Johns Hopkins coach Dave Pietramala announced today that Jamison Koesterer (Cazenovia) has joined the Blue Jay coaching staff as an assistant coach. Koesterer, a 2007 Johns Hopkins graduate and a four-year letter winner on the lacrosse team, will coach the JHU faceoff specialists and assist Bobby Benson with the offense. Koesterer replaces Dave Allan, who spent six seasons on the Johns Hopkins coaching staff.
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An outstanding lacrosse player, she was a first-team All-Star during all five years of playing, and served as captain during the 1993, 1994 and 1995 seasons. In 1995, she was the high school’s first-ever All American in lacrosse.
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The Alfred University men's lacrosse team will hold its annual Alumni Game on Saturday, Sept. 25, at 5 p.m.
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The Utica College athletic department will be launching its new website on Sept. 14. This website will be customized for the best Utica College athletics online experience. The new website will feature:

Hobart Hall of Famer Raymond W. Van Giesen ’31, 104, passed away at the Iroquois Nursing Home on Au. 31. He was believed to have been the oldest living Statesman.

“Ray was a wonderful person and will always be remembered as one of Hobart’s greatest Statesmen,” said Jared Weeden, director of alumni relations.
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Inside Lacrosse has learned that highly-touted recruit Lyle Thompson, younger brother of Jeremy and Jerome and Miles Thompson (Syracuse, OCC and Albany, respectively), will spend his final season of high school playing in Section X for the Salmon River Shamrocks, opting not to return to LaFayette Central for his last year.
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Most high schools in the region cut some of their freshmen sports teams to save money. Central Square cut all of its freshmen sports this year. Baldwinsville, like Liverpool and North Syracuse, cut all freshmen sports teams, except girls volleyball and boys football. Liverpool no longer will offer boys and girls varsity gymnastics teams.
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All the junior varsity and varsity teams within the school district are being combined because of budget cuts, with football, bowling, volleyball, basketball, baseball, softball, lacrosse, tennis and cheerleading joining the previously merged teams.
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(Head Coach Randy) Mearns explains that Coates only joined the school as a sophomore and will be returning this year to obtain his Masters, Coates now a second-year Senior with the 6-7 (‘10 record) Griffins, a key member of the team’s defensive unit, the former St. Catharines Athletics captain also expected to be wearing the C for Canisius during the 2011 season.
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Newest Rochester Knighthawks forward Jordan Hall is having a quite a summer in the Western Lacrosse Association, having already advanced to the Mann Cup Finals with the New Westminster Salmonbellies. He also ranks second in playoff scoring and six in points. He will certainly become a fan favorite in Rochester.
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Ryan Lewis, Plymouth Whitemarsh, defenseman/LSM, Clarkson: Lewis, who played club lacrosse for Penn Premier, was a Third Team Suburban One American Conference pick for a Colonials team that finished 12-7 and advanced to the District 1 playoffs.

I received a warm invitation last week from Gabe Oakes, the manager of the Akwesasne-based Kanienkehaka Krunch elite and travel lacrosse team, to make the short drive over to the reservation for the Krunch Klassic lacrosse tournament this past weekend. The tournament, which was first held in 2008, brought eight teams from throughout Northern New York and Canada to Hogansburg, including several all-Native American teams and some of the best rising players from the Iroquois community.

On the eve of the first day of class at the University at Albany, incoming freshman attackman Miles Thompson joined older brothers Jeremy and Jerome, younger brother Lyle and cousin Ty – who will also start class this week at Albany – on a team named the Mullets (also referred to as “Team Thompson”) and ran away with the tournament championship on Sunday.
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After this year’s first three selections, which almost surely will see Cody Jamieson, Kyle Rubisch and Curtis Dickson taken (in that order), the rest of the rundown could go any number of ways, teams likely owning a draft watch-list that varies more than ever before.
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Here you were worried that you wouldn't be able to watch ESPN this weekend when the current agreement expires, only to find out that not only did the deal get done, but it brings lots of cool new ESPN products to Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks customers. The most notable is that, in addition to ESPN3.com, customers will be able to stream linear programing from the most well known ESPN networks to your PC and other mobile devices.

