonidas of Sparta blocked the only road through which the massive army of Xerxes I could pass. After several days of confrontation the Persians attacked but were defeated by heavy losses, disproportionate to those of the Greeks. This continued on the second day but on the the third day of the battle a local resident named Ephialtes betrayed a mountain path that led behind the Greek lines. With the rest of the army dismissed king Leonidas stayed behind with his 300 Spartans bodyguard and the 700 man Thespian army even though they knew it was pure suicide, to allow the rest of the army to escape.
The disproportionate losses of the Persian army alarmed Xerxes so that when his navy was later defeated at the Salamis he fled Greece leaving only part of his force to finish the job of the conquest of Greece, that was defeated at the battle of Plataea. The performance of the defenders at the battle of Thermopylae is often used as an example of the advantages of training, equipment and good use of terrain to maximise an army's potential, as well as a symbol of courage against extremely overwhelming odds. The heroic sacrifice of the Spartans and the Thespians has captured the minds of many throughout the ages and has given birth to many cultural references as a result.

There is an epitaph on a monument at site of the battle (which was erected in 1955) with Simonides' epigram, which can be found in Herodotus' work The Histories (7.228), to the Spartans:

Ω ξειν', αγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις ότι τάδε
(O xein', angellein Lakedaimoniois hoti têde)
κείμεθα τοις κείνων ρήμασι πειθόμενοι.
(keimetha tois keinon rhémasi peithomenoi.)

Which to keep the poetic context can be translated as:
Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by,
that here, obedient to their laws, we lie

Herodotus wrote that when Dienekes, a Spartan soldier, was informed that Persian arrows were so numerous that they blotted out the sun, he remarked with characteristically laconic prose,

"So much the better, we shall fight in the shade."