Lacrosse stick

For as long as I can remember lacrosse has been a huge part of my life. My dad and his cousin helped to start the lacrosse program in Rocky River. He has been coaching for 18 years so in the spring my weekends and sometimes weekdays were filled with travelling to different venues to watch the team play. My brother and sister both play lacrosse. My brother who graduated last year played for four years at the high school and my sister who was a freshman last year on the varsity team. My dad has…

them. Lacrosse has been around as early as the 12th century but has never really been popular since now. Lacrosse is made up of 4 positions: midfielder, attack, defense, and goalie. Lacrosse has always been my passion but there was one thing that I loved more then the sport its self. And that is the position I play which is midfield. The midfield position in lacrosse posses three major characteristics that you have to have to be successful which are speed, strength, and awareness. Lacrosse is…

My hands gripped my lacrosse stick tightly and my eyes stared at the ball, which was trapped between two girls. I waited. I waited for the whistle to sound and the ball to fly in the air, the yellow of it vanishing into the sun. I was ready. I could hear the steady breathing of the girl next to me and the beating of my heart. In those few seconds of anticipation I felt so alive. The whistle vocalized. The note was shrill and high. It was that sound that everyone was waiting for. In the mere…

of playing the sport of lacrosse, I have come to fall in love with not only thesport but the competitiveness. As soon as the sound of that initial whistle blows and echoesthrough my ears, it triggers a part in my brain that completely alters my way of thinking. I am nolonger your average competitor playing the sport they enjoy, I begin to isolate myself fromoutsiders as I redirect my focus on giving all of my effort to succeed. Ever since I came incontact with my first stick, I have wanted…

is equivalent to your life. The effort and commitment you put into your tribe takes over your life. Throughout my life I grew up belonging to many little tribes all formulating into my hobbies. When I was younger I used to do gymnastics, soccer, lacrosse, basketball, yoga, and ballet which helped develop into being Claire. Now I am sixteen and still figuring out who I want to be. Sometimes you don’t have a choice of what tribe you want to belong to. In my situations both my siblings belonged to…

One day I played a game. That game was lacrosse. When I first played I was 7; However I had never heard of lacrosse and chose to try It. After the first few weeks of practice we had our first game. I was excited for the chance to play a game. We got to the field early In the morning. The reddish orange sun was still rising over the horizon. The sun was a lantern that morning. The field was a green carpet with splotches of dark brown mud. As we walk across the field, I take a deep breath and…

“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” - William Hickson. A quote I have never related to more. This quote explains how my lacrosse career began. I was in 6th grade and it was the first time I had ever picked up a lacrosse stick. I picked it up and was skeptical about the sport because it seemed as if it was impossible to catch or pass a ball. I played for a Wheeler high school club team for my first time ever, I can say they were not a good team. The coach was harsh and tough on the…

transition into high school, I was stressed and feeling out of place. I picked up lacrosse during my freshman year, a sport that I would never have thought would play a role in helping me through high school and later in life. Despite the small amount of teams in America’s high schools, it is the fastest growing sport in the country, and despite being unpopular, it is carried by strong hearts, literally and figuratively. Lacrosse is an old fragment of the Native American culture, it had been a…

the football field. In the winter, I lace up my skates to play hockey. In the spring, I take to the lacrosse field. I was playing one of these sports, when I was faced with a situation that had definite consequences. I was 13 years old, last spring, and made a choice that will stick with me forever. It was a cool, cold, crisp spring morning at Grandville High School. It was one of our first lacrosse tournaments of the season and I have been looking forward to this day for a while. As we…

persuaded me into trying out for a spring sport: women’s lacrosse. Although, it remains one of the most impactful decisions I have made, as I continue to play lacrosse during college, I am able to look back onto the four seasons during high school and reflect on how my experience was unknowingly gendered. At the time, the commonly northeastern sport was gaining popularity within southern California, and many school districts were beginning to fund lacrosse. During my sophomore year, I remember…