Nike tends to have an eye for tapping talent — your Micheal Jordan and Tiger Woods and LeBron James and all. So its no surprise they would bring in one of the game's young stars in Cornell attackman Rob Pannell to help the company continue to improve in their lacrosse endeavors.

Pannell worked directly with Nike's national lacrosse manager Joe Taylor, a Cornell alumni and father of current Big Red sophomore Matt Taylor.
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The Rochester Knighthawks announced their 2011 National Lacrosse League schedule today and will open their 17th season on Saturday, January 8th in Minnesota against the West Division Swarm.

The Knighthawks will open the home portion of their schedule on Saturday, January 15th against the Toronto Rock at 7:35 p.m. at The Blue Cross Arena at the Rochester War Memorial.

2011 NLL Schedule
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Tryouts for the 2011 U.S. World Indoor Team will be held next weekend in New Jersey, and while the team is expected to be primarily composed of NLL talent, a number of non-pro players have made the cut in the past.
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Buffalo Bandits Director of Lacrosse Operations Scott Loffler today announced the team's 2011 National Lacrosse League schedule. Buffalo's 16-game schedule features eight home games and eight on the road. Seven of the eight games will be played on Saturdays, with the other taking place on Friday February 4. All home games will start at 7:30 p.m.
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Major League Lacrosse (MLL), the premier professional outdoor lacrosse league, and the Boston Cannons announced today that the 2011 Major League Lacrosse All-Star Game will take place on Saturday, July 9, 2011 at Boston’s Harvard Stadium, according to MLL Commissioner David Gross.
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Before you say the answer for you is yes, please consider the following three key points. OK, so you might be thinking this is another article about each and every one of your lacrosse drills directly emulating a game situation ... and you would be right to a degree … can you say line drills? Or not.
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Over 200 US Lacrosse members sent their snapshots for you to view.

Haverford School lacrosse coach John Nostrant (Baldwinsville) received The Michael F. Mayock Distinguished Teacher-Coach award during a recent ceremony in the school’s Centennial Hall.

Nostrant has been at the school since 1991, earning 10 league championships, two state titles, and five top 25 national rankings for the lacrosse team, including fifth this year. Twenty-nine of his players have been selected as All-Americans.
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The defending National Lacrosse League champions signed United States Army Captain Jon Burton (Jordan-Elbridge), a former midfielder at Army and an All-Patriot League performer in 2006, to a contract on Wednesday, pending league approval.

“I played a lot of box lacrosse growing up,” Burton, a native of Elbridge, N.Y., said in a release from the team. “I know the game, and I'm excited for the opportunity to play at the highest level.”
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It's also good news for lacrosse, field hockey, and soccer teams, which usually played their home games away from the high school . . .
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Osier worked with the women’s lacrosse team during its NCAA Division III championship season in 2008. A former basketball and softball player at Morrisville-Eaton, women’s lacrosse didn’t capture Osier’s attention right away. Soon, she found the lacrosse fan within herself.
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Tops Friendly Markets, a leading full-service grocery retailer in upstate New York and northern Pennsylvania, announced today that it has teamed up with Syracuse University athletics to be the major sponsor of Syracuse football, men's and women's basketball, and men's and women's lacrosse for the next two seasons.
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“If somebody can figure out how to resolve the conundrum of Title IX, put a trademark on it, because you’ll be a very rich person,” says Mary Jo Kane, a professor of sport sociology at the University of Minnesota and a Title IX expert.

The 4th Annual Nick Colleluori Classic will be held at Ridley High School in Folsom, Pa. on October 9th & 10th, 2010. The tournament will feature (10) NCAA Division I & (10) NCAA Division II & III Collegiate Men’s Lacrosse Teams.

