TEAM TOURNAMENTS & CLINICS

Syracuse University Men’s Lacrosse will be hosting multiple Team Tournaments and Clinics for High School aged lacrosse players this summer. The 2008 camp will be held at the Hookway Fields on Syracuse University Campus and will feature up to 120 of the top high school and club teams throughout the country. If you are interested in attending please visit our website at www.sulacrossecamps.com or feel free to email our office at sulax@syr.edu.

Syracuse Lacrosse 2008

Team Tournaments and Clinics

Sat. June 14 Syracuse Face-off Classic I:

40 Team Tournament & Clinic

Sun. June 15 Syracuse Face-off Classic II:

40 Team Tournament & Clinic

Fri./Sat. Summer Shootout I – Elite/Travel Teams

July 11-12 40 Team Tournament & Clinic

Sun. July 13 Summer Shootout II – High School Teams

40 Team Tournament & Clinic

Attention all Division I, II, and III men's coaches,

Having partnered with Downingtown East and San Francisco Dragons Head Coach Tom Slate and Lacrosse Evolution as the director of the 2008 Lacrosse Evolution Games, I wanted to take the time to give you the particulars for this summer tournament. This three-day event will be held July 18-20 at United Sports Training Center in Downingtown, PA. The 2008 Evo Games will showcase some of the top high school talent from Pennsylvania and beyond. All teams will play 6 full games including championship play in a highly competitive, winner-take-all tournament. Coaches packets will be available throughout the weekend and a coaches social will be planned for Saturday evening (July 19) at a local establishment in nearby downtown (more details to follow). For more information on the 2008 Evo Games, including a running list of committed teams for this summer, local hotel information, and directions to USTC, visit the tournament website at www.lacrosseevolution.com.

I look forward to seeing you in Downingtown this summer...

Sincerely,

Kevin Cassese
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Smith Family Head Coach
Lehigh Men's Lacrosse
Tournament Director
Lacrosse Evolution Games

Press Release
United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association

February 11, 2008

USILA Partners with the MLL for the North/South Senior All-Star Games

We are pleased to announce the following: "The Boston Cannons of the MLL will host the 67th annual USILA North/South Senior All-Star Games. The games will take place at Harvard Stadium on Friday May 23rd (Memorial Day Weekend) as part of a triple header. The Division III game will be played at 2:00 PM and the Division I/II game will be played at 4:00 PM followed by the Boston Cannons game vs. the Rochester Rattlers at 7:00 PM. A post-game reception for coaches and North/South players will take place at Harvard Stadium. Discounted tickets ($10 for all 3 games) are available by calling the Cannons ticket office at 888-847-9700.

This is a great opportunity for the seniors who play in the North/South Games to finish their college careers and carry on this wonderful tradition. With the MLL draft on the following Wednesday, it will give the players one last chance to impress the pro coaches and the general managers.

Please see the attached News Release for more information.

Philadelphia, Pa., December 19, 2007 -- One hundred and sixty colleges and universities attended the 125th Annual United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association meetings in Philadelphia last week. The organization voted to change its administrative structure to reduce the time commitment of its board members, to get coaches and administrative representation from each division and to involve more people.

Joe Alberici, the Men's Lacrosse Coach at the United States Military Academy was appointed to a three-year term on the Board of Directors as the Division I coaches representative, while Chris Ryan, the Men's Lacrosse Coach at Mercyhurst College was appointed to a one-year term, as the Division II representative.

Alberici and Ryan join President Kevin Corrigan (University of Notre Dame head coach), David Webster (Head Coach at Dickinson College), Richard Wanninger (Patriot League), Joe Polak (Southern New Hampshire) and Fran Shields (Connecticut College) on the USILA Board of Directors.

In addition, the USILA announced that the 2008 North/South Games will be played at Harvard University on Friday, May 23, 2008. The Division 2-3 game will face-off at 2 p.m., and the Division 1 game begins at 4 p.m. The details and coaching assignments will be announced at a later date.

