News: “Nationals Box Lacrosse Championships”
It’s hard to believe that the girls’ bantam, midget and junior teams and the boys’ peewee, bantam, midget and junior teams are done for another year. It just seems like a few weeks ago that they were running drills on Exhibition Park’s indoor turf. Congratulations to all the players, their parents and coaching staffs for another very active and successful year. Best of luck to this year’s U16 men’s field team in their efforts this coming Labour Day weekend, which will wrap it up for LNSS’s 2013 season.
News: “Sport Leadership sportif”
You might not be able attend this year, but the annual Petro-Canada Sport Leadership sportif conference is definitely something that should be on your coaching calendar. Canada’s top coaches, sport researchers and senior sport organization leaders will gather, November 7
th to 9
th, in Calgary, Alberta to share strategies and network.
Key speakers this year will include National Women's soccer Team Head Coach John Herdman, and NCCP Level 4 basketball coach BEV SMITH and attendees will visit the Olympic Oval to watch the Essent ISU Speed Skating World Cup! For more information go to
www.sportleadershipsportif.ca and bookmark this site.
News: “Super Coaching Clinic”
The Super Coaching Clinic held July 26
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th was a huge success for those players, box and field, that participated in Rick Phillips on-field clinics. Due to rain, the men’s field session was run indoors at the old soccer Subway facility. Despite players ranging from peewee age to University, by the end of the Friday session, everyone was able to handle the competition, including our Titan peewee long-pole, Alex Bechard.
Saturday, July 26
th, the provincial U16 was put through a full-day of practice and scrimmage against U19 and senior players. Most of the U16 players attended Rick’s Friday session, so it was an extremely full couple of days of field lacrosse. The time they invested, however, is showing in the players’ calibre of play.
On Sunday, July 27
th, some midget players were on their third session with Rick as they went through their paces with him during the provincial Midget session. The midgets were then followed by the Founders Cup team. Rick ran very intense high performance drills that emphasized the basic defensive and offensive elements of the game.
A final note regarding the weekend: A lot of work goes into putting a clinic together and a big thanks has to go to LNSS’s Greg Knight who besides booking fields, hotels and flights successfully put together a grant that helped defray $1,500.
Technical Director’s “My 2 Cents”
Winning teams don’t necessarily to things that are more complicated, but they surely do the basics at the highest competitive level and do them well over and over and over again. This was the key point I took away from Rick Phillip’s clinics last month and why it is such a pleasure to watch a coach who can pull any number of drills out of his bag of tricks when he sees players’ are struggling with a concept or skill.
News: “NCCP Certification”
A great month of activity by our coaches: Thanks to you for your hard work and giving up so much of your free time –Our players benefit greatly.
Congratulations to coaches Todd Cranston, Stephane Gagnon and Jay Titchmarsh for completing Box Comp Intro course of the Super Coaching clinic and coaches Todd Cranston, Jay Titchmarsh, Danny Shupe, Mitch Hannigan and Neil Ingraham for completing the Men’s Field Comp Intro course. Coaches Jordan Coyle, Sam Martin and Tony Robinson also successfully completed their Box Comm Dev workbooks.
A big congratulations goes out to the following coaches who are now fully “Certified” box lacrosse coaches, the highest level of certification for this discipline: Julie Finck, Tyler James, Craig Moore, Colin Beiswanger, Mike Smeltzer and Ross Mackay.
Alumni News:
Alumnus Sean Fitzgerald and his crew of Newfoundland Masters hosted their third Masters tournament in St. John’s, August 16
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th, which featured two home teams and Nova Scotia’s elite select men’s team. Team NS can brag that the team’s average age was about 49 years old and was very competitive against the younger legs of Newfoundland, but in the end, Newfoundland’s young vets put down NS’s old dogs. To Team NS’s credit, they played two back-to-back games, semi and final, on the final day. Plans next year are to host a tournament here in Nova Scotia, as the Newfoundland lads would like a road trip. So keep that in mind you Masters out there and make sure you get out to this winter’s session at Exhibition Park.
News: “Next Month”
Keep track of up-coming events on LNSS’s website newslider and calendar.
- U16 Men’s Field Nationals, Labour Day Weekend, Montreal
- NSFLL Season, August
- MUFLL Season, September
- University Women’s Field Season, September
“Players should expect the best - We can deliver”
Lawrence Taylor, MSc
Technical Director
Lacrosse Nova Scotia
104 Green Village Lane, Unit 106
Dartmouth, NS, B2Y 4V4
(902) 266-0677
lacrossetechdirector@sportnovascotia.ca
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