Being part of the Thomas Dale Football Tradition is not easy, but the rewards are worth it in the end. “Football is not just a sport, but a way of life”. It takes leadership, courage, strength, and the ability to work as a TEAM.
The friendships and relationships you build on the team become a part of you for life. Your teammates become not only your friends; they will become your brothers. Someone once said that “Baseball is for fathers and sons, but football is like brothers beating each other up in the back yard”. Treat your teammates and coaches with dignity and respect; you will get the same dignity and respect in return.
Take criticism well, and use it as a challenge for you to do better. Make improvements through extra hard work both on and off the field. The better you make yourself, the better you show your improvement, the better your chances of making the team!
Train with your teammates in the offseason. We as a Coaching Staff understand summer schedules and we know that it’s not always possible to train with someone to motivate you. Sometimes you will have to go to the track, field or gym alone. These are the times when you will discover just what you are made of. You can push yourself and work hard or you can just go through the motions, the choice will be yours. The times alone will test and build your character; these are the times when champions are built. Choose now what you want to achieve this summer, focus your thoughts upon it, and don’t let anything get in your way.
Remember that you are a part of something special and it’s going to take a tremendous amount of hard work and dedication on your part. OUT HUSTLE, OUT WORK, OUT THINK, OUT PLAY, OUT LAST!
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will”. -Vince Lombardi
Location:
Thomas Dale High School is located in the village of Chester (population 14,986) in southern Chesterfield County, Virginia (approximately 15 miles south of Richmond). Thomas Dale High School is the oldest of eleven high schools in the Chesterfield County Public School System. School Size: Approximately 1900 students and 133 faculty and staff members Schedule format: alternating block with a seventh period.
Directions:
From Interstate 95 take Exit 61B, Chester on Route 10 West (Approximately 20 miles South of Richmond and 12 miles North of Petersburg). Travel 1.9 miles west on Route 10 (Also called W. Hundred Road). The school will be the second school on the right (just past Curtis Elementary School). Visitors, take the next right after Curtis Elementary and enter the building through the entrance facing Route 10. Students, parents dropping off students, and those attending athletic events should enter the student parking lot from the Centralia Road entrance.
Pam Lumsden
Principal
Mrs. Lumsden has over thirty years of educational experience in CCPS with over twenty years at Thomas Dale High.
B.S. Biology- University of Mary Washington
M.Ed. Administration and Supervision
Virginia Commonwealth University
Mark Fowler
Assistant Principal
9th Grade Campus
Twenty plus years of educational experience in the UK and the US.
B.A. Human Movement Studies
Cardiff College, UK
P.G.C.E Physical Education and Integrated Sciences
Cardiff College, UK
M.Sc. Exercise Physiology- James Madison University
Post Masters in Administration and Supervision
Virginia Commonwealth University
