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  • • Finding Balance in Conditioning
    ADMCoachesInstructionalAs coaches, we recognize the need for our players to be physically fit. As such, part of our role is to provide opportunities for our athletes to improve their physical bodies by incorporating exercises that involve strength, agility, cardio, endurance, stamina, coordination, power, and speed. Hopefully, with the overall intent of making our athletes healthier, help their bo...2021
  • • US Lacrosse CEO Steve Stenersen Stepping Aside After Nearly 40 Years in Leadership Roles
    AdministratorsCoachesMembershipOfficialsParentsPlayersPress ReleaseSPARKS, Md. — Steve Stenersen, the CEO of US Lacrosse since the organization’s inception in 1998, announced today his intention to depart the organization by the end of 2021. The decision is the outcome of a multi-year series of strategic conversations between Stenersen and the US Lacrosse Board of Directors about succession planni...2021
  • • The Continuum of Physical Literacy
    ADMCoachesParentsPlayersPhysical literacy begins as early as infancy, but it is not a finite process. Achieving physical literacy occurs on a continuum, as the skills that are considered "age appropriate" continue to get more complex as kids grow older and the level of competition in sports progresses. Physical literacy skills are related to age but are not dependent on age. Some kids will develop...2021
  • • 2021 is Our Opportunity to Use Hindsight to Move Forward
    DiversityThis time last year, there were a lot of plays on words between the year 2020 and 20/20 vision. 2020 was deemed the year of clarity — of clear vision. Many hoped for prosperity and more mobility in their lives. This time last year, we were concluding Black History Month on the cusp of an unforeseen national shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This time last year, the country did not kn...2021
  • • Future Leaders of the Black Lacrosse Community
    Diversity Jules Heningburg prior to a Premier Lacrosse League game in 2019. To celebrate Black History Month, US Lacrosse Magazine and Blaxers Blog are teaming up to recognize the next generation of leaders and pioneers in the Black lacrosse community. Earlier this month, we highlighted the most influential Black players, coaches and moments in the history of lacrosse. Since, we have committed to ...2021
  • • US Lacrosse PE Program Aims to Help Get Lacrosse in Schools
    ADMAdministratorsCoachesPrograms & GrantsUS Lacrosse Pacific Southwest Regional Manager Gabe Fowler showing hands-on teaching with the US Lacrosse PE curriculum during the recent virtual LaxCon. In its continuing effort to help grow the sport by utilizing the resources offered by schools, US Lacrosse held a free five-session professional development workshop for physical education instructors ...2021
  • • LaxCon 2021: The Small-Sided Movement
    ADMAdministratorsCoachesParentsPlayersIn an effort to keep expanding the sport of lacrosse and appealing to new participants, many leading organizations having begun thinking outside of the traditional parameters of the game.  They are learning that slightly modified versions of the sport can help remove some of the most commonly cited barriers to participation, such as cost, access, field space, ...2021
  • • Soldiers to Sidelines Offers Virtual Coaching Webinar
    CoachesBrady Nix, left, was an Army combat medic deployed in Afghanistan from January 2009 to January 2010. Soldiers to Sidelines, an organization helping veterans and service members find renewed purpose by continuing to serve their communities as coaches, is offering a free virtual lacrosse coach certification webinar for veterans, active duty and military service members, that begins on Monday,...2021
  • • Star-Studded Lineup Highlights LaxCon's Special Edition Track
    EventsESPN lacrosse announcers Quint Kessenich, Paul Carcaterra and Anish Shroff will look ahead to the 2021 men's college lacross season during the "Special Edition" track at the US Lacrosse Convention. The US Lacrosse Convention is going to look a little different in 2021, but that doesn’t mean it won’t have just as much in store for the lacrosse community. In addition to tracks within our virtu...2020
  • • Six Ways to Create a Fun and Player-Centered Experience
    ADMCoachesInstructionalWomen's lacrosse star Kylie Ohlmiller participates with young players at a US Lacrosse TryLax event in Atlanta in 2019. As we look at the potential of a 2021 lacrosse season, we should spend some time before preseason planning ways to make the season fun and player-centered. Fun and player-centered, one of the US Lacrosse Core Values of Athlete Development, is a reminder to ...2020

