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ATLANTIC BEACH LACROSSE CLASSIC - July 13-15 -
PORTSMOUTH, RI
U13, U15, U17, OPEN, MASTERS & GRAND MASTERS
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Summer Lacrosse League runs mid June-mid August in the following divisions.
JUNE 18th - AUGUST 13th
1. YOUTH LEAGUE/ HIGH SCHOOL LEAGUE/ OPEN & COLLEGE LEAGUE FOR MEN AND WOMEN
Mondays-
-Boys Grades 1-8
-Designed for up and coming first graders to up and coming 8th graders
-Sessions are broken out into 30 minutes of instruction and 30-60 minutes controlled scrimmage. (1-2nd grades end at 6pm)
Keep Playing!!
Tuesdays-
ONELL Over 40 Men's Team
Men over 40 years old who want to play can play on a competitive team.
Limited space
Wednesdays-
MENS SUMMER LEAGUE
June 20th - August 15th.
1. HIGH SCHOOL - RISING FRESMEN TO RISING SENIORS.
2. OPEN DIVISION - RISING COLLEGE FRESHMEN AND UP - NO AGE LIMIT
~ The older you get the better you were!
Thursdays-
WOMENS SUMMER LEAGUE
June 21st - August 16th.
1. HIGH SCHOOL - RISING FRESMEN TO RISING SENIORS.
2. OPEN DIVISION - RISING COLLEGE FRESHMEN AND UP - NO AGE LIMIT ~ The older you get the better you were!
Boys divisions U13, U15, U17
The top 20 players in each division with travel to 3 summer tournaments - Summer League on Monday or Wednesday included - other practices to be scheduled.
 Beach Dogs Lacrosse Camp will once again be hosting the Iroquois National Lacrosse Program to join our youth in teaching the history of the sport. Boys and Girls will not only play with some of the best collegiate and professional lacrosse players in North America but experience and learn the origins and legacy of this "first team sport in America" from the creators.
Welcome the 2012 Beach Dogs Lacrosse Summer Camp Program.
July 23th - 27th.
Location
The Glen Fields/Seveney Sports Complex aka Polo Fields
715 East Main Road
Portsmouth, RI 02871
Hours
900am - 100pm - Grades K-2 - Half Day Program
900am - 300pm - Grades 3-12 - Full Day Program
What Division is my Child In?
Division 1 - Boys Grades 9-12
Division 2 - Boys Grades 6-8
Division 3 - Boys Grades 4-5
Club Division - Boys Grades K-3
Ladies Division - All ladies All Grades
Private Lessons and Clinics also available.
ABOUT BEACH DOGS LACROSSE
The Beach Dogs Lacrosse Program was founded on the desire to bring easy access to the history, culture and tradition of the oldest team sport in North America to players of all ages. COME PLAY LACROSSE!
Questions call 401-965-9622 or
U.S. Embassy Iraq Lacrosse Team, the Baghdad Rhinos
posted 5/18/2012 by Marshall
Beach Dogs Lacrosse in Baghdad
The U.S. Camp Victory Military Team, Victory's Hammers faced off against the U.S. Embassy Iraq Lacrosse Team, the Baghdad Rhinos In a two game series known as the 1st Annual Baga'Dowe Battle of Baghdad. Both games were held in heat over 100 degrees in the sand of Baghdad. The Hammers defeated the Rhinos in the first game hosted at the US embassy and the Rhinos were able to tie the Hammers in the final minutes of the second game, allowing the Hammers to be named the series winners.
The bottom-line is that this was a great break for U.S. Diplomats, Government Civilians, Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines from the stress of a combat environment and their daily requirements. Lacrosse players from across the U.S. were able to find each other 7,000 miles away from home, bring the game to some folks who had never played before (more than half the military team had never picked up a stick before) and expand the culture of America's first game to a new ally (a few Iraqis watched).
This entire event would not have been possible without U.S. Lacrosse, who provided the series signs; Laxcity/BAGA'DOWE Sports, Maverick Lacrosse and Beachdogs Lacrosse Club, all of Rhode Island, who provided the goalie equipment, Uniforms and complete sticks (Maverik Shafts and Heads) for the entire military team; Gambrills Odenton Recreactional Council (GORC) with Old Mill High School, South River High School, and Rockfish Lacrosse Club, all of Maryland, who provided helmets for the entire military team; and Laxworld of Annapolis who provided both goals for the Camp Victory field.
