November 9&10 / Ballston Spa High School / Ballston Spa, New York 12020
Varsity & JV (Saturday 11/09/2019 -- 8 V 8 Format on 80 x 40 fields (3 games for each team)
7/8, 5/6, 3/4 (Sunday 11/10 /2019) -- 8 V 8 Format on 80 X 40 Fields (3 games for each team)
Tournament Information(scroll down)
Girls & Adults play on Saturday, February 23rd - Girls 1/2 • Girls 3/4 • Girls 5/6 • Girls 7/8 • JV Girls • HS Girls
Boys play on Sunday, February 24th - Boys 1/2• Boys 3/4 • Boys 5/6 • Boys 7/8 • JV Boys • HS Boys
First of all, Happy Veterans’ Day to all those who have served, or are currently serving, in our Armed Forces… and to the very special family members of them, too.
I published a Veterans’ Day-themed RTD article back in 2012. I thought about re-cycling it as this week’s column, but I also had another topic to write about, so we’ll just make this week a special, RTD two-for-one deal. Enjoy – and thanks again to the many who have served, or are serving, our country.
Tanner Burns '21, A, Jamesville-Dewitt / Orange Crush
One college coach felt that Burns —who could feed, dodge and finish with poise and consistency— was the best player at the event, and that isn't a stretch. He looked comfortable creating offense from a variety of spots and could score in variety of ways, never forcing anything and always raising the play of his teammates.
On Saturday, the Rochester Knighthawks open the 2019 preseason as they head west to Buffalo to take on the New York Riptide at KeyBank Center. The 5:00 p.m. matchup will pit the NLL’s two newest teams against one another for the first time this season, giving Knighthawks general manager Dan Carey and his staff their first real look at the team they created from scratch this past summer.
The Buffalo Bandits today announced the team has signed forward Dhane Smith to a three-year deal, pending league approval. Smith (6’2”, 195 lbs., 9/23/1992) finished the 2018-19 season with 102 points (32+70), which ranked fifth in the NLL and tied John Tavares for eighth in franchise history.
November is Native American Heritage Month, and for Shayla Scanlan, that’s a big deal. Scanlan is a member of Seneca Nation, Wolf Clan, and is believed to be the first Seneca Nation female to sign to play lacrosse at the NCAA Division I level. She is in her junior year at the University of Louisville.
Whether you’re a coach or parent to a young athlete, the way that you praise them after a competition can have a deep impact. Wade Gilbert, PhD, a professor at California State University in Fresno and a Team USA Coaching Consultant, has some advice on how to praise your athlete in a way that will have the most beneficial impact on their sport and psyche.
Crestwood High School (PA) 2020 attackman Anthony Caporuscio of Zombies Lacrosse has made a verbal commitment to play Division II lacrosse at Le Moyne College.
The Women’s Professional Lacrosse League is crushing it on Instagram with it’s #LiveLikeAPro series, highlighting the healthy habits and fun lifestyles of the best women’s lacrosse players in the world. Here are some highlights.
Please help spread the word about the LaFayette Lacrosse Alumni Game & Youth program fundraising event. The game will be held November 30th at the Gah?ñhs?’ - Onondaga Nation Pavilion. Help us celebrate past, present, and future LaFayette Lacrosse members.
10AM - Youth Game- Future Lancers (Ages 9-12)
Noon - Celebration of the 2019 State Championship followed by the Alumni Game.
3PM Chicken BBQ - food, drinks, free lacrosse gear, and fundraiser gathering at the LaFayette Fire Barn on Rt. 11
If you would like to donate, volunteer, or if you have any questions about the event please contact gormley.brian.j@gmail.com .
Please share the event information to anyone. There are many people not on the list, and we would like to make this open to all past, present, and future Lancers.
Senior attackman Mathieu Boissonneault has been named captain of the Canisius men's lacrosse team for the 2020 season, third-year head coach Mark Miyashita announced on Tuesday. In addition, seniors Daniel Balawejder and Carter Stefaniak (Lancaster) and junior Jake Hardy have been selected to serve as assistant captains for the upcoming campaign.
Brendan Curry, Nick Mellen (West Genesee), and Jamie Trimboli (Victor) were elected for the first time, while Peter Dearth has been selected again for his second tenure in the role. The captains were chosen earlier this fall through a team vote.
BUFFALO — The Buffalo Bandits today announced the team has signed forward Jerome Thompson (LaFayette) of the Onondaga Nation to a one-year deal, pending league approval.