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  • • Finding Balance in Conditioning
    ADMCoachesInstructionalAs coaches, we recognize the need for our players to be physically fit. As such, part of our role is to provide opportunities for our athletes to improve their physical bodies by incorporating exercises that involve strength, agility, cardio, endurance, stamina, coordination, power, and speed. Hopefully, with the overall intent of making our athletes healthier, help their bo...2021
  • • US Lacrosse CEO Steve Stenersen Stepping Aside After Nearly 40 Years in Leadership Roles
    AdministratorsCoachesMembershipOfficialsParentsPlayersPress ReleaseSPARKS, Md. — Steve Stenersen, the CEO of US Lacrosse since the organization’s inception in 1998, announced today his intention to depart the organization by the end of 2021. The decision is the outcome of a multi-year series of strategic conversations between Stenersen and the US Lacrosse Board of Directors about succession planni...2021
  • • The Continuum of Physical Literacy
    ADMCoachesParentsPlayersPhysical literacy begins as early as infancy, but it is not a finite process. Achieving physical literacy occurs on a continuum, as the skills that are considered "age appropriate" continue to get more complex as kids grow older and the level of competition in sports progresses. Physical literacy skills are related to age but are not dependent on age. Some kids will develop...2021
  • • 2021 is Our Opportunity to Use Hindsight to Move Forward
    DiversityThis time last year, there were a lot of plays on words between the year 2020 and 20/20 vision. 2020 was deemed the year of clarity — of clear vision. Many hoped for prosperity and more mobility in their lives. This time last year, we were concluding Black History Month on the cusp of an unforeseen national shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This time last year, the country did not kn...2021
  • • Takeaways From the US Lacrosse "Athlete Mindset Series"
    ADMCoachesInstructionalParentsPlayersFormer professional lacrosse player Chazz Woodson, a member of the US Lacrosse Board of Directors and the head men's lacrosse coach at Hampton University, was one of the guests on the US Lacrosse Athlete Mindset webinar series. Over the last eight weeks, US Lacrosse hosted the "Athlete Mindset Series," a weekly journey into specific aspects of sports psychology...2020
  • • New Era for Say-Lax: A Resurgence for the Saugerties (N.Y.) Youth Program
    AdministratorsCoachesMembershipThis article appears in the November edition of US Lacrosse Magazine, available exclusively to US Lacrosse members. Join or renew today! Thank you for your support. Sometimes a program is more than just a program. When Bob Slate moved to Saugerties, N.Y., in the late 1980s for a teaching position, there was one big thing missing — lacrosse.  “I remember coming down h...2020
  • • US Lacrosse Launches Athlete Mindset Webinar Series
    CoachesInstructionalPlayersPress ReleaseSPARKS, Md. — The “US Lacrosse Athlete Mindset Series,” an eight-week webinar series geared towards giving lacrosse players actionable items to improve their performance, will launch on Sept. 24. The webinars will run each Thursday evening into November. Leading the discussions will be Arman Taghizadeh, M.D., (Dr. T), founder of the Mindset Training Institut...2020
  • • Celebrating Multi-Sport Paticipation
    ADMAdministratorsCoachesParentsPlayersAs a coach (at any level), when getting to know players at the beginning of the season, I ask: What other sports have you played? This helps me to get a sense of what they know and how to better coach them in lacrosse. I automatically know that a basketball player is going to understand defensive positioning, man-to-man, triple threat position, screens, picks,...2020
  • • NGB Executives Sound Off on the Future of Youth Sports
    ADMAdministratorsCoachesEventsHealth & SafetyOfficialsParentsPlayersPress ReleaseReturn to play, digital strategy and the rebirth of community-based play were popular subjects Thursday, as US Lacrosse hosted the first edition of “Sports in the COVID Era,” an interactive webinar series bringing together industry leaders to discuss the short- and long-term effects of the pandemic on youth sports...2020
  • • Are You Building Context Between Practice and Competition?
