Lacrosse Contact Team Sport

Miracle on Ice happed on February 22, 1980. It is when team USA defeated the Soviet Union in the semi-final men’s ice hockey game during the winter Olympics. It took place in lake placid, New York and would be one of the biggest and most important games America has played during the winter Olympics. It is called the Miracle on ice because the USA hockey team had to defeat the mighty Soviet Union amateur team, which was not an amateur team, but a team filled of professional athletes, while the Americas hockey team was college students.

Friday Night Lights not only refers to the stadium that football players play in, but it also refers to every Friday night in September through November. That simple phrase brings back several memories, that carry emotional weight. Memories that are exciting, awe-inspiring, and even painful, and frustrating. The poem “Friday Night Lights” by Gerald Locklin summarizes some of the emotions that come with playing a sport, and brings about a deeper thought process. Being a part of a sport becomes your life, it teaches life lessons, helps build your personality, and shows you passions you never would have dreamed of.

Being on a team is a special thing. It’s just like being a part of a family. I have been a member of the girl's varsity lacrosse team for four years. Many lessons have been learned from the wins, the loses, and the successes that our team has had in the past years.

As you run down the field cradling the lacrosse ball in your stick, it feels like every other girl is barreling toward you at full speed. There is no better feeling, though, than to shoot the ball and watch it sail past the goalie into the net. Growing up in Baltimore, lacrosse is practically a religion. However, I never really felt any interest in lacrosse. In the Spring of my junior year, one of my friends begged me to try out for my high school’s lacrosse team. I had no experience at all with playing so I was apprehensive about trying out. The first couple of practices, we worked on ball skills: throw, catch, repeat. I dropped virtually all of them and was ready to give up. As the season went on, I spent hours at home bouncing the lacrosse

Meanwhile, Lacrosse is similarly played in history as it was played and invented by Native North Americans. The purpose of Lacrosse is to solve tribal disputes, please their gods and honour themselves. (History) These purposes and reasons are similar to the ones shown in “The Orenda”. In history, Lacrosse is a problem solver to help settle disputes between tribes as Native North Americans were introduced to new cultures and religions. This period was very crucial to First Nations because they had to connect together as a family. This is because it was also a time period when the Europeans tried to convert First Nations into Christianity with Residential Schools. Finally, Lacrosse honours the players themselves and honours their gods. These

College football is getting to be as popular as professional football. In some areas of the country, college football is a lot more popular than NFL football. In Nebraska for example, Memorial stadium in Lincoln becomes the state 's third largest city on home football game days. The stadium becomes a sea of red as fans dress in the team colors in support of the Cornhuskers.

Lacrosse has been around for decades, played by those who look for a real sport. It’s been said to be the fastest game on two feet, which is no understatement. It requires strength, endurance, and heart to be able to play the game of lacrosse. All these reasons are why I love to play lacrosse and why it has been my favorite sport for years. I can remember when I first started back in second grade, I didn’t think about why I was playing, it was just another sport to me. But as I continued with the sport, I soon realize I was playing for my town and for the people watching me. It didn’t take long for lacrosse to become my favorite sport and my main passion. Since I loved playing it so much, I was curious to learn about the history of lacrosse and how it all started. I wanted to know what the original rules were and how they change over time, what they played with, and most of all what they played for, so I did some research.

Lacrosse is a wonderful sport to play, lots of fun doing it and lots of fun being a fan too. From the mid-1490s, of just a stick and a net attached to the end and some trees as goals to today's version of playing Lacrosse, it’s all the same sport. Whether it's being a Goalie, Attacker, Midfielder, or a Defender they all help the whole team and play as one team. It doesn't matter if you're young or old or the best player in the world to being a beginner they all to do it no matter if it is for fun or it's your

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Colf, now called Golf, used to be played with a leather casing stuffed with goose feathers, whereas now it is played with a ball made of plastic and a type of rubber. Tennis, also very popular, was played using gloves and a wooden ball (Alchin). In present time, tennis is played with a racket and a rubber ball. Bowls was a game where a ball, called a “jack”, is rolled into “mistresses” to knock them down. This eventually turned into what is now call bowling. In England, soccer most likely was derived from a game called la soule, in which men divided into teams, usually married versus unmarried, and had to get a ball past a goalpost using feet, hands or various sticks. In the present time, the object of the game is still extremely similar, however, it is played with only feet. Hammer-throwing was a sport that required skill, strength and technique. It is now an event in track and field (Dyer). Stool ball, which has Pagan association, was played by having milkmaids throw, eventually hit with bats, balls towards their milking stools to knock them over. This eventually turned into today’s sports of rounders and cricket (Covington). Hunting was often done by men and women in the upper class. Wild boar was most commonly hunted on foot, by men and dogs, with spears (“The Hunt Is

Lacrosse is a rapidly growing sport across the country, but it largely remains a dominate white sport. According to the most recent N.C.A.A Study only about 1.9% of the division is African American leaving the other 98.1 all the other races, (mostly white). A majority of the teams have one to two players that are white but there are teams, like Cornell, that still have all white players. Players like Kyle Harrison, on Team STX and the Ohio Machine, are one of the very few player that are African in the MLL. Although it has not reached its peak popularity yet, lacrosse will become a very diverse sport and more popular when MLL players get paid more, and when gear becomes more affordable for teams.

The sun illuminates countless all-American names, with the occasional Coke or Papa John’s sponsor signs. The play clock ticks down to zero, and the stadium is finally filled to maximum capacity. Kickoff commences, players scramble across the field, and suddenly the only problems in the world hinge on if the Nike plastered football is past the downs marker. There are the elite suites high above the stadium cloaked in shade, but the majority are cramped and blisteringly hot. We are all united as one, cheering our team to victory, and thriving on the culture that is modern day sports. Every aspect of game day, from the Nike apparel to the intricate regulatory facets within the game itself, developed from influences that existed in the era between

If you plan on playing lacrosse you have to be ready to sacrifice a lot of freedom. For example you will basically be spending all of Saturday or Sunday playing in lacrosse games. Also you use up almost all of your week playing lacrosse which starts right after the school day ends.

Heros are idolized for their noble qualities. A hero is a selfless, brave, inspiring individual. A hero is a courageous person who is willing to do what it takes to help others. Welles Remy Crowther is well known as a hero because of his outstanding achievements.

The sport of lacrosse has grown exponentially over the past thirty years. Many believe that lacrosse is only growing in the United States, but it is truly a global increase in participation. For example the Federation of International Lacrosse reported thirty-eight countries participating in the world championship tournament in 2014 (“Denver Final Recap”). With so many people picking up sticks for the first time lacrosse on every level is increasing. From the youth programs to the professional lacrosse leagues the sport shows no sign of slowing down. It is easy to understand why the “fastest sport on two feet” is also one of the fastest growing sports in the world.