Eleven new members were accepted into membership of the USILA. The Division 2 members were Briarcliffe College (Bethpage, N.Y.), American International College (Springfield, Mass.), Rollins College (Winter Park Fla.); and Grand Canyon University (Phoenix, Ariz). The new Division 3 members are Marywood University, (Scranton, Pa.); Hendrix College (Conway, Ark.), St. Joseph's College (Standish, Maine), Adrian (Mich.) College, Wells College (Aurora, NY); Sewanee: University of the South, (Sewanee, Tenn.); and Tri-State University (Angola, Ind.).

The USILA also announced six of its annual awards this past weekend. Below are the biographies for the recipients of the USILA Coaches of the Year, as well as the winners of the Doyle Smith Sports Information/Media Award, Howdy Myers Man of the Year Award and Frenchy Julien Service Award.

Division I Coach of the Year
Scott Marr, University at Albany
In 2007, Scott Marr completed his seventh season as Albany's head coach. He has a career record of 65-43. A year ago, Marr led the Great Danes to their fourth America East Conference championship in the last five years. The America East honored him for the second time in his career as Coach of the Year.

The 2007 season saw Albany register its first-ever NCAA Tournament victory. The Great Danes posted a school-record 15-3 mark, defeated seven top-20 teams, and were ranked second nationally for six consecutive weeks during the regular season.

In 2006, Marr served as one of three assistants for the U.S. Men's Lacrosse Team that won the silver medal at the International Lacrosse Federation World Championship held in London, Ontario.

He began his coaching career as the University of Delaware's offensive coordinator and then served as both assistant coach and offensive coordinator for the University of Maryland. Marr was also an assistant on the United States team that won the 1999 World Cup.

A native of Yorktown, NY, Marr is a 1991 graduate of Johns Hopkins University where he was an attackman on the 1987 national championship squad and the 1989 national runner-up team. The Blue Jays garnered four consecutive NCAA berths during his career. He and his wife, Traci, have three children, Kyle, Jordyn and Keele.

Division II Coach of the Year
Chris Ryan, Mercyhurst College
Chris Ryan has been the head coach of the Mercyhurst men's lacrosse team since 2001 after spending two years as an assistant coach for the Lakers. His teams have produced the school's first All-American and Academic All-American selections, as well as initial ECAC All-Star selections and four Final Four appearances in the last five years. The program has compiled 19 All-Americans, six Academic All-Americans and numerous other distinctions during Ryan's tenure.

The 2007 season saw Mercyhurst rise to new heights. The program was ranked number one in the country for the first time on April 9 and held onto the spot for five consecutive weeks through the end of the regular season. Mercyhurst hosted an NCAA Final Four game and played in the National Championship game in Baltimore. Mercyhurst finished the season with an overall record of 13-2, and went 6-0 in the East Coast Conference.

He has a six-season mark of 75-22. In 2004, he was chosen to coach the North Division I All-star team in the Senior All-star Game. He currently is the USILA Division II representative on the board of directors, and is a member of the Central Regional Advisory Committee.

A native of Rochester, NY, Marr is a 1998 graduate of Randolph-Macon College, where he was a two-time second-team All-Old Dominion Athletic Conference defenseman and team captain in his senior year. He and his wife, Karin, reside in Erie with their son, Caleb.

Division III Coach of the Year
John Klepacki, Western New England College
John Klepacki is in his seventh season as head Men's Lacrosse Coach at Western New England College. During his tenure at WNEC, he has compiled an impressive 79-31 record competing against many of the nation's top programs.

In 2007, he led the Golden Bears to their best season ever. Under his leadership, they finished the year ranked third nationally in the final USILA Division III poll after posting a school best 17-1 record, which included a perfect 8-0 mark in the Pilgrim League. They reached the NCAA quarterfinals, and also captured the Pilgrim League Tournament title.

Before joining the WNEC staff, Klepacki served as an assistant men's lacrosse coach at Springfield College (2000-01) after being an assistant coach at the State University of New York at Oneonta (1997-99).

Klepacki is a 1996 graduate of Springfield (Mass.) College, where he earned his Master of Education degree in 2002. He was a four-year starter at defense for the Pride and team captain his senior year. John was on the Springfield team that won the NCAA Division II Championship title in 1994 while finishing second in 1995.

His wife, Aimee, is the highly-successful women's lacrosse coach at Western New England College.

