Making decisions in the best interest of your team’s safety is a critical component of effective leadership. If your club has a long drive ahead, plan to leave early. Driving through the night not only increases accident risks for your team, but may also affect your team’s performance if they don’t get enough rest the night before a tournament. The Club Sports Director is able to write an excuse letter for your team. While each professor at MSU has their own excuse policy, a letter from the Club Sports Director lends legitimacy to your team’s request for an excuse. If your team plans on missing several classes in one semester, the letter may be less useful so be smart in the tournaments you choose to attend and try to avoid missing too many classes. Please request letter at least two weeks in advance of your travel date. The sooner your teammates can get these to professors, the better! Here’s the information needed when requesting an excuse letter:
- Name/location of competition
- Date/time of competition
- Date/time you’re leaving East Lansing and returning to East Lansing
- How are you traveling (driving to airport, taking bus, individual cars, etc.)
- Anything else you think a professor would want to know
- Include PIDs of the players and please block off 4 numbers, for example:
- Sparty Spartan 18****123
Please send the PIDs in an e-mail without formatting, making it easier to copy and paste the list into a Word document.