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St. Augustine Beach - If you are wondering about club lacrosse and if it is right for you or your daughter, this article will hopefully help you to decide. If you are already an established club family or player, you will learn about how you can communicate lacrosse to your friends and acquaintances. Elite club lacrosse is a high school’s key to success.
Where there is lacrosse in Florida, the competition is heating up. High schools are becoming competitive with each other. There are about 25 very competitive high school programs in Florida. All have elite club players competing. Some have more than others. The higher the ranking of the high school team, the more elite lacrosse club participants. In addition, colleges are looking to Florida more than ever before as the sport has grown tremendously over the past decade collegiately.
Elite club lacrosse has been helping build better high school programs while serving as a bridge to colleges. The elite club also provides opportunities for middle schoolers looking for a challenge. Nationwide, the top DI prospects are elite clubers who were developed by middle school elite club programs and who become the top high school players in their respective areas. This is nothing new. It certainly is not new to other more established sports.
Soccer = More than 3,000 girls play travel/elite soccer in Florida alone. The best high school teams in the state have rosters FULL of club players. Even the JV teams have many club players vying for a spot on varsity some day. College recruiting is done at regional and national club tournaments. The club programs must qualify for these high level tournaments.
Basketball = Heard of AAU? More than 2,500 girls play AAU in Florida alone. The best high school teams in the state have rosters FULL of club players. Even the JV teams have many club players vying for a spot on varsity some day. College recruiting is done at regional and national AAU tournaments. The AAU programs must qualify for these high level tournaments. There are some high school hoops events that draw college coaches…these are usually invitational tournaments where teams with AAU prospects are invited. Go figure.
Volleyball = Travel volleyball is huge in the south region. There are multi-levels of travel volleyball. The top high school programs feature every player in the program (JV and Varsity) on a travel volleyball team. There are ‘local’ travel volleyball organizations with 1,000 members in various parts of Florida. Recruiting is done at these travel events.
Softball = There are several club travel programs out there and even more than one national sanctioning board. The top players on each high school line-up are travel ‘ball’ players. While these elite travel numbers have declined some with the rise of lacrosse, there are still thousands of girls playing “travel ball” in Florida. The more players from one high school team, the more success of the high school team. Recruiting is done at the travel ball tournaments regionally and nationally.
Sound like a broken record? It oughtta.
The best high school players play on an elite club regardless of which sport they play. The top high school programs are loaded with club players. The best even have JV rosters full of ‘up and coming’ club players waiting for their chance to make it to the varsity team. If you added up the sum of elite club experience of competing high school teams before the contest begins, the team with the highest total will win the game. The greater disparity between the years of experience would mean a more lopsided game. This holds up between regions of the state because the common denominator between all regions are the elite girls who play each other in the summer and fall. Add bonus points for those elite players who also play lacrosse in Maryland and Pennsylvania. These are the serious players.
It’s not a matter of how much tradition a team has or what their uniform looks like or even how athletic the team is. Between top high school programs it comes down to how much elite club experience does each team have. That determines the winner.
What is an ‘Elite Club’?
An elite club is a group of girls from different schools who have committed to playing summer and/or fall tournaments and practices. These teams compete at a higher level than they can receive from their local high school or youth program. Elite club players make exponential gains in skill, vision and pace of play. Often times, these clubs are coached or directed by former/current NCAA players. These players commit to playing lacrosse and having fun. It is a top priority. Most clubs require that if you join the club, lacrosse be the top priority in terms of extracurricular activities. Some are more loose based on the level of the team’s ability and expectations.
Players who do not play at the elite club level tend to fall into “the gap”. A gap in the level of play exists between their teammates’ level of skill, pace of play, and understanding of the game. Non-club players struggle and can lose confidence because they are not competent in their skills while their teammates and competition who play elite club lax continue to improve summer and fall. Often this happens because parents or players do not investigate their options or do not understand the skill intensive nature of lacrosse.
The gap is closable with time, knowledge, and commitment. But inaction and spreading priorities too thin between jobs, boyfriends, and activities that kids do ‘just to be well rounded’ can often cost them the opportunities to truly be great at something.