A second-team All-American, Scanlan has proven to be elusive both on and off the lacrosse field. He started his high school career at Silver Creek (N.Y.) before moving to Florida to play at IMG. He waffled between Canadian Junior A clubs in Ontario and British Columbia. He committed to Syracuse, then chose Loyola.
The NCAA Division III Men’s Lacrosse Committee this spring approved a new championship format that eliminates much of the midweek action in the tournament in favor of weekend competition at pods with multiple teams. The committee’s annual report is now online at NCAA.org.
The training camp schedule is highlighted by three preseason games and one open practice. The Bandits’ annual open practice is scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 30 at 10 a.m. at KeyBank Center. The event is open to the public as a free, non-ticketed event with general admission seating. Parking for the day will be free in the KeyBank Center parking garage.
I don’t read most books more than once. Maybe I should, but I tend to instead remind myself that there are so many others out there that I want to read that I cannot afford to take the time to go back and re-read any personal favorites.
Syracuse has not won an NCAA title since 2009 but is dominating DI men’s lacrosse in at least one aspect. When it comes to reach on social media and the ability to draw loyal fans, no men’s lacrosse program does it better than Syracuse.
Monster Proud: Courtney Rowe ( 2021 - Rush Henrietta) has committed to study and play her collegiate lacrosse at the University at Albany. Congrats Courtney !! pic.twitter.com/HNxrdUD3XW
OSWEGO — Ten-year old Oswego resident Aiyana Lamb has three brothers: a 9-year-old, 4-year-old and a nearly 10-month-old. The only human girl she has in her family is her mother, Alizabeth Birks.
Lamb does have her two girl dogs, Lexi and Riley, her female cat, Emmy, and a Betta fish named Ariel. Thanks to help from Jill Jaquin, a teacher’s assistant at Minetto Elementary School, and her daughter Riley Jaquin, Lamb now has nearly 30 older “sisters” to look up to on the Oswego State women’s lacrosse team.
Coach Thorpe is a disciple of legendary Syracuse coach Roy Simmons Jr. You can tell he knows the game of lacrosse is meant to be fun. He makes it enjoyable for his Riptide players. His players in turn will make it entertaining for the hungry Riptide fans this winter on Hempstead Turnpike.
The Rochester Knighthawks announced today their promotional schedule for the 2019-20 season, featuring an array of theme nights, giveaways and more. The Knighthawks will offer ticket specials, promotional packages and special group rates throughout the season.
Priolo (6’5”, 234 lbs., 1/15/1989) returns to the Bandits for his 11th campaign with the team after playing in all 18 regular-season games for the seventh consecutive season. He finished the year with a new career high in goals (11) and tied his career high in points (26), earning him NLL All-Pro Second Team honors and an NLL Defenseman of the Year nomination.
ROCHESTER, NY - Over the weekend, Boston Cannons midfielder Kyle Denhoff was inducted into the St. John Fisher College Athletics Hall of Fame in Rochester, NY. Denhoff played with the Cardinals from 2009-2012, notching 132 goals and 48 assists in 66 total games. Denhoff helped the Cardinals win their first Empire 8 Regular Season title in 2010 and led them to three postseason appearances in his four years.
“I knew this was where I needed to be. Everyone at West Point is so focused and goal oriented, which is a quality I value in myself,” said Meghan, 16, who was also recruited by Colgate, Georgetown, Binghamton and Columbia. “Army’s academic reputation is unbeatable and it is among one of the top schools in the nation.
Monster Proud: Rayea Davis ( 2021 - Rush Henrietta) has committed to study and play her collegiate lacrosse at the University of Connecticut. Congrats Rayea !! pic.twitter.com/3IbraKCB6w
Monster Proud: Haley Taylor (2021 - Brighton HS, Sandy, Utah) has committed to study and play her collegiate lacrosse at University of Oregon. Congrats Haley !! Haley flies in to play at College showcase tournaments with us. pic.twitter.com/odwq8irZPB
The Greater Rochester Chapter of US Lacrosse held their twenty-sixth Hall of Fame dinner Friday night at the Burgundy Basin Inn in Pittsford. With about eighty-five in attendance, teammates, friends and family along with many members of the Hall of Fame, gathered to induct four individuals, and one team into the Greater Rochester Lacrosse Hall of Fame.
Highlighting Team USA’s involvement with the President’s Cup will be an exhibition game against a select team from the Women’s Professional Lacrosse League (WPLL) on Saturday, Nov. 23 at 3:30 p.m. at The International Polo Club. The game will be played using the trial rules developed by World Lacrosse to best position the sport for potential Olympic consideration.
