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Posted on Jul 18, 2012 | Print |

By Ryan Rabidou- Inside Lacrosse Magazine 

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Of all the skills that involve vision in lacrosse, perhaps the best known is Eye-Hand Cooridination, which is something you hear about all the time. And just by its name, we have an idea of what it is.
 
You'll notice I didn't say Hand-Eye Coordination, because this skill really starts with the eyes. Your eyes send images to your brain, which decodes those images, and then sends the signals to your muscles to make the play. As you make the play, the system continues to monitor the action, and can make corrections.
 
For example, as you track a pass, your eyes and brain send corrections to your hands, so that you can receive the pass successfully. There is a constant process of adjusting the position of the stick in order to catch the ball, and the eyes direct the movements.



Posted on Apr 30, 2012 | Print |

denizon.jpgby Mary Ellen Hare, newarkadvocate.com

When Dean Stambules came from Leesburg, Va., to Denison University four years ago, he was ready to play lacrosse for a leading Division III team and major in economics. Now he is graduating and headed to New York for an interview with a real estate investment firm.

He will take with him the memory of four teams of middle school recreation lacrosse players who credit him with changing their lives and a community grateful for his efforts.

The Denison senior received the 2012 Louis Kussmaul Friendship Award on April 18 at a luncheon co-sponsored by Denison and the Granville Area Chamber of Commerce. Seth Patton, DU's vice president for finance and management, and Maggie Barno, GACC executive director, presented Stambules with a certificate and a $300 check.

Read more at newarkadvocate.com



Posted on Apr 24, 2012 | Print |

by Candace Hopkins, ynn.com

Lacrosse is popular in Central New York, but in some areas of the country the sport remains relatively unknown. For teams in those areas, it can be a struggle to find funding. But as our Candace Hopkins reports, local students are doing their part to help get other teams off the ground.

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CAMILLUS, N.Y. -- West Genesee High School's lacrosse program is rich in history, with 15 state championships to their name. Now the Wildcats, led by player Adam Higginbotham, are looking to share that passion and pride with other athletes around the country.

"We're so fortunate here, and lacrosse is such a big part of our lives. We practice six days a week, so I think it's good and we love it, so hopefully other people in those areas will get to play and love it like us," said Higginbotham.

The students at West Genny organized a lacrosse gear drive after hearing about programs in other parts of the country that have had trouble starting up.

Read more at ynn.com



Posted on Mar 1, 2012 | Print |

By Nancy Badertscher- The Atlanta-Journal Constitution
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Rachel Sackett still hopes to play lacrosse with her former teammates from Gwinnett County's Mill Creek High School. And two state senators still hope to make that happen. But that requires making a change to state law. And that has drawn some criticism.

Rachel had been playing lacrosse at Mill Creek, but because she had a love for math and science, she transferred to the Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science and Technology. The public charter school does not offer sports.

State law doesn't allow her to continue playing at Mill Creek. The 16-year-old junior says the law is unfair to her and all charter school students. But others feel changing the law would not be fair to public school students.

Read More at Athletic Business



Posted on Jan 23, 2012 | Print |

by Curtis Eichelberger, bloomberg.com

Men's lacrosse players were the biggest illicit drug users among athletes competing in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's 23 sanctioned sports, according to a survey by the governing body.

They led all other sports in the use of amphetamines, anabolic steroids, cocaine, marijuana and narcotics, according to the NCAA's quadrennial survey, which included 20,474 responses from athletes for the 2009 school year.

The athletes were asked to voluntarily fill out forms anonymously, then mail them in postage-paid envelopes to a company that scanned them and put the answers into a database. The report offered no comparison with drug use in either the general population or college population as a whole.

Read more at bloomberg.com



Posted on Oct 24, 2011 | Print |

The sport is violent, with few rules, and defiantly true to its Native American roots. And each summer, a tournament is held to decide the champion of the game known in Choctaw as tolih.

Thumbnail image for 65503259.jpgAfter the final game of the Choctaw World Series of Stickball in Choctaw, Miss., James Denson, No. 9, and his Beaver Dam teammates greet their opponents from Conehatta. (Baxter Holmes, Los Angeles Times / October 19, 2011)

By Baxter Holmes, Los Angeles Times

Bum, bum, bum, bum ...

As the Choctaw drummer settles into his cadence, nearly 100 men in blood-red shirts, shorts and bandannas huddle around their leader in a darkening high school parking lot beneath the golden glow of a floodlight.

