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V3 Select Summer Travel Teams - Update

The weather looks iffy for tomorrow (2/18/12) practice and rolling tryouts.  We will make the weather call in the morning.

Our 2012 summer boys youth teams are shaping up nicely!

U15 - we have a few defender slots, 1 goalie slot, 1 attack slot and 1 middie slot open

U13 - team is full based upon pending commitments.  Starting a wait list to see if there is enough interest for a second team

U11 - open tryouts have just started, great interest so far and we may have two teams

U9 - open tryouts will begin shortly.  We have a very strong nucleus already!

V3 U11, U13 and U15 players will be participating in the HR Select league - quite a few games are lined up already and schedules will be firmed up in early March.  U13 will travel to OBX next Saturday for a pre-season scrimmage.

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Hampton Roads Select Lacrosse Announces New Advanced Spring League

Hampton Roads Select Lacrosse

Affordable local select lacrosse games for advanced players

November 2, 2011

Hampton Roads Select Lacrosse announces a new, affordable opportunity for advanced youth lacrosse players to participate in an additional local game each week during the regular spring season to supplement their regular league play. 

The Hampton Roads Selecct Lacrosse League was founded by experienced lacrosse coaches who have been very active in the development and ongoing support of the Hampton Roads Chapter of US Lacrosse and the HRLAX.com recreational youth league.  Our league adminstration has recent expernence running leagues of over 55 teams and 1,000 players.

All participants are encouraged to continue to play in the HRLAX recreational league and administrators of Hampton Roads Select Lacrosse plan to work closely with the local US Lacrosse Chapter to make sure that schedules do not intentionally overlap.

Participation is by coach selection and invitation.  Open tryouts will start in December and there will be at least two tryout sessions.

This league will feature boys youth teams from U9-U15 - all age eligible players are welcome regardless of which other school or league they participate in during the week. 

Hampton Roads Select Lacrosse is not an elitest private school feeder program and is not a travel club or all star organization.

Hampton Roads Select Lacrosse is organized as a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) and is a US Lacrosse Member organization.

The website is located at www.hrselectlax.com

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Skill Levels Increasing in HRLax?

While watching quite a few games yesterday at the Lake Taylor Lacrosse Complex (fka, soccer complex), it was pretty clear to me that the overall skill level of the players in the area is going up as the sport continues to grow.  

Notably, some teams who were really doing well had a high number of players on summer and fall travel teams and players who have been playing in an indoor league either at Chilled Ponds in Chesapeake or the brand new Beach Fieldhouse in Virginia Beach.  I'm less familiar with the resources on the Peninsula, so it's hard to comment on that side of things.

It seems pretty clear that the kids who keep a stick in their hand during the fall and winter and who play more are really shining with quite a few starting to break out to a different level of play.  This is not specific to any one travel team - just a logical outcome of playing more often...

Where this is really striking is at the U11 level.  Just three years ago, HRLax did not have an A division for U11 at all.  Now, two or three of the U11A teams are playing like All Star or Select travel teams during the recreational league season.  The future sure looks bright for these players as they age up!  Of course, they are going to need an outlet to keep them challenged as the bar is raised further and the skill level disparity from the beginners to the more advanced gets greater and greater.

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Tryouts continue Sunday - 4pm at Landstown Middle School - see you there!!