Cornell will face St. Joseph's at 9:30AM on the natural grass, then move to the stadium turf at 12:30PM to play Hofstra.
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Anthony Bianchi and Austin Gorman, both from the Aquinas Institute, and Justin McLiverty from Pittsford Sutherland are beginning their college careers at Robert Morris this Fall.

In 2010, the Colonials led the nation in scoring offense, outdistancing national champion Duke by nearly two goals per game, recorded their first national ranking in school history and collected a program-record 10 wins.
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LXM Pro/Syracuse alum Kenny Nims shows us his lacrosse stick. (1:04)
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LXM Pro/Colgate alum Brandon Corp shows off his lax stick. (0:46)
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Harvard will play host to the US Lacrosse Stars & Stripes event, with the defending world champion U.S. men's national team, the U.S. women's national senior team, the U.S. women's U-19 team, and the Harvard men's and women's lacrosse teams, among others, Oct. 9-10.
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When [I] attended SU, the city of Syracuse was known for its college football and basketball teams, and the Dinosaur Barbecue [had] recently [been] started by three bikers in 1983. Today the city is known for both the barbecue joint and a hot lacrosse program with many national championships, All Americans, and Hall of Famers.
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For anyone who was a teenager in the 1980s they would be the ultimate piece of footwear. Nike has filed a patent for self-lacing trainers exactly like the ones seen worn by Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future II.

Skaneateles’ all-league attackman confirmed Monday that he will enroll at Syracuse University in the fall of 2011 where he will bring his sniper-like shot to the Orange’s lacrosse team.

“I never really thought I could play at Syracuse,” Rice said. “But I had a good Under Armor All-American Tournament and a good Empire (State Games) so I guess I wasn’t too surprised when we started talking but, I was really really excited when they finally made an offer.”
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A service celebrating the life of 101-year old Sterling Tuckerman "Mac" MacAdam, a passionate fan and crisp critic of Cornell sports teams, was held Monday in Ithaca. MacAdam, who died on Aug. 25, golfed until the age of 93 and sat courtside regularly for basketball games at Newman Arena, and diamond-side for Cornell softball games, as late as last season.

Cornell women's lacrosse coach Jenni Graap remembered MacAdam in a posting on his obituary on this newspaper's website. "The Cornell women's lacrosse team was blessed to have Mac as a fan for so many years. We will miss having Mac at our games and tailgates. He was such a kind and wonderful soul, and we loved him dearly. The antique lacrosse sticks Mac gave me years ago still hang proudly in my office and will serve as the fondest of memories of such a generous man."
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Brent "Bucky" Gunts '72, director of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony for NBC, won his fourth Primetime Emmy, for Outstanding Directing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Special. Gunts earned a degree in economics from the College of Arts and Sciences; he also played lacrosse for Cornell from 1970 to 1972 and helped the Big Red win an NCAA championship. (Bucky went 2-0 vs. Maryland in the 1971 Championship Game won by Cornell 12-6)
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“I am really excited to get back for another season with my hometown team. This season above any I am looking forward to because we have a lot of disappointed people out there including our fans and ownership,” said Schiller about missing the playoffs by one game in 2010. “We have a lot to look forward to this year with the ‘Hawks and we will have high expectations no matter what happened last year.
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In their inaugural season, the Orlando Titans professional indoor lacrosse team won a spot in the Eastern Conference Championship and in the hearts of several fans like Erika Benkovich.
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The East Syracuse-Minoa and Ohio St. grad was an All-American HM in 2008, and made national headlies with his exciting end to end run to score against Cornell as the Buckeye's upset the Big Red in the 2008 NCAA's.

