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Staff PR Newswire
Baton Rouge, LA
February 1, 2010
Former player with the Los Angeles Dodgers, Eddie Davis, has developed an online television network for amateur, youth and student athletes, called RawSkills.com. The site allows athletes to upload, stream and download their games and other content, enabling them to promote themselves to college and major league scouts. The site also allows scouts to view users' footage to search for talent. Sports teams, organizations, and other sports companies can also upload, manage and monetize their games and sporting events to consumers using the RawSkillsTV platform.
In addition to increasing player exposure and providing schools at every level an innovative fundraising method, RawSkills also aims to provide highlights of the games, in an ESPN SportsCenter-style, as well as educational material and training advice from the pros.
laxpower.com
Baltimore, MD
January 24, 2010
US Lacrosse, the national governing body for the sport, announced the addition of the Great Plains Lacrosse Association as US Lacrosse's sixty-third chapter. US Lacrosse has grown to 63 regional chapters in just 12 years since the organization's inception. The Great Plains chapter covers the greater Kansas City area and includes Kansas and Missouri.
This weekend in Foxboro, Mass., more than 100,000 spectators are expected to pour into Gillette Stadium to see four schools -- Duke, Virginia, Cornell and Syracuse -- square off for the national championship of a sport that, if the numbers are correct, you'll be hearing a lot more about. That sport is lacrosse.
Until recently, lacrosse -- America's other stick and ball sport -- was rarely on TV and only its championship games generated much in the way of media coverage. It was mostly played on the East Coast, and it was often viewed as a game for private-school kids. Some of the game's most electrifying athletes -- Gary and Paul Gait; Casey, Ryan and Michael Powell -- were little known outside core followers. The sole exception may be Jim Brown, the former Cleveland Browns running back who played lacrosse at Syracuse University.
"Lacrosse has taken off because it combines the hitting of football, the speed of basketball, and requires the endurance of soccer," says Kyle Harrison, who led Johns Hopkins to a national championship in 2005 and who won that year's Tewaaraton Trophy as the country's best male player.
These days the sport is showing serious growth. Participation in high school lacrosse has about doubled this decade, to a total of 143,946 boys and girls playing on high school lacrosse teams in the 2007-08 school year, according to the National Federation of State High School Associations, which tracks participation by sport. In 2000-01, there were 74,225 high school lacrosse players.
JEFFREY A. TRACHTENBERG and KELLY EVANS
MAY 20, 2009
Wall Street Journal
Where'd all the baseball home-openers go?
None to the east in Montreal, and none to the west in Ottawa anymore . . . so we'll settle for a spring home-opener on Cornwall Island.
There's something exciting about the start of a new season in the spring, and on Saturday night it wasn't really about "settling'' for lacrosse, but more about enjoying a sport in an excellent facility.
And, the home team, the junior B Celtics, got a win, over expansion Kahnawake, in what was the first of what will be dozens of lacrosse junior and senior, A and B home games this spring and summer.
I'll have to settle for writing about lacrosse this year. The two little guys are taking a year off from lacrosse -- they'll try football and baseball instead. (Lacrosse and soccer are out.)
But it came up in intermission conversation (between Slushies) on Saturday: we're probably going to miss playing and coaching the fastest game on two feet -- perhaps we already do. And we're probably going to get back into it down the road sometime.
Because it's just a great game.
TODD HAMBLETON
April 20, 2009
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With Little League starting and other sports in full swing, we look forward to a full slate of athletic competition in the coming months.
The sound of bats hitting balls can be heard throughout Culpeper and the surrounding area these days, with high school baseball and softball teams enjoying successful seasons and local Little Leaguers making their way to the diamond.
While the Eastern View baseball and softball teams are both off to tremendous starts and battling for district championships, future high school players also have begun their seasons with a fantastic celebration.
Culpeper Little League recently marked its 35th anniversary with opening day festivities for baseball and softball, which proved to be an enjoyable experience despite rain. The Rappahannock Athletic Association also celebrated opening day last weekend. It marked the 30th year of youth baseball in Amissville.
But baseball and softball players aren’t the only competitors out and about now that the weather is warming up (at least some days). Lacrosse, tennis track and field hockey are also in full swing.
And don’t forget those youth soccer players who populate the fields at the county rec complex. They might learn a thing or two by stopping to watch the EVHS girls soccer team. The Cyclones are off to a 5-1 start and have won three of their four district contests.
