10 results for month: 02/2016
By Beth Mahr Courtesy of EXCEL Lacrosse, the creator’s game, is filled with rich life lessons, character building, team building, communication, and healing. In the early roots of lacrosse, the game was played for the creator’s enjoyment and the healing of people. Fast-forward hundreds of years, and people all over the world are seeing the impact of ...
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From Press Releases | @MLL_Lacrosse BOSTON – On Friday, Jan. 22, Major League Lacrosse will hold the 16th annual Collegiate Draft, presented by Cascade Lacrosse, in conjunction with the US Lacrosse Convention. The event will take place at 8:30 p.m. ET at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Md. Members of the media are invited to cover the ...
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By Ryan Boyle | @TrilogyLacrosse John Strohsacker During the introductory meeting at the 2015 Trilogy Middle School Aces East, I presented one of our players with a hypothetical premise. Would you go to a school where you are guaranteed to win a national championship but never step on the field? His answer — no — was simple and confident despite the ...
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By Brian Logue | @USLacrosse BALTIMORE – The 2016 outdoor lacrosse season opens this weekend with the inaugural Team USA Spring Premiere at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla. The U.S. women’s senior team will play a doubleheader against the University of Florida and Syracuse University on Saturday, Jan. 9. On Sunday, Jan. 10, the U.S. men’s ...
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By Brian Logue John Strohsacker On Friday night of the 2016 US Lacrosse Convention, Johns Hopkins men’s lacrosse coach Dave Pietramala explained how building a family was essential to the success of the Blue Jays’ program. One of the game’s greatest players, the all-time winningest coach at one of the nation’s most storied progra...
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From Press Releases ATLANTA – The Men’s Collegiate Lacrosse Association (MCLA), the preeminent non-varsity league in the country, is pleased to announce that US Lacrosse is sponsoring the MCLA Player of the Month, which will be awarded to an MCLA student-athlete in each division who has stood out with his overall performance. The US Lacrosse ...
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By Paul Ohanian Brian Schneider US Lacrosse has been focused on bringing greater diversity to the sport of lacrosse for some time, and in fact, has identified outreach and inclusion as one of its four primary goals in the Strategic Plan that will shape the organization’s priorities from 2016-2018. Specifically, the national governing body is committed ...
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By Brian Logue US Lacrosse will hold a free one-hour webinar to introduce the lacrosse community to its new Lacrosse Athlete Development Model on Friday, Feb. 5 beginning at 11:30 a.m. (Eastern). The webinar is limited to the first 100 participants, so register now at the link below: The Lacrosse Athlete Development Model aims to "square the pyramid" of ...
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By Brian Logue | @USLacrosse If you build it, they will come. That’s certainly been the case for the new US Lacrosse learning management platform, which launched last month. In just the first few weeks, more than 5,000 people have signed up to access online educational information offered by US Lacrosse. “We’ve had tremendous response and ...
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By Paul Ohanian US Lacrosse ArchivesUS Lacrosse has named the 1950 Johns Hopkins University men’s lacrosse team and the 1969 U.S. Women’s Touring Team as the first winners of its new Team of Distinction Award, recognizing outstanding contributions and impact to lacrosse made by an entire team during a specific era of participation. Both teams will be ...
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