This is truly a great representation of the loyalty and patriotism of the lacrosse community. All the great Americans who made this possible illustrate the best our sport has to offer.
I know that is probably more information than you required for the photo submission, but I would have been remiss if I had not mentioned how these photos came to be. The captions:
Photo 1 (286): Members of both the Hammers and the Rhinos pose with the series banner after the final game. A dirty, hard fought game, played on a sand field (full) on Camp Victory Iraq. The former U.S Ambassador to Iraq, AMB Christopher Hill is pictured with fellow diplomats, civilians, Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines.
Photo 2 (153): A member of Victory's Hammers drives towards the Baghdad Rhino's goal during the second game held on the sand field on Camp Victory, Iraq.
Photo 3 (197): MAJ J.C Glick, team co-captain of the U.S. Military Team, Victory's Hammers, checks U.S. Embassy team co-captain AMB Christopher Hill (legally?) during the first game at the U.S. Embassy in Iraq.
SUMMER TRAVEL TEAM U17 & U15 COACHES ANNOUNCED
posted 5/14/2012 by admin
Top Local Coaches will work with Beach Dogs Summer Travel Teams
Summer Competitive team tryouts for the Boys/Men's 2012 Beach Dogs U-13, U-15 and U-17 Summer Travel Teams will be held this Sunday May 20th at 1:00pm, at the glen in Portsmouth, RI -
715 East Main Rd,
Portsmouth, ri.
Marty Kelly, Head Men's Lacrosse coach at Roger Williams University will be the head coach for the U17 Team and Nick Antol from the Portsmouth Abby will be the Head coach for the U15 team. More about them below.
U17 Mens Lacrosse Coach
Marty Kelly is entering his eleventh season at Roger Williams in 2011-2012. Kelly has led the team to an overall record of 94-72-1 (.563) during his tenure, including a regular season conference record of 60-25 (.706). Three of his teams have appeared in the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) Tournament finals and have been selected to participate in the New England ECAC Tournament. Kelly has coached 53 All-CCC players, one CCC Senior Scholar-Athlete, three All-New England honorees and one All-ECAC selection. Eleven of his players have been selected to participate in the NEILA East/West Senior All-Star Game. Kelly is also a two-time TCCC "Coach of the Year"; earning the honor after the 2002 and 2007 seasons.
A native of South Salem, New York, Kelly is a 1988 graduate of John Jay High School. Kelly went on to receive a B.S. degree in Business Administration from Nazareth College in 1992 and later earned an M.S. degree in Sports Administration from Georgia State University in 1998.
During Kelly's playing days, he was a two-time High School All-American before going on to serve as a captain for Nazareth College’s first National Championship team in 1992. Kelly was selected NCAA Division III All-America after the 1990, 1991 and 1992 seasons and was chosen as the 1992 recipient of the Lt. Col. J.I. (Jack) Turnbull Award that is given annually to the Outstanding Attackman in Division III. Kelly still ranks among the top all-time leaders in goals scored, assists and total points at Nazareth. Kelly was inducted into the Nazareth College Athletics Hall of Fame in 1998 and the US Lacrosse Hudson Valley Chapter Hall of Fame in 2002.
In addition to his coaching role at Roger Williams, Kelly also serves as Intramurals and Recreation Coordinator in the Department of Athletics, Intramurals and Recreation.
He and his wife Wynter reside in East Providence, R.I. along with their five children; daughters Molly, Maeve, Meara and Madelyn and son Finn.
 Nick Antol
U15 Mens Lacrosse Coach
Coach Antol is the Assistant Varsity Lacrosse Coach and Assistant Varsity Boys' Ice Hockey Coach. A former lacrosse goalie at the University of Notre Dame, he was a member of Notre Dame 2001 Final Four lacrosse team. Coach Antol was also a four year letter winner in ice hockey at Loyola High School in Baltimore, MD. Coach Antol is the Assistant Director of Admissions, Director of Student-Athlete Recruitment and Assistant Houseparent in St. Hugh's House.
