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2. Ohio State’s Mitchell Pehlke has lacrosse in his blood – his dad, Kevin, was an All-American at Virginia – but he’s out to make a name for himself with a burgeoning social media portfolio.
3. Zoe Belodeau has been a big-time scorer throughout her Penn career. She’ll be even more important for the Quakers in 2021.
4. Jake Carraway is back for a fifth season and a big reason why the expectations continue to climb for a rising Georgetown program.
5. Bronx Lacrosse, a member of the US Lacrosse Urban Lacrosse Alliance, shared a great success story.
One of our first program participants John Peña, has committed to play at St. Thomas Aquinas College. John is the first ever college commitment from our program and the first person from his family to attend college. His hard work in and out of the classroom has paid off pic.twitter.com/xlqTaSnVcw
Mon Jan 25 2021 | Paul Ohanian | Fuel
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The use of protective equipment is an important element in many sports, including lacrosse, to ensure the safest possible environment for players and to reduce the risk of injury.
Some protective lacrosse equipment helmets and chest protection for men’s and women’s goalies, helmets and chest protection for men’s field players, and eyewear and optional headgear for women have a required performance standard that must be met in order to be certified for play. Other equipment, such as mouthguards and gloves, have no standard.
Who determines that a certain type of equipment should meet a performance standard? And how is that standard developed?
Fri Jan 8 2021 | Paul Ohanian | High School
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Findings from a new research study measuring the effects of headgear in high school girls lacrosse indicate that headgear is associated with a reduction in the magnitude of overall impacts but not a change in the rate of impacts, how they occur, or how penalties were administered for impacts sustained during competition.
The findings were recently published in an
The research team included two members of US Lacrosse Sports Science & Safety Committee, Dr. Shane Caswell of George Mason University, and Dr. Andrew Lincoln of MedStar Health Research Institute. The researchers monitored 49 high school players over the course of two seasons; one season with no headgear used and the second with headgear that meets ASTM standard F3137.