Register for Travel Team tryouts Sept. 12 & 19
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I realized that I did not study enough Spanish before arriving in the middle of this now very real Spanish speaking city. I addition I noticed in the airport that locals thought I was “Miguel Jordan” and they thus starred at me incisively. This mistaken identity and starring went on for three months accompanied by the customary “Mira, Miguel Jordan [Look Michael Jordan]!”
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Highlights from Team Monster's 10-9 win at LXM 610 in Philly. (5:01)

For one season they were teammates on the Rochester Knighthawks, but forever they will be mentioned among the best players to ever play professional field lacrosse. John Grant Jr. and Gary Gait were named to the Major League Lacrosse 10-Year Anniversary Team, which recognized the greatest players of the past decade at each position.

"It is a great honor to be named to the 10th anniversary team. Knowing the amazing amount of talent that has played in that league makes it truly special," said Gait. "I would like to thank the fans and the league for this honor!"
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It wasn't just the dizzying pain that worried Sarah Cottrell when she got whacked in the head with a lacrosse stick during an April game. She already had suffered two concussions playing lacrosse, and a doctor had advised her to drop the sport if she sustained a third.

"I knew if I got hit again, I'd be out for good," said Cottrell, 17, a Norfolk Academy athlete. She kept quiet about the injury at first but came clean the next day when she woke up with a headache and nausea.
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In my last season with MLC the club made it to the championship that year against I believe the New York Athletic Club (NYAC) at Hofstra University. The game was scheduled for the same time I was scheduled to be in Mexico enrolled in a Spanish immersion program.

Several thousand people – many of them teens and youth lacrosse players – soaked up the sun and the chance to hang with pro lacrosse players, enjoy the rapper Wale and watch a pro lacrosse game in perfect weather today at the LXM Pro 610 at Radnor High.

Ritz said the clinics were a chance for LXM Pro to serve the lacrosse community. “The clinic was the part of giving back,” he said, “They were a great value. If you had Kyle Harrison, Steven Holmes, Joe Walters and all these guys give you a clinic in your backyard for an hour and you added it up, that’s a thousand bucks. They got that for $20.

Inside Lacrosse Photos
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"On behalf of the Binghamton University Lacrosse Program, I am pleased to announce our fall 2010 incoming class," head coach Ed Stephenson said. "Our coaching staff is extremely excited about the 13 student athletes that will be joining us this fall. The class includes eleven players from the state of New York along with one from Maryland as well as our first international recruit coming from Canada.
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Many familiar events — such as the HEADstrong Invitational — will appear on the fall ball schedule again this year, and tournaments such as the Nick Colleluori Women's Lacrosse Classic return after a debut in 2009.
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Let me explain a little more to those who you who wonder why I became a closet lacrosse player the year I entered a doctoral program in history and returned to Syracuse University where I was an undergrad and student athlete.
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In partnership with Inside Lacrosse Magazine and designed by some of the biggest names in lacrosse (Tewaaraton Trophy winner, Matt Danowski (Duke); 4-Time All-American, Joe Walters (Maryland); Hall of Fame Coach, Jack Emmer…), the objective NLC allows athletes from all around the country to compete on the same level playing field. (Register through the above link)

Specific Rochester Information

The Manley Field House Arena is one step closer to returning to its roots as an indoor practice facility. FieldTurf has been installed, which features the Block S logo as well as line for football and men’s and women’s lacrosse.
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New Canaan football coach Lou Marinelli, who first met Newton when the receiver was an eighth-grader, didn’t mince words in describing the captain. “He’s such an honest, up-front kid,” Marinelli said. “I’ve never seen him feel any pressure and he was one of the most consistent kids I’ve ever had here.”

All those attributes made Newton a perfect two-sport captain at NCHS, and now he’s taking his skills to the next level, joining the Hobart College men’s lacrosse team for the 2010-11 season.
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Brown University head women's lacrosse coach Keely McDonald '00 has announced the addition of nine talented newcomers, set to join the Bears this fall.

