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each other — Greg at Johns Hopkins’ Homewood campus and Erin as the new associate director of programs at US Lacrosse.
“Greg was reading me the job description — education, programs, lacrosse — and said, ‘It’s you!’ I wasn’t necessarily looking for a new job,” Smith said.
The Smiths arrived in the summer of 2004, and Erin filled the role of working with a volunteer group of college and high school coaches on the development of the educational resources. Whether it was the lure of lacrosse, the charm of Charm City or the opportunity to build on that one course, Smith, now the director of education and training at US Lacrosse, has overseen a decade’s worth of expansion of the US Lacrosse Coaching Education Program.
Director of education and training Erin Smith's 10-year anniversary at US Lacrosse will coincide with that of the CEP's first online course.
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Building for Betterment
Erin Smith’s 10 years at US Lacrosse included launch of education programs
By Paul Krome In its September/October 2004
edition, Lacrosse Magazine publicized the launch of the first online course for a new program designed to educate lacrosse coaches and highlighted the fact that 16 coaches had enrolled in the course in its first week. Nearly 10 years and 30,000
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The online course “How to Make Proper Contact” is now required for Level 1 CEP men’s coaches
certification. Visit
uslacrosse.org/cep.
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participating coaches later, Erin Smith looks back with a laugh. “We were going to try living in Baltimore for one year,” said Smith, who, with her husband Greg and then-2-year-old son Xander departed their adopted hometown of Pittsburgh for jobs within walking distance of
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“I like building and creating materials that people can use to better themselves,” said Smith, a former player and 1998 graduate of Grove City College with a degree in elementary education. And build she has. With resources provided by the members and donors of US Lacrosse, Smith has led efforts to bring one of the goals of the original US Lacrosse Strategic Plan to fruition. The CEP is a robust, multi- level program that includes online and in-person clinics and other offerings designed to provide adults with the education necessary to coach lacrosse to various age groups and skill levels, and to achieve a level of certification by the sport’s national governing body. Along the way, US Lacrosse has launched and refined a similar program for lacrosse officials.
“Erin really has been the rudder that has guided the growth of our educational programs,” said Joshua Christian, managing director of sport development at US Lacrosse. “When she got here we offered some educational resources.
The US Lacrosse Officials Education Program hosts a men’s LAREDO 1 and a women’s
Developmental clinic in Tulsa, Okla. Learn more at
uslacrosse.org/officials.
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Five months until the start of the 2014 FIL World Championship in Denver. Learn more about the U.S. team roster at
LaxMagazine.com/usmen.
Applications available to US Lacrosse chapters for grant requests, and it’s deadline day for 2014 WCLA team information submission at
uslacrosse.org/wcla.
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USL's Charlie Obermayer travels to the ArbiterSports Officials Eligibility Conference.
Learn more about the new partnership at
uslacrosse.org/assigners.
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©PAUL KROME
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