True Temper Sports has been one of those companies that you never heard of, but probably used their products. According to their website, they have been designing and manufacturing shafts as a supplier for other lacrosse brands since 2004. With lacrosse growing the way that it is, they have decided to enter the market with their own brand of lacrosse shafts, True. What this means is that there is a…
Maverik Lacrosse, a leading lacrosse equipment manufacturer that designs products for ultimate player performance, today announced that Major League Lacrosse (MLL) standout Ned Crotty has joined the company’s growing roster of athletes. Crotty, an attackman with the MLL’s New York Lizards, was the No. 1 overall pick in the 2010 MLL Collegiate Draft after a stellar four-year career with Duke University. Crotty led the Blue Devils to the program’s first…
College lacrosse coaches now have access to a comprehensive new rating system they can use to recruit goalies, it’s called the Guardian Rating Classification (GRC) index. The GRC index is the first-ever quantifiable player-rating index in sports, outside of the NFL’s QBR ratings, to provide statistical figures for coaches to compare and contrast the skills and athleticism of lacrosse goalies. The GRC index is the brainchild of Ginny Capicchioni, the…
Nothing in this post is a paid endorsement, but instead the actual opinions of our staff. The annual lacrosse convention is the best place to get a gauge on what is going on in the world of lacrosse. We saw Major League Lacrosse host their annual draft, one of the best representations of American indoor lacrosse, and the best companies in the lacrosse world. We’re here to recap it and…
A source closely involved with Cascade has reconfirmed with Johns Hopkins that they will wear Cascade helmets this 2015 season. Cornell has also been reconfirmed to use Cascade, but will sport STX Stallions as well throughout the season. Penn is confirmed to wear STX Stallions, as well as Ohio State. This has been an update from the ILWT Gear crew.
As the 2015 NCAA lacrosse season approaches, teams continue to gear up. Most will wear Cascade R’s following the helmets’ modifications. Warrior Regulators will cease to exist. That leaves STX Stallion 500’s to be donned by some teams. Rumors are that Johns Hopkins, THE Ohio State, Cornell and UPenn will be among programs currently lining up to wear the new helmets in 2015. Without needing to be said, the mockups…
Turtle shell Mesh by Zoo lacrosse is the newest way to get your head traditionally strung by some of the best stringers in the game of lacrosse. Turtle shell comes already strung up for its customers in one piece by one of the top stringers in Upstate New York. It’s traditional but interconnected as one piece which makes it function like mesh does. Zoo lacrosse strings can do up for you a 6,7 or 8 diamonds it…
A few weeks ago, Cascade R and Warrior Regulator helmets were declared uncertified by NOCSAE standards. This past Friday, Cascade announced they came up with solutions alongside NOCSAE following constant updates throughout the process. Where’s Warrior and what are they doing? In the few retail lacrosse stores there are across the nation stand giant Regulator displays. Mocked up helmets sit on a helmet throne center of the display. All T-II…
As of this morning (Friday) Cascade has announced they’ve come to an agreement with NOCSAE on how to fix their R model helmets. In simple terms, Cascade will manufacture new helmets as Cascade R-M, but the helmets will still say ‘R’. For all those people in the world who already own the helmets, I hope you registered them online as has been stated numerous times over the past few weeks….
Cascade has been working around the clock to remedy their recent decertification. At the end of this week (two days ago), they released a statement saying they expect to have answers and solutions in the next ‘coming days’. So, I project by Christmas. Just like your iPhone/Mac, or iPod, or vehicle or whatever else, you can register your product online. Go to R.CascadeLacrosse.com and you can register your Cascade helmet….