Bre Hudgins (West Genesee), the 2010 All-CNY Player of the Year is a two-time US Lacrosse All-American (2009 & 2010), a 2010 Under Armour All-American Senior All-Star Game participant, and a US Lacrosse Academic All-American (2009 & 2010).

Danielle Mastro (Union-Endicott) is a 2010 All-American, the U-E 2010 Team Captain, four-time Section IV All-Star (2007-2010), Union Endicott 2010 Female Athlete of the Year, a 2009 & 2010 Academic All-American, and graduated Summa Cum Laude.
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Ryan Powell shows us his all-white stick that he used in the World Games.
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Check out the stick Cornell attackman Rob Pannell used to get 29 G, 51 A in 2010.
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Tommy Mallon was hard-charging through his final high school lacrosse game in San Diego, running full-tilt downfield in pursuit of a ball. Click here to find out more! Mallon, then 18, didn't see the opponent who was also digging after the ball. The two teenagers collided hard, and he went down.
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Depending on who is talking, synthetic turf fields are either the environmentally sound wave of the future or a yet-to-be-fully known threat to humans and the Earth.

Rich Dommer has resigned as coach of Herkimer County Community College’s traditionally strong men’s lacrosse.

David Kramer is now the interim coach of the Generals, who open their Fall Ball season Monday, and he might be a candidate for the permanent position.
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With high school sports underway for this academic year, coaches, parents, players and officials are encouraged to complete the "Concussion in Sports- What You Need to Know" online course offered free of charge by the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS). To date, more than 47,000 persons have registered and completed the NFHS Coach Education course available at www.nfhslearn.com.

The 20-minute online course is designed to highlight the importance of recognizing and responding to sports-related concussions, which pose a particularly high risk for adolescents.
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Carl Festa (Auburn), the top assistant coach for The College of Wooster’s men’s lacrosse team in 2010, has been promoted to interim head coach for the 2011 season, announced Keith Beckett, the school’s director of athletics, physical education, and recreation.

“I am very excited with the appointment of Carl as our interim head coach,” stated Beckett. “Carl is very knowledgeable about lacrosse and well networked within the lacrosse community. More specifically, he is a motivated and skilled professional that will build and expand upon the many fine traditions within the program. I look forward to much excitement and achievement for the (team) under his leadership.”
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The Utica City School District Board of Education is weighing a policy change to prevent student-athletes from other districts from participating on certain Thomas R. Proctor High School athletic teams.
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Searching around some old footage here, we stumbled upon one more game from the 2010 Under Armour Underclassmen Games that never reached our site. So despite the delay, we present you with Upstate New York vs. Philadelphia, a back-and-forth contest that ended with the Empire boys walking away with the OT victory.
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A new club lacrosse program, the Gold Medal Lacrosse Club, will soon begin competition for year 2012, 2013, and 2014 teams. The program is run and coached by Haverford School head coach John Nostrant (Baldwinsville) and assistant Dave Metzbower, a former assistant coach at Princeton.
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With graduates from Maryland, Virginia, Syracuse and Hopkins - to name a few - taking the field Saturday evening, this matchup between Team New Balance and Team Monster Energy will pit former teammates and past opponents against each other, making more more than a few potential interesting things to watch.
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In the final minutes of their 16-12 loss to the Long Island Lizards in the Major League Lacrosse semifinals Saturday, the members of the Denver Outlaws on the sideline stood silent, dazed and confused -- staring at the sight of another postseason exit. They sure know what one looks like.

Late Sunday night, people braved the rain and started to gather at the Tsha’Honnonyendakwha because the Redhawks were bringing the Cup home.

Family, friends, and fans were there when the bus rolled in after midnight and greeted the team with a hero’s welcome as captain Ron Cogan carried to Cup off the bus. Players were greeted with hugs, handshakes, and smiles as players took turns holding the Cup with their family. (with video)
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Aquinas College women's lacrosse coach Frank Rogers is keeping busy this summer. The Haudenosaunee Nation announced earlier this month they have added Rogers to their under-19 women’s national team coaching staff.

