Volume: 4, Edition (3)
Posted: Monday, April 28th, 2014
“Help
them become the people they want to be
through
exceptional life experiences like lacrosse”
News: “Season is On!”
Club presidents and executives have been working overtime as box
lacrosse is just days away from the first league play in the HRM and
communities across the province. This year, to help provide professional
development and coaching clinics, all head coaches will fill out a 100B form
and submit it to Lacrosse Nova Scotia. To complete the form, all coaching staff
are to be included, as well as door openers and mangers. Within the MMLL the
deadline is Friday, May 16th.
Lacrosse Nova Scotia is required to submit coaching numbers to CLA each
year and it will be a requirement of Sport Nova Scotia for block funding. The
forms will also insure that all coaching staff at LNSS sanctioned events,
practices and the like, are covered by the PSO’s insurance policy. Hopefully by next year head coaches will be
able to complete the forms online on LNSS’s website.
News: “Special Novice
Coaching Session”
Wayne Finck will again oversee the MMLL’s Novice division for the 2014
season and is inviting all novice coaches to attend one of two 30-45 minute
sessions at Rockingham Elementary School,
31 Tremont Dr, Halifax, on Tuesday, April 29th or Thursday, May 1st
at 7:00pm.
Both sessions will cover the
modified rules specific to the age group, like the fall-back rule and defensive
play/checking, and provide live coaching demonstrations with players. Not many
times that you get to learn from a Hall of Famer within a sport, so don’t miss
this opportunity with Wayne, and if you call him at 425-8333, he may even be
able to attend one of your pre-season practices.
News: “Congratulations”
Congratulations to the following new coaches who completed the Box
Community Development clinic this month and their impressive dedication in
completing the pre-clinic work. Our coaching ranks now include: Joell
Swann, Rachelle
Gobeli, Evan McKean, Steven DeLisle, Kate
Moore, Emma Hackett, Chris Burgess, Steve Giles, Luke Staples, Kirk Drabble, Holly
Stuart, Jeff Brenna and Steve Soulis.
News: “Coaching
Clinic”
For coaches who have completed their Box Community Development workbooks
and need to up-grade to coach Bantam teams and above, there is a Box
Competitive Introduction clinic scheduled for Friday and Saturday, May 30th-31st.
The Friday evening session will be held at Sport Nova Scotia and the Saturday
on-floor session is to be determined. Contact LNSS now if you would like to
attend or need to know how to complete your “Comm Dev” workbooks.
The 21st Aleš Hřebeský Memorial box lacrosse tournament, the
largest in Europe, is over for another year. Thousands of fans come every year
to the outdoor box in Radotin to watch their local Czech heroes take on the
world, which included 20 teams this year and players from: Israel, Poland,
Scotland, Ireland, England, USA, Austria, Germany, Finland, France, Slovakia, the
Mohawk Nation and Canada.
If you
didn’t get a chance to see any of the games, you can watch them and the final
match between Ontario’s Green Gaels and the Iroquois’ Kahnawake Rapids at http://www.net-tv.cz/866-59-kahnawake-rapids-green-gaels. Nova Scotia’s Privateers only
lost one game, but unfortunately it was the critical cross-over game which kept
them from getting into the upper level playoffs. One Nova Scotian did make the final
game and that was Halifax Southwest Hurricane’s Mark Falkenham, who played for
the Gaels and will do so this year in his last Junior season.
News: “Master This!”
The Maritime Masters League will be running a Free Try Lacrosse session
Sunday, May 4th at Shannon Park Arena from 5:00-6:30pm for new
players and 6:30-8:00pm for experienced players. This is a great opportunity
for coaches who want to bone up on their skills and besides, why let the kids
have all the fun!
Masters runs from May to July and more details can be found at www.dartmouthbandits.com website or the Facebook
group site. This is a non-contact, coed league so bring your significant other
and give it a try. All you need is a helmet/mask and gloves and if you don’t
have a stick there will be extra on hand, just pre-register and let the
organizers know.
Technical Director’s “My 2 Cents”
It must be April. The turfs are busy again
with school teams of all colours and Rocky Lake Dome has been abuzz with practices,
tryouts, Provincial aspirations and the annual high school box tournament.
The Dome, what a great resource it has become
to introduce high school students to box lacrosse and a venue for clubs to gear
up their teams and coaching staffs for a whole month before the season starts.
For those of you who haven’t been out to the
dome this year, you’ve missed the laundry line of lacrosse banners and pop-up
posters that in future will hopefully be accompanied by club and team banners.
What a great spot also to run a Giant Gear Swap the day after the surface opens
or run a BBQ for some fundraising during the box tourney. I think we’re just
finding out how lucky we are to have this space open at this time of year and
that there’s more opportunities to make this lacrosse central.
As for the Burnside turf fields, last Monday
afternoon you would have thought you were showing up to a Dartmouth High -
Eastern Shore’s field lacrosse game, but there wasn’t a single net on the field
or a lacrosse stick in sight, only rugby balls. Never more was I struck by the passion
students have to play for their schools whether it’s rugby, football or
lacrosse.
What I also find exciting for lacrosse is that
a number of the teams that played in the box tournament this April are the same
teams that showed up for last week’s season opener high school field games.
Even more encouraging is that the players have taken a great deal of the
initiative to create their school field clubs: If they’re going to play a
school sport at this time of the year, why not lacrosse?
News: “Next Month”
Keep track of up-coming events on LNSS’s
website newslider and calendar.
- Provincial Minor Box Team Rosters, End of April
- Milk Sport Fair, Amherst, NS, May 13th-15th
- Box Comp Intro Clinic, May 30th-31st
“Anyone who says ‘I’m just a volunteer coach’ should not be
coaching. Just because you’re a volunteer doesn’t give you the right to be
unorganized and unprepared and unprofessional.”
Mike Babcock: Head Coach, Team Canada,
2014 Olympic Gold Medalists
2014 Olympic Gold Medalists
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