When was the last time you picked up a stick? Do you ever get an itch to play?
I actually toss a lacrosse ball around with my daughters from time to time. They laugh when I use my old wooden stick with the rawhide netting. I would love to play again.
How often do you run into or work with people who played lacrosse? More often than you would think, but mostly they are younger than I am.
Did your experiences in lacrosse help you in your professional career? Without question. Lacrosse is truly a team endeavor. You have to work together, you have to be constantly mindful of where your teammates are, you have to be willing to be in the supporting role, you have to be able to read signals and be prepared to regroup — all of these are important to workplace success. It also taught me to take risks. As I said, I’d never even seen a lacrosse
Colorado adds NCAA Division I
women’s lacrosse The University of Colorado at Boulder will add NCAA Division I women’s lacrosse for the 2014 season, the school announced in February. The team, which currently competes at the US Lacrosse WCLA level, would be the second Division I women’s program in the state (Denver is the other). The Buffaloes are expected to join the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF), which includes California, Denver, Fresno State, Oregon, San Diego State (see page 32), St. Mary’s (Calif.), Stanford and UC Davis.
MLL All-Star Game to South Florida
The MLL
All-Star Game is heading south.
Schapiro took up lacrosse at
F&M and was the captain of its first varsity team in 1977.
game before I arrived at F&M, and I was very nervous walking out on the field for the first time, worried that I’d make a mistake and that I might let my teammates down. But I improved, and by my senior year, I was elected captain. In our first varsity year, the team went 7-4. It showed me that I could attempt things completely new to me — and eventually succeed.
— Matt Forman A Publication of US Lacrosse
The league announced in January that it would hold its all-star event June 30 at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, marking the first time MLL will hold an event in the Sunshine State.
Spallina will coach
MLL’s Lizards In the final coaching move of a busy MLL offseason, Joe Spallina was named head coach of the Long Island Lizards. Spallina, a Long Island native who was also hired in June as the Stony Brook women’s coach,
season Jan. 14. The league started in December 2011, and marks a milestone for the game as it continues to grow around the world. For more information on Uganda Lacrosse, visit
ugandalacrosse.com. To learn about getting involved
Irish men’s lacrosse team’s travel, film, equipment, scheduling, sponsorship, camps and clinics, and will also be tasked with improving the experience of the players. John McCreery will serve Adams State’s interim coach.
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spent the last two seasons as a Lizards assistant for Jim Mule, who resigned just after the December expansion draft. Only one MLL team — the Hamilton Nationals, led by Regy Thorpe — has the same coach that it did at the start of the 2011 season. Spallina will continue to coach Stony Brook.
Uganda Lacrosse
up and running Africa’s first lacrosse league, the Uganda
Lacrosse League, began its Name Here
in supporting Uganda Lacrosse and serving in East Africa, visit www.
fieldsofgrowth.org.
Lamb heads to South Bend
Adams State coach Jason Lamb resigned from his position as the college’s Director of Lacrosse to become Notre Dame’s Director of Lacrosse Operations. Lamb, the former MCLA championship- winning coach at BYU club, will be in charge of the logistics surrounding the
John Grant Jr. better than ever Three seasons removed from sitting out the 2009 NLL campaign because of a knee infection, former MVP John Grant Jr. began 2012 looking healthier than ever with the Colorado Mammoth. Through four games, he amassed 37 points, which put him on pace to finish with 148 and smash the single-season record (115) held by Buffalo’s John Tavares. “He’s playing better than he’s played the last four or five years,” Colorado GM Steve Govett said.
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