How to build a strong chess team

Can anyone give me any advice on how to build a great chess team. There is already an organized chess club and team for my Highschool, but we're weak and I'm taking over as the first board next year. Also, I will only be a soft more next year and need advice on how to gain respect among my boards. We have scheduled practices. but everyone just plays games and most people don't have the dedication or discipline to review games or learn theory. 

Any advice is appreciated, 

Have you beaten this year's first board yet?

Why not?  Too many sophomoric mistakes?

Study hard and improve your own game. If the others on your team see you getting good results, pulling draws out of losing positions and wins out of drawn positions, they may be inspired to try it themselves.

I coached a very successful high school chess team and I divided each meeting up into two parts: a theory introduction that I limited to 10-15 minutes on openings, traps (mostly to avoid), or endgames except for special meetings where the Maryland Chess Association provided a NM to give a talk.

The rest of the meeting was open to any kind of chess my players (mostly rated 800-1400 USCF standard) wanted to play.  The biggest deviation from standard chess was Bughouse.  That was all good because they were learning tactics and, in Bughouse, it forced them to see patterns because they had to consider where to put pieces their partners captured.  When they were, for example, missing one piece to win one player would yell to his partner, "I need a Knight!"

As we were within two weeks of tournaments, the players who were going to compete spent more time in at least four meetings in standard chess and we briefly explored certain openings like the Bishop's Opening or simple defenses as Black against the typical Ruy Lopez, Giuoco Piano, or King's Gambit or Slav vs 1 d4 or 1 c4 - the openings we saw most so we'd have a small set of openings where we might have an advantage and avoid openings where some opponents might have an advantage. We usually only looked about 7 moves into any openings and players were required to understand the ideas behind the openings.  I avoided more complex or closed openings (Sicilian, French, Caro-Kann) unless my players were rated 1300 or better.  We spent most of our  time reviewing tactics, basic strategy like what attacks fit our openings and endgame principles like The Opposition and The Rule of the Square. We played in six scholastic tournaments (I was USCF Tournament Director for the first five) each year as a team, including a country championship we usually won and a state tournament where we won the 3rd, 4th, and 5th place team trophies in 3 consecutive years.

Use rooks as the base, because they have a flat top you can build off of. You can also use multiple pawns clumped together. Unless you use upsidedown bishops, you'll want to save bishops for last because they're the hardest to stack pieces on top of.

I'm no coach, so maybe ignore me for Mickin, but to motivate people to get better maybe start a simple club ladder. I'm sure there are various rules you could google online, but here's what I'm familiar with:

 - You put the player's names on a list. #1 is the best player, and rank them down to the lowest. If there are 10 players then the lowest rank is 10.
 - Winning a game against a player ranked higher than you means you take over their spot, and the loser moves down 1 rank (pushing everyone below down 1 rank also).

 - No matter your opponent, if you lose a game you go down one rank.
 - Beating a player ranked lower does not increase your rank.

 - When a player of lower rank challenges a player of higher rank, the higher ranked player can't refuse.

And you could have some kind of leader board like player with most weeks as #1.

If there are a lot of players, or everyone wants to challenge the #1 guy you can add a rule like you can only challenge players within 2 or 3 ranks of your current rank. So for example only players #2 and #3 can challenge the #1.