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US Lacrosse physical education grant brings sport to gym classes in Arkansas By Evin Demirel


heryl Perry watched her physical education students charge one-by-one from one corner of the gym to the other. Their fi rst goal was simple — don’t let the ball drop from their lacrosse sticks — and for the most part these 17 eighth-graders accomplished it on a late March morning in Little Rock, Ark.


But their second goal entailed completing a pass to a waiting classmate, who was then supposed to run down the sideline. Here, it got messy. Passes fl ew errant, catches were bungled and balls bounced out of the hard plastic pockets of the gender- neutral sticks as often as they stayed


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in. Through the ragged play, Perry encouraged her Christ Lutheran School students and repeated, “Cradle it!” Cradling comes easily enough for the


23-year-old Perry, who has honed the skill since childhood in her hometown of Portland, Ore. Not so for her seventh- and eighth-graders, most of whom


never touched a lacrosse stick before Christ Lutheran received a US Lacrosse physical education grant in fall 2011. Until recently elementary and secondary school students in central Arkansas had scant opportunity to play the sport. US Lacrosse hopes to change that.


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