We are very excited for our first featured section on In Lacrosse We Trust! Lacrosse Library plans to bring you all the best drills and plays from college and professional indoor and outdoor lacrosse here on ILWT twice every month. We first saw this high-speed practice drill at training camp for one of the NLL teams this year. Even though this is a drill that Pro players do, you can use it…
It was recently declared by NOCSAE that the Cascade R and Warrior Regulator helmets are not to standard. Coincidentally, this came within 48 hours of STX releasing their new helmet they partnered with Schutt to create: Stallion. This poor marketing scheme of STX’s is really beginning to impact the lower levels of lacrosse. It seems that Black Friday commences the seasonal shopping for gear, specifically gloves and helmets. More and…
It’s not even close to the 2015 NLL draft, but let’s take a look at which prospects we should be watching before next September. This draft is projected to be possibly the best in the league’s history. Reilly O’Connor: Plays for the Whitby Warriors and in college with Georgetown. He’s very tall, a lefty, and an assist machine. Over the past two seasons alone he has 157 of them for 205…
If you look at the history of any major professional sports league, its past will be littered with franchises that have folded or moved. This is usually done for financial reasons as owners generally want to run a team that is (very) profitable. Sometimes where they are and the facility is the problem and sometimes the grass is simply greener on the other side. Lacrosse is absolutely no exception to…
Every year we make predictions at year’s end for the NLL, MLL, and other things. As we end the 2014 year, with no game play beginning again until 2015, let’s take a look at what we got right and wrong. What Was Right Outlaws Curse Broken- Brendan Staudt On January 22nd in Brendan’s MLL predictions post he mentioned this could be the year the Outlaws break the streak, led by…
The NXT Lacrosse Philly Showcase is happening this weekend. The event kicked off Friday night in South Philadelphia at the fields on 10th & Bigler St. Due to frost and the cold weather it had to be moved from the grass field at Citizens Bank Park. It started off with a seventh grade All-Star game with kids from Philadelphia and New Jersey, followed by another All-Star game with the eighth…
The Penn State Women’s Lacrosse Team has announced their 2015 spring schedule. This will be the Nittany Lion’s first step into the BIG10 play, and the team, along with Head Coach Missy Doherty, is excited for this level of competition to commence. Their schedule consists of eight home games and eight away games. They will face other BIG10 Women’s Lacrosse teams in five contests this season as follows: March 26-29…
During the preseason the National Lacrosse League will be experimenting with the shootout to see if it may be of some interest in the future. Immediately following all preseason games this December, no matter what the score a shootout will be held. For those familiar with the NHL, the shootout rules are the same. The teams will not change ends for the shootout. The home team shall have the choice…
Being teammates and being competition have the same influence on individuals. They drive an individual to become bettter at what they do. Now from high school to college, Conor Cunningham and Brock Turnbaugh have gone from teammates to opposition on the game’s largest stage. Cunningham is a redshirt freshman transfer to Maryland from Hofstra. He is a graduate of Hereford High School in Parkton, Maryland where he won four state…
Yesterday the National Lacrosse League announced that they are going to experiment with shootouts during select preseason games. The NLL has never used shootouts before, so, naturally, there have been some pretty strong reactions. “I feel its gonna be a shooters paradise, if it was to decide a game a big time save or even a shooters mistake could be huge,” said undrafted rookie goalie Rance Vigneux, recently signed by…