| | | | LBL Night at Princeton-Penn Womens Game | | | | Once again, the weather was our friend as the LBL Girls Program traveled to Princeton Wednesday night to cheer on the Penn and Princeton womens lacrosse teams in a classic Ivy League battle.
LBLers of all ages enjoyed a pre-game tailgate, and then packed the stands for a great contest that saw Penn (Coach Jen's and Coach Terry's alma mater) win at least a share of the Ivy League crown by a score of 13-8. Our 5th and 6th graders served as ball girls, our 1st-4th graders greeted the players, and our 7th/8th grade Orange Crush scrimmaged at halftime. Those girls who braved the chilly end-of-game night air got to meet some of the Princeton players after the contest.
BIG SHOUT OUT TO COACH ERIN JONES, who arranged the entire evening through her contacts at Princeton University. The girls had a great time, and something tells us this won't be the last appearance by LBL girls lacrosse players on the Princeton field!
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Girls’ youth lacrosse: Lower Bucks 7th-8th grade teams host squad from England
Tuesday, 24th April 2012
Categories Girl's/Women's, Youth
Phillylacrosse.com, Posted 4/24/12
Call it the British Lacrosse Invasion.
Two weekends ago, the Lower Bucks Lacrosse 7th/8th grade girls program played host to players from the Catereham School in Surrey, England. The bus, carrying 27 U14 girls lacrosse players, plus four chaperones, rolled into Middletown Community Park in Langhorne, at 2 p.m. on Saturday afternoon as part of their two week sightseeing/lacrosse US tour that began in Washington, DC, and ended in New York last week.
Lower Bucks Lacrosse (orange uniforms) and Caterham players and coaches pose before the contest.
Each Lower Bucks player was paired with a player from the Caterham school, and presented Lower Bucks Lacrosse drawstring gift bags that included a commemorative t-shirt, Hershey bars, Herrs potato chips, area postcards, headbands and a CD copy of an After Party Play List during a brief opening ceremony.
LBL’s Barrie Clark drives to goal while LBL’s Sara Burney looks on
The LBL Static/Tygahs took the field first, beating the Caterham School B squad 11-10. The LBL Orange Crush, undefeated this season in PAGLA A team League play, bested the Caterham A team by a score of 12-8. The play was closely matched in both games, and each game ended with the teams sharing their typical post-game cheers.
The group then journeyed to the Yardley VFW for an old-fashioned American barbeque, complete with burgers, hot dogs, peanut butter cookies and cake, games, s’mores and fireworks. Our guest were crazy about s’mores, love American Peanut Butter and Hershey’s chocolate, and quickly became addicted to hot dogs.
The girls, at first a little uncomfortable mingling, became great pals as the evening wore on. Our LBL girls just loved the “brilliant”, “well played” and “lovely” adjectives, and all found themselves speaking with a British accent by night’s end; they were most struck by how much the two groups had in common, exactly the point of shared experiences through sport.
Last Sunday, the group met at the Caterham School’s hotel, the Hampton Inn in Yardley, and traveled together to watch the Villanova women’s lacrosse team beat Louisville in a 9-8 overtime thriller. The girls were invited to the Villanova team’s post-game tailgate celebration, where they had an opportunity to meet the Villanova players and coaches, and get tips and advice from college players. We then bid our friends a tearful farewell as they made their way to their next stop, Moorestown, NJ., and vowed to stay in touch via Facebook and Skype.
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posted 04/24/2012 Thanks to Mother Nature, and all the LBL elves, who put together a fantastic weekend of lacrosse and camraderie for LBL's 7th/8th grade girls and U14 players from the Caterham School, Surrey, UK.
Special thanks to our 7th/8th grade coaches and assistant coaches, Katharine Benziger, Christopher Desmond, Paul Deppi, Peter Benziger, Melissa Carroll, Kristin Driscoll, Kristin Studer, Kim DeBattista, Stacy Frankil, Marilou Greed, Maria Radzinski, Judi Delviscio, Sharon Bilyk, Elizabeth Clark, Maureen Cleale, Jeannine Tribuiani, Tracy Hensler, the Villanova Women's Lacrosse team, and countless others whose efforts helped create a once-in-a-lifetime event.
We miss our Caterham friends already, and look forward to staying in touch via Facebook and Skype.
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Please join us in congratulating our own Coach Desmond, named as a finalist for this prestigious award! Way to represent, and well-deserved!!
Lower Bucks Lacrosse youth coach Desmond named as finalist for Positive Coaching Alliance Double-Goal Coach Awards
Phillylacrosse.com, Posted 3/6/12
From US Lacrosse
Christopher Desmond, a youth coach for the Lower Bucks Lacrosse Panthers, was honored as a finalist for the Positive Coaching Alliance’s (PCA) Double-Goal Coach Awards.
Each year, the PCA, a national non-profit committed to providing all youth and high school athletes a positive, character-building youth sports experience, recognizes 20 youth or high school coaches nationwide, in all sports, for this award. The Double-Goal Coach Award honors recipients for pursuing the goal of winning, and more importantly, the goal of teaching life lessons through sports. The winners receive a trophy, $250, and recognition in PCA’s media campaigns, website and e-mail newsletters.
Desmond is from Yardley.
Three US Lacrosse members were recently named among the 20 national winners of the Positive Coaching Alliance’s (PCA) Double-Goal Coach Awards. The winners were Raymond Botto, a youth coach with the Clear Lake Lacrosse Association in Friendswood, Texas; Kate Thomas, girls’ coach at Osbourn Park High School in Manassas, Va.; and Angie Kensinger, girls’ coach at St. John’s School in Houston, Texas.
“We’re proud to be a national partner with the PCA and share equally in the commitment to excellence in lacrosse at all levels,” said Joshua Christian, managing director of sport development at US Lacrosse. “We whole-heartedly congratulate the winners and the other finalists who represent US Lacrosse and who labor tirelessly on and off the field to make a significant difference in the lives of their players.”
All eight of the lacrosse coaches among the 50 finalists named for the 2012 Double-Goal Coach Awards, presented by Liberty Mutual Insurance, are US Lacrosse members. In addition to the three winners, the other US Lacrosse member coaches named finalists were:
John Cook, Los Angeles Lacrosse League, Los Angeles, Calif.
Christopher Desmond, Lower Bucks Lacrosse Panthers, Yardley, Pa.
Alan Geissel, Pequannock Lacrosse, Pompton Plains, N.J.
Charles Meister, Los Angeles Lacrosse League, Pacific Palisades, Calif.
Dan Schmidt, Steamers Lacrosse Academy & Skyline High School Lacrosse, Salt Lake City, Utah
Botto, Meister and Schmidt are also US Lacrosse Coaching Education Program Level 1 Certified coaches.
One of the components of the certification offered through the US Lacrosse Coaching Education Program is completion of the PCA’s Double-Goal Coach workshop. For more information about US Lacrosse coaching certification, please visit www.uslacrosse.org/cep.
“All the finalists are to be congratulated for their outstanding service to youth and their communities,” said PCA Founder and CEO Jim Thompson. “The nomination and testimonial letters submitted on behalf of the finalists (were) incredibly moving and show the power of a Double-Goal Coach to have a positive impact on young lives.”
About Positive Coaching Alliance
Founded as a non-profit within the Stanford University Athletic Department in 1998, Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) is committed to providing all youth and high school athletes a positive, character-building youth sports experience. To that end, PCA has conducted more than 10,000 live group workshops nationwide for more than 475,000 youth and high school sports coaches, parents, student-athletes and school/organizational leaders. Through workshops and companion online courses, PCA has impacted more than 4 million youth.
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