Beach Dogs Lacrosse Supports US LACROSSE Keepers of Lacrosse!!!!
posted 4/26/2012 by Admin
What is the Keeper of Lacrosse Project?
The Keeper Project is a grassroots movement focused on protecting and promoting the values of lacrosse. It is critical that each generation who played the sport own the responsibility of safeguarding the integrity and spirit of the game for future generations. The game is in your hands. Take good care of it.
What’s the purpose?
The purpose of the Keeper Project is to launch a culture preservation campaign and instill the six core values that are the foundation of the sport in the next generation.
What are the six core values?
♦ The Spirit of the Game
Participating in lacrosse for the love of the game, with the pure intention of playing hard and fair while nurturing the soul, is pursuing lacrosse in the spirit of the game. Play lacrosse because you love it.
♦ Tradition
The handing down of information, beliefs, or customs from one generation to the next invites you to be a part of something bigger than yourself. These form the basis of the culture of lacrosse and the character of those who participate. You have a duty to share the history of the sport as a means of continued connection, enjoyment and honoring the game for the next generation.
♦ Virtues: Respect, Honor, Integrity
These virtues are positive traits that are fundamental to the development of good character. All lacrosse participants - players, coaches, officials, spectators - who consistently hone these traits form enduring habits of head, heart and hand, faithful to the spirit of the game.
Respect - To act in a way that shows you are aware of and fully value the participants, rules and spirit of the game means that you hold the sport’s traditions in the highest regard and esteem.
Honor - To behave with high moral standards that show you fully appreciate the privilege of playing lacrosse. Honor the opportunity to participate through grace and humility.
Integrity - To serve the game well means that you will act with honesty and sincerity on and off the field, undivided in head, heart and hand.
♦ Good Sportsmanship
Displaying qualities of conduct and attitude highly regarded in sport - fair play, courtesy, generosity, observance of the rules, striving spirit and grace in losing - is paramount. Each person, teammate or opponent, is part of the same game. Valuing the experience over the outcome serves the greater good and is integral to the spirit of the game.
♦ Teamwork
A joint action performed by a group of people in which each person subordinates his or her individual interests and opinions to the unity and efficiency of the group. No one is bigger than the game; it is important to recognize the team as the defining entity in lacrosse, and the reason for the game.
♦ Connection
Long after the last game, something else remains: connection, camaraderie, community. Lacrosse forges friendships, unity and family. As the game grows, you must embrace the spirit and philosophy of a shared identity.
How can I support the Keeper of Lacrosse Project?
The game is in your hands. Maintain the spirit of the game. Tell the story. Establish enduring habits of head, heart and hand. Honor the game and its participants. Contribute to the whole. Unite the family. Become a Keeper Crusader and promote the cause on your local playing fields.
The Keeper of Lacrosse Project is a donor supported initiative of the US Lacrosse Foundation. To help fund this and other campaigns, please consider donating to US Lacrosse by clicking here.
BEACH DOGS GIVING BACK
posted 4/25/2012 by admin
GIVING BACK
Beach Dogs Lacrosse prides itself on giving back to the communities in which we serve. To that end we are proud supporters of the below organizations.
Aquidneck Island Land Trust
Portsmouth High School
Clean Water Action
Girl Scouts of America
Red Sox Foundation
Dress for Success
Portsmouth Youth Lacrosse
First Giving
Portsmouth Middle School
Outreach ALS
Prout School
Camp Sure Fire
Sail Newport
Multiple Families in need,confidential
Boys Town
The Hathaway School
Pennfield School
South County Hospital
RI HAWKS Basketball
In addition Beach Dogs Lacrosse believes 'Everyone Plays'. Donations of Equipment and scholarships to camps, clinics and leagues to both Beach Dogs Programs and to other programs in multiple sports, even outside of lacrosse are donated each year.
2011 Camp Photos are Online
posted 8/11/2011 by Beach Dogs Photographer
Noted lacrosse clinicians teach basics, history of the sport
posted 2/20/2011 by admin RI Beach Dogs combine with Iroquois Lacrosse Program to instruct hundreds of local youths
PORTSMOUTH — The Rhode Island Beach Dogs teamed up with the Iroquois Lacrosse Program to give local children a unique historical and fundamental perspective on one of America’s oldest team sports recently.
