First Round So. Cal Playoffs 5/12/12

Southern California Play-Off Bracket

*I will update this as we go!!

Spring 2012 Vikings Lacrosse Registration

Registration for the Spring 2012 Lacrosse Season is now CLOSED!!!
(there are limited spaces available depending on the age of the players)

The Spring Season will start after Winter Break and will run through the end of May.

Please email me with the gender and birth date of the player and I will email you the proper form and let you know what team they will be on.

After I let you know the proper team, you can either send of drop a check off with me or pay online (link to the right).

Please make sure to check out the calendar (also to the right) as it has the first month of practices listed.  (all practices are listed by team.)  We will continually update the calendar and you will receive an email when we have been allotted our field space for the remainder of the Spring Season.

Lastly, please also check out the "Coaches" tab (above) to take a look at the outstanding coaching staff that we have brought in to couch our teams!!

End of Summer Game Record

After the last game of the Summer Season our record stands: 11 wins, 1 tie and 1 loss !!!!
It has been a great summer and the LAX Bros and our new Head Coach Ryland have done an amazing job!

Next week we have our LAX Jamboree and then we can all look forward to our Fall Season.

Summer Game Record

Congrats Vikings LAX Bros!!!
After winning the game against Pali tonight 21 to 6...our team record for the Summer League stands 9 wins, 1 tie & 1 loss ...with only 2 games to go!!

Go Vikings!!

Lacrosse isn't just sticking around in Southern California

The sport is suddenly everywhere, with USC adding a women's team, high schools picking up the game and parents lauding the sense of sportsmanship.

Lacrosse's lineage traces to the era of the birch canoe. Passion pockets eventually sprang up in Baltimore and New York, where they have played it for decades. And finally, inexplicably, it has found a following here on the West Coast, enjoying a growth spurt that might be a backlash to the just-win attitudes of other youth sports, might not. Might be TV and Internet exposure. Might just be that lacrosse is painless to learn and pure fun to play..........MORE

Vikings Lacrosse Summer Program

We are excited to announce to you all today that we are fortunate enough to have just acquired, All-American and nominated to the California Lacrosse Hall Of Fame, Ryland Huyghue as our new Head Coach. Ryland has come to us with 40+ years experience playing & coaching lacrosse. Recently Ryland served as head coach at Cal State Fullerton and most recently at U.C. Irvine. His full bio is on the Coaches tab on our website for those of you who would like to read his full credentials.

WITH THE ADDITION OF RYLAND, OUR SUMMER PROGRAM IS GOING TO BE UNBELIEVABLE! DO NOT MISS OUT ON GETTING IN AT THE BEGINNING OF THE RYLAND ERA!

Coaches Ryland Huyghue (Coach from U.C. Irvine & Cal State Fullerton), Aaron Myers (Coach from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo) & S.M. Vikings Lacrosse Director Jeff Townsend will coach this program and we will be part of a league of 20 high school teams. We will be practicing at John Adams Middle School Tuesdays & Thursdays from 5PM to 8PM and games will be held at JAMS and other area schools. Palisades High School’s summer team will also be practicing along side of us at JAMS!

The summer league dues will be $250 per player (which will cover the league dues, coaching, ref fees, practice fields & jerseys.) We wanted to make this program affordable as we anticipate that not everyone will be able to make every practice or game.

The Fastest Game On Two Feet

Summer Lacrosse Camps!!

Summer is rapidly approaching and you all (unless you already know everything) need to get signed up for a summer lacrosse camp!

We would like all of you to have as much information about summer lacrosse camps as possible as we feel that it is very important for you to have the opportunity to attend some of the great camps over the summer months.

These camps are like a college lacrosse experience as they are held at universities and players will be sleeping in the dorms and eating in the school cafeterias, etc. It is a great experience for everyone!

There are a lot of camps to choose from ... but we are highlighting below a few that we highly recommend.

Also, if we get enough of our players going to one or more of the camps, we will get a group discount.

You should all know to get signed up as soon as possible as space is limited in these camps.

