Author: Nick Pietras

Nick Pietras has been coaching lacrosse in the city of Detroit since 2019. He currently serves as the assistant creative director creating content and helping manage the image of Detroit United. He is currently attending Lourdes University pursuing a double major in marketing and business administration. Over the course of his senior year, Nick would tear both of his ACL’s leaving him to miss his senior season. He would play for the Lourdes University Gray Wolves for one year before his lingering knee injuries would abruptly end his college career. This is where his coaching career officially began as he became the offensive coordinator for his alma mater, Cousino High School. He would be one of the main influencers in the creation of Warren Consolidated Schools joint high school program and would oversee fundraising, marketing, and design endeavors. Six months later, Nick would be brought to Detroit to join the Cass Tech High School men’s lacrosse coaching staff as the defensive coordinator.

The Waterdogs Winning the 2022 PLL Championship is HUGE

The Waterdogs have done the unthinkable by winning the 2022 PLL Championship. This accomplishment by the Waterdogs is one of the best things that could have happened for the Premier Lacrosse League. On a surface level, lacrosse fans were tired of seeing the Whipsnakes dynasty unfold and frustrated by the Chaos making it to the […]

Cannons: 2022 PLL Video Game Ratings

It has been 1,597 days since the release of the last true lacrosse video game (Casey Powell Lacrosse 18). While that game certainly had its flaws, it was nice to pick up a controller and play a lacrosse video game. Let’s take a minute and imagine a new PLL focused video game has released in the […]

Ranking the Newly Announced PBLA Team Names

The Professional Box Lacrosse Association recently let the fans vote on the team names for the leagues inaugural seven teams. As expected when letting fans decide anything at all, we had some pretty comical names in the running. Thankfully the PBLA kept a watchful eye on these names and gave us the top seven. The […]

Ranking the PLL Throwback Logos

To go along with the PLL throwback jerseys unveiled last weekend, the league also dropped some old school logos to go along with the throwback weekend. The irony here being that the PLL has only been around since 2018 so there isn’t much history to go off of when unveiling throwback logos. In order to […]

Ranking the 2022 PLL Throwback Jerseys

Fans have asked for one thing and one thing only from the PLL since the league was announced in 2018. “Can we please have numbers on the front of the jerseys?” Paul Rabil and his PLL executive committee continued to turn a blind eye to the fans request for nearly four years, that was until […]

Atlas: 2022 PLL Video Game Ratings

It has been 1,571 days days since the release of the last true lacrosse video game (Casey Powell Lacrosse 18). While that game certainly had its flaws, it was nice to pick up a controller and play a lacrosse video game. Let’s take a minute and imagine a new PLL focused video game has released in the […]

Archers: 2022 PLL Video Game Ratings

It has been 1,558 days since the release of the last true lacrosse video game (Casey Powell Lacrosse 18). While that game certainly had its flaws, it was nice to pick up a controller and play a lacrosse video game. Let’s take a minute and imagine a new PLL focused video game has released in the […]

Is the Gait D Good for Lacrosse?

Innovation is the name of the game in lacrosse. I couldn’t even begin to imagine where the game would be without it. While that same argument could be made about any other sport, it certainly holds more weight in lacrosse due to how equipment heavy the game is. In the mid-2000s, the lacrosse world ran […]

D1 Women’s Lacrosse Final Four Preview

What a season is has been for D1 Women’s Lacrosse. A plethora of players have stepped up to the plate this season leading to record-breaking program accolades. Many programs have proved the doubters wrong securing program defining victories. There has never been a better time to be a fan of D1 Women’s Lacrosse and with […]

NLL Week 8 Recap: Double Header Mayhem

Week 8 of the NLL only featured three games with two of them being double headers. It is not ideal for a professional sports team to have teams play in back to back nights, however with the way the world is with COVID-19 these games had to be made up at some point. While I’m […]

Ranking Every NLL Teams’ Best Jersey

NLL jerseys have taken some massive strides since the league was originally founded back in 1986. The most important aspect when designing a jersey is having a strong brand identity. Some franchises have phenomenal logos and color pallets at their disposal which makes the designing process a lot easier. Funny enough, there are teams in […]

NLL Week 7 Recap: Return to Glory

Week 7 of the NLL season delivered on every level. It was the first time all season where it truly felt like the NLL was officially back. Every game this week was competitive from start to finish and was a good indication of what teams are truly contending for a title this year. Here is […]