Lacrosse

Lacrosse is a sport that, if you’ve never heard of it, involves throwing rubber balls using aluminum poles with baskets on the ends. The baskets are endlessly customizable, which makes it attractive for fashionistas. Actually, the women’s side of the sport is just as recognized as the men’s, if not more.

I play goalie most of the time, being the only player on our 14-person team who has any training. By the way, you need 10 players on the field at a time-3 attack (yes, it’s actually called that), three defense, three middies, and a goalie. When I’m not playing goalie, I’m mostly playing middie.

This is my first season of lacrosse, and my mom was skeptical about signing me up after she realized the lacrosse was a full-contact sport, including stick-to-body and body-to-body. In fact, we are encouraged to hit (whack, slam) the other team in order to make them drop the ball, push them out of bounds, or just annoy them. In fact, we recently learned about the coma slide, a move that our coaches said, and I quote, “involves putting the player with the ball in a coma”.

How are you feeling about sending your kid/going to lacrosse camp now?