Lacrosse stick

resilience throughout the film. The team utilizes culture, heritage, and longstanding traditional values to help overcome adversity and defeat poor self-esteem, in order to turn their lacrosse season around by going back to their cultural roots. Within the film Crooked Arrows, it depicts a Native American prep school lacrosse team in New York, which struggle not only on the field but also off the field. The on the field struggle quite simply pertains to the fact that the players are simply…

course I loved the color pink as it was in most of the items of clothing I wear. My brothers on the other hand both grew up playing legos, and their room has always been painted blue. When we were younger they both were placed into sports such as lacrosse, basketball, and soccer; while I played tennis and did swim team, sports which seem daintier, definitely less contact involved. It kind of shocked me in a way, coming to the realization of how much gender identification is used in the world, it…

on a cool spring night in the middle of May. I was running on a field next to 11 of my teammates and 12 opponents. We were losing the lacrosse game by two points and we had four minutes left in the game. I instinctively made a choice that looked bad on the outside but ultimately… was still a bad choice. It was around 8 o’clock on a thursday night, our girls lacrosse team was playing a normal regulation game against the dreaded high school team from Hempfield. Hempfield wasn’t even that great of…

I take a deep breath. My gloved hand finds the orange painted metal of the crossbar and I hang on for dear life. I can feel my heart racing as I run my fingers along the cold, white plastic of my lacrosse stick. Coach calls me over to the sidelines and smiles down at me through the bars of my helmet. I look at him expectantly. “You’re going to be fine, you are ready for this,” he says as he adjusts the straps on the side of my head with a pop and a click. I can feel the adrenaline rushing…

thought to myself. I looked down at my outfit: tacky dress shirt, obligatory tie, creased khakis, and boat shoes. I put in the work, I dressed the part—there’s only one piece missing. “Ladies and gentlemen, this is our Hillsborough High School varsity lacrosse team,” announced the coach. Cheers and applause poured out from the crowd, but it left me choking back tears, distraught. All those Sunday afternoons on the field, those carved-out study breaks, it all felt squandered. I pondered how this…

from midfield. Four seconds left until we win a championship. “3...2...1!” The whistle sounds and all of the Mad Dog players storm the field and celebrate together - as one big family. Every single player screaming, jumping, and throwing their lacrosse sticks and gloves in the air; we were officially champions. That victory that I celebrated in the summer of 2016 was life changing for me. The experience did not just show me that our Mad Dog program was good, it did not not just show me that…

of the other lacrosse shafts remain with me also. Finally, one day a young adult came in. It was his first year playing defense and he wanted to acquire his first shaft. My hope got high again, as they do whenever a potential customer arrives at the shop. To my luck, the owner of the store recommended me to the buyer, and without hesitation he took me as his own. I kept my expectations low as many of my other companions were often returned or replaced by the new cutting edge sticks. My new owner…

In the 1870s and 1880s hockey in Canada was blooming. At first, hockey was just the winter version of lacrosse made to keep lacrosse players busy during the winter, but soon it was being played all over the country. After years of being in Canada it eventually moved to the United States. In the 1800s, hockey was a very different sport. There were no ice-making machines, so game were played outside where cold weather froze rivers and ponds that they could play on. Today, what would be called…

things, which made choosing only five qualities was very challenging. However, I think I picked the best ones to you can get a little over view of me. I am a very shy person, the only time I am really loud it when I have a goalie helmet on and on the lacrosse…

My middle school only has one lacrosse team mainly made up of 8th graders and some 7th graders. Since 5th grade, when I heard about the middle school lacrosse team, I wanted to be on it. Immediately, after I heard about the middle school team, I begun practiced almost everyday in my backyard and tried my hardest during practices and games.…