Read more at latimes.com




Posted on Oct 6, 2011 | Print |

By Dr. Richard D. Ginsburg, U.S. Lacrosse

Practice makes perfect. Much of our culture has been driven by this proverb for centuries. And to no surprise, this message courses strongly through the veins of youth sports and in the game of lacrosse. If our children practice the sport of lacrosse every day, they will likely improve their skills and become better players. Such a belief seems entirely logical. But, where do we draw the line? When does more practice make less sense? When does specializing exclusively in one sport from an early age become a risky investment? From another perspective, why shouldn't we simply commit our children to playing lacrosse exclusively on a year-round basis at a very early age so they can become experts by the time they need a college scholarship or at least a competitive advantage in the college admissions' process?



Posted on Sep 12, 2011 | Print |

Thumbnail image for usl_john_fernandez_john_mecionis_2.jpgThe former Army lacrosse captain, wounded in Iraq, asks us to remember the veterans

by Corey McLaughlin, LaxMagazine.com

Who is your favorite athlete?

The hardest worker on the team.

What's one thing you can't live without?
My family. I luckily get to spend a good deal of time at home and truly cannot live without my family.

Where did you go on your last vacation?
Vacation? What's that? With four young kids, sleep is a vacation and even that is rare.

What's one thing lacrosse really needs?
I really do not think that lacrosse needs anything. It is already an awesome sport, with great people playing it. What more do you need? As far a popularity of the sport goes...it's growing faster than any other. It really is the best sport out there, and people are really starting to recognize that.

Read more at laxmagazine.com



Posted on Jul 20, 2011 | Print |

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By Ed Pierce, Florida Today

Viera Suntree Lacrosse Club is bringing back its popular free off-season clinics for children.

From 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at Viera Regional Park, students of all ages will receive hands-on instruction about how to play and basic lacrosse fundamentals at no cost.

Roger Welton, Viera Suntree Lacrosse Club president, said the growing popularity of the sport with children and parents in the area prompted the club to offer the free clinics.

"Teaching the game to children will leave them wanting to play it in high school and the parents love it as well," he said. "They find it fascinating and exciting and are taking more interest as it grows."
 
 Read more at floridatoday.com




Posted on Jul 12, 2011 | Print |

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By Mark Weiner / The Post-Standard

In his 81 years, Onondaga Nation Faith keeper Oren Lyons has visited the White House in times of peace and crisis, meeting with both Republican and Democratic presidents dating to the 1970s.

But as a crowd gathered around him this morning on the South Lawn of the White House, Lyons was able to reflect on a history-making day for himself and the Onondaga Nation.

"I've been here many times with many presidents," Lyons said. "But it's the first time with a lacrosse stick."

Read more at syracuse.com




Posted on Jul 8, 2011 | Print |


By Greg Sleter, West Islip Patch
 


The future stars of West Islip lacrosse can be found running the fields of the Manetuck Elementary School/Udall Road Middle School complex over the next two weeks.

For the 25th consecutive year, the West Islip Boys Lacrosse Camp is being held under the watchful eye of Scott Craig, head coach of the high school's boys lacrosse team, his assistant coaches and players from the Suffolk County Class A Championship team.

Read more at westislip.patch.com


Posted on Jun 30, 2011 | Print |

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By Donnie Webb, The Post Standard

Sean Boland made a mad dash to the Sunoco A-Plus market in the Village of Manlius to grab a 44-ounce Pepsi. Players were about to get a water break and Boland figured this was his best window to slip out before the scrimmage. He's the kind of lacrosse father that never misses a game. Up until this past season, he'd never missed a practice. So leaving the practice field at Fayetteville-Manlius High School almost seemed risky.

In the 10 minutes he went to quench his thirst, Boland's oldest son, sophomore Dan Cochran of Jamesville-DeWitt High School, dropped to the ground and died. Boland missed the miracle that followed, too.

A Manlius police car blocked the village's main intersection at Seneca and Fayette to allow a convoy of emergency vehicles to roll up the street toward the high school. Boland, who is a dispatcher for Rural Metro ambulance service, was snagged in the blockade coming out of the convenience store lot. He managed to say to himself, "I hope that's not Daniel."

Read more at syracuse.com




Posted on Jun 17, 2011 | Print |

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By The Post Standard

The Corcoran varsity softball team and varsity and JV boys lacrosse teams that raised over $,1500 for the "More Than a Game Foundation". 

The foundation, run by Anthony Richmond, allows coaches, athletic directors and schools to choose where the money they raise is distributed: American Cancer Society, Upstate Golisano's Children's Hospital (both in Syracuse and Rochester) and Upstate Cancer Center.


