9 results for month: 05/2016
By Brian Logue John Strohsacker EVENT HOME BETHLEHEM, Pa. — On a day when women’s lacrosse took a leap forward with the debut of the United Women’s Lacrosse League, the sport got another look at the future with more than 1,000 of the nation’s top high school players competing in front of more than 200 college coaches at the 2016 US ...
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By Kate Leavell | @kateleavell I’ve been to enough club tournaments that I expect the expected. Screaming coaches. Parents yelling at the refs. Trash talking between players, often mismatched in size. Parents in the stands cheering, parents leaning over the fence yelling not quite as cheerfully. Cranky officials who haven’t had a break in ...
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By Brian Logue Logan Whitton SPARKS, Md. — National lacrosse participation topped 800,000 active players for the first time since US Lacrosse began monitoring participation levels in 2001. For the year, total participation grew 2.2 percent to a total of 802,044 players competing on organized teams.Youth lacrosse continues to be the largest segment of ...
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By T.J. Buchanan Introduction In 2012, Dr. Mariale Hardiman published a book entitled “The Brain Targeted Teaching Model for 21st Century Schools.” Dr. Hardiman and her team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University spent several years conducting and reviewing neuroscience research on how children’s brains function in the ...
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By Brian Logue Scott McCall SPARKS, Md. — US Lacrosse announced today that applications for players wishing to try out for the 2017 U.S. Women’s National Team are now available. Tryouts will be held August 5-7, 2016 at the new national team training center at US Lacrosse headquarters in Sparks, Md.Interested candidates can apply for consideration ...
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By Brian Logue An often-overlooked piece of equipment related to safety is the actual lacrosse ball. Original research in 2005 by Trey Crisco, a member of the US Lacrosse Sports Science and Safety Committee, led to the development of a NOCSAE ball standard. In 2014, the NOCSAE standard became required for all games using NCAA/NFHS/USL rules.Now, the ball ...
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US Lacrosse helped produce a new video for the IWLCA which features interviews with men's and women's coaches, players, administrators and medical experts on the issues surrounding early recruiting. This video was created to raise awareness regarding this issue and generate support for the lacrosse coaches' proposal to the NCAA to establish September 1 of ...
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By Kate Leavell | @kateleavell Logan Whitton Coaching youth sports is less about the sport and more about the development of people. If you’ve turned down opportunities to coach a team because you don’t know the sport and feel unqualified, look at it in a different light. You’re leading kids with no life experience down a road that will ...
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By Brian Logue Brian Logue Championship lacrosse season is heating up, but one person can finally breathe a sigh of relief. Dara Robbins, manager of the Coaching Education Program (CEP), has spent the last six plus months coordinating the logistics for 98 US Lacrosse instructional clinics in 32 states. Robbins works with host volunteers through US Lacrosse ...
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