Tag " penalties"

In a little over a month we will be starting games for the 2012 Spring Season. With games we cannot escape getting penalties. I assure you, at some point during the season at least one player, and probably more, will receive a technical or a personal foul. I have yet to ref a perfect game, [...]

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 [...]

Penalties are a part of lacrosse. In the youth game, penalties are usually a big part of the game for two reasons. One, young players mature at different rates. U13 is always the worst grade for me to officiate because half of the kids are Davids, the other half are Goliaths, and the Davids do [...]

With one weekend of games in the books it is time for a short review of personal fouls. As many of you are aware, I am working on developing a library of lacrosse penalties for the youth game. Below are each of the videos in the “Personal Fouls” series. Hopefully, they will answer any questions [...]

To view these rules outside of the blog visit: http://ayllax.com/leagues/spring/rules. In an effort to provide greater understanding of the rules we have posted the specific US Lacrosse Youth Rules that Atlanta Youth Lacrosse supports and enforces. If you have any questions about the rules below please contact our Head Official Gordon Corsetti at [email protected] Rules [...]

Rule 5, Section 8 – Unnecessary Roughness (NFHS Boys Lacrosse Rule Book) Art. 1 – “An excessively violent infraction of the rules against holding and pushing.” Art. 2 – “Deliberate and excessively violent contact made by a defensive player against an offensive player who has established a screening position.” Art. 3 – “Any avoidable act [...]

Atlanta Youth Lacrosse conforms to and enforces the NFHS Boys Lacrosse and Youth Lacrosse Rules. We also enforce all of the rules listed below for each age group. If you have any questions about the rules listed below or any NFHS rules please contact our Head Official, Gordon Corsetti, at [email protected] Before each game the [...]