Reminder! Registration

Don't forget we are having registration Wednesday night, November 5th at 7pm at Taravella. Bring your packets, payment and parents! See ya there!

Team USA coming to Florida!

US Lacrosse has announced the sites for the 2008/2009 U.S. Women’s National Team player clinics. US Lacrosse annually conducts player clinics for its members. These clinics are premier opportunities high school girls to learn from the best lacrosse players in the United States. This season, the team is hosting 13 clinics in 12 states.

And we are fortunate to have one right here in Florida! So mark your calendars girls - Saturday, January 10th, 2009 in Boca Raton! More details to follow.

2009

Yearbook, Clinic, Registration...OH MY!

YEARBOOK PICTURES MONDAY 10/13:

RETURNING PLAYERS - WEAR YOUR UNIFORM..SEE MRS BOND IN ROOM 610 IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY PICKED IT UP. BRING A CHANGE OF CLOTHES...WE NEED YOUR UNIFORM BACK. BRING STICKS

NEW PLAYERS - SEE MRS BOND IN ROOM 610 FIRST THING MONDAY TO PICK UP A JERSEY TO WEAR FOR THE PHOTO.

REMINDER: LACROSSE CLINIC SAT 10/18 FROM 1-5 PM AT TARAVELLA - GET THE WORD OUT!!! WE MAY HAVE SOME FSU PLAYERS ON HAND TO ASSIST!!!!

NEW: WE WILL BE WORKING AS A CLUB FOR UPCOMING EVENTS...DANCING WITH THE STARS GIFT BASKET BASKET PUMPKIN DECORATING CONTEST (WE WON LAST YEAR!!) WE NEED VOLUNTEERS TO HELP WITH BOTH...PLEASE SEE MRS BOND FOR DETAILS IS ANYONE UPDATING THE BULLETIN BOARD IN THE CAFETERIA???

RETURNING PLAYERS: DON'T FORGET TO REGISTER FOR THE PALM BEACH SHOOTOUT DEC 20 AT ST ANDREWS. NEW PLAYERS - LET ME KNOW IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN COMING TO WATCH - IT'S LOADS OF FUN!!!

IMPORTANT: LACROSSE REGISTRATION WED, NOV 5 GET THOSE PACKETS COMPLETED!!!

Taravella Meeting

Mandatory Meeting for all interested in 2009 Lax :

-Thursday, September 18th
-Right after School
-In Mrs. Bond's classroom

See ya then! Bring your friends!!

Fall Fling 5K Run

There is a 5K on Saturday the 13th at Tradewinds Park by Butterfly World at 7:00 am sponsered by the Fort Lauderdale Road Runners.

For more information, call the park at 954-968-3880.

I know you can sign up at running stores in advance for like $20.

http://www.broward.org/parks/twcalendar.htm

Hopefully I'll see you there!

Play Today!!!

Anyone who is around and interested I am getting together with some girls at Cypress Park (1300 Coral Springs Dr) around 3:00 pm today. Meet us there if you want to play with us!

Anyone want to Play?

Who is around the next two weeks? Does anyone want to meet up at a park and practice with me and some other girls?

Let me know! Lets get together!

July Work-Out

Calling all Trojan Laxers! I need your stats for the month of June! I have yet to hear from many of you... :-( Please email me or comment on the blog ASAP! Just be honest :-)

For July, I want you to continue your work-out for June just step it up a little bit. If you were only running for 30 minutes, move up to 45 minutes. Increase the number of sprints your running, weights your lifting, or laps your swimming.

And of course - don't forget your stick work! Throw on the wall, with a partner or practice shooting. Anything will work as long as you practice aiming at the same spot on a wall, or jersey on a tree branch or corner of a soccer goal.

Good luck and let me know how your summer work-outs are going so far!

June Work-Out Assignment

School's out for summer!! Yeah! By now, everyone should have emailed me your personal results of our first work-out assignment which was running two miles a week. Easy. But now that ya'll should have more time to focus on exercising - here's your next work-out assignment...


Exercising Four Days a week for the rest of the month of June.

For three of those days, you must be doing cardio exercise for a minimum of 30 minutes per work-out. The fun part is that this cardio exercise could be any of a number of things; biking, running, swimming, weight lifting, playing ultimate Frisbee or even jumping rope! It doesn't matter. What does matter is that you to get your heart rate going, and keep it going for thirty consecutive minutes or more. You must break a sweat and keep moving the entire time.

For the other day that week - I want you to run 10 medium sized sprints.

To define sprints in lacrosse terms think of them this way --
On a lacrosse field a small sprint would be from the goal line extended (GLE) to the restraining line, a medium sprint would be from the GLE to mid-field, and a long sprint would be full field.

So, 10 medium sprints on one of the four days of working out each week for the rest of June. Make this drill harder by cradling a ball in your stick during the sprints.


Example week --

Sunday - rest
Monday - soccer game 60 minutes
Tuesday - rest
Wednesday - 10 medium sprints
Thursday - swim in Ocean 45 consecutive minutes
Friday - rest
Saturday - run 3 miles or 30 minutes

Make Sense?? Everyone should be able to do some form of consecutive exercise for 30 minutes AT LEAST!