Players who play elite club lacrosse make their high school programs more competitive. They set the pace of practice and allow the coach to input more strategies. If you are on a high school team or will be headed to high school in a year or two, ask not what your high school program can do for you, ask what you can do for your high school team.
If your high school team has very few elite club player “years” of experience, the gap between you and the top teams becomes cavernous because of the opponent’s skill level as a team. Parents in the stands look perplexed at the final score: “16-2! What!? We need to practice more!”
Sorry. The practicing done in the off season was at a much higher level. It was more than just practice. It was tournaments, Maniax day clinics, and everything else that the elite club girls were committed to doing. And it was fun!
What is the right age to start playing elite lacrosse?
Teams start with rising 6th and 7th graders; kids who are currently 5th and 6th graders. Girls mature much faster than boys, so if a girl has fallen in love with lacrosse as a 7th or 8th grader, recruiting for that player will begin during their 9th and 10th grade years. Keep in mind, we are talking about the summers of their rising 9th grade year. Not following their 9th grade year.
Parents do not have as much time as they may think to prepare their talented kids to the world of college-prep lacrosse. In lacrosse, more so than many other sports, lacrosse opportunities abound in college!
Opportunities for Collegiate Sports:
Lacrosse: 20%
Softball (3.5%)
Hoop (2.9%)
Soccer (2.3%)
Volleyball (3.9%)
The sport of lacrosse is growing on the college level as fast or faster than on the youth level right now. For southern players, it means that there are more opportunities as new colleges come on line. If I had a daughter who was 10 years old, loved sports, and took a keen liking to lacrosse, I would be working to help her have as much success as she could in the sport! No need to limit the other sports at such a young age or force specialize anyone at 10-years old. Here is a timeline to provide insights on sports and specialization:
The Lacrosse Timeline for women:
K-5th = Play as many sports and activities as possible! Play! Play! Play! Learn skills and have fun. Do NOT make it about winning or your biggest wins will occur as a 4th grader which defeats the point! This is the anti-specialization time.
5th-6th = Start to determine what your top interests are and begin to learn more about local teams that can help you reach your goals for finding long-term success. Be an athlete but start looking into your options. If you LOVE it already, join an elite club. Make it now about getting higher level skills!
7th-8th = Specialize down to a couple of sports or activities that you LOVE and that you feel good about! Do NOT spread yourself too thin (parents and kids). Do NOT specialize in just one thing just yet! Remember not to make it about winning at this age, or when you grow up, your glory days will become heroic moments in middle school…that is so sad! If you want to be a varsity player early in your high school career at a good high school, join and elite club and compete at the necessary level to help yourself and that program be successful.
9th-12th = Pursue your dreams with vigor. Become an expert in something academically, athletically and extra-curricular activities, but don’t spread yourself so thin that you are “over-scheduled”. If you are a super star in many activities, keep them going! If you are just killing time doing a lot of stuff, specialize before it is too late. These are the character, young adult building years. In women’s athletics, these are defining years starting in 9th grade. In general, men define themselves significantly later.
A Hotbed/Heartland of Lacrosse: Annapolis, Maryland:
St. Mary’s high school of Maryland places in the prestigious IAAM-A high school league. Last year they finished 6th in the Baltimore-metro league. To illustrate how good that team truly is, NINE players signed to play division I lacrosse from St. Mary’s. More than 40 girls at St. Mary’s in all grades (9th-12th) played elite club programs. Most since 6th or 7th grade. But nearly every player in the IAAM-A league plays elite club lacrosse.
Think your team stands a chance against an IAAM-A team? Florida’s state champ lost to the 10th ranked school (out of 14) 14-9. Top it off, that team had not played a game yet and Vero was in mid-season form, having crushed six Florida schools prior to their lone loss of the 2009 season. The same school that beat Vero Beach lost to St. Mary’s 18-4.
In fairness, Vero Beach defeated Mount deSales, the 12th ranked school in the IAAM-A league. The Mount only fell to St. Mary’s 12-5.