Hall of Famer Roy Simmons Jr., played lacrosse at Syracuse University (SU) in the 1950s with Hall of Famer Jim Brown and Oreyen Lyons for his father Roy Simmons Sr. who also coached football and boxing at SU. Both father and son coached lacrosse at Syracuse for more than 40 years. Simmie as his family, friends, and former players call him, talks about his career as a professional artist, lacrosse coach, and public speaker.
Hey, everybody. I could not be more proud to bring this to you. This is the inaugural video of the Indigenous Speakers Project. We are going to tell you the Seneca word for lacrosse. Special thanks to Cole Reuben. Cole is a member of the Tonawanda Seneca Band. The Tonawanda Seneca Band is one of the three entities of the Seneca in the nation and I’m just gonna go ahead and turn it over to him.
MINNEAPOLIS—Epoch Lacrosse, a U.S. design and technology company that specializes in engineering innovative lacrosse gear, proudly announces their partnership with the Army West Point Men’s NCAA Division 1 lacrosse team. Made in USA is more than just a tagline for Epoch, and the company is very proud to establish a relationship with Army West Point, a team that truly understands that.
The Bandits’ season will kick off Saturday, Dec. 7 at 7 p.m. against the San Diego Seals. Each of the remaining eight home games will have a theme night including, new additions Youth Lacrosse Night on Jan. 31 against the Rochester Knighthawks and ‘The Office Night,’ based on the popular NBC sitcom, on March 28 against the Saskatchewan Rush. More details about the theme nights will be available in the future on Bandits.com.
Improving the pace of play and simplifying the application of penalties are among the changes approved for the US Lacrosse Boys’ Youth Rules, beginning in 2020. The new rulebook has been published for all levels of play, 14U and younger. Among the notable rule changes and clarifications for 2020 are:
Rochester Knighthawks General Manager and Vice President of Lacrosse Operations Dan Carey announced today that the team has reduced its training camp roster by five players. The following players have been released from their contracts:
Monster Proud: Mckenna Davis (2021 - Pittsford Sutherland HS) has committed to study and play her collegiate lacrosse at Boston College. Congrats Mckenna !! pic.twitter.com/w2qLYvORJU
Monster Proud: Kylie Gelabert (2021 - Victor HS) has committed to study and play her collegiate lacrosse at Cornell University. Congrats Kylie!! pic.twitter.com/W4Mt0b0Vmv
Monster Proud: Alex Martel (2021 - Greece Olympia HS) has committed to study and play her collegiate lacrosse at Central Michigan University. Congrats Alexa !! pic.twitter.com/fqd8G1kMBA
World Lacrosse’s new Olympic trial rules found support growing among U.S. and Canadian national team players and coaches after using them in a pair of exhibition games at the Fall Classic on Oct. 20.
Through its Blue Skies Working Group, World Lacrosse is trying to develop a new discipline of the sport that would broaden its international appeal and best position it to be included in the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
Monster Proud: Bella Schorr (2021 - Canandaigua Academy) has committed to study and play her collegiate lacrosse at the University of Indianapolis. Congrats Bella!! pic.twitter.com/qtbQPOm1eF
The Buffalo Bandits will have only one head coach this season, announcing that John Tavares will return for his second season. Rich Kilgour, who served as co-coach last season, did not have his contract renewed, the Bandits said in a news release.
Rich did a tremendous job for the Bandits organization during his tenure as coach, and we cannot thank him enough for that. He’s truly one of the greats and exemplifies everything this organization stands for. His number hangs in the rafters for a reason. However, after looking back on the season and thinking of areas where we could improve upon, it was evident that this team needed to have one singular voice behind the bench.
The initial resistance from parents and traditionalists quickly yielded to support as participating kids provided their strong endorsement. LADM’s progressive approach to learning and competition was making a difference.
On this week’s edition of Lacrosse Classified, we continue our Stampede Tack team previews with two division rivals in the New York Riptide and Philadelphia Wings, one of which is a new expansion team and one that is in its second season as we talk with Regy Thorpe and Paul Day.
I love going to Hall of Fame inductions. I love hearing the stories. I love learning about people I didn’t know before. I love the celebration, probably one of the ultimate levels of achievement and recognition. Sunday night I attended the 2019 Upstate Lacrosse Foundation’s Hall of Fame induction dinner. No less than ten new members were inducted this year. “Too many!” a cynic would say. “You’ll be there all night.”
Syracuse’s No. 22 jersey has been linked to some of the best players in lacrosse history. After two seasons on the shelf, the Orange are bringing it back for Chase Scanlan.
Scanlan, who scored 43 goals as a second-team All-American midfielder at Loyola as a freshman, transferred to Syracuse over the summer. For our cover story this month, writer KJ Edelman and photographer Gavin Liddell spent some time with new No. 22, who says he finally feels at home.
