Rounding up the links in the world of Michigan lacrosse. As always, tips, press releases, college commitments, etc. can be sent to the Twitter machine or e-mail.
Youth
The annual U.S. Lacrosse Michigan 7-on-7 tournament takes place this weekend at the Hope Soccer Complex in Lansing. You can see schedule information, etc. at the website.
Winter box leagues in Rochester start this weekend as well. Since I’ve been derelict in my duties as a blogger, the registration deadline has passed. Keep the site in mind for future seasons, however.
There is box in the Grand Rapids area as well, hosted by the GR Dragonfish.
Coach B at 313 Lacrosse has fall clinics lined up for the end of this month and beyond. Check out more info on 313Lax.com.
TopLaxRecruits brings a story on club teammates from wide-ranging geographic locations coming together to play in the Quaker LaxFest. That includes Country Day 2015 midfielder Emilio Sosa, who bonded with Texan Andrew Eichelberger and Maine native Curtis Alexander over the weekend.
Fenton Winter leagues through True Lacrosse.
Division-3 Men
Albion has big goals for the 2014 season, according to head coach Jake DeCola:
DeCola knows one of his players’ primary objectives is to unseat Adrian as the MIAA king. It’s a good quest, but it’s also just part of a bigger picture.
“As my guys have talked about their goals for this year, one of the things I’ve worked with them on is making sure we’re not just thinking about an end piece, but we’re talking about the process of getting there,” DeCola said. “One of the things I’ve talked to them about this fall is one of our goals should be playing to our potential. If we’re turning the ball over unnecessarily when we have a lead and we’re losing a game because of it, that’s not really playing to our potential; that’s giving away a game that we should win.”
The Britons went 11-6 last fall, and fell to fellow in-state program Adrian in the MIAA Conference tournament. They recently announced their schedule, as well.
Division-1 Men
You can donate to Detroit’s fundraising for the Vs. Cancer foundation and see their annual Lift-a-Thon next Monday.
Fall wrap from the UDM athletic department:
The official Detroit site covers the team’s feature in Lacrosse Magazine. My media outlet is covering another media outlet’s discussion of coverage by a third media outlet. #inception.
Lacrosse Magazine props up UDM’s near-upset of Notre Dame in the NCAA Tournament as one of the games of the year. Prepare to roll your eyes as hard as humanly possible, though:
How could you not root for a team from a city with so little to cheer about since the economic collapse of 2008?
Really? Really?
Self-linkage on the Michigan scrimmage recap.
Michigan head coach John Paul was inducted into the Michigan Chapter of U.S. Lacrosse Hall of Fame. End of fall wrap-up Q&A with JP.
The Wolverines support the Friends of Jaclyn foundation.
The Michigan schedule will be announced soon.
Division-1 Women
I didn’t see any results coming out of this event (and I imagine they weren’t pretty for the Maize and Blue), but Michigan’s women participated in a fall invitational at Duke just over a week ago.
High School
Friend-of-the-blog Trenton Gafner is the new boys’ head coach at Hartland High School (fellow FOTB Ty McGuire will be his defensive coordinator).
New helmets for Detroit Country Day.
Recruiting
The National Collegiate Scouting Association will be hosting an informational recruiting event at Ann Arbor Skyline Nov. 15.
2014 Grosse Pointe South midfielder Andrew Wright committed to D-3 DePauw.
TopLaxRecruits’ roundup includes two 2015 commitments to Michigan’s women. Okemos attack Bailey Ellsworth also picked the D-2 team at Grand Valley.
PhillyLacrosse goes into more depth on Shipley School (Penn.) goalie Alli Kothari picking the U-M women’s program.
Michigan picked up a commitment from Culver (Ind.) 2016 attackman Harry Bogle. He is the younger brother of 2014 pledge P.J. Bogle. He also has a classmate, fellow attackman Ryan Prior, committed to Michigan’s 2016 class.
The Michigan men also snagged Royersford (Pa.) Spring-Ford 2016 faceoff specialist Matt Dellacroce.
#GrowTheGame
New Jersey Institute of Technology might be adding a Division-1 lacrosse program in just over a year’s time. In 2007, there were 56 D-1 programs. That number has risen by at least one (including Detroit in 2009 and Michigan in 2012) nearly every year since (Presbyterian dropping its program for 2012 led to stagnation with Michigan’s new program), and the trend doesn’t look to be stopping.
The NCAA semifinals and finals could be coming to the Midwest sometime in 2015-18. Sure, Chicago isn’t in Michigan, but it’s still very cool – after last year’s quarterfinals in Indianapolis – to bring high-level lacrosse to the area. Michigan AD David Brandon hopes to create the Wow experience in Michigan Stadium in the future.