[Fumblerooskies]

I would have liked to have seen LU add Women's Golf...which is a sport the conference sponsors. Perhaps next go-round.

[SuperJon]

I would have liked to have seen LU add Women's Golf...which is a sport the conference sponsors. Perhaps next go-round.

That's what I thought as well but the surveys came back different.

[Fumblerooskies]

Duh! That's b/c anyone interested in W-golf is playing ELSEWHERE!

[JK37]

I would have liked to have seen LU add Women's Golf...which is a sport the conference sponsors. Perhaps next go-round.

That's what I thought as well but the surveys came back different.

JB made a small differentiation at last Flames Club luncheon. He said that women's golf had good return on questionnaires, but nobody for the sport showed up when they had an open meeting. By contrast, something like 15+ girls showed up for lax, all decked out in gear and everything.

[HenryGale]

I would have liked to have seen LU add Women's Golf...which is a sport the conference sponsors. Perhaps next go-round.

That's what I thought as well but the surveys came back different.

JB made a small differentiation at last Flames Club luncheon. He said that women's golf had good return on questionnaires, but nobody for the sport showed up when they had an open meeting. By contrast, something like 15+ girls showed up for lax, all decked out in gear and everything.

But like Fumble said...kids at our school are not the target audience...you are recruiting kids that play that particular sport...and thus...they went to a school that actually sponsored the sport.

[SuperJon]

I would have liked to have seen LU add Women's Golf...which is a sport the conference sponsors. Perhaps next go-round.

That's what I thought as well but the surveys came back different.

JB made a small differentiation at last Flames Club luncheon. He said that women's golf had good return on questionnaires, but nobody for the sport showed up when they had an open meeting. By contrast, something like 15+ girls showed up for lax, all decked out in gear and everything.

That's because we have or had a club women's lax team and there wasn't a club women's golf team.

[JK37]

That's what I thought as well but the surveys came back different.

JB made a small differentiation at last Flames Club luncheon. He said that women's golf had good return on questionnaires, but nobody for the sport showed up when they had an open meeting. By contrast, something like 15+ girls showed up for lax, all decked out in gear and everything.

That's because we have or had a club women's lax team and there wasn't a club women's golf team.

Acknowledged. I'd like to see w golf, too

[thelaxman]

It is a good thing with the addition of a Women's Lax team. I coached the LU Girls Club Lax Team in 2004 and they were a great bunch. I think the Athletic Department will go into the direction of a Men's Lax Team in the near future. But we all must take baby steps. I have said this before and I will say it again LU is a Gold mine for both Men's and Women's Lax and look for some Post season and Lax Championships in the future in the NCAA in Lax for LU. The real key will be if the Big South goes with Lacrosse. Coastal Carolina added a Men's Club Team this past season that really took off. If Lax gets big at Winthrop, Coastal and Chuck South and Liberty along with UNC Ashville look for it to happen sooner then you think. High Point even got on the Lacrosse Field this year. Couple of years ago nobody would have even considered this stuff. I do know that in upstate South Carolina in the Rock Hill area Lax is taking off on the High School level with Northwestern and Rock Hill High School adding Club Lacrosse programs. Once it gets going as a Club Sport people get excited and varsity is not far behind. If the Men's Team at LU can only organize at the Club level I very much believe that would help it become varsity not far behind the Girls Lax program.

All the best,

Thelaxman
Romans 8:31

PS. I recently left UNM to coach and start a High School program at Sandia Prep in Albuquerque. We will be in South Carolina on a spring Break trip next spring so I may come accross a few of you guys. Big Smooth, Sly Fox and PA Medic, I hope this finds you guys well. I am almost recovered with my health from the 05 LU Lax Accident.

[flamesbball84]

It is a good thing with the addition of a Women's Lax team. I coached the LU Girls Club Lax Team in 2004 and they were a great bunch. I think the Athletic Department will go into the direction of a Men's Lax Team in the near future. But we all must take baby steps. I have said this before and I will say it again LU is a Gold mine for both Men's and Women's Lax and look for some Post season and Lax Championships in the future in the NCAA in Lax for LU. The real key will be if the Big South goes with Lacrosse. Coastal Carolina added a Men's Club Team this past season that really took off. If Lax gets big at Winthrop, Coastal and Chuck South and Liberty along with UNC Ashville look for it to happen sooner then you think. High Point even got on the Lacrosse Field this year. Couple of years ago nobody would have even considered this stuff. I do know that in upstate South Carolina in the Rock Hill area Lax is taking off on the High School level with Northwestern and Rock Hill High School adding Club Lacrosse programs. Once it gets going as a Club Sport people get excited and varsity is not far behind. If the Men's Team at LU can only organize at the Club level I very much believe that would help it become varsity not far behind the Girls Lax program.