Hundreds of enthusiastic children, ranging from first- to tenth-grade, came out to the camp at Portsmouth’s Gardiner Seveney Sports Complex to learn not just lacrosse skills but also to gain an appreciation for the roots of the sport. The five-day event was put together by former Roger Williams University standout Marshall Huggins who hoped all the children in attendance would take away something valuable from the experience.
“It’s more of a lifestyle camp. We focus a lot, especially with the older kids, on the sport and the technique and strategy,” said Huggins. “With the younger kids, we are just getting them into learning the sport. Obviously with the Iroquois here we are looking for them to talk about the history and tradition. To them it is the creator’s game. This is their medicine.”
While the sport of lacrosse has witnessed a dramatic rise in popularity in the United States and especially right here in Rhode Island over the past decade, many people are unfamiliar with the game’s extensive history. Lacrosse was played hundreds of years before any European touched foot in America and has deep spiritual roots in many Native American cultures, including the Iroquois Tribe.
Cam Bomberry, Director of the Iroquois Lacrosse Program, hoped the group’s visit instilled the pride and respect for the sport that he has had since he was a child.
“It’s been truly eye-opening on both sides for the instructors and the kids to see how lacrosse can build a lot of those bridges,” said Bomberry. “Lacrosse has been that good medicine to Iroquois for so long, it’s something that we share and something that was shared with us, being the gift from the creator. We appreciate it and respect it that way and when we go and do these types of things we try and share that same attitude and respect. It has been really well received here.”
Beach Dogs News -
posted 2/20/2011 by admin PORTSMOUTH — In England, soccer is the sport of choice for nearly all young athletes. There are clubs everywhere, and playing opportunities are plentiful.
So when his two sons showed an interest in lacrosse, John Ievers was a bit stunned.
It's a trend that's sweeping the nation, though, as more and more English kids are taking up lacrosse.
"It's a growing sport," Ievers said.
In the interest of building the sport, teams from England occasionally cross the Atlantic to play against U.S. competition. The Sheffield Steelers, for whom Ievers' sons, George and Dan, play, arrived in Rhode Island last week to play in the Ocean State Classic tournament, which took place at Glen Farm this past weekend.
One might have called the Steelers' second game in the tournament an international friendly, as they faced the Beach Dogs, a Portsmouth youth league team made up of boys from all over Newport County.
Not only did the Steelers win that game, they went on to win the under-15 title at the Ocean State Classic.
Ievers is the tour manager for the Steelers, who are comprised of 19 boys ranging in age from 13-16. Just before Christmas, Ievers said one of the club coaches who works for the English Lacrosse Association met with Beach Dogs coach Marshall Huggins to work out the details of how the two teams would come together.
"He met (Huggins) over here and said, 'Yes, that's just what we're looking for as well. How's this going to work?'" Ievers said. "Two people can say, 'Yes, that's a good idea,' but it takes a much bigger group to organize this. Parents on both sides need to buy into this whole arrangement.
"It's been quite an effort the last six months."
Families of the Beach Dogs players are hosting the Steelers during their two-week stay. Huggins said the process of searching for some overseas competition began about a year ago, when Rebel Lacrosse Wear, a company that makes lacrosse uniforms, put him in touch with English Lacrosse.
"We've been working for, maybe a year, just to pull it together, have them come over, sort everything out," Huggins said. "It worked out pretty well. Once we started communicating, we saw that it was a great fit, and Rhode Island was a great place to host this, because there's so much to do."
Among the non-lacrosse activities planned for the visitors from Sheffield — which is about 170 miles north of London — are trips to Boston and Six Flags New England in Springfield, Mass., as well as the local beaches.
Much of their time, though, will be spent on the lacrosse field.
"We have a lot of different lacrosse games set up with other Rhode Island teams, and Connecticut teams and Massachusetts teams," Huggins said.
The hope is that those games will help the Steelers progress as a team and a club.
"Playing any team in America is going to be a good challenge," said Andy Hopkins, one of the Sheffield coaches. "It matures them as well, because they're coming out here playing different opposition under different circumstances.
"I think it helps them jell as a squad as well."
The difference between American lacrosse and English lacrosse is that, typically, the skill and talent levels are greater on the American squads.