Elite club programs provide opportunities for kids to learn and compete at a higher level. Clubs like the LaxManiax Elite also prepare kids for college and provide recruiting assistance. They are a full-service club and not just a travel team. LaxManiax has local club training and national club tournaments all in one organization. So, if you are one of the players or parents who just went to a LaxManiax elite clinic over the weekend, or plan on attending one in the spring, you can rest assured that you are considering the top elite club program in the south over the past four years. More than 80 NCAA players and twice that many collegiate club players; More than 50 tournaments played in and several championships won; SIX local area clubs all over the state (Vero Beach, St. Johns, Palm Coast, Lee-Collier, Seminole, Orange), and a combined statewide national travel program combining the local club’s top players call T.F.G.
Hopefully this article lays it all out there for parents who need a little help understanding what all the hoopla is about elite club lacrosse and high school sports in general. The landscape has changed since we were in high school. Not every family has parents who played multiple sports in college or even high school. There is a huge value to competing as a college student-athlete, and former athletes know that value quite well. It’s worth as much as the degree you earn.
My wife and I were each multi-sport athletes in college as well as members of other college societies and social groups, and we each performed well in the classroom. We learned how to do that at an early age. It is easier for us to mentor our children through the process, but we have had to learn to navigate the process! Only one of our four parents was a student-athlete themselves in college. We had to ‘want it’ for it to happen for us as teens.
All of our parents, however, took great enjoyment and pride in our accomplishments in high school and college – it was a fun family event for all of us! We encourage every young person and their families to shoot for those opportunities too! They are priceless.
And Back to Flag Football:
It is all so new in the south. Lacrosse is a baby. It is even a baby in Carroll County, Maryland, a hotbed and modern lax powerhouse, where my wife participated on the first high school team at Westminster High School, one of the largest high schools at that time in the county. We just went to our 20th reunions, so that gives you an idea of how old lacrosse is there. In Florida, lacrosse’s establishment is based on where you live, and not necessarily just being in Florida. Heck, just 1/5th of all the public high schools have a lacrosse program at all.
There are more girl’s flag football programs in Florida than lacrosse. I think Jeff Foxworthy once had a joke that went something like this: “If your school has a girls flag football program and not a lacrosse program, you might be a redneck!”
All kidding aside, lets think about this:
Central-east Florida: No lacrosse
Tallahassee Area: No lacrosse
Panhandle: No lacrosse
I-10 Corridor: No lacrosse
Central-South: No lacrosse
We need to build the sport of lacrosse in more areas and at younger ages!
Flag Football does not have any travel or elite sports yet because there are NO college coaches interested in seeing the best girl’s football players. Not even in Florida, who invented flag football as a bogus way to hide Title IX issues while paying men’s football coaches and officials more money so they can continue coaching the loaded boy’s football programs. Someday more people will figure this out!
Happy laxing!
Orlando, Florida – Inscribed on the side of the Super Bowl XXXV ring reads the term “INVICTUS”. Early on during the season, our team, the Baltimore Ravens, had to deal with a lot of adversity. Our team Captain, Ray Lewis, was going through a murder trial in Atlanta and was actually in jail due to the bail circumstances. Our team had a new quarterback, or two, in pre-season and no one knew who was leading the offense. Our coaches were in their second season after finishing with a .500 record the season before.
Only one of the major media pundits (64 that year) selected our team to win the Super Bowl. One. Joe Theismann. Everyone else picked teams that were either in our conference (Tennessee), or prior Super Bowl winners (St. Louis), or major media cities like New York. Really no one thought we had a chance. Most of the media was trying to speculate on Ray’s fate. We all knew Ray was not guilty, but we all had to wait for the legal process to work. We all knew that we had a strong running game, talented defense, and solid special teams and we all believed that we could make the playoffs even though we were in Tennessee’s division.
Brian Billick knew it would be a year that he would have to inspire the best in his troops. While we had positives, we also had a lot of negatives within our team and a ton of adversity even before we played our first game. Brian decided to break down a poem each week and go over line for line what that poem meant. The poem is currently in the news again with the release next weekend of the feature film baring the same name, Invictus.
