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How To Yell When Watching From The Sideline

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How To Yell When Watching From The Sideline

I like well-behaved parents/fans because I have been around a lot of ill-behaved ones. In nearly every youth game that I have officiated (U15 and below) there has been at least one, and usually two, fans screaming instructions to their player or entire team from the sideline. Often, it is incredibly poor advice. These are the same individuals who yell when their player is taken off the field, openly criticize the officials, and generally know next to nothing about how ...

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MAY
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Categories: Community, Coyote Select Teams, Lacrosse Wisdom

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Shoulder Angel vs. Shoulder Devil

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Shoulder Angel vs. Shoulder Devil

Good versus Evil. Right versus Wrong. Morality versus Immorality. Shoulder Angel versus Shoulder Devil.

All of these capture the inner struggle we all have to do the right thing. This struggle is characterized as our conscience, and we all have one. Yet, for young players their conscience, like themselves, is immature. This is not to say that young players do not have a conscience. Just that is is currently undergoing construction.

Parents and immediate family members lay the deep foundation of conscience. ...

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MAY
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Categories: Coaching, Community, Lacrosse Wisdom

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Odor Gladiator Discount!

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Odor Gladiator Discount!

A few months ago I did a guest post for Odor Gladiator. Entitled “Something About Stink,” the post focused on the peculiar reasons that many athletes have for keeping their gear smelling rancid. In the past, the options to keeping your gear smelling clean year-round were: Febrezing it to death, which took a good bit of effort, or washing it regularly, which was cumbersome. I always thought I was ...

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Categories: Community, Health

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The Importance of Helmets

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Recently a young man from the local lacrosse community was playing wall ball with a friend and this young man got hit right below the ear on an errant shot.

He went into a convulsion and had to be air lifted to Emory Children’s hospital

where he was put into a coma to allow his brain to recover.  I spoke to one of his coaches today who is a good friend and he said it was a freak accident and they pray ...

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27
MAR
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Categories: Coaching, Community, Health, Lacrosse Wisdom

Normal

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Normal is just a cycle on the washing machine.

This post goes out to any youth player who has ever felt a little odd. Here’s a hint – you are not alone in feeling weird, strange, out-there, peculiar, different, or flat-out not normal. If there is one thing I am certain of it is that nobody has ever felt completely normal because we all have our own idiosyncrasies that make us ...

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MAR
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Categories: Community, Health

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Great Weekend of Lacrosse

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I hope everyone enjoyed the weather this weekend on opening day of Atlanta Youth Lacrosse.  Even with spring break taking many families away we still managed to have some very close games and everyone had fun.

It is interesting when you get to spend time with young people and how the interact with each other.  While I know they have enormous amounts of pressure on them it is good to see how much fun they can have it we just let ...

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12
MAR
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Categories: Coaching, Community

Atlanta Youth Lacrosse…Lets Get This Party Started!

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Opening Day of Lacrosse season is always one of the best days of the year.  We find each team ready to spring into action and put what they learned in practice to the test.

Each year (since 1991 – in Atlanta) I have seen the smiles and enthusiasm of our players and coaches and the wonderful way our parents react to their sons/daughters ups and downs.

Our league is built upon a fabric of Responsibility, Caring, Honesty, Service and Sportsmanship.  We adhere ...

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7
MAR
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Categories: Community, Girls Lacrosse, Lacrosse Wisdom

Referee Versus Coach

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Referee Versus Coach

This morning I fired up my trusty news app, and started seeing what the world was up to. I went into the sports section and was compelled to read the story with this title: “Referee and coach brawl at second-graders game.” According to the Tennessean, ”a police report says that as [the coach] was leaving the court he grabbed [the referee], and then [the referee] responded by pushing the ...

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MAR
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Categories: Community, Officiating

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