Don't forget to email me by the end of June and let me know how this work-out assignment has gone. I'll be expecting emails on June 30th! (Which just happens to be my birthday :-)

LacrosseWear

Looking for a new stick or other lax gear? Here's a store not too far with some good inventory.

Happy Shopping!

LacrosseWear
4801 Johnson Road Suite 5
Coconut Creek, FL 33073
954-429-1091

Post Season Awards

Congratulations to our girls who received post season awards from US Lacrosse!


All League Awards:

2nd Team Midfield - Frances Dean
2nd Team Goalkeeper - Jenni Letizia
Honorable Mention Midfield - Kelley Brady
Honorable Mention Midfield- Veronica Kwiatkowski

All District Awards:

1st Team Midfield - Frances Dean
1st Team Midfield - Kelley Brady
1st Team Midfield - Veronica Kwiatkowski
1st Team Goalkeeper - Jenni Letizia
Honorable Mention - Kristin Zoboroski
Homorable Mention - Leigh Ann Herzog


Academic All America Awards:


Kelley Brady
Frances Dean
Veronica Kwiatkowski
Jenni Letizia

Summer Lax Camps

Don't forget to sign up for at least one lax camp this summer!! I'm going to put some links on the side to some sites for upcoming camps here in Florida, but you need to sign up soon! Really, if you can go to anywhere in the Northeast to a lax camp you would be putting yourself at a big advantage. Anywhere in Maryland, or Massachusetts - check out Colgate, Loyola, Princeton, Johns Hopkins, Penn State, Springfield...the list is so long! Keep running too!

May off-season work-out

Hi girls! I hope you all had a fabulous time at the banquet! Who was taking all of those pictures? I need to get some of those to post here on the blog.

Well, I know that everyone is busy right now with only a few weeks of school left so I'm going to be nice to you until then. But once school is out (June 5th) I don't care if you are travelling or working or taking summer school - every single one of you needs to follow my work-out plan so that we can be a stronger, faster, better lacrosse team next year!

So for now, your assignment is to get in as much running as possible, but at least TWO (2) miles a week.

Any stick work or weight lifting would be awesome of course but in between studying for finals and getting your final school projects completed I am just asking that you run. I don't care if you run 2 miles in one day or a half a mile each day for four days in a row - just run a combined total of TWO miles each week. Starting this now (which means you need to run 2 miles by the end of day Sunday May 18th). This is NOT a lot of running!

IMPORTANT: I am going to be keeping track of your progress all summer. Every one must either comment on this blog or e-mail me at jptlax@gmail.com. Let me know if you completed that week's assignment and how it went (a.k.a. it was too easy, too demanding etc.) I need to hear from everyone by Sunday June 8th regarding this current 2 mile a week assignment.

Happy Trails!

Welcome Trojans!

Hey girls!

First of all, CONGRATULATIONS on a wonderful season! I think that we've had a successful year thus far and I am proud of all that we have accomplished.

To our seniors - thanks for getting this program going and taking us as far as you have. You all are wonderful girls and great lacrosse players. You will be sorely missed.

For the rest of you - your high school lacrosse experience is not over yet. We have much to do to prepare ourselves for next year; which means that we must start NOW! This summer and fall each of you have the responsibility of getting into the best shape possible. For most of you that means changing your lifestyle right now by eating healthy foods, drinking lots of water, getting plenty of sleep and of course EXERCISING!

Ask yourself this question - "Am I in the shape I need to be in to being playing Varsity Lacrosse?" Except for a very small number of you the answer is a resounding NO! Without a doubt we have to be stronger and faster next season. If you want to play on the JPT Lax team in 2009, you HAVE TO be able to RUN an entire mile. If you want Varsity playing time - your mile HAS TO be under 10 minutes, more along the lines of 7-8 minutes. This is not an unreasonable task; lacrosse is a running game and requires 50 minutes of endurance. If you follow my training guide and maintain this regimen throughout the Summer & Fall, you will have no problem running a 7 minute mile by January!

Along with cardio exercise, weight training is also important. Think about signing up for a gym membership or using a facility that you might already have access to. Or you could buy some small free weights for most of the exercises. Those textbooks may just come into handy over the summer after all!

Lastly, everyone needs to work on their STICK and FOOTWORK SKILLS! I hope all of you can attend one or two lax camps this summer. These are wonderful and should help improve your game immensely. But don't think that after three days at a camp that you are ready to play Varsity lacrosse. Take the new skills you learn at camp and develop them further by playing Wall Ball and getting into as many pick up games as possible.

Helpful hints:
· Train hard and train smart, and most importantly train on a regular basis.

· Get a training partner. It would be best if it's another lacrosse player, but that's not essential. Get somebody who is motivated and who will "push" you.

· Keep a log/journal. This way you'll be able to see your progress and have a "before and after picture" as well.

If you are regularly training for another sport - that's great! Keep it up! Soccer, flag football, softball or swimming; any organized sport will help you stay in shape. But if you are not playing another sport, the running and weight programs I have suggested should be "YOUR SPORT" until we all get together again.

Do Not Hope For Success. TRAIN For It!

Somewhere somebody is training, and when she meets you in head-to-head competition, she'll beat you; that is, if she's been training harder than you have.

Let's make 2009 the best season of Taravella Lacrosse Ever! And it starts right now in the summer of 2008.