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USL moves forward with $15 million campaign for National Lacrosse Center, playing opportunities and safety initiatives


By Jamie Hunt


With $8 million raised toward its $15 million goal, US Lacrosse will launch the public phase of The National Campaign for Lacrosse on July 11 at the FIL World Championship in Denver. The campaign seeks to build new headquarters for US Lacrosse by 2016 while providing more opportunities for young people to play the sport and more resources in support of research to make the sport safer. “The response has been outstanding,” said Edward T. Calkins, chair of the board of the US Lacrosse Foundation. Calkins, of Naples, Fla., is co-chair of the campaign along with Kristen M. Garlinghouse (Atherton, Calif.), Barclay Kass (Vero Beach, Fla.) and Frank Kelly III (Lutherville, Md.). “Committee volunteers and US Lacrosse staff have met with and received significant support from donors in California, Texas, Michigan, as well as Florida, Maryland and New York,” Calkins said. “We’re ready to take this campaign to the broader lacrosse community, to ask for their support, and to finish strong.” Since its inception in 1998 with 20,000 members, US Lacrosse has


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invested more than $125 million into the growth and development of the sport. Today, the organization serves more than 430,000 members in 68 chapters across 45 states. Nearly 750,000 people in the U.S. played lacrosse in 2013, according to the US Lacrosse Participation Report. “The time is now,” said Denver’s Rich Morgan, the incoming chair of the US Lacrosse Board of Directors. “US Lacrosse has been an incredible catalyst for the responsible growth of the sport. We have to act now to build the capacity of the organization to continue to grow the sport.” Morgan will succeed Laura Hebert of Richmond, Va., as chair of the board of US Lacrosse in September. “The sport has benefited from strong leadership,“ Hebert said. “US Lacrosse employees coordinate the efforts of more than 350 volunteers nationwide. Every day, they’re working to make sure that rules are clear, consistent and age-appropriate; that coaches and officials are properly trained; that competition is safe and fun; and that more children have the opportunity to play the sport.” The National Campaign for Lacrosse has three key objectives, each with its own monetary goal: Leadership ($13 million), Opportunity ($1 million) and Safety ($1 million).


LEADERSHIP At the heart of the Leadership objective is the need for a facility that supports US Lacrosse’s responsibilities as the sport’s national governing body. Presently, offices are divided among four separate workspaces in two buildings a block apart.


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“It’s an incredibly inefficient arrangement that has resulted from rapid organizational growth and increasing demand for US Lacrosse leadership and resources,” said Steve Stenersen, president and CEO. When eight associations merged to create US Lacrosse in 1998, it had 12 employees (about one for every 1,670 members) in the former headquarters of The Lacrosse Foundation on Johns Hopkins’ Homewood campus in Baltimore.


An


expansion of the


building in 1997 raised its capacity to 35. Today, US Lacrosse has a staff of 84 (about one for every 5,400 members)


and more than 350 volunteers across the country.


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