Doyle Smith Sports Information/Media Award
This award is presented in honor of a career of outstanding service provided to lacrosse by longtime Virginia Assistant Sports Information Director Doyle Smith. Smith defined the game of collegiate lacrosse through his media releases and statistical and national poll coverage of the sport. This year's recipient has contributed greatly to the promotion and coverage of the sport.

Mike Keegan, Inside Lacrosse
Mike Keegan has been a staff writer at Inside Lacrosse. His first campaign from 2000-2001 included articles on the birth of Major League Lacrosse and the creation and initial presentation of the Tewaaraton Trophy. After a few years of random jobs, he went back to Inside Lacrosse from 2005-2007 where he has been a part of the expansion of the sport.

Keegan attended Fairfield University where he played both attack and midfield and graduated with a degree in Communication in 1998. A Georgetown Prep graduate, he returned to the D.C. area and began his career as a sports writer at The Journal Newspapers in northern Virginia. His work has also appeared in the Baltimore Sun and the Santa Barbara News-Press.

Keegan was the recipient of the Eddie Award Bronze Medal in 2007 for the Inside Lacrosse Magazine article on Virginia's run to the 2006 national title. The Gold medal went to Field & Stream and the Silver Medal to ESPN.

Howdy Myers Man of the Year Award
This award is presented in honor of one of the sport's most outstanding coaches. Howdy Myers coached 17 championship teams at St. Paul's, Johns Hopkins and Hofstra.

Christopher Wakely, Lehigh University
Christopher Wakely was the head Men's Lacrosse Coach at Lehigh University from 2001-2007. During his time at Lehigh, the Mountain Hawks defeated five nationally ranked opponents, and had three players compete in the North-South Games. They also qualified for the Patriot League Tournament twice. The graduation rate of his recruited student-athletes was 100 percent. He coached three academic All-Americans, two Patriot League Scholar-Athletes of the Year, 11 Patriot League All-League performers, and the nation's top goal scorer in 2003. Wakely has been a speaker at local, regional and national lacrosse clinics.

Before coming to Lehigh, he was the head coach at Elizabethtown (Pa.) College (2000-2001) where he founded the school's men's lacrosse program. From 1994-2000, he was the head men's lacrosse coach at Widener University where the team had five straight Middle Atlantic Conference Championships, and won the 2000 NCAA Division III Championship, first ever for the program. From 1992-1994 he was the Offensive Coordinator at Villanova University.

A 1990 graduate of the University of Virginia, Wakely was a four-year starter at midfield. He participated in the 1988 and 1990 Division I Men's Lacrosse Championships and the 1989 ACC Men's Lacrosse Championship. He tied the school record for games played in a career.

Frenchy Julien Service Award
This award is presented in honor of our former Chief Referee, Joseph R. "Frenchy" Julien for outstanding and continuous service to the sport. This year's honoree has also rendered a lifetime of service and contributions to the sport.

Fred Acee, US Air Force Academy
Now in his 10th season as Air Force's head coach, Fred Acee took the helm of the Falcon lacrosse program in the fall of 1997. Since his arrival, the Falcons have yearly played a top-notch Division I schedule. Last season, Air Force compiled a 7-8 overall record.

For 30 years, Acee made a name for himself as head coach at Farmingdale College, a two-year college on Long Island, NY. While there, he built the Rams into a national lacrosse powerhouse, capturing National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) championships in 1977, 1981 and 1987. In his three decades at Farmingdale, the Rams advanced to the NJCAA Final Four an amazing 25 times.

Acee was inducted into the Long Island Metropolitan Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1992. In 1994, he was the defensive coach for the world champion United States lacrosse team. Most recently, Acee was chosen as a 2005 inductee into the Junior College Lacrosse Hall of Fame. He also served on the executive board for the 1998 USA World Team and is the organizer of the Intercollegiate Men's Lacrosse Coaches Association convention. He has served on the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) Rules Advisory Committee and is a past president of the NJCAA Lacrosse Coaches' Association.

In the summer of 2001, he was honored for his lifelong contributions to the game of lacrosse. Acee received the USILA Howdy Meyers Man of the Year award. A New York native, Acee graduated from Cortland State with a degree in physical education in 1963, and received his master's in physical education from Ithaca College in 1967.

Bryant University Men's Lacrosse has the following 3 open dates for the spring of 2009. Please contact Mike Pressler at mpressle@bryant.edu if you have any openings on your schedule and have an interest in playing. Thank you!