All the best,

Thelaxman
Romans 8:31

PS. I recently left UNM to coach and start a High School program at Sandia Prep in Albuquerque. We will be in South Carolina on a spring Break trip next spring so I may come accross a few of you guys. Big Smooth, Sly Fox and PA Medic, I hope this finds you guys well. I am almost recovered with my health from the 05 LU Lax Accident.

there is a strong chance Rustburg high might be adding mens lacrosse...

[thelaxman]

There you go. I once had an AD at LU tell me that Lacrosse was not big in Lynchburg and would never be big in the Lynchburg area. I think that was in 2004 when we really needed to replace that guy and that Karcher guy with Football. Some changes and a couple of years later makes all the difference.

All the best,

[flamesbball84]

There you go. I once had an AD at LU tell me that Lacrosse was not big in Lynchburg and would never be big in the Lynchburg area. I think that was in 2004 when we really needed to replace that guy and that Karcher guy with Football. Some changes and a couple of years later makes all the difference.

All the best,

Well, when you have a bunch of central VA colleges playing men's lax it who are normally pretty good (UVA, Roanoke, Lynchburg, Hampden-Sydney, Washington & Lee, and Randolph is going to start playing next year) and hosts several camps every summer, and when you have several high schools drawing talent away from other sports (soccer seems to be the one taking the biggest hit), it's only a matter of time before it starts to become big. Not only is it growing, the talent is getting dramatically better at a rapid pace (EC Glass is getting pretty good, saw them play this weekend and boy do they have some talent over there).

USLAX is also going to be adding a southwest VA regional chapter in Charlottesville this fall that will be geared toward expanding lacrosse in the central and southwest regions of VA, so there could be a huge amount of growth in the area in the following years as well. The talent won't be particularly any good for a while though since most of the kids playing would have little to no experience playing the sport.

[Fumblerooskies]

Baseball is also a sport taking a hit in the area HS. I have had conversations with the EC Glass baseball coaches and they lose a player or two most every year moving to LAX.

[flamesbball84]

Baseball is also a sport taking a hit in the area HS. I have had conversations with the EC Glass baseball coaches and they lose a player or two most every year moving to LAX.

Well baseball is beginning to get just as expensive as lacrosse, and lacrosse isn't as "boring" so I don't find this particularly surprising. I know that a lot of places where soccer was a spring sport in HS that they have moved it to the fall because they were losing buttloads of players to lacrosse.

[jcmanson]

Baseball is not "boring" especially to play.

[bigsmooth]

try playing lacrosse...it's not boring at all, and i think it's fun to watch especially live.

[jcmanson]

I’m not saying lacrosse is boring, I’m just saying baseball isn’t.

[4everfsu]

baseball is boring to watch, I rather watch paint dry. Now playing is something different

[flamesbball84]

try playing lacrosse...it's not boring at all, and i think it's fun to watch especially live.

agreed

baseball is boring to watch, I rather watch paint dry. Now playing is something different

agree again. baseball isn't worth watching until september when the divisional and wild card races begin to wind down.

[thelaxman]

Hey both Baseball and Lacrosse are great sports and opens more opportunities for kids to compete in Athletics. I grew up on the sandlots of Baltimore playing Baseball not Lacrosse. It was only a year before I went to High School I tried Lax back in B-more. When I got to High School there were 185 guys going out for the Baseball team and 20 for the Lacrosse Team and it did not take me much time to make a decision which team I wanted to play on. As much as I love Baseball, Lacrosse was my ticket and I don't have any regrets. My Twin Sons both play Baseball and Jackosn also played Lacrosse this year at Sandia Prep. A lot of people expect my Sons to be these great Lacrosse Players but it is about them just to have fun with Ahtletics. Jackson has the size of a 14 or 15 year old but is only 11 and played on my High School Lacrosse Team and held his own and then would go to Baseball in Little League and batted for a 750 Batting Average. Jeremiah suffers with his motor skills with his Brain Injury on his hitting from the LU Lax accident but can throw a fastball between 65-70 mph. That is pretty good for a 11 year old. As you can see I think Baseball and Lacrosse are great sports and not boring at all. Just count me in when the LU Lady Flames Play for the NCAA Women's Lax National Championship in a few years, I will be there!

All the best,

Thelaxman

[jcmanson]

So, the swimming team signed four to NLI's. And in the article they stated they would be competing for a conference championship next year. What conference?

[ATrain]

So, the swimming team signed four to NLI's. And in the article they stated they would be competing for a conference championship next year. What conference?

Probably the same one that the Big South and a couple other conferences formed for their schools that have swim teams.