"It is truly a honor and privilege to be around this program and coaching staff, representing the proud people who gave us this great game,” Rogers said in a news release. “The national team basically meets once a month for training or exhibition games, in preparation for the World Championships in Germany in August 2011.”
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Keuka College lacrosse standout Jennifer Bush, a senior-to-be and education major from Endwell, is the recipient of the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association’s (IWLCA) Division III Community Awareness Award.

The award recognizes student-athletes who have contributed significantly to their community in a given year, given their time and energy to support and develop athlete-community relations, and distinguished themselves from their peers.
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Tryouts for the '10 Fall and '11 Summer CNY Road Hawks elite travel teams will be held in September at Henninger High School. Grades 7-11 will have two Sunday tryouts, Septemeber 12th & 19th, while 5 & 6 graders will meet on Sunday, September 19th. Go to CNYRoadHawks.com for the times for each grade and for a link to register.
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Fierke comes to Hartwick from Salem College in North Carolina, where she has served as Director of Athletics since 2005. In 2006, she was promoted to Director of Athletics and Physical Education.
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A four-year starter, Trombley was a first team all-league selection and the Section Five Tournament Most Valuable Player. A member of three sectional champion teams, he was also named to the Section Five All-Tournament Team. Trombley finished with 121 goals and 198 assists in his high school career and won a national championship with Rochester Team Adidas in 2009.
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American University Director of Athletics and Recreation Keith Gill has announced the hiring of alumna Laura Campbell ’03 as the new head lacrosse coach. Campbell had spent the previous two seasons as the head coach at Marist, leading the Red Foxes to the 2010 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Championship and the program’s first-ever appearance in the NCAA Tournament.
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"Programs across the nation will see a lot of freshmen this year who have maxed out on lacrosse and athletic skill. Henry hasn’t come close to maxing out, athletically or with lacrosse skill....With that environment and that coaching (at Syracuse), he’s going to blossom."
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French was a First team Suburban One Continental pick in 2010 for a Patriots team that shared the conference crown with Hatboro-Horsham and advanced to the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association tournament. French plays club lacrosse for Twist.
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The Georgia Lacrosse Officials Association is offering a training session on September 23rd to youth players (18 years old or younger) interested in officiating youth lacrosse. The GLOA had a very successful training session this past weekend. Twenty five young men completed the US Lacrosse Level 1 Officials Training Program by going through four hours of classroom training, station training, and field training. The twenty five that completed the training are now qualified to officiate youth lacrosse at any league in Georgia.
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I’m starting my tenth academic year as a college history professor and my seventh as a published author. I am a Syracuse lacrosse alumni talking about how I made the transition from athletics to academics back in 1991. This is important I believe when in times past at least, some Syracuse lacrosse alumni have given the lacrosse world the impression that as a program we don’t take school seriously and major in lacrosse.
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Princeton University with a host of impressive faculty in the history department and African American studies was one of my top choices as place to do my doctoral studies.
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The IWLCA, working in conjunction with Corrigan Sports Enterprises, Inc. (CSE), is proud to announce the creation of the deBeer President’s Cup presented by the IWLCA. The ultimate girls club lacrosse tournament will coincide with the association’s annual meeting in beautiful Naples, Fla. and take place from November 20th-21st, 2010.
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A federal appeals court has upheld the dismissal of lacrosse equipment maker Warrior Sports Inc.'s $30 million antitrust suit against the National Collegiate Athletic Association over the organization's changes to what it considers acceptable lacrosse stick dimensions.
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We've already seen the new LXM Pro helmets that the players will be wearing Saturday at Radnor High in suburban Philadelphia. Here's a sneak peek at the jerseys , for both Team New Balance (Sean Morris) and Monster Energy (Joe Walters), that you'll see for LXM 610.