Chatham Chatlist Highlights

Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:10:27 +0000
From: kevin furini
Subject: Lacrosse in Chatham Schools?

I wanted to comment on the posts regarding bringing Lacrosse to Chatham county. UNC Chapel Hill always has a very good college level program and seeing the games at Fetzer Field in CH is a treat. I played high school football and never saw Lacrosse until I met players in my Freshman dorm at the U of Delaware.

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Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:12:57 -0400
From: Don Herndon
Subject: lax is growing all over

I doubt we will see lacrosse at the other Chatham schools in the near future, but it is eventually coming to many new places.

Most Guilford and Orange County schools play at the youth, middle school, JV,and Varsity levels. Smith High and Dudley do not play and they are predominately African-American. They are focused on hoops and football there. Quite a few African-American and Latino kids are starting to play at the county schools in Guilford and Wake.

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Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:50:13 -0400
From: Douglas Castleman
Subject: Northeast Lacrosse

Meg,

My two boys and I were out for the week long camp last week and we live in the Silk Hope area.  We plan on going back for the “fall season” as well. As far as I know they will take all comers. I’ve been involved with youth lacrosse in the past and it always starts in one area and then spreads throughout the surrounding communities.

Doug Castleman

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Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:24:17 -0400
From: Howard
Subject: Lacrosse in Chatham Schools?

Don’t see anything bad about having lacrosse come to Chatham Schools. Don’t know if it is possible to go all-county with a new sport immediately? Is it easier to start with one school and let it spread? Or is it easier to start on a county wide level? Where do we get lacrosse coaches from? Considering the quickness of the game can you shoot someone’s eye out with a lacrosse ball?

Howard

Interesting take on lacrosse by sports pontificator Bob Lee Swagger at
http://www.bobleesays.com/RunScript.asp?page=45&Article_ID=512&AR=AR&p=ASP\~Pg45.asp

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Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:37:24 +0000
From: Meg Miller
Subject: Exclusive Lacrosse

Ok…I’m was not knocking Lacrosse with my last post.  I was knocking the “exclusiveness” of the sport in general.  It’s a mid Atlantic thing.  Usually associated with white, upper class “boys”.  And now to see the this newly formed Lacrosse league was looking to only “endow” the  new NE schools with Lacrosse just struck me as, well, once again, following that same stereotypical pattern.

It’s a great game to play and to watch.  I have had many Lacrosse players come through where I work and they introduced me to the game.  I love it.

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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:29:48 -0400
From: Sally Bond
Subject: lacrosse balls

Here’s a mystery for you:  A milk crate filled with 100 (fairly new) lacrosse balls slid off the back of a friend’s truck somewhere between Dorcurt Hills Road (off Hamlet Chapel, about 1 mile north of Perry Harrison school) and Lamont Norwood Road (about 2 miles east of Jones Ferry).  He has combed that stretch of road, even searching in drainage ditches, and hasn’t found a single ball.  If anyone has come across this bouncy bounty, please get in touch!  The balls are the property of the new Northeast Chatham Youth Lacrosse League (http://www.northeastlax.com/index.html).

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