Club Directors Panel: What Do You Do in February?
High school season is around the corner. What are club doing in the winter months?
Club Directors Panel: How Do You Handle Blow Outs?
Every coach, player, and parent has experienced a blow out. What happens when your team takes a ten point lead into half time of a tournament game?
Club Directors Panel: Tryouts
The recruiting process has also accelerated the club team tryout timeline. A vast majority of club teams are now hosting tryouts in August and September to ensure their teams have been selected ahead of the November tournament circuit. This CDP asks what makes a good tryout?
Club Directors Panel: Do rivalries exist on the summer circuit?
The summer tournament circuit is over. Tryouts for next season have already begun which means the second season of the Club Directors Panel is here.
NJ Riot Organization Finds Success Again in 2014
After the summer success of the 2016 NJ Riot team the organization decided to expand to include a 2017 team to compete in the 2014 summer season. Tryouts were held late in the summer of 2013 with 100+ players in attendance. After the second call back a group of 24 players were selected and the summer began.
Club Directors Panel: What are you looking for when selecting your team?
Just because you want to play for a certain club this summer doesn’t mean they want you to play for them. What are some things our Club Directors are looking for when selecting their teams?
Club Directors Panel: Managing Expectations
How do you manage a player, and perhaps his family as well, who comes off of a disappointing summer circuit?
Club Directors Panel: Tournament Selection
Week Three of the Club Directors Panel finds us discussing how many tournaments a club should participate in, and how these clubs select those events. Should you play in three tournaments or five? If you play in too few events are you risking not being seen by coaches? If you play in too many events, are you risking injury or being over exposed?
The Addicted Lax Dad: Past, Present, And Future
Lee Southren started the NJ Riot 2016 club team, and it is quickly morphing into something bigger. This growth has put Lee in a new position as the man running a club team. It is a big switch from being the man who is used to questioning club teams! Read about Lee’s experiences as a club administrator, and how it made him think of his own actions as an addicted Lax Dad.
NJ Riot Interviews: Josh Karp
As we follow the New Jersey Riot 2016 team, and update you on their first hand experiences at camps, tournaments, and other events in the club lacrosse scene, we will also introduce you to some of their players via interviews. We want to know how potential college players think nowadays, and there is no better way to get informed than by talking to the players of today!