2017 Field Registration Flyer
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The 2017/18 Field Lacrosse season is fast approaching and we hope that 2017 - 2018 Season your children will continue to be part of our organization. Boy’s / Men’s Lacrosse is Canada’s national summer U 7 (2010/2011) $100 sport and is considered the fastest U 9 (2008/2009) $175 game on two feet. New Westminster U 11 (2006/2007) $210 has a long standing history in the U 13 (2004/2005) $220 game of Lacrosse and the New U 15 (2002/2003) $240 Westminster Minor Lacrosse U 18 (1999/2000/2001) $240 Association is proud to offer the youth of New Westminster a positive Women’s Field Lacrosse and safe recreational choice. U-10, U-12, U-15 & U-19 $160 THE FIELD LACROSSE SEASON The registration fee includes pictures, use EQUIPMENT of game jersey and insurance coverage. Lacrosse equipment is available from June Registration Registrations received after August a variety of sporting goods stores. st 1 will include an additional $20. For those who play box lacrosse or September Practices begin for all hockey, the same equipment can be divisions REGISTER EARLY TO AVOID LATE FEES! used. You will need: September Regular season of – February about 20 games plus A care card number, photocopy of the Boy’s / Men’s Hockey helmet with a players birth certificate and proof of practices wire faceguard or U 7 to U 18 February- Provincials for U11, New West residency must be NOCSAE approved field March U13, U15, and U18 submitted with the registration for ANY lacrosse helmet, player that is new to Field Lacrosse. shoulder pads, lacrosse gloves, slash The only Accepted proof of residency: guards, elbow pads, city utility bill, gas bill, land phone athletic support with line or property taxes cup for boys, jill for girls, mouth guard and cleats. For further registration information contact: Women’s Women’s field stick, Lynda Callard [email protected] Field Lacrosse goggles, and mouth guard Sticks A plastic headed stick Register online is mandatory Anytime at Goalies All equipment for the goalies (except for www.minorbellies.com their helmet, gloves and jock) is supplied by the Club to ensure maximum protection A Short History of Lacrosse in Canada The advent of the 20th century saw Lacrosse Lacrosse, which the Native People of North as the dominant sport in Canada. There were America knew under many different names extensive amateur and professional leagues such as Baggataway or Tewaarathon, played a across the country and teams routinely significant role in the community and religious traveled from Quebec and Ontario to B.C. and life of tribes across the continent for untold vice versa to challenge for supremacy in the years. Its origin lost in the antiquity of myth, game. In 1901 Lord Minto, the Governor Lacrosse remains a notable contribution of the General of Canada, donated a silver cup to Native culture to modern Canadian society. become the symbol of the championship of Native Lacrosse was characterized by a deeply Canada. The Minto Cup, today the symbol of spiritual involvement, and those who took part supremacy in the Junior ranks, remains one of did so with dedicated spirit and with the the proudest prizes of Lacrosse. In 1910 Sir highest ideals of bringing glory to themselves Donald Mann, chief architect of the Canadian and their tribes, and honour to the participants Northern Railway, donated a gold cup to be and the tribes to which they belonged. awarded to the national amateur senior champion. Today it is the championship prize In the 1840s the first games of Lacrosse were of the best Senior team in Box Lacrosse in played between the townsfolk and the Native Canada. People. Though it was many years before any significant wins were logged against the The coming of the 1930s brought innovation Natives, the game of Lacrosse was quickly once again to the sport. Promoters married winning the loyalty and interest of the newest the two most popular games, Lacrosse and North Americans. Lacrosse was named Hockey, and created Indoor Lacrosse, also Canada's National Game by Parliament in known as Box Lacrosse or Boxla. The game 1859. In 1867 the Montreal Lacrosse Club, was built upon speed and action and very 2017 - 2018 headed by Dr. George Beers, organized a quickly won massive support within the conference in Kingston in order to create a organization. By the mid 30's the field game national body whose purpose would be to had been completely replaced by Boxla and govern the sport throughout the newly formed the box version became the official sport of the country. The National Lacrosse Association Canadian Lacrosse Association. became the first national sport governing body The Canadian Lacrosse Association today in North America dedicated to the governance recognizes four separate disciplines in the of a sport, the standardization of rules and game of Lacrosse: Box, Men's Field, Women's competition, and the running of national Field and Inter-Lacrosse. Box Lacrosse is championships to promote good fellowship and uniquely a Canadian game and is best unity across the country. The unforgettable described as a game of speed and reaction. motto of the organization was: Men's Field Lacrosse is a game of patience and strategy which focuses on control of the ball. "OUR COUNTRY - OUR GAME" The Women's Field game has stayed truest to the original sport in its play. It is a game Lacrosse, because of its unique history, exists based on the skills of passing and ball control. as a link between the disparate components of Inter-Lacrosse is a non-contact version of the Canadian history, First Nations and European sport designed to be adaptable to the various Settler. It remains the rare occurrence in age and skill levels of the participants. which an element of native culture was accepted and embraced by Canadian society. Lacrosse was re-confirmed by Parliament as The European concepts of structure and rules the National Summer Sport of Canada in 1994. were added to the religious and social rituals of the first North Americans, and together produced one of the first symbols of the new Canada, Lacrosse. .