Trilogy

Southern California Overnight Camp

Whittier, CA June 27 - July 1

There are others in differing states at this link - www.trilogylacrosse.com/camps2011

Lorne Smith Lacrosse Camps

http://www.lornesmithlacrosse.com/oregon-lax-camp.htm

Eugene, OR Session II: July 6-10

Great Western Lacrosse Camps - http://www.greatwesternlacrosse.com/summercamps.htm

San Diego, CA August 1- 6

Otherwise please take a look at the March issue of Lacrosse Magazine for a complete listing of all of the camps in the US.

Season Player Stat Totals - JV

Aryan
Shots - 20
Goals - 8
Assists -
Ground Balls - 12

Andrew
Shots - 10
Goals - 4
Assists - 2
Ground Balls - 16

Tristan
Shots - 11
Goals - 2
Assists -
Ground Balls - 16

Tyler
Shots - 16
Goals - 4
Assists - 3
Ground Balls - 26

Jonas
Shots - 13
Goals - 3
Assists - 1
Ground Balls – 10

Riley
Shots - 5
Goals - 1
Assists - 6
Ground Balls – 20

Sasha
Shots - 10
Goals - 3
Assists - 1
Ground Balls - 15

Christian
Shots - 10
Goals - 3
Assists -
Ground Balls – 14

Jordan
Shots - 8
Goals - 3
Assists - 1
Ground Balls – 11

Jonathan
Shots - 10
Goals - 3
Assists -
Ground Balls – 13

Jackson
Shots - 3
Goals -
Assists - 1
Ground Balls – 10

Patrik
Shots - 8
Goals - 1
Assists - 1
Ground Balls - 19

Ian
Shots - 3
Goals - 1
Assists -
Ground Balls – 2

Steven
Shots - 2
Goals - 2
Ground Balls - 23

Jake B.
Ground Balls – 18

Devin
Saves – 22
Goals Allowed – 11

Tommy
Saves – 3
Goals Allowed – 0

Cody
Saves – 10
Goals Allowed – 5

Season Stat Totals - Varsity

Cody
Saves - 144
Goals Allowed - 98

Tommy
Shots - 80
Goals - 25
Assists - 15
Ground Balls - 40

Andrew
Shots - 53
Goals - 19
Assists - 13
Ground Balls - 33

Jonathan
Shots - 62
Goals - 16
Assists - 2
Ground Balls – 40

Erik
Shots - 35
Goals - 6
Assists - 3
Ground Balls - 26

Micah
Shots - 25
Goals - 3
Assists - 4
Ground Balls - 50

RJ
Shots - 11
Goals - 4
Assists - 2
Ground Balls - 20

Eric
Shots - 29
Goals - 4
Assists - 5
Ground Balls - 65

Isaac
Shots - 7
Goals - 4
Assists - 2
Ground Balls – 48

Christian (Doug)
Shots - 9
Goals - 1
Assists - 0
Ground Balls - 18

Bryan
Shots - 5
Goals - 0
Assists - 2
Ground Balls - 3

Jordan
Shots - 6
Goals - 1
Assists - 3
Ground Balls - 19

Tyler
Shots - 8
Goals - 1
Assists - 4
Ground Balls - 12

Santi
Shots - 7
Goals - 0
Assists - 1
Ground Balls - 12

Evan
Ground Balls - 42

Adam
Ground Balls – 23

Duncan
Ground Balls – 27

Jeremy
Ground Balls – 21

Varsity Game Schedule

Here is the Varsity game schedule and links to each respective field.
(Updated 2/4/11)

26-Feb	At Valencia	Away	1PM
5-Mar	vs. Simi Valley	Home	7:30PM
12-Mar	vs. Torrance	Home	7:30PM
19-Mar	vs. El Segundo	Home	7:30PM
26-Mar	vs. El Camino	Home	7:30PM
2-Apr	vs. Long Beach	Home	7:30PM
9-Apr	At Glendale	Away	12:00PM
16-Apr	At Saugus	Away	3PM
30-Apr	At El Segundo	Away	2PM
7-May	At Long Beach	Away	3PM
11-May	At Torrance	Away	7PM (West H.S.)