"They know the fundamentals, they've got good stick skills and they can do all the basics," Hopkins said of American players.
"They're a lot more well-drilled," added Ben Lyon, another Sheffield coach. "The standard is a lot better, generally."
This trip, however, is more than just lacrosse. It's about seeing new places, trying new things and meeting new people.
"We wanted to make it more of a life experience, not just lacrosse," Huggins said. "We're using lacrosse as the bridge because the players all have that in common."
Hopkins, Lyon and Krishna Balan, who all coach the Steelers, have taken similar trips, to places such as Maryland, Seattle and Buffalo, N.Y., and had positive experiences.
"I still speak to the people I went on tour with four years ago," Lyon said.
Whatever friendships develop over the next week and a half will be revisited in two years, when the Beach Dogs head over to England for the 2010 World Lacrosse Championships in Manchester, about 40 miles west of Sheffield.
"Teams from around the world come to play in that," Huggins said. "It's just a huge lacrosse Mecca."
While the Beach Dogs are, technically, a 15-and-under team, the age division in England is 16 and younger, which what the Steelers are. In preparation for the World Championships, though, Huggins' team is made up primarily of players who will be 16 or younger in 2010.
"I designed it that way so they'd get to play with each other for a couple years, and also I wanted them all to qualify for the World Games," he said.
Some of the Steelers will be too old to compete at the under-16 level in Manchester, but wherever division they're playing in then, it's a good bet they'll be better players, thanks in part to their tour of Rhode Island.
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| U.S. Embassy Iraq Lacrosse Team, the Baghdad Rhinos | | | by
posted 05/18/2012
Beach Dogs Lacrosse in Baghdad
The U.S. Camp Victory Military Team, Victory's Hammers faced off against the U.S. Embassy Iraq Lacrosse Team, the Baghdad Rhinos In a two game series known as the 1st Annual Baga'Dowe Battle of Baghdad. Both games were held in heat over 100 degrees in the sand of Baghdad. The Hammers defeated the Rhinos in the first game hosted at the US embassy and the Rhinos were able to tie the Hammers in the final minutes of the second game, allowing the Hammers to be named the series winners.
The bottom-line is that this was a great break for U.S. Diplomats, Government Civilians, Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines from the stress of a combat environment and their daily requirements. Lacrosse players from across the U.S. were able to find each other 7,000 miles away from home, bring the game to some folks who had never played before (more than half the military team had never picked up a stick before) and expand the culture of America's first game to a new ally (a few Iraqis watched).
This entire event would not have been possible without U.S. Lacrosse, who provided the series signs; Laxcity/BAGA'DOWE Sports, Maverick Lacrosse and Beachdogs Lacrosse Club, all of Rhode Island, who provided the goalie equipment, Uniforms and complete sticks (Maverik Shafts and Heads) for the entire military team; Gambrills Odenton Recreactional Council (GORC) with Old Mill High School, South River High School, and Rockfish Lacrosse Club, all of Maryland, who provided helmets for the entire military team; and Laxworld of Annapolis who provided both goals for the Camp Victory field.
This is truly a great representation of the loyalty and patriotism of the lacrosse community. All the great Americans who made this possible illustrate the best our sport has to offer.
I know that is probably more information than you required for the photo submission, but I would have been remiss if I had not mentioned how these photos came to be. The captions:
Photo 1 (286): Members of both the Hammers and the Rhinos pose with the series banner after the final game. A dirty, hard fought game, played on a sand field (full) on Camp Victory Iraq. The former U.S Ambassador to Iraq, AMB Christopher Hill is pictured with fellow diplomats, civilians, Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines.
Photo 2 (153): A member of Victory's Hammers drives towards the Baghdad Rhino's goal during the second game held on the sand field on Camp Victory, Iraq.
Photo 3 (197): MAJ J.C Glick, team co-captain of the U.S. Military Team, Victory's Hammers, checks U.S. Embassy team co-captain AMB Christopher Hill (legally?) during the first game at the U.S. Embassy in Iraq.
| | | | SUMMER TRAVEL TEAM U17 & U15 COACHES ANNOUNCED | | | by
posted 05/14/2012
Top Local Coaches will work with Beach Dogs Summer Travel Teams
Summer Competitive team tryouts for the Boys/Men's 2012 Beach Dogs U-13, U-15 and U-17 Summer Travel Teams will be held this Sunday May 20th at 1:00pm, at the glen in Portsmouth, RI -
715 East Main Rd,
Portsmouth, ri.
