LACROSSE IN EDUCATION WORKBOOK -VS- FEBRUARY 8, 2013 AT 11:00AM S C HGAME O O L D A Y WINGSLAX.COM PHILADELPHIA WINGS Dear Students, On behalf of the Philadelphia Wings, it is our pleasure to welcome you to the 2013 Lacrosse in Education Day at Wells Fargo Center. The Wings look forward to providing you with exciting on-field action today, as well as a fun learning experience that you will remember for years to come. We hope that you will take the lessons from this Michael French Career afternoon’s game with you as you grow in your education. Highlights In this workbook you will learn about the history of the sport of • Three time All-American at Cornell lacrosse, the Philadelphia Wings team history and how mathematics University figures into the sport. You will also learn how vocabulary sometimes • Captain of 1976 Cornell undefeated crosses over from sports terminology to words we use every day, how NCAA National Champion team to keep healthy and in tip-top shape like the athletes you see on the field • NCAA and Ivy League Player of the Year and the role physics plays in the game. • Led Canada to its first World Lacrosse Championship Enjoy today’s game and we look forward to seeing you again for another • US Lacrosse Hall of Fame inductee home game. Go Wings! • Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame inductee • Member of Philadelphia Wings Sincerely, organization from inception in 1987 • Wings leading scorer in inaugural season • National Lacrosse League Hall of Fame Michael French inductee President and Owner, Philadelphia Wings From your Seat… As the President of the Wings Michael French has many responsibilities. In order to one day own a professional sports team… What subjects would you study? What skills would you need? 2 Visit us online at www.WingsLax.com LACROSSE IN EDUCATION History of the Game Lacrosse is the oldest sport in North America, with its origin dating back to the 1400s. It did not become generally known and talked about however, until the 1600s when a Jesuit missionary named Jean de Brebeuf saw the Hyron Indians play. In a report to his superiors, he stated little about the actual play of the game but seemed to be intrigued by the stick the indians used while playing. Jean de Brebeuf likened the stick the indians competed with, to the “crosier” carried at religious ceremonies by a bishop. Thus, the name la crosse evolved, and this later became simply “lacrosse.” Indian lacrosse was a mass game and often teams were made up of one hundred to one thousand braves on each side. The goals were usually five-hundred yards to one-half mile apart. On occasion, the goals could be seperated by several miles. Usually a large rock or tree was considered the goal and a score was recorded by hitting the rock or tree with a ball. Some tribes used goal posts six to nine feet apart, and the ball had to pass between them for a score, much like today’s game. Games lasted from sunup to sundown and stretched over the course of two or three days. Lacrosse games were originally used to toughen braves for actual combat. There were even times when games were played between two tribes to settle their differences or disputes. It was not until the early 1800s that the French pioneers started playing lacrosse seriously. With their participation in the sport came the first signs of turning lacrosse into a more civilized game. Canadian dentist W. George Beers standardized the game in 1867 with the adoption of set field dimensions, limits to the number of players per team, and other basic rules. Little did the French settlers know that they would be credited for being the forefathers of lacrosse, along with the indians. New York University fielded the nation’s first college team in 1877, and Philips Andover Academy (Mass.), Philips Exeter Academy (NH.) and the Lawrenceville School (N.J.) were the nation’s first high school teams in 1882. In the early 1900s lacrosse became recognized as a “force to be reckoned with.” It was during this time that the game was first played in Olympic competition, and the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse League (USILL) was formed. In 1926, the USILL was replaced by the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association, which is still the governing body of lacrosse today. Lacrosse continued to grow in America during the mid 1900s, and today the game is played by over 500 colleges and universities, as well as over 1400 high schools countrywide. Watch the Wings play today and write four ways Wings players show they are good teammates. Courtesy of www.LaxHistory.com From your Seat… Lacrosse is a team sport and the players need to work with each other to succeed. Watch the Wings play today against Rochester. Write down four ways the Wings players show they are good teammates. 