Senior Night 2012

Senior Night on May 1 for the Warriors will include recognizing the following players:

#3 Brad Beck
#5 Nathan Hupp
#6 Chris Boone
#9 David Brown
#10 Bobby Nash
#14 Eric Martin
#16 Ben Marquis
#19 Connor Keelan
#25 Jody Thompson
#28 Greg Garner
#30 Logan Rottman
#33 Tyler Gill

Best wishes to these young men and their future endeavors!

Game photos: When you challenge a Warrior ...

Can't you just hear them? "Warriors!"

Great big thanks to Rob Worman, for his coverage of La Plata High School athletes!

Check out the galleries he has posted from this season, including Westlake, North Point and Leonardtown games. http://www.warriorprints.com/LAX.

From NPR: The Power of Positive Perception

Can You Think Your Way To That Hole-In-One? http://wamu.org/programs/morning_edition/12/04/18/can_you_think_your_way_to_that_hole_in_one Listen to the entire report here: http://wamu.org/audio-player?nid=52279 Excerpts below:Psychologists at Purdue University have come up with an interesting twist on the old notion of the power of positive thinking. Call it the power of positive perception: They've shown that you may be able to improve your golf game by believing the hole you're aiming for is larger than it really is. Jessica Witt, who studies how perception and performance are related, decided to look at golf — specifically, how the appearance of the hole changes depending on whether you're playing well or poorly..... "These effects aren't specific to athletes," she says. "We find them in everybody, in all kinds of tasks. So if you have to walk up a hill to get to work, if you're tired or low energy or wearing a heavy backpack, that hill looks steeper or a distance looks farther. So it's apparent in everybody, not just in athletes." Witt says along with a positive perception comes confidence — if the hill doesn't seem too steep, or the golf hole appears bigger than it really is, that altered perception gives you confidence in your abilities. Tim Woodman, who heads the School of Sport, Health and Exercise Science at Bangor University in Wales, says for athletes at least, just having more confidence doesn't guarantee top performance. He says that confidence is important, but self-doubt can help, too. "If you're good at something but you doubt yourself a little bit, you're more likely to try that bit harder," he says. "Whereas if you are confident and you know you're very good at something, you might just slack off a little bit and move into some sort of cruise control, and then actually not perform very well." Woodman says top athletes find the right balance between confidence and uncertainty to perform at their peak. Copyright 2012 National Public Radio. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.

We love our 5K sponsors!!

No One Ever Drowned in Sweat!

Join us for the first 5k run/walk to benefit the La Plata High School boys lacrosse program.

Sunday, April 15

Registration begins at 7am

Run/walk starts at 8am

Cost: $20 for non-students

$10 for students

Location: Indian head Rail Trail

From Route 301, make right turn onto Theodore Green Boulevard.

Approximately ¼ mile, trail parking is on right side of road.

Weekend (only) overflow parking is available at the Charles County

Health Department parking lot (intersection of Route 301 and Theodore

Green Boulevard).

Facts & Figures

Did you know?

According to the latest NCAA Data, women’s lacrosse (Division I) ranks second (to skiing) in graduation success rates (94%) and men’s lacrosse ranks first in graduation success rates (88%) among men’s NCAA sports.

Top five states with the most lacrosse players: Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Virginia.

Number of lacrosse players participating on organized lacrosse teams in 2011: 684,730 (up 9.6% from 2010)

Growth of College LAX

It's been four years since lacrosse came on the scene for Charles County's public schools, and the sport has been experiencing phenomenal growth locally and nationally. At the high school level, participation has more than doubled in the past decade. LaxPower has been documenting growth, which can be viewed here, and if you want to stay on top of who's the newest college to be launching a team, check out The Growth Blog here.
For instance, Elon College is the latest to announce the addition of women's lacrosse and Post University and  Monmouth University the latest to announce the addition of men's lacrosse teams.

"Since the early to mid '90s, the number of schools sponsoring women's lacrosse has grown sharply and has surpassed the number for men.  For men's lacrosse, the bulk of the growth has occurred in Division III, while for women's lacrosse, all three divisions (though especially Division III until the last few years) have enjoyed very positive growth rates." Source: http://www.laxpower.com/common/participation08.php

March 30 game photos

Thanks to Rob Worman with WarriorPrints.com, we have photos from Friday's home game vs. Westlake ~ before the lights went dim!

Check them out here

Enjoy!