IT Web Design Noob in need of help.

[KeatonM]

A couple things I noticed...

I was clicking the navigation along the top, and noticed the same links along the side. After going to several different pages, the links are different on each page! That will be rather confusing to the average visitor.

My suggestion would be to remove the navigation on the sidebar, and keep only the top bar.

On the same note, some pages are only available from the sidebar navigation. Maybe you could use a drop down on the top? If you do, make sure you don't have several 'levels' of drop downs. Try to keep it at two max.

For example,

About -> The Team -> Members
                  -> Mentors
                  -> Captains
Media -> Photos
      -> Videos

The biggest thing to me is the Flash Slideshow on the homepage. Flash won't load on iPhones/iPads/iPod Touches, some version of Android, and it is rather slow to load. I would highly recommend something done in JavaScript instead, such as NivoSlider (http://nivo.dev7studios.com/), which supports images and links, and will speed up the page load.

I like the look of the site - it's simple and it fits your team's colors.

You have a good start, so keep working!