Membership
In conjunction with this year’s National Celebrate Lacrosse Week, USA Lacrosse is proudly recognizing volunteers from across the country who are helping to grow the game on the grass roots level. Each day, we will profile someone who makes a positive difference in their community. Join us as we celebrate local lacrosse heroes from coast-to-coast.
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Name: Chris Barton
Local Lacrosse Organization: Avon Youth Lacrosse
Location: Avon, Ohio
In conjunction with this year’s National Celebrate Lacrosse Week, USA Lacrosse is proudly recognizing volunteers from across the country who are helping to grow the game on the grass roots level. Each day, we will profile someone who makes a positive difference in their community. Join us as we celebrate local lacrosse heroes from coast-to-coast!
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Name: David Drehoff
Local Lacrosse Organization: Lake Nona Youth Sports
Location: Orlando, Florida
As one would expect in a place like Casper, Wyoming, outdoor recreational activities such as hunting, fishing, hiking and skiing are quite popular. Lacrosse hopes to join that roster in the near future.
With support from USA Lacrosse, which provided sticks and other equipment, the Boys & Girls Club of Central Wyoming recently hosted a two-day event designed to introduce the game and empower youth. Providing hands-on skills training through clinics, and competition opportunities with a Flex6 tournament, the event drew over 200 youth participants.
Vin Savastano is proud to say that lacrosse is his family’s unofficial business.
As a lifelong resident of Westchester County in New York’s Hudson Valley region, Savastano was primarily a baseball and football player in his youth, but lacrosse was never far off his radar since his father, Vin Sr., was a lacrosse coach and longtime physical education teacher at Yorktown High School.
This past spring, coach Steve Hurley’s North Dorchester High School boys’ team played against his alma mater, Cambridge-South Dorchester, in a late season showdown. Significantly, the game marked the first intra-county high school lacrosse game in the history of Dorchester County, located on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
Hurley’s role in this milestone achievement was instrumental.
SPARKS, Md. – USA Lacrosse’s investment in age verification provides a valuable resource for the lacrosse community to facilitate fair and safer play. For USA Lacrosse members, this is a free, one-time process in which they upload a valid proof of age document and their record will be updated to indicate age verified status.
Leagues and tournaments around the country can then work with USA Lacrosse — also free of charge — to utilize the service to appropriately segment players by age groupings.
Four years ago, four freshmen at Mamaroneck (N.Y.) High School enrolled in an elective class called Original Civic Research and Action (OCRA). The goal of the class is to have students research their community, identify a challenge or issue that needs attention, and then develop a problem-solving framework to address the issue. The class is progressive over four years, keeping students engaged in the process over the full span of their high school careers.
SPARKS, Md. – Stephanie Mullette, a mission-driven business leader with over 15 years of success in the private sector and not-for-profit world, recently joined the staff of USA Lacrosse as Vice President, Membership and Regional Growth.
Lacrosse took Dacia Persky across the country, from her hometown of Las Vegas to one of the county’s most prestigious academic institutions – Wellesley College in Massachusetts. Her transformative time on campus included an idyllic lacrosse experience where she scored more than 200 points in her career.