Tue May 18 2021 | Matt Hamilton | Podcast
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Dave Cottle is as big a part of the Baltimore lacrosse scene as anyone in the past 40 years.
Dave Cottle is as big a part of the Baltimore lacrosse scene as anyone in the past 40 years, carving out a career as one of the top coaches in the history of the game.
Cottle, who starred at Salisbury in the late 1970s, has coached at the high school, college and professional levels over the course of a 42-year coaching career. He built Loyola men’s lacrosse into a perennial contender, helped the Maryland men’s lacrosse program continue its success and later led the Chesapeake Bayhawks to two Major League Lacrosse championships.
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For 17-straight seasons, the Terps have appeared in the NCAA Championship tournament. But in 2002, Maryland men’s lacrosse didn’t make the cut.
Maryland has been a staple in the NCAA Championship for nearly two decades, and the program was similarly strong in the years prior. Since the inception of the NCAA Division I Tournament in 1971, the Terps have only missed the contest seven times (1980, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1990, 1999, 2002).
The expectation is Maryland will play in the postseason in 2021, which would make 18-consecutive trips to the tournament. But this isn’t about the Terps’ future or present. This is about 2002 Maryland lacrosse – the last time the team was on the outside looking in.
June is the better time of year for a week-long lacrosse festival in the long-term, but the good news is a new and broader focus will be shined on an event that was once a highlight on the sport’s summer calendar.
Adding a youth component to the college and adult competition will bring an added component to the Ocean City Lacrosse Classic, which has for years attracted about 100 teams in a variety of age divisions for men and women. In the mid- to late-90s and early-2000s, the tournament attracted some of the best collegiate lacrosse players in the world who would often come to Ocean City for the White Marlin Open and stay through the lacrosse festival. There was high-quality lacrosse on the field on the men and women side.
File photo of a local youth tournament
OCEAN CITY Ocean City could get a three-for-one lacrosse tournament deal with a single investment after resort officials this week approved an agreement with some of the sports’ heavyweights.
At a Tourism Commission meeting last month, Tourism Advisory Board (TAB) President Steve Pastusak briefed members on a proposed expansion of the Ocean City Lacrosse Classic, held every August since 1993. The tournament includes men’s and women’s elite divisions featuring some of the top collegiate players in the country, along with masters and grand masters and other divisions. However, due to competing tourneys, the Ocean City Lacrosse Classic has seen its popularity wane in recent years and is in need of an overhaul.
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