Marty Kelly, Head Men's Lacrosse coach at Roger Williams University will be the head coach for the U17 Team and Nick Antol from the Portsmouth Abby will be the Head coach for the U15 team. More about them below.
U17 Mens Lacrosse Coach
Marty Kelly is entering his eleventh season at Roger Williams in 2011-2012. Kelly has led the team to an overall record of 94-72-1 (.563) during his tenure, including a regular season conference record of 60-25 (.706). Three of his teams have appeared in the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) Tournament finals and have been selected to participate in the New England ECAC Tournament. Kelly has coached 53 All-CCC players, one CCC Senior Scholar-Athlete, three All-New England honorees and one All-ECAC selection. Eleven of his players have been selected to participate in the NEILA East/West Senior All-Star Game. Kelly is also a two-time TCCC "Coach of the Year"; earning the honor after the 2002 and 2007 seasons.
A native of South Salem, New York, Kelly is a 1988 graduate of John Jay High School. Kelly went on to receive a B.S. degree in Business Administration from Nazareth College in 1992 and later earned an M.S. degree in Sports Administration from Georgia State University in 1998.
During Kelly's playing days, he was a two-time High School All-American before going on to serve as a captain for Nazareth College’s first National Championship team in 1992. Kelly was selected NCAA Division III All-America after the 1990, 1991 and 1992 seasons and was chosen as the 1992 recipient of the Lt. Col. J.I. (Jack) Turnbull Award that is given annually to the Outstanding Attackman in Division III. Kelly still ranks among the top all-time leaders in goals scored, assists and total points at Nazareth. Kelly was inducted into the Nazareth College Athletics Hall of Fame in 1998 and the US Lacrosse Hudson Valley Chapter Hall of Fame in 2002.
In addition to his coaching role at Roger Williams, Kelly also serves as Intramurals and Recreation Coordinator in the Department of Athletics, Intramurals and Recreation.
He and his wife Wynter reside in East Providence, R.I. along with their five children; daughters Molly, Maeve, Meara and Madelyn and son Finn.
Nick Antol
U15 Mens Lacrosse Coach
Coach Antol is the Assistant Varsity Lacrosse Coach and Assistant Varsity Boys' Ice Hockey Coach. A former lacrosse goalie at the University of Notre Dame, he was a member of Notre Dame 2001 Final Four lacrosse team. Coach Antol was also a four year letter winner in ice hockey at Loyola High School in Baltimore, MD. Coach Antol is the Assistant Director of Admissions, Director of Student-Athlete Recruitment and Assistant Houseparent in St. Hugh's House.
 | | | | Beach Dogs Lacrosse Supports US LACROSSE Keepers of Lacrosse!!!! | | | by
posted 04/26/2012
What is the Keeper of Lacrosse Project?
The Keeper Project is a grassroots movement focused on protecting and promoting the values of lacrosse. It is critical that each generation who played the sport own the responsibility of safeguarding the integrity and spirit of the game for future generations. The game is in your hands. Take good care of it.
What’s the purpose?
The purpose of the Keeper Project is to launch a culture preservation campaign and instill the six core values that are the foundation of the sport in the next generation.
What are the six core values?
♦ The Spirit of the Game
Participating in lacrosse for the love of the game, with the pure intention of playing hard and fair while nurturing the soul, is pursuing lacrosse in the spirit of the game. Play lacrosse because you love it.
♦ Tradition
The handing down of information, beliefs, or customs from one generation to the next invites you to be a part of something bigger than yourself. These form the basis of the culture of lacrosse and the character of those who participate. You have a duty to share the history of the sport as a means of continued connection, enjoyment and honoring the game for the next generation.
♦ Virtues: Respect, Honor, Integrity
These virtues are positive traits that are fundamental to the development of good character. All lacrosse participants - players, coaches, officials, spectators - who consistently hone these traits form enduring habits of head, heart and hand, faithful to the spirit of the game.
Respect - To act in a way that shows you are aware of and fully value the participants, rules and spirit of the game means that you hold the sport’s traditions in the highest regard and esteem.
