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Video Addresses Early Recruiting

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 ... More

10 Reasons Coaching Will Improve Your Life

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 ... More

Nearly 5,000 Participate in Coaching Clinics

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 ... More

Parents Role in Success

By Peter Bidstrup Courtesy of Peter Bidstrup Peter Bidstrup has been the head boys’ lacrosse coach at The Governor’s Academy in Byfield, Massachusetts since 1996. Over the last decade, the “Red Dogs” have a record of 153-15 while winning or sharing 8 Independent School League championships. His daughter, Brett, plays lacrosse at ... More

Hit the Wall, Not the Weights

By Brian Logue Getty Images Erik Adamson is a midfielder for the Denver Outlaws in Major League Lacrosse. The Anaheim Hills, Calif., native graduated from the University of Denver in 2015, helping the Pioneers to their first national championship. Adamson was an honorable mention All-American in 2015 and graduated as DU’s fourth all-time leading goal ... More

How Did You Miss That?

By Gordon Corsetti Courtesy of Gordon Corsetti We say officials have the best seat in the house. While it's true that we are the closest to the action we can’t watch the game the same way everyone else does, which is typically watching where the ball goes. I love being on the field officiating, but I only see one-half or one-third of the entire game ... More

Teaching for Extension and Application

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 ... More

Female Athletes Discuss Concussions

By Paul Ohanian Bryce Vickmark Melissa Coyne, director of games administration at US Lacrosse and a former collegiate goalie, was among the participants on a female athlete panel at the recent International Summit on Female Concussion and Traumatic Brain Injury.Sharing from her experience, Coyne told the audience about the difficulty an injured athlete has ... More

Essay Contest Winner Announced

By Paul Ohanian Courtesy of Jennifer Powell Jennifer Powell, a 9th grader at Albany (N.Y.) High School and a member of the school district’s junior varsity team, had her submission selected as the winning entry for the 2016 US Lacrosse Diversity & Inclusion Essay Contest.Jennifer first picked up a lacrosse stick when she was 11 years old, and says that ... More

U.S. Opens U19 Play Against Canada

By Brian Logue Scott McCall The United States will open play in the 2016 Federation of International Lacrosse U19 Men’s World Championship against host Canada on July 7. The 16-team event takes place from July 7-16 in Coquitlam, British Columbia. The U.S. U19 team, led by Ohio State coach Nick Myers, has won all seven previous U19 world championsh... More