Cross Checks

Women’s: Last Fall Ball Week a Big One

October 26, 2013
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October 26th and 27th mark a huge weekend for Women’s Fall Ball, with well over 30 games being played over the course of two days. Games include individual match-ups, but also tournaments occurring all over the country. This weekend, the entire nation gets a little taste of what fall lacrosse is all about, as games will be played in New Jersey, Virginia, California, Massachusetts, Delaware, Colorado, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina….

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ConnectLAX.com Launches A Free College Matching Service and Recruiting Profiles!

October 21, 2013
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ConnectLAX.com has a new, completely free service for players and parents to create a personalized list of target colleges that match their academic, athletic, social and financial preferences. The ConnectLAX directory has over 1,350 collegiate lacrosse teams from club to top Division I programs. Each college profile details the school’s student body, admissions criteria, financial costs and LinkedIn information about their graduates. Team Twitter feeds and Youtube videos help recruits learn about the program and team chemistry. Coaches can add a description about their…

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Women’s: Radnor Event Tomorrow

October 19, 2013
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The annual Quaker Fall LaxFest in Radnor, PA will take place on Sunday, November 3rd at the local Radnor High School. This event has turned into a college recruiters dream, as the teams represented include some of the top high school prospects in the country. At this year’s event, major universities like Brown, Dartmouth, Harvard, Lehigh, Marquette, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Penn State, and Syracuse will be on the lookout…

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Stony Brook Battles Scotland

October 18, 2013
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Stony Brook University will be taking on Team Scotland this Saturday, October 19th at 7:00pm as a part of the lacrosse fall ball series. This will be Scotland’s second visit to the United States in the past three years, who will take on several other universities in a series of friendly matches. Stony Brook is a talented team who finished in the middle of their conference last season, while Scotland…

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England Invades NCAA Fall Ball

October 17, 2013
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Team England is about to invade US lacrosse with a series of fall ball games in the North East. The series will open Saturday October 19th against Dartmouth University. From there, Team England will take on the likes of UMass, Harvard, Boston University, Brown, with a closing match against Bryant University on October 26th. The game against Dartmouth this weekend will be played in Manchester, New Hampshire. They travel to…

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ConnectLax Acquires LaxTrainers

October 16, 2013
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ConnectLAX.com, the leader in private lacrosse instruction, has acquired LAXTrainers.com. LAXTrainers was founded by Connecticut-natives Harley Brown and Jack Vaughan, and operates as a lacrosse-targeted search engine to help players find private instructors.LAXTrainers’ instructors will join ConnectLAX and the largest network of private instructors in the US. Harley will be joining the ConnectLAX team to build on their health and nutrition blogging platform and social media strategies. Harley and Jack felt that by combining with ConnectLAX, they could…

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Cross Checks: Replacing Seniors for NCAA Teams

October 6, 2013
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As fall ball has already begun, a number of D1 teams have had to replace some of the top players in the nation. A number of these players will be joining the National Lacrosse League once the season begins after they were drafted in the 2013 MLL Draft that took Monday, September 16. It will be interesting with the lacrosse season coming up soon to see how these teams will…

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This Week in Fall Ball- NCAA

October 1, 2013
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Alex Urquhart   The fall ball season is well underway and there’s still a lot of fall left tell the first snow and the end of the fall season. This will be another big week in the college fall scrimmage and tournament tours. The two big Classics/ Series are the Nicholas Colleluori Fall Classic and the Play for Parkinson’s Series. The Colleluori Classic will be held at Ridley High School…

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