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Why did you want to join the Fields of Growth initiative in the first place? I wanted to get involved in development


work, and I went over with a lot of pre- conceived notions and ideas. I was blown away. It was nothing like I ever expected. They have this true love of life. They are constantly happy. You can’t mimic or fake that here. You learn so much more than you can possibly give.


What was the lacrosse like? When I went, I was a junior in high


school, and they were having their first national championships. It’s run similar to European soccer, where they have managers and recruit players. While I was over there, one of the


teams, Oneonta, the coach dropped out. I was a 17-year-old kid, and they asked me to coach. These guys are mid- to late-20s guys. I had little to no experience coaching. I still talk to every single one of those guys. We made it to the championship. We lost to Chad Wiedmaier’s team. There were no ulterior motives or scouts or anything like that. It was just for the love of the game.


What is your playing background? My parents put me in a league when


I was 5 years old. Lacrosse became my relief for everything. When I was happy, I played lacrosse. When I was upset, I played lacrosse. I stopped getting really competitive after my junior year in high school, because I wanted to do the Shootout for Soldiers, and I decided to do that instead of playing for Boys’ Latin my senior year.


Where does your drive come from? I feel like sometimes we get lost in the


game itself, and we need to keep enjoying it for what it is. I had a coach growing up at summer camp who was on Morgan State’s “Ten Bears” team, and he would always talk about the medicine game and just going out and losing yourself in the sport of lacrosse. I really hope that people keep lacrosse in that light. That’s why I try to share it so much. I know how much the sport has done for me both as a person and my own development throughout school.


What’s your plan after college? In an idealist sense, I want to use


the power of sports, and particularly lacrosse, for some common good. I would love to get involved in coaching or teaching. But I’m really open to where the future goes.


— Corey McLaughlin A Publication of US Lacrosse


 Lacrosse moves closer to Olympics Lacrosse cleared another hurdle in the march toward Olympic status, as the Federation of International Lacrosse was one of three new members named to the International World Games Association (IWGA) in June. The FIL hopes to participate in the 2017 IWGA World Games in Wroclaw, Poland. “It’s a multi-sport event, like a mini-Olympics,” FIL Director of Development Tom Hayes said.


 Hobart, Sacred Heart make changes at helm Hobart announced June


19 that T.W. Johnson was leaving the program after nine seasons, the last five as head coach, to become the director of boys’ athletics and boys’ lacrosse coach at Nansemond-Suffolk Academy (Va.), his alma mater.


Sacred Heart announced June 21 that coach Tom Mariano, the NEC Coach of the Year, was no longer with the program after 17 seasons. Mariano was hired as an Ohio Machine assistant five days later.


 Liberty tabs Nangle as coach; Binghamton promotes Allen Kelly Nangle, former Central Connecticut State head coach, will take over the women’s program at Liberty. Nangle had a 16-18 overall record and a 12-6 mark in NEC play in two seasons with the Dukes. Stephanie Allen was named head coach for Binghamton. Allen was a


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 NLL returns to Vancouver


The Stealth are moving north to Langley, B.C., a suburb of Vancouver. The team will play home games at the Langley Events Centre, 80 miles north of its previous home in Everett, Wash. The Stealth hosted Rochester in the 2013 Champions Cup final at Langley due to a scheduling conflict, and more than 5,000 spectators attended the game. In other NLL news, the


Buffalo Bandits did not renew the contract of head coach Darris Kilgour, who coached the team from 2003-13. They hired former Rock coach Troy Cordingley on July 3.


heels of a 1-7 start. Davis, an Ohio native, previously worked as the first Division I coach at Robert Morris. John Tucker was named the new coach of the Boston Cannons on June 10. Tucker took over a team that went 1-6 in its first seven games under former coach Steve Duffy. Tucker was the 2007 MLL Coach of the Year during his stint with the now-defunct Los Angeles Riptide. He also coached the Washington Bayhawks during the 2009 and 2010 seasons.


 Murray, Hall of Famer Gaines pass away Norm Murray, considered the voice of Long Island lacrosse, died June 26. Murray, 87, was the public address announcer at Hofstra for more than 50 years. The booth at Shuart Stadium was named after him in 2000.


NCAA bans in-person scouting Coaches and staff of Division I sports teams, including lacrosse, will not be able to scout future opponents in person following a June vote of NCAA membership. Coaches can scout live if they’re competing at the same site, such as a tournament or doubleheader.


 New coaches for MLL’s Cannons, Machine Bear Davis, coach for the Archbishop Spalding (Md.) boys’ lacrosse team, was named coach of the Ohio Machine on June 24, replacing Ted Garber on the


L. Myrton Gaines Jr., a 1984 inductee to the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame, also died June 26. He was 86. “Myrt” played from 1946 to 1948 at Princeton, where he was a two-time first-team All-American attackman.


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