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youth program. “She was tired of being screamed at by coaches and parents in soccer. It’s amazing what can happen when you have well-trained coaches.” Greene played at Franklin & Marshall
College. Now the head boys’ lacrosse coach at Red Lion Christian Academy (Del.), he’s in his fi fth year as a US Lacrosse trainer. By his estimates, he’s conducted 50 clinics in 21 cities, including places such as Conway, Ark., and Omaha, Neb., with a total attendance of nearly 2,000 coaches. Some clinics take place at US Lacrosse Fast Break Initiative (FBI) events, at which the sport’s national governing body infuses a community with clinics for coaches, offi cials, physical education teachers and civic organization leaders, and youth players — all in one weekend. See page 50 for more on the FBI and its recent stop in Vermont. “Kevin’s just one of those guys who
>> THE 400K CLUB Gang Greene
As a volunteer trainer for the US Lacrosse Coaching Education Program, Kevin Greene has helped teach some 2,000 adults how to coach the sport
By Paul Krome Kevin Greene has had his share
of breakups with lacrosse. Job commitments with The Baltimore Sun interrupted a post-collegiate playing career with the Towson Lacrosse Club in the mid-1990s. Later, the birth of his fi rst child necessitated a few years’ hiatus. But like any love affair that includes occasional absences, Greene’s passion for the sport rekindled in its highest degree with his most recent return. He’s
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turned that passion into a mission to teach adults how to coach the sport and help young players develop as a volunteer trainer for Levels 1 and 2 of US Lacrosse Coaching Education Program (CEP) and its Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) class. “My daughter just started playing this
year and she loved it, and that was due to the coaching in our program,” said Greene, who moved to Cecil County, Md., several years ago and with a friend helped establish the Cecil Lacrosse League (CLL)
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wants to do it right,” said Erin Smith, director of education and training at US Lacrosse. “He is one of our most reliable, dedicated CEP trainers, and we look to him to mentor new trainers. He is a truly selfl ess volunteer. He loves the sport and just wants to see other kids love it, too.” Greene, who saw Cecil County Public
Schools sanction lacrosse as a varsity sport in high schools despite a dearth of youth programs, became familiar with US Lacrosse’s sport development resources soon after moving to northeastern Maryland in the mid-2000s to take a marketing position with W.L. Gore and Associates. The CLL started thanks to a US Lacrosse Equipment Grant (which has recently evolved into the First Stick Grant), and Greene also applied for and received a PCA Workshop Grant through US Lacrosse. “We realized that we had a unique
opportunity to start a program that had a true culture,” Greene said. “We had seen fi ghting and screaming in football and baseball. Basically we said, ‘This is our
10 Last day of tryouts for the 2014 U.S.
men's team. Find out which 40 players make the cut at
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Tickets now on sale for the US Lacrosse National Convention at
uslacrosse.org/2014convention.
Eleven months until the start of the
World Lacrosse Festivals, open to men’s teams from U11 through 60 and over. Register at
worldlacrosse2014.com.
The US Lacrosse Sports Science and Safety Committee meets in Baltimore.
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