• Saturday, April 4, 2009
• Saturday, April 11, 2009
• Saturday, April 25, 2009

SUNY Potsdam is looking for games home or away in 2009 on the following dates 3/7, 3/11, 3/14 and 3/23-3/26 in Florida please contact Rick Berkman at 315-267-2317 or berkmarw@potsdam.edu if you are interested.

Salem State College from Massachusetts is looking for opponents to play in Florida during March of 2009. Salem is willing to play in either the Orlando area or the Tampa area. They are looking for 2 to 3 games against different opponents, between March 14 to March 19. Salem is willing to play any Division II or III teams and is not looking for a 2 year commitment.
If you your team is interested, please email:
Coach Trevor Eaton teaton@salemstate.edu
(508)954-2997

Susquehanna University is looking to schedule a game for next year (2009). Mid week of the first week in March. We will be on spring break and we will be able to travel. We will be traveling in the VA area and would like to pick up 1 game, preferably Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, March 3rd-5th. Hopefully we can meet someone else who is in the area to play a neutral site game. If interested please contact Stewart Moan at 570-372-4069 or moan@susqu.edu.

TO: Head Men's Lacrosse Coaches
FROM: Willie Scroggs, Chair Men's Lacrosse Rules Committee.

Chuck Winters, Secretary-Rules Editor Men's Lacrosse Rules Committee

SUBJECT: Comment period.

The Men's Lacrosse Rules Committee has proposed the attached rules changes (Click HERE for rules changes) during its annual meeting August 6-8. Before these rules changes are implemented into the rules book, they must be approved by the Playing Rules Oversight Panel (PROP). PROP will review these rules proposals on an upcoming conference call. PROP evaluates the new rules in terms of negative impact on the image of the game, safety concerns or financial impact on institutions.

You have the opportunity to give your feedback to PROP about any of the attached rules changes before final approval is granted. For ease of reference, the press release which was distributed after the meeting is included.

Please e-mail or fax Ty Halpin at the NCAA (thalpin@ncaa.org or fax: 317/917-6800) your comments by Monday, September 10. Please reference the rule and specify whether your feedback concerns a negative impact to the image of the game, student-athlete safety or a significant financial impact.

If a head coach sends over half of his team before the game to have their sticks checked, notify him that you will do only a maximum of four (4) stick checks before the game. Coaches need to be reminded that they certify before the game that ALL of the equipment used by their team meets rulebook specifications.

Before the game, notify the head coach that if any of his players adjusts the strings of his crosse after an official asks for the crosse and a goal is scored, there will be an immediate flag, loss of goal, one (1) minute penalty and loss of ball.

After a goal is scored the head official conducts a random check of A1's crosse. A1 pulls his strings before handing his crosse to the lead official. The lead should immediately throw his flag and this will be the only penalty judicated. The trail and single side officials should delay a second to see if the lead has a penalty for pulling strings. At that time they would hand the crosse they were going to inspect back to the player and move to midfield for the restart.

A1 scores a goal and the lead official asks for his crosse to do a random check. At the same time, the crosse of B1 is checked and both crosses are found to be illegal, (tampered with). RULING: Goal is disallowed; A1 and B1 serve three (3) minute non-releasable penalties. The penalties are simultaneous so you go to alternate possession (AP). The ball is awarded to team by AP, twenty (20) yards laterally from the goal.

A1 scores a goal and the lead official asks for his crosse to do a random check. At the same time, the crosse of B1 is checked and both crosses are found to be illegal. A1 for a tampered crosse and B1 for a deep pocket. RULING: Goal is disallowed; the ball is awarded to B twenty (20) yards laterally from the goal due to less penalty time being served by B1.

It is strongly suggested that six (6) stick checks be conducted throughout the game and the last one (1) to be completed before the middle of the fourth (4) quarter. Remember the coach always has the right to request a stick check in addition to those you conduct.

The stick checks are to be random they are to be done during the game without interfering with the flow of or the momentum of the game. Appropriate intervals: team time out, TV time outs (when applicable) injury time outs, between periods and just before the start of the second half. The officiating crew is to decide the times during the game when they plan to do the stick checks in their pre-game meeting