#1 - Why lacrosse?

I am at a very crucial part of my life right now. It's my senior year. This means that a lot of things are coming to and end, but also that many things are starting. But I want to focus on a last that is coming up. My last year of playing lacrosse. Lacrosse is my passion! I love the game! I have been playing most my life, and senior year is the season you look forward to the most. This is where you get the chance to be a captain and lead the team. It's the season where the coach trusts you and the younger class-man look up to you. I know when I was a freshman I did. I want to create this blog to explain the in and outs of lacrosse. This means the off season, the nutrition, goal setting, other players passion, conditioning, coaching, leadership, practice, and game times, along with much more. This is a topic I know a lot about because I have lived it. But I think it will be so cool to expand my learning on this sport. There is much more to a sport then if you win games, and I am interested in diving deeper into girls lacrosse. I think it will be awesome to look back at the end of the season at this blog and see the progress I have made, along with my team, and to be able to look at what I have learned and how I made the most of my last season. I want my blog to be interesting to my readers and I hope that they will come to understand the game like I do. Lets talk about where lacrosse began for me, and why I think it is the best sport on earth. I was in the fourth grade, I had tried soccer, musicals, gymnastics, and none of it was for me. I quit soccer to do a play in my elementary, so when that was over I had no plan for what was next for my athletic career. My family is super into sports, both of my parents were athletes and as well as my siblings. Now I know what your thinking, fourth grade? Chill. Its not like I need to know what I'm doing at a young age, but I think you do. Get started in a sport as soon as you can because then you can only grow and become really good in your lifetime. So back to where I was. My best friend Grace Freeman had played the year before me and told me I had to come try it with her, so after thought I decided why not. I don't remember my first moment when I knew I loved the game, but I do remember that I was good at it. It came natural to me. I could run fast and beat any defender. Of course it took work and learning but it was fun for me. I really started to enjoy it. I even remember my first goal and thinking to myself, that was not as hard as I thought it would be and from there I kept scoring and took off to become a great player. Lacrosse is the greatest sport on earth. I mean it. I think that it is because it encompasses so many aspects from different sports. It is a lot like the game of hockey or soccer and basketball. That may sound crazy to you, but let me explain. The field is very similar to a soccer field. There are defender positions, forward positions, and midfield, along with a goalie. It is like hockey because you can play behind the net and the movements of passing the puck around are a lot like passing with a stick, and it involves gear. It is like basketball because the defense strategies are the same, and because of setting picks. Some of the rules are also like basketball, like 3 seconds in the key is just the same for us on offense in our 8, which is the same as a key but bigger. Lacrosse takes speed and agility, like football. You have to be able to run your butt of and dodge defenders standing in your way, or with their stick in your face trying to intercept or check the ball out. This is why lacrosse is the best, it encompasses several aspects from several sports, so if you are a sideline observer you wouldn’t be totally confused, you could understand. Lacrosse is also very cool because it does take hard work and practice, so not everyone can pick it up in a day. That creates respect for those that play the sport. It also does require athletic ability, you need to be able to run, have good eye-hand coordination, you need speed and strength and aim in your shot, you need to be able to defend and you need to make game time decisions.