Staff Editorial
April 9, 2009
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Despite school holiday, Jupiter High clinic draws good crowd
By Mike English
February 20th, 2008
Palm Beach County schools took Monday off to celebrate President's Day, but dozens of young lacrosse players turned up at Jupiter High School for lessons anyway.
The Jupiter High boys and girls lacrosse teams sponsored a one-day clinic at the idle campus for players from first through eighth grades.
The camp drew 18 girls and 38 boys, and on the boy's side most of them currently are enrolled in the JTAA or Palm Beach Gardens youth lacrosse programs.
"This was a great turnout for our first time," JHS boys coach Don Blumenthal said. "I would say three quarters of them have played in the JTAA. Only about seven or eight of them have never played before."
On the girls side, 18 young campers turned out, said JHS girls coach Sarah Burlingame.
"Only about half of the girls are involved in the JTAA program," Burlingame said.
For some, it was the first time they have touched a stick.
"Your lacrosse stick should become part of your body!"
Youth Lacrosse USA
To become proficient in passing and shooting, the player must be able to propel the ball from the stick with the wrist "snap." Many beginning players pass and shoot with an arm motion, or "push" the ball, which causes the ball to leave the stick on a low trajectory resulting in a low pass or shot. An excellent way to develop the wrist snap is to utilize the wall. Go to a cinderblock or brick wall and stand approximately 3 to 5 yards away. Any wall will work (no windows), but a smooth concrete surface at least 10 feet tall is the best.
You can and will observe daily improvement if proper technique is maintained. Increase the reps as wrists become stronger. Aim for as many reps as possible with desired form, however. This is a lefty-righty work out. Attempt to do as many reps as possible. Remember, your goal is to strengthen the wrists, to become proficient in releasing the ball with the snap of the wrists, to gain hand speed, and to develop a quick release.
The single most effective training technique that was implemented in my game, and the one that I preach first and foremost to my players as a coach, is one of the oldest. “WALL BALL” is the one aspect of training that can help a player develop and be the sure handed ball control player, regardless of position, that every team needs.
By Paul Carcaterra
January 6th, 2004
Paul Carcaterra is widely regarded as one of the top youth lacrosse teachers in the USA. he is a former captain and All-American at Syracuse. He plays for the MLL New Jersey Pride. Carcaterra also is co-director of No Limit Lacrosse Camps (which he co-directs with MLL All-Star John Gagliardi).
As this wonderful sport evolves, both from an equipment and training standpoint, we are all exposed to new ideas about how to become better coaches and players. I have been involved with the sport of lacrosse for 21 years, at the youth/high school (Yorktown), college (Syracuse), international (Team England), and professional levels(NJ Pride). There were many innovative ideas that helped me become a strong player, and now a high school (Fox Lane) coach in Westchester County, NY. However, the single most effective training technique that was implemented in my game, and the one that I preach first and foremost to my players as a coach, is one of the oldest. “WALL BALL” is the one aspect of training that can help a player develop and be the sure handed ball control player, regardless of position, that every team needs.
The Three Village Youth Lacrosse League is putting AEDs on the sideline
This article appears in Volume 12, Issue 2 of Inside Lacrosse Magazine. To buy a copy of this issue
By Dave Vatz
January 22nd, 2008
The movement to place Automatic External Defibrillators on the sideline of lacrosse games continued to grow this past year, this time in Setauket, N.Y. The Three Village Youth Lacrosse League, which runs a clinic starting with kids in kindergarten, recently instituted a new AED program for the upcoming season.
John Petraco, a physician, coach and father of four boys, brought up the program to the board and all agreed it was worthwhile. Thanks to help fundraising from the Louis Acompora Foundation, the league has five AEDs and will be training their coaches how to use them. Some day, the league hopes to have them for every team, and for now, they are developing a system where they will be handed off to get them to as many games as possible.
Press ReleaseLevel 2 Sports has announced the details of the 2008 adidas National Lacrosse Classic. adidas Lacrosse is the title sponsor and event partner which will feature the Top 500 high school underclassmen players in the United States.
Open to 9th, 10th and 11th grade boys, the adidas National Lacrosse Classic provides an opportunity for players to test their skills against the 'best of the best' competing for a roster spot on their Regional Team. The adidas Event Advisory Board has established 8 regions in the Nation. Each region will have a select number of teams based upon 2006 high school participation rates. A total of 20 teams will play in the grand finals, July 18-20, 2008 at the Discovery Sports Complex in Maryland as a showcase for college coaches and scouts. In addition, the winning team of the adidas National Lacrosse Classic will represent the United States against Canada for the Brogden Cup in December 2008.
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