You can glimpse at the legend of Bussy Adam and make a case that it could be measured in numbers — 457 to be exact, the number of wins he collected as head coach at Newton (Mass.) North High School, the most of any high school coach in Massachusetts history. However, his impact on the game in … [Read more...]
How Top Gun Fighting Clams, Piatelli Lacrosse and 3D Lacrosse evolve with times
Editor’s note: This is the second part of a series that examines the history, philosophy and success stories of the top club lacrosse programs in New England. Most all club programs provide the opportunity for a player to continue to blossom within the game, working diligently at the fundamentals … [Read more...]
Club Spotlight: Success stories galore
As the game of lacrosse continues to grow, the prominence of club programs for boys across the region follows suit, providing high-level options for players to continue their growth and excel. These programs continue to strive thanks in large part to the talented, knowledgeable staffs in place … [Read more...]
High school coaches are witnessing the recruiting evolution
Over the years, the landscape of recruiting at the high school level has taken on many vastly different shapes. From the personal, one-on-one connection between coaches to the wild-west battle for middle schoolers, things finally seem to be rounding into form as the NCAA continues to tweak its … [Read more...]
Connecticut: Ridgefield derails Darien in championship
After sneaking by Glastonbury, 6-5, in the semifinals, Ridgefield was faced with everyone’s nemesis, Darien, and that team’s 76-game winning streak in the Class L championship. Not only had no one beaten Darien in years, but it also had been seven seasons and 10 head-to-head matchups since the … [Read more...]
Laconia looks to get back on top
When Laconia High School’s lacrosse program began in 2002, it didn’t take long for it to assert some dominance in New Hampshire’s Division 3, rolling out three straight state championships from 2003 to ’05. In the years since, the division has become much more staunch and the level of play has … [Read more...]
Nobles and Governor’s Academy clinch share of the ISL title
When it comes down to the final few games in the Independent School League, you can bet that one team is carrying fate in its own hands, and that everyone else is looking to whack it right out. As fate would have it, it sat firmly in the hands of two teams, with a few others salivating for the … [Read more...]
Thomas, Fitzgerald are bolstering the Cohasset-to-Providence pipeline
Though it is something that wasn’t built recently, the Cohasset-to-Providence pipeline has been flowing freely of late. The next player down the chute is Cohasset (Mass.) High School All-American midfielder Will Thomas, who soon will be joined by goalie Mason Fitzgerald, a junior who has been … [Read more...]
A trio of Avon Old Farms seniors look to send coach Skip Flanagan out as a winner
The path to prestige is firmly paved between Avon Old Farms and the Ivy League. It’s a journey that takes a student from one distinguished institute of higher learning to the next, though each individual journey often is quite different. A trio of Avon Old Farm players soon are to embark on … [Read more...]
Position switch ignites record-setting season for Harvard’s Glynn
A self-professed 'late bloomer,' Harvard attacker Julia Glynn has surpassed the field. Though born in the United States, her family moved to London at the age of 2 for her father’s job. There, she enjoyed ballet and horseback riding. But when she returned to lacrosse-minded Manhasset, N.Y., in … [Read more...]
The Harlem Lacrosse program is using lax to produce classroom progress
In 2008, Concord-Carlisle (Mass.) High School alumnus Simon Cataldo was working as a special education math teach at Frederick Douglass Academy in Harlem. While struggling initially to engage his students in academics, he brought to them an unfamiliar concept — the sport of lacrosse. In doing … [Read more...]
Behind Caroline Phelps, Rivers looks to surge upward in ISL
Caroline Phelps is locked in at whatever she does. Case in point, the Rivers School midfielder was living on Cape Cod over the summer and working a retail job to afford gas money, unaware that there was an email from her coach letting her know that she had been named a U.S. Lacrosse … [Read more...]