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the Shade
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
William Ernest Henley
The poem helped our team to focus on the journey and overcoming the adversity that we each faced. It did not encourage our team to all go the way of free agency to other teams, or to quit during pre-season. It inspired each of us to reach down and make our team a much better team. That philosophy paid huge dividends as our team developed to have the strongest defense in pro football history with two pro-bowl special teamers (Jermaine Lewis/return man, Matt Stover/kicker) and a run-based offense featuring an unwanted quarterback who the pundits all said was not a true ’super bowl’ quarterback. In fact, the pundits said the other teams had more talent. The other teams had more Super Bowl experience than we did. We had no coaches with Super Bowl experience. They were in Denver, Oakland, New York, St. Louis. 
But we hung in there. We worked on our games and we took even more pride in our team, as maligned as the media made us out to be. When our offense struggled, our defense bailed us out. When we needed field position, our special teams gave it to us. When we needed possession time, the offense held onto the ball and did not turn the ball over. And not one coach, or player pointed a finger at anyone else in the organization. They simply did their own job better and better and the rest of the organization kept shaping and building a championship attitude.
The team that the pundits and so-called experts said did not have a chance. The team that had faced adversity in the off-season. The team that had lost some of their best players to injury and had a quarterback who was a nobody and a has-been all in one.
The team that won Super Bowl XXXV…that was the team. We had a lot of courage and a lot of belief, and we worked so hard and focused on each day doing our best.
The statue of Admiral James Stockdale erected at the US Naval Academy reinforces the sentiments of the poem. Stockdale, who was the senior officer for military prisoners of war during the Vietnam war endured untold heartbreak and physical, emotional and mental torture at the hands of his capture. Stockdale’s courage inspired so many and is a true display of courage (we tend to say that people are courageous for things like waiting in lines on black Friday) in an era of modern comforts. 
In order the provide our populace with the type of courage, faith, and intestinal fortitude Stockdale exhibited, the monument committee chose another historical figure of character, Winston Churchill, to provide the words that are etched in stone at the base of the monument:
“Never give in; never give in; never, never, never–in nothing, great or small, large or petty–never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
I hope this is a message of inspiration to you today! Tough times never last, but tough people do. Sometimes it is important to understand history and those great men and women who have fought so hard so that we may do the same albeit in a less life or death capacity.
Yeah the Ravens were a great team! Inspired by the poem, Invictus. But we have so many other intense examples that illustrate our attitudes and all each of us to focus on those values and qualities that are truly important and determine our long-term success or failure in sport and life.
Life is very difficult. We have choices to make. We can fight to make things better, or we can flee. We can be bold and fearless, or we can whisper. Most of all, we must all recognize the moments in our lives when we may not be feeling so hot. But we have strength from above and strength from within to conquer those feelings!
http://scottwykoff.wbal.com/2009/09/oh-what-night.html
Now that’s what INVICTUS is really all about! That’s the heart of Maniax-Nation!
Winter Park, Florida - Back in the early 90’s when Bill Clinton was running for office against George H.W. Bush, a sign hung in his campaign office that helped remind Bill of the main focus of the election. The sign had a sort of funny self-deppricating humor to it in a way, but it was designed to help bring Bill back around from his wanderings on health care, the war in Iraq (the 1st one), and other topics relating to the political race, to the main focus of the election. The economy. The sign was “It’s the ECONOMY, stupid!”
No matter how great your lacrosse club, or your nation, it all comes back to simple truths.
I title this article on the blog “It’s The Character Building, Stupid!” because I think that more than anything else that we do with the LaxManiax Elite club program, working and challenging kids to build character is job #1. We already know that we can put together teams that are fantastic and compete on a national stage, whether we practice 10 times a week or once every other week – the results are the same. We already know that our players have been historically recruited to play in college when just four years ago there were barely any college players coming from the Sunshine State, including the so-called ‘better’ areas. We also know that the LaxManiax is much more than a local club. It is a local club that has defined national prominence in non-traditional lacrosse. These are all things that Mindy, myself, Chris, Sarah, Goey and the loyal LaxManiax staff can all hand their hats on. And so can a lot of others as well.
