Lacrosse Growing in Waterbury
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 Posted in Connecticut Lacrosse, Growth of Lacrosse | 3 Comments »www.rep-am.com Nine years ago, the number of kids age 15 and under playing organized lacrosse nationwide was 125,000, according to US Lacrosse, the 12-year-old governing body of the sport. Since then, there has been a decided growth spurt. Check that. ...
ESPNU Warrior Classic Preview
Saturday, April 24th, 2010 Posted in Connecticut Lacrosse, Growth of Lacrosse | 1 Comment »Insidelacrosse.com ESPNU and Warrior Sports Equipment have teamed up to host the very first ESPNU Warrior Classic. The event will be held on Saturday, April 24 and feature some of the best colleges in D1 lacrosse. Matchups include ...
ESPN Signifigantly Increases TV Coverage for 2010–Rentschler Field Event Named
Thursday, December 31st, 2009 Posted in Connecticut Lacrosse, Growth of Lacrosse | No Comments »Insidelacrosse.com ESPNU will lead ESPN’s college lacrosse coverage with increased game coverage this season, including 40 men’s and women’s regular-season contests combined, in addition to one live ESPN2 and ESPN360.com game. The networks will televise 57 games overall, including 42 regular-season ...
ESPN Rise Lists the Rise of Lacrosse as Their #15 Story of the Decade
Saturday, December 19th, 2009 Posted in Growth of Lacrosse | No Comments »www.espnrise.com 15. The Rise of Lacrosse Top recruits used to come out of the Northeast for the most part. The East Coast remains a hotbed for lacrosse, but states like Texas, California, Colorado, Florida and Washington have also emerged as lacrosse hotbeds. ...
UConn’s Rentschler Field to Host Two ESPNU Lacrosse Games This Spring
Friday, November 27th, 2009 Posted in Connecticut Lacrosse, Growth of Lacrosse | No Comments »While an official press release has yet to be released by Northland AEG (Rentschler Field's management group) all four teams involved in this event have posted information on their team websites. While not yet official, from what we can piece ...
Bay Area Lures Top Lacrosse Recruiters
Monday, October 12th, 2009 Posted in Growth of Lacrosse | No Comments »SFGate.com Lacrosse coaches talk about the Bay Area the way you would expect a baseball scout to talk about Latin America or a hockey scout to talk about Scandinavia. It's the newest frontier, and the only question is how ...
Bridgeport Youth Empowered By Lacrosse
Friday, September 18th, 2009 Posted in Connecticut Lacrosse, Growth of Lacrosse | No Comments »StamfordAdvocate.com WESTPORT -- Bridgeport's Don Wilson was up with the sun. Actually, Wilson was up before the sun, taking care of some business before tossing his daughter, Nijah, and his son, Josiah, into the car and heading down I-95 ...
Lacrosse Booming in Stamford
Sunday, June 21st, 2009 Posted in Connecticut Lacrosse, Growth of Lacrosse | No Comments »ConnPost.com By Mike Levitt Move over baseball, there's a new sport in town. This season proved the most successful in the short history of boys' lacrosse in Stamford, as both Westhill and Stamford High reached the state tournament and Westhill made the city's ...
Princeton Legend Tierney Leaves For U. Denver
Thursday, June 18th, 2009 Posted in General Lacrosse, Growth of Lacrosse | No Comments »NYTimes.com By JOSHUA ROBINSON Whenever the time came to hire a coach, college lacrosse programs across the country had been reaching out to Princeton’s Bill Tierney for years. They were not necessarily trying to pry him away. They just wanted advice from ...
Lacrosse Muscles It’s Way West
Thursday, May 21st, 2009 Posted in Growth of Lacrosse | No Comments »WallStreetJournal By JEFFREY A. TRACHTENBERG and KELLY EVANS This weekend in Foxboro, Mass., more than 100,000 spectators are expected to pour into Gillette Stadium to see four schools -- Duke, Virginia, Cornell and Syracuse -- square off for the national championship of ...