March 31, 2020

Dear CJT Families,

We hope this message finds you and your loved ones doing well and staying safe during this unprecedented time. Much like you, we greatly miss the camaraderie and sense of community that organized youth sports helps bring to Cary-Grove. 

Cary Jr. Trojans looks forward to returning to the practice floor and football field, but we need to do so in a manner that is safe for all of our participants and volunteer staff. Therefore, we are suspending all activities until further notice from public health officials. 

In this time of uncertainty, we want to keep you informed of steps we are taking for program registrations, payments, and planning for the coming months ahead:

1. Walk-in registrations and cheer/dance uniform fitting are postponed until further notice.  This includes the Sunday April 5th walk-in registration.  In the event we are not able to have in-person fitting in time to meet ordering deadlines, we will have a system in place for participants to electronically submit sizing.

2. To help minimize financial risk to our participants while still allowing the CJT organization to pay necessary operational expenses, CJT has extended the deadline for 100% full refunds until June 1st.  After June 1st, we will move to a prorated refund (full fee minus $65).

We will continue to monitor developments closely and share all updates with you in a timely manner. We have the resources in place and are fully committed to providing a rewarding football, cheer, and dance program for your child to participate in this season, once we get the approval from our public health officials that it is safe to do so. Thank you for being part of our CJT family.

Best regards,
Cary Jr Trojans Board of Directors

Registration for the 2020 season is now available! Please go to the registration tab for more information and for details on the 2020 season. The link to registration for all of the CJT programs is included in this section. 

Please note that for 2020, we have created a promotional program for referring new participants (*new = athletes that did not participate in CJT in 2019).  When new participants register, they will have an opportunity to list (a single) referring CJT family.   The referring CJT family will then receive a $50 credit/refund (applied Oct 1st) to their own registration.  This program is open to all levels of our program.

Mark your calendars! The CJT 2020 Walk in Registration Days will be as follows: 

Walk-in reg dates / times:

Saturday, February 22nd  – Algonquin Township Building 10:30am – 12:00pm

Sunday, April 5th – Algonquin Township Building 5:30pm – 7:00pm (cancelled)

Thursday, May 14th – Holy Cross Lutheran Church 6:00pm – 8:00pm

The CGHS golf outing is the largest fundraiser for our high school football team (and other C-G co-curricular activities.  Please consider playing in the event or sponsoring a hole.  It is a great time.

If you wish to become involved by sponsoring a hole or helping organize a portion of the event, please contact Kevin O'Malley at komalley@aepkg.com

If you wish to play in the outing, get your foursome together and register soon!  Early bird registration for the outing ends March 15th.  $500/foursome.  Register at:

https://sites.google.com/d155.org/cgfootball/golf-outing

CJT had (2) tackle teams advance to their respective Super Bowls.

Congratuations to our Middleweight B10, who beat Woodstock 28-0 to win the Middleweight 2A Super Bowl.

Congratulations to our Varsity Blue, who had a great season, but could not overcome a great Warren team.  They are Varsity 3A Super Bowl runner-ups.

CJT believes strongly in multi-sport athletes.

Registration for Spring Lacrosse is open (early bird special of $285 thru Dec 1st).

see cgylax.org for details

Many thanks to Jonas Contracting for donating the inflatable helmet for the 2019 season.  It is spectacular !

Check out the photo above from Bantam and Feather combine.  This thing is huge, and is a great addition to our pre-game experience at CJH.

We are excited to use this in the upcoming 2020 season! 

Congratulations to the following Cary Jr. Trojans who were selected to play in the 2019 All-TCYFL game on July 20th:

Thomas Battaglia (Varsity)

Jack Martin (Varsity)

Justin Ramirez (Varsity)

Kyle Jarecki (Lightweight / JV)

 Tessa Capitano (Lightweight / JV)

**Special shout out to Tessa, who is the first female athlete from our program to be selected to the All-TCYFL Team**

Signup for 2019 Rainedout SMS notifications is open.  All participants need to re-signup for the 2019 season, as the 2018 data has been purged.

Please click this link to signup for CJT SMS Notifications

CJT wishes to thank our members for your support.

We are starting to see donations trickle in using Amazon Smile.

Support Cary Jr Trojans by using Amazon Smile for your Amazon.com purchases.  Use this link to set Cary Jr Trojans as your Amazon Smile charity, and Amazon will give 0.5% back from all purchases to our organization.  Note:  To use Amazon Smile, simply navigate to smile.amazon.com instead of amazon.com, and shop as usual.  Amazon smile offers the same selection and prices as Amazon.com.

Thank you to former CJT and CGHS alum, Ryan Mahoney for his company's diligent effort creating this great video.

When parking at Cary Jr. High for football games, please park legally and NOT in the areas marked in red.  You will be ticketed by the Cary Police Department for parking in a non designated spot.

Thank you to Northwestern, North Shore, and TCYFL for hosting CJT Varsity Blue at Northwestern's Hutcheson practice field this past Sunday.  It is an amazing facility, and our families had a wonderful time.