Honor - To behave with high moral standards that show you fully appreciate the privilege of playing lacrosse. Honor the opportunity to participate through grace and humility.
Integrity - To serve the game well means that you will act with honesty and sincerity on and off the field, undivided in head, heart and hand.
♦ Good Sportsmanship
Displaying qualities of conduct and attitude highly regarded in sport - fair play, courtesy, generosity, observance of the rules, striving spirit and grace in losing - is paramount. Each person, teammate or opponent, is part of the same game. Valuing the experience over the outcome serves the greater good and is integral to the spirit of the game.
♦ Teamwork
A joint action performed by a group of people in which each person subordinates his or her individual interests and opinions to the unity and efficiency of the group. No one is bigger than the game; it is important to recognize the team as the defining entity in lacrosse, and the reason for the game.
♦ Connection
Long after the last game, something else remains: connection, camaraderie, community. Lacrosse forges friendships, unity and family. As the game grows, you must embrace the spirit and philosophy of a shared identity.
How can I support the Keeper of Lacrosse Project?
The game is in your hands. Maintain the spirit of the game. Tell the story. Establish enduring habits of head, heart and hand. Honor the game and its participants. Contribute to the whole. Unite the family. Become a Keeper Crusader and promote the cause on your local playing fields.
The Keeper of Lacrosse Project is a donor supported initiative of the US Lacrosse Foundation. To help fund this and other campaigns, please consider donating to US Lacrosse by clicking here.
| | | | | by
posted 04/25/2012
GIVING BACK
Beach Dogs Lacrosse prides itself on giving back to the communities in which we serve. To that end we are proud supporters of the below organizations.
Aquidneck Island Land Trust
Portsmouth High School
Clean Water Action
Girl Scouts of America
Red Sox Foundation
Dress for Success
Portsmouth Youth Lacrosse
First Giving
Portsmouth Middle School
Outreach ALS
Prout School
Camp Sure Fire
Sail Newport
Multiple Families in need,confidential
Boys Town
The Hathaway School
Pennfield School
South County Hospital
RI HAWKS Basketball
In addition Beach Dogs Lacrosse believes 'Everyone Plays'. Donations of Equipment and scholarships to camps, clinics and leagues to both Beach Dogs Programs and to other programs in multiple sports, even outside of lacrosse are donated each year.
| | | | 2011 Camp Photos are Online | | | by
posted 08/11/2011
| | | | Noted lacrosse clinicians teach basics, history of the sport | | | by
posted 02/20/2011 RI Beach Dogs combine with Iroquois Lacrosse Program to instruct hundreds of local youths
PORTSMOUTH — The Rhode Island Beach Dogs teamed up with the Iroquois Lacrosse Program to give local children a unique historical and fundamental perspective on one of America’s oldest team sports recently.
Hundreds of enthusiastic children, ranging from first- to tenth-grade, came out to the camp at Portsmouth’s Gardiner Seveney Sports Complex to learn not just lacrosse skills but also to gain an appreciation for the roots of the sport. The five-day event was put together by former Roger Williams University standout Marshall Huggins who hoped all the children in attendance would take away something valuable from the experience.
“It’s more of a lifestyle camp. We focus a lot, especially with the older kids, on the sport and the technique and strategy,” said Huggins. “With the younger kids, we are just getting them into learning the sport. Obviously with the Iroquois here we are looking for them to talk about the history and tradition. To them it is the creator’s game. This is their medicine.”
While the sport of lacrosse has witnessed a dramatic rise in popularity in the United States and especially right here in Rhode Island over the past decade, many people are unfamiliar with the game’s extensive history. Lacrosse was played hundreds of years before any European touched foot in America and has deep spiritual roots in many Native American cultures, including the Iroquois Tribe.
Cam Bomberry, Director of the Iroquois Lacrosse Program, hoped the group’s visit instilled the pride and respect for the sport that he has had since he was a child.
“It’s been truly eye-opening on both sides for the instructors and the kids to see how lacrosse can build a lot of those bridges,” said Bomberry. “Lacrosse has been that good medicine to Iroquois for so long, it’s something that we share and something that was shared with us, being the gift from the creator. We appreciate it and respect it that way and when we go and do these types of things we try and share that same attitude and respect. It has been really well received here.”