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Nick Mellen’s seen plenty of Syracuse’s offenses over the past five years. This year is distinctly different though and there’s one word he prefers to describe it: Fast.
“We're not holding the ball for three or four seconds,” Mellen said as the pace in his phrasing sped up. “Catch it and move it. Catch and move it. Dodge... So it’s quick. Everything’s happening very fast and that’s just harder for a defense to react to.”
Jim Stagnitta (East Syracuse), head coach of the Premier Lacrosse League champion Whipsnakes, and his business partner, JC Glick, will be featured speakers at the US Lacrosse Convention in Philadelphia.
On Friday, November 1st, the Rochester Chapter of US Lacrosse will install its 27th class. The event will take place at the Burgundy Basin Inn on Marsh Road in Pittsford with a social hour beginning at 6:00 pm. The 2019 class includes four individuals and one team as follows in the press release from Craig Rybczynski for the Chapter.
Boston, MA- For Lyle Thompson, lacrosse is literally in his blood. Thompson grew up on the Onondaga Reservation, one of the six nations in the Iroquois Confederacy. Lacrosse is still culturally significant for natives and it the most popular sport among members of the Iroquois Tribe.
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Monster Proud: Annie Mulhall (2021 - Webster Schroeder) has committed to study and play her collegiate lacrosse at East Carolina University. Congrats Annie !! pic.twitter.com/ZeMp88u8Rh
With the Rochester Knighthawks’ inaugural season just over a month away, it should come as no surprise that the squad is gearing up and getting ready to take on training camp this weekend leading up to Opening Night on Nov. 30. Earlier this week we had the chance to sit down and talk with the Knighthawks general manager and vice president of lacrosse operations, Dan Carey, on what we can expect to see in training camp and beyond from this brand-new team.
On Friday, November 1st, the Rochester Chapter of US Lacrosse will install its 27th class. The event will take place at the Burgundy Basin Inn on Marsh Road in Pittsford with a social hour beginning at 6:00 pm. The 2019 class includes four individuals and one team as follows in the press release from Craig Rybczynski for the Chapter.
John Danowski and Regy Thorpe, head coaches in the U.S. men’s national team program, will be featured speakers at the US Lacrosse Convention in Philadelphia. The US Lacrosse Convention runs from Jan. 10-12 at Pennsylvania Convention Center and features more than 120 sessions for coaches, officials and organizational leaders.
POUGHKEEPSIE, New York – The Marist men's lacrosse program announced its 2020 schedule on Thursday morning. Coming off the third Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Championship in program history, the Red Foxes will have seven home games and seven on the road standing between them and another MAAC Championship. Marist will be playing a tough non-conference schedule in order to help them prepare for MAAC play and gear up for a run at a repeat.
Colgate was led by an experienced attack group with seniors Griffin Brown, and Nicky Petkevich, who have both logged a ton of minutes in their careers. With the experience heavy on the attack side, Colgate was poised to run a majority of its offense through them. Almost every time the ball crossed the midfield line Colgate was trying to get to a pass-down pick-down as quickly as possible. It certainly seemed as though the Colgate staff wants to play a bit quicker and try to be attacking for as much of the shot clock as possible.
LOS ANGELES, CA. (October 23, 2019) - The Premier Lacrosse League (PLL) announced today the expansion of a seventh lacrosse club set to begin play during the 2020 season. The announcement was first made on Barstool Sports’ Pardon My Take podcast by PLL Co-Founder and CSO, Paul Rabil.
Rochester Knighthawks General Manager and Vice President of Lacrosse Operations Dan Carey announced today that the team will open its 2019 Training Camp on Friday, Oct. 25 when players are expected to report for medical testing and physicals.
The Knighthawks take the field twice on Saturday, Oct. 26 at The Blue Cross Arena, with the first session scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Immediately following practice, fans are invited to join the players on the field to meet the members of this year’s team beginning at 12:30 p.m.
“Today is an exciting and historic moment for the PLL as we continue to build our business into the future,” says Co-Founder and CEO Mike Rabil. “Expanding to a seventh team in our 2020 season will provide greater opportunity for the best players in the world, more access for our fans, and additional windows to scale our product offerings.”
Why the Way You Praise Matters
Whether you’re a coach or parent to a young athlete, the way that you praise them after a competition can have a deep impact. Wade Gilbert, PhD, a professor at California State University in Fresno and a Team USA Coaching Consultant, has some advice
on how to praise your athlete in a way that will have the most beneficial impact on their sport and psyche.
Read it here
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