But more importantly, much more importantly than winning any games, championships, or developing all-Americans and dynamic players, is the building of character at each LaxManiax Day and each local practice for LaxManiax. Every Central Florida practice that Coach G and I went to this year we had areas of focus for the kids to think about. Same with other areas of the state. At our last LaxManiax Day we mentioned some traits that define the character of a woman or man in our eyes and I personally talked about how important they are to any team. Without them, teams do not exist. People lacking traits like loyalty, honesty, and hard work find life comes back around in the end. But those who hang their hat on character traits such as these are always in God’s glow.
Moving into year #5 of the program, it is time to revisit the foundation the club was built upon and that has created a beacon for other club programs to look to in their infancy. We can only hope that other lacrosse programs in the southeast are created with real core values in mind like these:
FRIENDSHIP
TRUST
HONESTY
LOYALTY
PURPOSE (AND FULFILLING OUR PURPOSE)
EFFORT
Why are these core values? Because they never change. Regardless of how people treat us, or treat you, your core values remain in tact. Our club is transparent. We don’t cover things up. We have four years of mistakes and success built on a foundation of core values. That means that amazing things are possible in the future. But maintaining these core values can be difficult if you are not a person of character. There are other more worldly values that can tempt you. These worldly values tempt all of us so do not be upset if you sense them and are interested. Just come back to your core values…and that is a HUGE message for a teenager in today’s day and age.
The LaxManiax Elite IS the premier club of the deep-fried south! More than 80 players on their way to college…championships at multiple tournaments…more than 50,000 frequent flyer miles…and the respect of the lacrosse world and visibility to promote Florida lacrosse nationally. It is the premier, established program and will continue to build upon the foundation of values and experience that can only help those who choose to continue their lax journey or start their lax journey with the South’s best program!
And we will improve on the field, off the field and in cyber space as well. How can we not when we ask every player to do the same? And Effort is a Core Value!
But after the championships, the college careers and the fun travel memories have faded and only glimpses of the past remain, our club members will have great character when they have to make adult decisions and choices. Or when a tough economic time pulls at them to take the easy way out. We hope they remember the LaxManiax Way!
There are no pro women’s lacrosse leagues after college.
Attitude is the Mind’s Paintbrush, It Can Color Any Situation
Coach Mindy has a great saying. I love to listen to it. In today’s lax world, nothing could be more profetic. If you want to find fault, you can. If you want to be joy-filled, you can. You choose your mindset and you determine your course of actions as a result of how you choose to see any given situation.
In the LaxManiax world, life is always fun, and challenging. It is always positive. When we make a mistake on the field, we go full-speed and make positive mistakes. We don’t make bad fouls. If we do, we respond in a positive way and learn from the mistake. Off the field it is more of the same. At home, you guessed it. My personal favorite is “Your Attitude Determines Your Altitude”. How true. The more you maintain an attitude of gratitude (being eternally thankful for the gifts you have been given) the higher you will fly.
And LaxManiax were meant to soar!
So, avoid the temptation to be negative and rise above it all. Focus on the positive and good things that have been accomplished out of nothing (there was nothing like the LaxManiax four years ago). And practice the attitude of gratitude. Reach out and tell someone thank you today! Focus on how great it is to have trusted friendships and bless those people who accept you for being who you are. That is a key component to the LaxManiax Way!
Who wants to go to a tournament where people are groveling and worried before they even take the field…and these are the parents! Nobody. Who wants to sit in the stands with parents or fans who are upset at a kids game. Only people who are like them do!
We have club rules of behavior at tournaments.
Drama and Bias…Bias and Drama…the Vicious Cycle -
There can be a lot of drama in the average secret life of the American teenager. There can be even more drama created in the secret life of the American hover parent as well. Each group struggles with balancing quality family time with just over-doing it. What is most important is that kids learn the core values.
As parents, we want to think that there is some underlying premise behind everything. I had to laugh when a parent told me that people inside of my own club felt that I had a bias towards my daughter. Talk about needing something to talk about! I have coached my own daughter’s team four times in five years. This Fall was the first time since founding the club that I coached her more than one time in a season. Out of perhaps 50 tournaments that I have attended and watched and developed everyone else’s kids forty-six times.
