Membership

Members of the Central Ohio Chapter of US Lacrosse have been busy in supporting the growth of the game. Special events, local awards, player clinics, coaches and officials training, and diversity initiatives have all been among their recent contributions to the local lacrosse community.

In just over two weeks, some of lacrosse’s greatest minds will gather in Las Vegas, Nevada for the 2018 US Lacrosse West Regional Conference. The conference is a professional development opportunity for coaches, officials, program administrators and other leaders in our community to gather together to expand their knowledge of the sport of lacrosse.

The US Lacrosse Regional Conference is a professional development opportunity for coaches, officials, program administrators and other leaders in the lacrosse community. There will be three different program tracks offered for officials, coaches and leaders. Sessions topics will include team and athlete development, rules interpretation, game management and organizational leadership.

“Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

US Lacrosse, the sport’s national governing body, encourages players of all skill levels to register for a U.S. National Team Player Performance Camp scheduled to begin in August. Camps will be held at the following locations:

Our video of team of Mason Perricone and Michael Wallin bring a truly inspirational story from their visit with Wheelchair Lacrosse USA in California earlier this year.

US Lacrosse has announced several upgrades to its insurance program that will benefit individual members as well as leagues and clubs affiliated with US Lacrosse.

Melissa Anderson, a former captain and All-Ivy League lacrosse player at Princeton University, volunteers her time on the US Lacrosse Board of Directors.

Beyond her work with US Lacrosse, she remains highly involved in the game serving as the varsity girls’ lacrosse coach at Greenwich (Conn.) Academy where she is also the school’s director of college counseling. She also serves as co-director for Comet Girls Lacrosse.

Ed Calkins, vice chair of the US Lacrosse Board of Directors and a member of Princeton's 1992 national championship team, shares his thoughts on the importance of US Lacrosse to the sport.

Longtime Brown University and University of Virginia coach Dom Starsia won four national championships and was inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2008.

As successful as he has been on the field, he also has a long history of giving back to the sport, including time he spent serving on the US Lacrosse Board of Directors. In this interview he talks about the importance of US Lacrosse and everyone in the sport working together.