Read more at syracuse.com



Posted on Jun 17, 2011 | Print |

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By Pat Spadafore, The Post Standard

The Section III Girls Lacrosse Exceptional Senior Game., held on Monday, June 13th at Marcellus Senior High School, raided $900 to benfit Joy Zimmerman. Joy was diagnosed in August 2010 with Metaplastic Carsinoma.

The Green team won 21-14 over the Blue team.

Scoring

Green: Perry 1-0, Barry 3-2, Algie 1-0, Nolan 2-0, Kenney 2-0, Reynolds 1-1, Jaquith 4-4, Bullock 0-2, Keegins 1-0, Farrugia 2-0, Caputo 3-1, Kiggins 1-0. Saves: Richardson - 9, Tess - 7.

Read more at syracuse.com





Posted on Jun 16, 2011 | Print |

syracuse_com.gifDonnie Webb, The Post Standard

A Jamesville-DeWitt High School lacrosse player was revived with CPR and a defibrillator after he was struck in the chest by a shot from another player on Wednesday.

The incident occurred at Fayetteville-Manlius High School during tryouts for a Section III team that will participate in a July event called the Upstate Risings.

Sophomore Dan Cochran, a member of the J-D junior varsity this past season, was in stable condition Wednesday night at University Hospital, according to a nursing supervisor.

Red Rams head coach Jamie Archer, whose team just won the Class B state lacrosse championship, said Cochran was joking around "like it never happened" when he called the hospital to check on his player.

"A big sigh of relief," Archer said. "He'll probably never know how close it came to a different outcome."

Read more at syracuse.com


Posted on May 13, 2011 | Print |

By Suzanne P. Cole, Star Magazine Thumbnail image for lax a hit.jpg

When Joe Vasta moved here six years ago and realized there was no lacrosse league for daughter Maddie to play in, he did what any good father and former NCAA Division 1 All-America lacrosse player would do: He started one.

First there were the neighborhood clinics. Vasta would drag a goal and some old lacrosse sticks to a green space and invite girls who lived nearby to learn a new sport with him -- right in their own backyard. Maddie played on basketball and soccer teams already, and Vasta invited those girls, too. 

Read more at kansascity.com 


Posted on May 6, 2011 | Print |

By Todd Jorgenson, Denton Record-Chronicle

CORINTH -- Until a few months ago, Max Marshall hadn't heard of lacrosse. 

Like many of his friends, the second-grader at Stephens Elementary in Shady Shores was more drawn toward football and baseball until a lacrosse stick was placed in his hand. 

"The first time I tried it, I liked it immediately," said Marshall, who is one of 19 members of the Lake Cities Lightning, a youth lacrosse program aimed at growing the sport in the area.

Read more at dentonrc.com


Posted on Apr 11, 2011 | Print |

By J.B. Cozens, Lewisboro Ledger 

Thumbnail image for Lax als.jpgWhen the John Jay boys lacrosse season kicks off on Saturday night at home against archrival Yorktown, the Huskers won't be the only opponent the John Jay community will be trying to defeat.

The other, more formidable, foe is ALS -- amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

By holding multiple events under the banner Lacrosse for A Cause, the John Jay lacrosse community hopes to build awareness about ALS and raise funds for Outreach ALS Foundation of Westchester, a local organization that provides financial and moral support to families suffering from the disease.

Read more at Lewisboroledger.com



Posted on Mar 30, 2011 | Print |

Thumbnail image for Lax brothers.jpgBy Adam Warner, laxpower.com

Jesse Wood easily recalls the days when his brother Nate would dominate their youth league lacrosse games. Of course, with Nate being the older, outgoing brother that he was, it doesn't surprise Jesse all that much when he looks back on those games they played in together.

"He was always the hot shot when we were younger," said Jesse, now a freshman at Mercy College. "He was definitely the bigger guy, and whenever a goal was needed, he would just win the face-off, bull his way down the field, and score."

 

Read more at laxpower.com



Posted on Mar 24, 2011 | Print |

lewis.jpgFamilies, neighbors, friends, acquaintances, local business owners and others in Westchester County and the Hudson Valley will come together the first weekend in April to generate awareness about ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease) while raising money with the hope of finding treatments and a cure for this devastating and debilitating illness.

There will be two days of activities. A fund-raiser, Party for A Cause, will be held on Friday, April 1, at the Salem Golf Club in North Salem. On Saturday, April 2, there will be Lacrosse for A Cause, which will include a specialized lacrosse clinic followed by the highly anticipated kickoff game of the regular season between the John Jay and Yorktown boys lacrosse teams.

Read more at acorn-online.com


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