1. 2. 3. 4. Call us at 215.389.WING (9464) 3 PHILADELPHIA WINGS 2013 Philadelphia Wings Team Roster (TENTATIVE) Meet the Players Jersey # Name D.O.B. Height Weight Hometown Lacrosse players come in all shapes and sizes. Each 5 Kevin Kaminski 11/17/1987 6’3” 215 Wallingford, PA player has a different height, weight, or wingspan. Take a look at the roster and look specifically at the weights of 8 Steve Holmes 11/25/1982 6’0” 200 Gwynedd Valley, PA players to answer these math questions. 10 Kevin Crowley 11/13/1988 6’4” 215 New Westminster, B.C. 11 Colin Hall 9/17/1986 6’0” 208 Akwesasnu What is the difference in weight between the heaviest 13 Brett Manney 9/21/1985 6’3” 225 Newtown, PA Wings player and the lightest? 17 Brodie Merrill 11/5/1981 6”4” 205 Orangeville, Ontario What is the total weight of all of the Wings players that 18 Maxwell Seibald 8/14/1987 6’1” 200 Hewlett, NY wear an even number on their jersey? 22 Ned Crotty 9/26/1986 6’2” 190 New Vernon, NJ 25 Pat Heim 5/25/1984 5’11” 205 Wayne, PA What is the average weight of all the players? 26 Drew Westervelt 4/25/1985 6’5” 245 Bel Air, MD 32 Jeff Reynolds 2/10/1986 6’1” 190 Bel Air, MD Mean, Mode, Median 36 Brandon Miller 5/4/1979 6’1” 190 Orangeville, Ontario The roster of the Wings can also help you learn some 37 Eric Hoffman 9/14/1985 6’4” 235 Sellersville, Pa important things about numbers that appear in a series. 39 Steve Fryer 4/11/1990 6’0” 192 Brampton, Ontario Three key words about numbers in a series are “mean,” “mode” and “median.” 41 John McFadyen 5/11/1986 6’6” 240 Medham, NJ · MEAN is the average of all numbers in a series 42 Jacob Lazore 12/14/1991 5’9” 182 Hogansburg, NY · MODE is the number that appears most often in a series 80 Scotty Komer 11/15/1977 6’4” 185 Toronto, Ontario 92 Paul Dawson 9/16/1985 6’5” 210 Oakville, Ontario · MEDIAN is the number that appears in the middle of a series. TBA Kevin Buchanan 5/9/1986 5’10” 185 Cockeysville,MD Look at the height of the 23 Wings players on this year’s roster. What is the “mean” height of the players? What TBA Will Harrington 10/3/1986 6’0” 200 Baltimore, MD is the mode height? What is the median height if you put TBA Michael Manley 7/21/1988 6’1” 227 Penn Yan, NY all of the heights in order from shortest to tallest? List TBA CJ Costabile 12/4/1989 6’1” 200 New Fairfield, CT them below: TBA Eric Lusby 9/12/1988 5’11” 198 Severna Park, MD · Mean Height: · Mode Height: · Median Height: From your Seat… Statistics are an important part of sports. During Wings games a stat crew calculates everything that happens on the field. A very important stat that the team uses is goalie save percetange. To calculate the Wings goalie’s save percentage, divide the number of saves he made by the number of shots the Knighthawks took. At the end of the game, divide all of his saves by the number of shots taken by the Knighthawks. Write the answers below: Knighthawks Shots: Goalie Saves: Goalie Save Percentage: % 4 Visit us online at www.WingsLax.com LACROSSE IN EDUCATION Learn Geography with the Wings Indoor Lacrosse is International Years of Historic Significance Box Lacrosse originated in Canada and is the National Take a look at the roster on the left and try to answer Summer Sport of Canada. Many of the players in the the questions below. See if you can answer the questions league are from Canada. Take this workbook back to below by matching the right player with the event that your classroom and answer the questions below with the occurred the year they were born. help of a North American Map. Match the player’s birthday with the historical event that Name a Player… occurred the same year as their birth: 1. Born in a Philadelphia Suburb 1. Peter Nero and the Philly Pops have been a Philadel- 2. Born in Canada west of the Mississippi River phia staple for decades. The group performed their first orchestra concert together in the Fall of this year. 3. Born in a U.S. state south of Pennsylvania 2. On September 21st of this year, Sandra Day O’Connor 4. Born in a U.S.