14-May vs. Whittier Home 7:30PM (JAMS) - Tournament Game 1

21-May vs. Pasadena (location and time TBA) - Tournament Game 2

4-June All-Star Game Glendale HS

Local lacrosse team wants in at Samohi

By Melissa Leu

December 09, 2010

SAMOHI — Amidst objections from school officials, students here who are members of a local lacrosse club team are trying to make the sport official at Santa Monica High School.

The Santa Monica Vikings club team is made up of more than 100 middle and high school students in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District, with 75 students who attend Samohi. However, despite having all of its high school students from Samohi, the movement has failed to gain support from school officials despite five years of lobbying, said Chris Carrico, general manager of the lacrosse program.

"We really think because we're all Samohi students, why wouldn't the existing field space be equally shared with us?" Carrico said. "It's discouraging that the school feels that lacrosse is not a viable sport, not an important sport."

Daniel Escalera, athletic director of Samohi, said a severe drop in school funding and a lack of field space makes it difficult to add the sport.

"We'd love to consider it. Just, right now, we're kind of stuck with the fixed amount of field space. Right now, the fields get tore up, and they get beaten up … it could be unsafe," Escalera said. "You go to Pali and you go to Culver City, and you're going to see a whole lot [more] of green than you see at Santa Monica High School."

Samohi has three fields for sports, including football, baseball and softball. Currently, eight soccer teams, track and physical education classes share the fields. "Those eight soccer teams are not all Samohi students. [It includes] AYSO and club soccer … who aren't all Samohi students." said Carrico. "Why don't lacrosse players have the same rights as all the other Samohi sports? We actually have less rights than an 11-year-old AYSO player."

To add a new school sport, the team must first seek the approval of the athletic director, who then recommends the idea to the school administration.

"They've tried to do all that, there's just nothing we can do right now," Escalera said.

In September, the team approached Escalera about adding lacrosse and received a mixed response.

"He was all smiles," said Carrico of Escalera. However, in subsequent e-mails the director of theater operations and facility permits rejected the team's proposal.

"We are funded strictly through parental support, and we're trying to keep pricing very low and affordable," said Carrico, who said registration fees for the club team were $450 last season. "We offered to rent the field space, and it's still no. We're not asking for a handout from the school."

Coach salaries, field space, officials, transportation, security, custodians and equipment costs are just some of the associated costs with becoming an official high school team sanction by the California Interscholastic Federation, said Escalera.

Athletic Director of Malibu High School Chris Neier said lacrosse needed $30,000 to get started at Malibu High, with most of the financial support coming from parents.

"It's an expensive sport to run. It's a lot like football. There's helmets. There's pads. There's sticks," said Neier. "[But] Lacrosse for our school has become kind of an 'it' program. It's extremely popular."

About 50 out of the 750 students at Malibu High participate in lacrosse, said Neier.

Due to the Samohi athletic director's opposition, the Santa Monica club team plans to confront district officials at a school board meeting Thursday night.

"We're hoping the school board and the athletic department understand how many kids want to play lacrosse and want to be there to support us … not [just] financially support us, but to back us as a [school] team," said Carrico, who hopes to raise the team to CIF level. "Becoming CIF is not something that happens overnight, but to put the wheels in motion for it to happen is our goal."

Not having lacrosse as an official school sport also limits future opportunities for students who dream of playing at the collegiate level. The team is not able to play other schools with CIF teams, such as Malibu High, in games that might draw scouts, said Carrico.

"The number of non-CIF teams is disappearing and pretty soon there won't be anyone to play," said Jeff Townsend, director of the club team.

"Some of the families have talked about pulling their kids out of Samohi and putting them in Pali and Malibu, who all have CIF teams," said Carrico, who has a son on the lacrosse team who hopes to play in college.

The school board meeting will be held tonight at 6 p.m. at the district offices located at 1651 16th St.

Local lacrosse team wants in at Samohi