College Previews, Realignment and Getting to Know ULR
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Huge thank you to our sponsors Tribal West Lacrosse (website) & MinersTown Strength and Conditioning (website), who make the great coverage here at ULR possible! We’re back with another week of previews and a small update on what is happening the world of realignment at the high school level, Hopefully you had a chance to read up on last week’s coverage of the Sandstorm Tournament in the desert and the beginning of our college preview series with the University of Utah. As we get deeper and deeper into the waters of lacrosse season, I was reflecting on my own start with the sport back in high school. It’s been almost 23 years since I donned the black and white over at Highland High, but lacrosse was an important outlet for me to help find independence from the grind of football and the expectation that every red blooded young man participate in Highland Rugby. At the time I was in high school, every position I played was occupied by future Hall of Famer Haloti Ngata, one of the very best humans you can find and also one of the best athletes I’ve ever been around, Tim Haslam excluded. Even though Haloti was a year younger than I was, he was better at everything and by a wide margin. I was obsessed with sports and taking a season off was simply out of the question, so when the opportunity to play lacrosse came up, I jumped at it. The sport was still new but growing fast, something that I feel has cycled around to a bigger audience now. I was never a great player, but I found a community and a new group of friends outside of football, and I found a new confidence in myself and my abilities as an athlete that translated into football, and eventually helped me to find an opportunity playing at Snow College after high school. It’s funny, but I find myself in a similar situation now as I return to lacrosse, but this time from the side of media coverage. Tim truly is the Haloti Ngata of lacrosse coverage in the state, no one has more experience, passion or knowledge of everything going on. I mentioned that he’s already been a tremendous resource, and I hope he doesn’t mind all the questions I send his way all the time but I wanted to appeal to you all as well. We’re going to be out and about a lot this season, I hope you will all feel free to introduce yourselves to me, at 6’4” with long red hair and a pretty decent beard, I’m pretty easy to find in a crowd and there are few things I value more than making connections and hearing the stories that are out there. In the meantime, if you have a story or something that you feel deserves some attention, you can find me on twitter
College Previews, Realignment and Getting to Know ULR
College Previews, Realignment and Getting to…
College Previews, Realignment and Getting to Know ULR
Huge thank you to our sponsors Tribal West Lacrosse (website) & MinersTown Strength and Conditioning (website), who make the great coverage here at ULR possible! We’re back with another week of previews and a small update on what is happening the world of realignment at the high school level, Hopefully you had a chance to read up on last week’s coverage of the Sandstorm Tournament in the desert and the beginning of our college preview series with the University of Utah. As we get deeper and deeper into the waters of lacrosse season, I was reflecting on my own start with the sport back in high school. It’s been almost 23 years since I donned the black and white over at Highland High, but lacrosse was an important outlet for me to help find independence from the grind of football and the expectation that every red blooded young man participate in Highland Rugby. At the time I was in high school, every position I played was occupied by future Hall of Famer Haloti Ngata, one of the very best humans you can find and also one of the best athletes I’ve ever been around, Tim Haslam excluded. Even though Haloti was a year younger than I was, he was better at everything and by a wide margin. I was obsessed with sports and taking a season off was simply out of the question, so when the opportunity to play lacrosse came up, I jumped at it. The sport was still new but growing fast, something that I feel has cycled around to a bigger audience now. I was never a great player, but I found a community and a new group of friends outside of football, and I found a new confidence in myself and my abilities as an athlete that translated into football, and eventually helped me to find an opportunity playing at Snow College after high school. It’s funny, but I find myself in a similar situation now as I return to lacrosse, but this time from the side of media coverage. Tim truly is the Haloti Ngata of lacrosse coverage in the state, no one has more experience, passion or knowledge of everything going on. I mentioned that he’s already been a tremendous resource, and I hope he doesn’t mind all the questions I send his way all the time but I wanted to appeal to you all as well. We’re going to be out and about a lot this season, I hope you will all feel free to introduce yourselves to me, at 6’4” with long red hair and a pretty decent beard, I’m pretty easy to find in a crowd and there are few things I value more than making connections and hearing the stories that are out there. In the meantime, if you have a story or something that you feel deserves some attention, you can find me on twitter