Dear Friends of Cecil Lacrosse,

It’s been a long year in anticipation of the start of our fourth full season of a true county-wide lacrosse league in Cecil County.  This year promises to be yet another spectacular year of growth for our league.  We have some incredible things happening this year, which we are proud to share with you.

First and foremost, we are proud to be fully aligned with an incredible organization, The Positive Coaching Alliance (www.positivecoach.org).  Positive Coaching Alliance is a nonprofit organization founded at Stanford University with the mission to transform youth sports so sports can transform youth. PCA was created to transform the culture of youth sports to give all young athletes the opportunity for a positive, character-building experience.

PCA has three national goals: 

1. Replace the "win-at-all-cost" model of coaching with the Double-Goal Coach®, who wants to win but has a second, more important, goal of using sports to teach life lessons;
2. Teach youth sports organization leaders how to create an organizational culture in which Honoring the Game is the norm; and
3. Spark and fuel a "social epidemic" of Positive Coaching that will sweep this country.

Over the course of the 2010 season, you will continue to see and hear some of the PCA tools being used with our players, coaches, officials and parents.  We hope that you will Honor The Game, through supporting our PCA efforts.

We will be continuing with our incredibly popular Soft Sticks program, geared towards boys and girls, ages 5 and 6, in April.  Our current coaches, along with some of our older boys and girls will be helping to share the fun of this great sport with the younger kids in the county.

Whether you are a player, a parent of a new player, or a parent of a returning player, we hope that this season will be rewarding, refreshing and enjoyable!

All the best,

Kevin Greene

Lacrosse Coordinator