    ADMCoachesThe 10yd x 10yd boxes are set out with a cone in the middle for some, while a goalie sets in their cage communicating to the defense in the middle for others. Players are split into small groups. Pinnies are being passed around and put on, and there are groups of 4v4 across the entire field. Everyone is involved in their areas and no one is waiting around.  The offense just completed a p...2020

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  • • The Advent of Wearable Technology Pushes Lacrosse into the Future
    Former Marquette lacrosse player Conor Gately regularly put in extra work to improve outside scheduled practices. It became custom for him to dodge and shoot on his own time.  By his senior season, when he had already become the first player in the school history to surpass 100 career points and was on the Tewaaraton watch list, Gately was doing too much, especially on game day.  Using PLAYERTEK b...2018

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  • • US Lacrosse PE Program Aims to Help Get Lacrosse in Schools
    ADMAdministratorsCoachesPrograms & GrantsUS Lacrosse Pacific Southwest Regional Manager Gabe Fowler showing hands-on teaching with the US Lacrosse PE curriculum during the recent virtual LaxCon. In its continuing effort to help grow the sport by utilizing the resources offered by schools, US Lacrosse held a free five-session professional development workshop for physical education instructors ...2021
  • • LaxCon 2021: The Small-Sided Movement
    ADMAdministratorsCoachesParentsPlayersIn an effort to keep expanding the sport of lacrosse and appealing to new participants, many leading organizations having begun thinking outside of the traditional parameters of the game.  They are learning that slightly modified versions of the sport can help remove some of the most commonly cited barriers to participation, such as cost, access, field space, ...2021
  • • Soldiers to Sidelines Offers Virtual Coaching Webinar
    CoachesBrady Nix, left, was an Army combat medic deployed in Afghanistan from January 2009 to January 2010. Soldiers to Sidelines, an organization helping veterans and service members find renewed purpose by continuing to serve their communities as coaches, is offering a free virtual lacrosse coach certification webinar for veterans, active duty and military service members, that begins on Monday,...2021
  • • Star-Studded Lineup Highlights LaxCon's Special Edition Track
    EventsESPN lacrosse announcers Quint Kessenich, Paul Carcaterra and Anish Shroff will look ahead to the 2021 men's college lacross season during the "Special Edition" track at the US Lacrosse Convention. The US Lacrosse Convention is going to look a little different in 2021, but that doesn’t mean it won’t have just as much in store for the lacrosse community. In addition to tracks within our virtu...2020
  • • Registration Opens for LaxCon 2021
    AdministratorsCoachesEventsParentsPress ReleaseRepresent your community. Reimagine the way we play. Reignite your love of lacrosse. Registration for the 2021 US Lacrosse Convention, an all virtual event Jan. 15-16, opens today with special offers for US Lacrosse members. Annually the sport’s biggest trade show and professional development opportunity, US Lacrosse has converted the physical halls a...2020
  • • Resilience in New Mexico: Albuquerque All In on Lacrosse
    ADMAdministratorsThis article appears in the November edition of US Lacrosse Magazine, available exclusively to US Lacrosse members. Join or renew today! Thank you for your support. Luke Abeling might not have known fully the positive effect Albuquerque Youth Lacrosse was having on the sport’s development in New Mexico had he not recently volunteered for a competitor. Despite ABQYL’s return to pla...2020
  • • US Lacrosse Adds Virtual Coach Development Workshops
    AdministratorsCoachesInstructionalParentsPress ReleaseSPARKS, Md. — The US Lacrosse Coach Development Program (CDP) will offer a series of virtual workshops over the coming months to provide coaches useful tools in planning for their seasons. The virtual workshops will satisfy the instructional clinic portion of the US Lacrosse Coach Certification Program until further notice due to the current CO...2020
  • • In the Space: Re-Examining Team Culture
    CoachesDiversityImagine two households. One household only listens to Rock music. The other household only listens to R&B music. Imagine that the children of the households go to the same neighborhood school and are in the same after school music club. As they get to know each other, the child of the Rock household quickly learns that everyone in the club only knows about R&B. In an ideal ...2020
  • • 15 Ways Lacrosse Will Come Back Stronger
    AdministratorsCoachesOfficialsParentsPlayersPrograms & GrantsThis article appears in the September/October edition of US Lacrosse Magazine, available exclusively to US Lacrosse members. Join or renew today! Thank you for your support.    The COVID-19 pandemic has perhaps irreversibly altered the youth, amateur and professional sports landscape. With changes come new opportunities. Here are 15 ...2020
  • • A Call to Action for the Lacrosse Community: Create Opportunities
