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Working With The Officials

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Working With The Officials

Bruce Weber stated it best, “It’s not just the opposing team that the players and managers want to defeat; they want to get the better of anyone in their way, the umpire included. This essential aggression is built into the game, and it’s something an umpire has to recognize and accept before he can handle himself effectively on the field.”

As a coach, you have to interact with officials in lacrosse. In fact, the rules require it. For instance, only a ...

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Rockin’ the USL LAREDO Training

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Rockin’ the USL LAREDO Training

The following article may be found here: http://www.uslacrosse.org/TopNav2Left/Officials/MensOfficialsInformation/RockintheUSLLAREDOTraining.aspx

I get to toot my own horn a little bit here! I am very excited to report that I am attending a LAREDO (LAcrosse REferee DevelOpment) clinic in Vail, Colorado this summer. US Lacrosse did a short story on the LAREDO program, and I was asked to contribute a few quotes about it. Here is the full article:

Officiating a high school boys’ lacrosse game in ...

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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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Live Blogging the Convention Days 2 and 3

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Live Blogging the Convention Days 2 and 3

What a fantastic weekend. Really, that is the best word to describe how the 2012 Convention went. Both Coach Lou and Coach Shaun had excellent presentations. Coach Lou spoke on how to get the most out of a short practice, and Shaun Lux detailed the two man game in lacrosse. By all accounts of the attendees, each speaker did an incredible job explaining their topic of choice.

On the officials side, I was once again ...

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Complaining Versus Adapting

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Complaining Versus Adapting

This is a tale of two vastly different coaching strategies that I witnessed during a game I officiated this past summer. My partner and I made various calls throughout the game. Some against one coach, some against the other. Both of us were pissing each coach off. So as far as I was concerned, we were doing our job just fine. Although I noticed something different about one of the coaches. He might have been mad at a call, but ...

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Introducing the AYL Weekly Newsletter

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Introducing the AYL Weekly Newsletter

If you have not done so already, sign up for the AYL Weekly Newsletter. Every Tuesday morning AYL sends out our weekly newsletter via MailChimp to over seven hundred subscribers. We want that subscription list to grow and for every one of our members to read and enjoy the newsletter.

Each newsletter will have:

  • Coach Lou’s Corner – A message about lacrosse coaching, life lessons, and how to best enjoy the game.
  • Director Messages – Important information ...
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Officiating Clinic

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Officiating Clinic

As I mentioned in this week’s first post, Andy Halperin and I are putting on an officiating clinic on Sunday, September 4th. We will cover the basic rules each youth official needs to know, as well as whistle blowing, flag throwing, penalty reporting, conducting faceoffs, and lots of signaling. It is absolutely free of charge, as we want as many youth officials as possible to go through the training. Only 5th-12th graders are permitted to ...

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So You Want to be an Official?

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So You Want to be an Official?

You have read Every Lacrosse Signal, and Off The Book Rules. Now you think you might want to be a lacrosse official. As a current official who loves my job I highly encourage any person to pick up officiating. So long as you don’t mind a job where:

  • You make fifty percent of the spectators angry
  • You are always wrong
  • You are expected to be perfect
  • You are responsible for keeping players safe
  • Everyone thinks they ...
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