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posted 02/20/2011 PORTSMOUTH — In England, soccer is the sport of choice for nearly all young athletes. There are clubs everywhere, and playing opportunities are plentiful.
So when his two sons showed an interest in lacrosse, John Ievers was a bit stunned.
It's a trend that's sweeping the nation, though, as more and more English kids are taking up lacrosse.
"It's a growing sport," Ievers said.
In the interest of building the sport, teams from England occasionally cross the Atlantic to play against U.S. competition. The Sheffield Steelers, for whom Ievers' sons, George and Dan, play, arrived in Rhode Island last week to play in the Ocean State Classic tournament, which took place at Glen Farm this past weekend.
One might have called the Steelers' second game in the tournament an international friendly, as they faced the Beach Dogs, a Portsmouth youth league team made up of boys from all over Newport County.
Not only did the Steelers win that game, they went on to win the under-15 title at the Ocean State Classic.
Ievers is the tour manager for the Steelers, who are comprised of 19 boys ranging in age from 13-16. Just before Christmas, Ievers said one of the club coaches who works for the English Lacrosse Association met with Beach Dogs coach Marshall Huggins to work out the details of how the two teams would come together.
"He met (Huggins) over here and said, 'Yes, that's just what we're looking for as well. How's this going to work?'" Ievers said. "Two people can say, 'Yes, that's a good idea,' but it takes a much bigger group to organize this. Parents on both sides need to buy into this whole arrangement.
"It's been quite an effort the last six months."
Families of the Beach Dogs players are hosting the Steelers during their two-week stay. Huggins said the process of searching for some overseas competition began about a year ago, when Rebel Lacrosse Wear, a company that makes lacrosse uniforms, put him in touch with English Lacrosse.
"We've been working for, maybe a year, just to pull it together, have them come over, sort everything out," Huggins said. "It worked out pretty well. Once we started communicating, we saw that it was a great fit, and Rhode Island was a great place to host this, because there's so much to do."
Among the non-lacrosse activities planned for the visitors from Sheffield — which is about 170 miles north of London — are trips to Boston and Six Flags New England in Springfield, Mass., as well as the local beaches.
Much of their time, though, will be spent on the lacrosse field.
"We have a lot of different lacrosse games set up with other Rhode Island teams, and Connecticut teams and Massachusetts teams," Huggins said.
The hope is that those games will help the Steelers progress as a team and a club.
"Playing any team in America is going to be a good challenge," said Andy Hopkins, one of the Sheffield coaches. "It matures them as well, because they're coming out here playing different opposition under different circumstances.
"I think it helps them jell as a squad as well."
The difference between American lacrosse and English lacrosse is that, typically, the skill and talent levels are greater on the American squads.
"They know the fundamentals, they've got good stick skills and they can do all the basics," Hopkins said of American players.
"They're a lot more well-drilled," added Ben Lyon, another Sheffield coach. "The standard is a lot better, generally."
This trip, however, is more than just lacrosse. It's about seeing new places, trying new things and meeting new people.
"We wanted to make it more of a life experience, not just lacrosse," Huggins said. "We're using lacrosse as the bridge because the players all have that in common."
Hopkins, Lyon and Krishna Balan, who all coach the Steelers, have taken similar trips, to places such as Maryland, Seattle and Buffalo, N.Y., and had positive experiences.
"I still speak to the people I went on tour with four years ago," Lyon said.
Whatever friendships develop over the next week and a half will be revisited in two years, when the Beach Dogs head over to England for the 2010 World Lacrosse Championships in Manchester, about 40 miles west of Sheffield.
"Teams from around the world come to play in that," Huggins said. "It's just a huge lacrosse Mecca."
While the Beach Dogs are, technically, a 15-and-under team, the age division in England is 16 and younger, which what the Steelers are. In preparation for the World Championships, though, Huggins' team is made up primarily of players who will be 16 or younger in 2010.
"I designed it that way so they'd get to play with each other for a couple years, and also I wanted them all to qualify for the World Games," he said.
Some of the Steelers will be too old to compete at the under-16 level in Manchester, but wherever division they're playing in then, it's a good bet they'll be better players, thanks in part to their tour of Rhode Island.
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