    AdministratorsCoachesDiversityOfficialsParentsPlayersLauren Davenport is the manager of athlete development at US Lacrosse. She has coached lacrosse at the youth, high school and collegiate levels. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the longer and often more silenced pandemic of racism towards the Black Community in America has been brought to the forefront in the aftermath of the murders of George Floyd...2020

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  • • US Lacrosse CEO Steve Stenersen Stepping Aside After Nearly 40 Years in Leadership Roles
    AdministratorsCoachesMembershipOfficialsParentsPlayersPress ReleaseSPARKS, Md. — Steve Stenersen, the CEO of US Lacrosse since the organization’s inception in 1998, announced today his intention to depart the organization by the end of 2021. The decision is the outcome of a multi-year series of strategic conversations between Stenersen and the US Lacrosse Board of Directors about succession planni...2021
  • • US Lacrosse PE Program Aims to Help Get Lacrosse in Schools
    ADMAdministratorsCoachesPrograms & GrantsUS Lacrosse Pacific Southwest Regional Manager Gabe Fowler showing hands-on teaching with the US Lacrosse PE curriculum during the recent virtual LaxCon. In its continuing effort to help grow the sport by utilizing the resources offered by schools, US Lacrosse held a free five-session professional development workshop for physical education instructors ...2021
  • • Six Ways to Create a Fun and Player-Centered Experience
    ADMCoachesInstructionalWomen's lacrosse star Kylie Ohlmiller participates with young players at a US Lacrosse TryLax event in Atlanta in 2019. As we look at the potential of a 2021 lacrosse season, we should spend some time before preseason planning ways to make the season fun and player-centered. Fun and player-centered, one of the US Lacrosse Core Values of Athlete Development, is a reminder to ...2020
  • • In the Space: Re-Examining Team Culture
    CoachesDiversityImagine two households. One household only listens to Rock music. The other household only listens to R&B music. Imagine that the children of the households go to the same neighborhood school and are in the same after school music club. As they get to know each other, the child of the Rock household quickly learns that everyone in the club only knows about R&B. In an ideal ...2020
  • • 15 Ways Lacrosse Will Come Back Stronger
    AdministratorsCoachesOfficialsParentsPlayersPrograms & GrantsThis article appears in the September/October edition of US Lacrosse Magazine, available exclusively to US Lacrosse members. Join or renew today! Thank you for your support.    The COVID-19 pandemic has perhaps irreversibly altered the youth, amateur and professional sports landscape. With changes come new opportunities. Here are 15 ...2020
  • • Build Your Own Game of Pickup Lacrosse
    ADMCoachesParentsPlayersJust because your normal lacrosse competition isn’t what you’re used to, it doesn’t mean you can’t keep improving your game and have fun while you’re doing it. That’s why we created the Pickup Lacrosse game-builder. You just need any open space you can find — your backyard, an old tennis court (watch out for posts), a basketball court, an alley, a space in a park, a cul-de-...2020
  • • A Call to Action for the Lacrosse Community: Create Opportunities
    AdministratorsCoachesDiversityOfficialsParentsPlayersLauren Davenport is the manager of athlete development at US Lacrosse. She has coached lacrosse at the youth, high school and collegiate levels. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the longer and often more silenced pandemic of racism towards the Black Community in America has been brought to the forefront in the aftermath of the murders of George Floyd...2020
  • • You're Never "Too Small" to Play Lacrosse
    ADMCoachesParentsPlayersReflecting back on my years of coaching 14U to high school-age girls in lacrosse, small-sided games (usually in the form of stations) were the best parts of practice. Why? They were short, fun, and highly impactful for players. Players were able to problem solve, make decisions, and have a lot of opportunities to work on skills in a short amount of time—and usually within a...2020
  • • When Play Truly Becomes Free
    ADMAdministratorsCoachesParentsDuring my college summers, I used to be a day camp counselor. We had the kids play sports, rock climb, swim, play games, and go on field trips. While it was fun and exhausting at the same time, I remember some key moments that have carried me into my experiences as a lacrosse coach and former educator.  I would often work the Before Care shift prior to the start of c...2020
  • • The Advent of Wearable Technology Pushes Lacrosse into the Future
    Former Marquette lacrosse player Conor Gately regularly put in extra work to improve outside scheduled practices. It became custom for him to dodge and shoot on his own time.  By his senior season, when he had already become the first player in the school history to surpass 100 career points and was on the Tewaaraton watch list, Gately was doing too much, especially on game day.  Using PLAYERTEK b...2018

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  • • The Continuum of Physical Literacy
    2021
  • • 2021 is Our Opportunity to Use Hindsight to Move Forward
