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Showing posts with label Injuries. Show all posts
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Monday Lax Links


-Central Michigan Approves New Lacrosse Facility

-US Lacrosse Funding ACL Injury Prevention Program

-Football Participation Fell, Rugby & Lacrosse Up Over Last 5 Years

-New Era Creates Lacrosse Specific Cap

-NJ Tech Prepares for Inaugural Season

-USA Today and 3D Lacrosse Announce Partnership

-Why Paul Rabil is the Face of Lacrosse

-Oglethorpe University (DII GA) To Cancel 2015 Season.  Will Return in 2016.

-Rabil Traded to New York

-Lacrosse Bridges Gap in Harlem

MLL Title Game May Help Land Atlanta Franchise

Major League Lacrosse is holding more than a championship game at Kennesaw State today. It’s hosting an audition to bring a professional team to the Atlanta area. The Rochester Rattlers play the Denver Outlaws to determine the MLL championship. But by 2016 you’ll likely see those teams on a regular basis, when the league would like to have an Atlanta-based franchise.

“There’s a lot of interest in having an MLL team in Atlanta,” commissioner David Gross said. “Our goal is to field a team there in 2016.” There had been

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-Non-Revenue Sports Could Lose if NCAA Model Changes

-Some Kids Saying Football Not Worth the Effort

-Minnesota Start-Up Brings New Designs to Americas Oldest Game

-Poudre Schools (CO) Adding Lacrosse

-Has College Football Lost the Millennials 

-Growth of Lacrosse Means More Orthopedic Injuries to Treat

-Lacrosse Title Game on Tap in Atlanta

-The Man Behind the Upcoming Lacrosse Video Game

Many Teams Don't Want Lacrosse to Become an IHSA Sport in Illinois

Vernon Hills athletic director Brian McDonald is a big proponent of adding boys and girls lacrosse to the IHSA's roster. But he can't do it alone.

 While more than enough girls lacrosse teams want to play in the IHSA playoffs and become a fully-sanctioned sport under the state organization, there are too many dissenters among the boys teams. And the IHSA stipulates that both boys and girls lacrosse have to join together.

 McDonald said he's frustrated by the schools that have teams but aren't willing to be recognized by the state's association. In response, McDonald no longer schedules games against schools that refuse to join the IHSA.

 "It seems like we are stuck in this hole, and we can't get out of it," McDonald said. "I don't know what the reasons are, maybe financial, but I respect the right of those schools to have them. "But for us, I feel like they are inhibiting the growth of the sport."

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Paul Rabil Lacrosse Show to Debut on Sirius Radio

-Lacrosse Comes to U. San Francisco

-Lacrosse Gaining Popularity in Evansville, IN 

-Lacrosse Growing Stronger in Franklin, WI

-Physical Therapists Take on Lacrosse Injuries

-Ohio Youth League Has Strength in Numbers

-An Analysis of Growth and Contraction