Sounds to me like I have a bias against my own kid.
And I decided not to coach my own child as a result of believing that it was in her best interest for me not to coach her. Too many parents think that their child will never be ‘good’ if they are not coaching them directly. The truth is, the coaching that your child needs comes from your ability to allow good coaches, and there are some good ones out there, the chance to mold and shape and build their character and their lax ability.
Sitting down with Gary Gait in the airport after Rivalry, I was talking about this. Gary has a 15-year old daughter named Taylor. He prefers not coaching her because she does not always listen to her Dad, which can be frustrating. My comment “You mean, even if I were “Gary Gait” my kid would not listen to me?”
He smiled. “I guess you could say that,” he replied.
He and Todd Marinovich are right. We often do our kids more harm than good when we over-coach them. And people will create drama if they lack the same shared values. I feel blessed to have positively coached my child a couple of times this Fall. I won’t be coaching her again while she is a prep athlete because it is not in her best developmental interest to have me coach her on the field. That decision comes from our values as an organization.
Todd Marinovich as a Raider (left) and in his mugshot (right). No player in NFL history was more accomplished or touted coming out of college than Todd Marinovich. He was also considered the best player in the country out of high school. While the trophies accumulated, the values’ ball was dropped. Following a brief pro career, Marinovich has found life after sports (and after college) difficult.
Incidentally I am biased towards kids who are hard workers and play emotionally positive, but tough, games. For sure!!
Maniax coaches have no bias against anyone. We have biases towards those who share our Maniax values and the Maniax Way!
We are on a mission to build the LaxManiax club locally and create even better programs. Each local area (North, Central, Southeast and Southwest) is looking at building strong local programs built first upon kids who are super-motivated. Not parents who are super-motivated, but kids who are super-motivated. We are the local club for the super-motivated lax kids. We can channel the energy of the super-motivated through the LaxManiax Way, a system tried and true over the past four-years and our character building curriculum that we are emphasizing this summer. So, bring on the super-motivated young people! We have a treat for them!
LaxManiax coaches are biased towards players like (left) Ellyn Spangenberg (Maniax c/o 2009 and current Division I player), and (right) Jen ‘Donator’ Nardone, class of 2011/Southeast Florida. Nardone played club soccer and lacrosse this Fall and has been working on her mental game and stickwork non-stop. Both players squared off al Wishbone challenging each other to play fast, Maniax-style lacrosse. The LaxManiax Black team was unbeaten at the tournament despite half the team playing EIGHT games on the weekend. Maybe they are just Maniax!? Their toughest opponent? LaxManiax WHITE of course!
What Has LaxManiax Established Going Into Year Five?
Play for the most competitive statewide lacrosse teams in the south region, proven over the past four years. Benefit from core values and statewide relationships, developed over the past four years. Develop skills and experience in a proven system. Become recruited in a proven system of lacrosse recruiting.
It is all quite clear to us. It starts with character building!
Have a blessed holiday! See you at tryouts/banquet/TFG playday/Ancient City! You bunch of Maniax!
Jacksonville, Florida - People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When you know which one it is, you will know what to do for that person..
When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you or they have expressed…
They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with
guidance and support; To aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually.
They may seem like a God-send and they are…
They are there for the reason you need them to be; Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end…
Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away. Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand. What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done. Release them.
The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on. Some people come into your life for a SEASON, because your turn has come to share, grow or learn.
They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh. They may teach you something you have never done. They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy.
Believe it, it is real. But only for a season. LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons, things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional
foundation.
Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life.
It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.
Thank you for being a part of my life, whether you were a reason, a season or a lifetime. Give thanks this holiday for all the people in your life whether here for a reason, season or lifetime…
Thanks to everyone who has remained friends over the years. If we move on to the next life someday and we leave having had five great friendships, that would be a beautiful thing! We hope that our loyalty to our friends is always evident.
God Bless and Happy Thanksgiving to the lacrosse community of Florida!
The McCord Family