    2021
  • • Future Leaders of the Black Lacrosse Community
    2021
  • • US Lacrosse PE Program Aims to Help Get Lacrosse in Schools
    2021
  • • Star-Studded Lineup Highlights LaxCon's Special Edition Track
    2020
  • • Six Ways to Create a Fun and Player-Centered Experience
    2020
  • • Bridge Lacrosse Providing Pathway to Play
    AdministratorsMembershipThis article appears in the November edition of US Lacrosse Magazine, available exclusively to US Lacrosse members. Join or renew today! Thank you for your support. David Higbee was just a disillusioned college graduate looking to latch onto something he loved.  The job market stunk. “2008 was not a great year to graduate college,” Higbee said. With a biomedical science deg...2020
  • • Battle Tested: Mobile Youth Lacrosse Still Thriving After a Decade
    MembershipThis article appears in the November edition of US Lacrosse Magazine, available exclusively to US Lacrosse members. Join or renew today! Thank you for your support. As lifelong residents of Mobile, Alabama who grew up in families devoted to baseball, neither Josh Friedman nor Tucker Frazer could have foreseen the roles they occupy today as board members and program leaders for the Mobile...2020
  • • New Era for Say-Lax: A Resurgence for the Saugerties (N.Y.) Youth Program
    2020
  • • Resilience in New Mexico: Albuquerque All In on Lacrosse
    2020

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  • • Build Your Own Game of Pickup Lacrosse
    2020
  • • Inside the February Edition of US Lacrosse Magazine
    The calendar has yet to turn to February, and yet the college lacrosse season has arrived. Northwestern hosts Canisius at 1 p.m. in Chicago today to mark the arrival of the 2017 NCAA lacrosse campaign. US Lacrosse members and lacrosse fans everywhere can get up to speed with the release of our NCAA Preview Edition, which includes the Nike/US Lacrosse Preseason Top 20s and Players of the Year and s...2017
  • • LSN Host, MLL Pro Josh Hawkins is No Weekend Warrior
    Josh Hawkins, best known as the runner and gunner on Loyola’s famed rope unit that led the Greyhounds to an NCAA title in 2012, has found a calling as an on-air personality. When he’s not making plays for his hometown Boston Cannons, he’s analyzing his own teammates and opponents as Lax Sports Network host.We hit up Hank in between segments. Tag: Life After LaxCategory: FuelAuthor: ...2017
  • • Inside the March 2018 Edition of US Lacrosse Magazine
    Digital Edition Who thought we'd see the day when we'd see a major conference in the West sponsoring lacrosse? That day has arrived. The Pac-12 launches its inaugural women's lacrosse season this month, and we dive into what it means for the sport. Our March issue also features a special package on innovation in the sport, from coaching tools to cool apps to equipment to kid entrepreneurs to rules...2018
  • • Are You Building Context Between Practice and Competition?
    2020
  • • You're Never "Too Small" to Play Lacrosse
    2020
  • • When Play Truly Becomes Free
    2020
  • • Mass Bay Way: MBYLL Offers Blueprint for Growing the Game
    The largest lacrosse league in the world turns 25 this spring. And though youth sports have become increasingly privatized since the Mass Bay Youth Lacrosse League formed in 1992, its leaders remain committed to the public model. More than 20,000 players and 2,000 coaches compete under the MBYLL umbrella, which encompasses 160 towns in eastern and central Massachusetts. “But it’s not about our siz...2017
  • • Opinion: Embrace Change to Keep the Game Growing
    Some feel that the lacrosse athlete development model is too much change in the game we love. US Lacrosse Athlete Development Manager TJ Buchanan offers some different perspective....2016
  • • Finding Balance in Conditioning
    2021
  • • US Lacrosse CEO Steve Stenersen Stepping Aside After Nearly 40 Years in Leadership Roles
    2021
  • • The Continuum of Physical Literacy
    2021
  • • 2021 is Our Opportunity to Use Hindsight to Move Forward
    2021
  • • Future Leaders of the Black Lacrosse Community
    2021

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  • • 2021 is Our Opportunity to Use Hindsight to Move Forward
    2021
  • • In the Space: Re-Examining Team Culture
    2020
  • • Inside the March 2019 Edition of US Lacrosse Magazine
    Caitlyn Wurzburger has been making her impact on the high school lacrosse game since she was in middle school. She starred for American Heritage-Delray (Fla.), eventually leading to her commitment to Syracuse in 2016 — making her the youngest recruit in girls' lacrosse history. Now committed to North Carolina, Wurzburger is continuing to dominate high school lacrosse while competing for a spot on ...2019
  • • Inside the January 2019 Edition of US Lacrosse Magazine
    Social media has changed the game. The lacrosse community has come a long way since the inception of Facebook and the sport's biggest stars have learned how to use their presence on various social platforms to connect with their fans and teach key skills while also building their brands. The January edition of US Lacrosse Magazine dives into the purpose of social media with some of the game's top ...2018

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