Lacrosse Preperation

English Lacrosse Presentation – Preparation

Structure

National The National Lacrosse League (NLL) is a men's professional indoor lacrosse league in North America. It currently has nine teams; three in Canada and six in the United States. Unlike other lacrosse leagues which play in the summer, the NLL plays its games in the winter and spring. Each year, the playoff teams battle for the Champion's Cup. Historically, the league has averaged about 10,000 fans per game

Regional Instead of having a team of 10 players they will be sticking the teams up to 12 players a side. Teams 1-4 will get 1st round byes. Two Super Regional Tournaments with Saturday and Sunday format. A predetermined format establishing game locations (North, South or Central Districts) will be established and rotate annually for the Super Regional games much the same as the State Championship Tournament is rotated between districts. State Championship the following weekend with Semi-finals on Saturday and Finals on Sunday

Local For local lacrosse they hold a camp where children of all ages can come and learn first hand about lacrosse and play it and get an insight on how lacrosse works and what they have to do in the game if they wanted to carry it on.

Functions

Whole Sport Plan – Start, Stay, Succeed They want to make lacrosse one of the leading sporting events in the UK. Also trying to get 3 age groups to start playing lacrosse 7 to 15 & 16 to 21 and 22+. Trying to increase the number of 16 year old by 13,000 by playing at least once a month and 8,900 people to play it every week. This should increase the number of people starting to play it up to 25,000. There aims are to make an increase in lacrosse played in England in both the 3 target age groups. In 2008 in there was a starting point for lacrosse clubs with 252 clubs schools and higher education areas playing lacrosse. This should hopefully rise all the way to 300 by 2013. There was also 18 club marks that played lacrosse at entry level and this should increase all the way up to 50 by 2013 making more and more people wanting to play lacrosse and seeing and watching people play it In 2008 there wasn’t no performance clubs in the UK  but by 2013 they should have at least 10 performance clubs who wants to pay at a higher level than they started at when they first started playing lacrosse.

Rule-making There are going to be ten players on both teams on the pitch, 3 attackers 3 defenders 3 midfielders and a goalie there is full contact for this sport.

Technical

Merchandising Heads & Sticks Handles Helmets Gloves Shoulder Pads Arm Pads Rib Pads Starter Kits Athletic Supporter Equipment Bags Footwear Miscellaneous

Competitions and tournaments At any stage of playing lacrosse always have to start at entry level but if you want to play as someone in a higher aged group then you can go into. But there are 2 class types that you can go into; participation and performance. Going into the participation you have to start in entry level  (clubs, school, community groups and universities) and then go into intermediate stage if you’re getting better and progress is good (clubs and universities) and if you are at the peek of you skill level then you can go and play in the advanced playing programs (performance clubs). But going into performance you can play as a junior territorial (regional centers of excellence) and after that and you want to still play then you can go onto the seniors territorial (under 19 national squad) and if you’re you still want to play then you can go onto playing for England in the seniors national squads.

Training of officials Experienced officials who can put in long time service to the youth game are greatly needed and critical to the growth and development of the sport and younger officials. However, there are many opportunities to advance. If you would like to add high school games to your schedule, you should contact your local trainer to inquire about what additional steps and requirements you may need in order to be assigned to those games. In the case of college and post-collegiate officiating, additional training, testing, and most importantly practice, practice, practice will help you get to that level. Ask your trainer to assign you a mentor and to get information about opportunities to prepare for and officiate at other levels of the game in your community.