Lacrosse Season Begins

For many years, spring was not a season to do boat work, but a season to watch my two daughters play lacrosse. Those daughters have grown into adult women and that season has passed, but I still catch high school lacrosse with the Wheaton High School (Maryland) girls team. Lacrosse in America has always been the sport of white suburbia but in Wheaton High School, most of the team is composed of immigrant teens (children of all those invisible workers that make Washington DC operate), many are picking up lacrosse sticks for the first time in freshman year. To them, this is a very alien sport that must be learned from the ground up. The games against those richer, whiter schools in North County can be very dispiriting blow outs. But the effort is always there, the competitive drive never wavers.

For some reason, Montgomery County Public Schools, decided to make a video featuring Wheaton High School Lacrosse. They could have featured one of the schools with a top notch record but someone decided they would feature a team with multiple nationalities, a team that, at times, features more enthusiasm than skill.

Go Wheaton Knights and Coach Lauren Z, Coach Kari Tracey!

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In March, having some time on my hands, my daughter asked me to help her coach her high school womens lacrosse team. I said yes, having done quite a lot of spectating at womens lacrosse games, but no actual coaching. The season, behind the bench as it were, was a great experience and a lot of fun - the high school athletes at Wheaton HS had a great attitude - win or lose. We weren't that good - every win was a struggle but we got a couple of them which made the season.

What I learned during the lacrosse season is I can't coach and blog - my brain isn't wired to switch from thinking about defensive matchups and offensive techniques to then write a sailing blog. It wasn't happening when I sat down to the computer.

And that's my excuse.

Like daughter, like father.....

I'm back!...........Well sort of

Some may have noticed my absence from these pages. Some may have guessed that I was once again helping coach womens spring lacrosse at Wheaton HS. We finished with 3 wins and 8 losses this spring; the wins were by bigger margins over the same teams we beat last year, the losses were by about the same as last year.... there was progress but with injuries not as much as I had hoped. There was some frustration on my part but hey, I'm a volunteer coach and there are bigger things in the scheme of high school life than wins and losses.

I must admit I didn't spend much time on the Internet the last couple of months. I didn't monitor my blog and (sorry) I didn't read other blogs on my blog roll. I did read books and that was a very good thing and (tip of the hat to Tillerman) I did have the first grandbaby to occasionally cart around to look at the leaves and flowers and breezes of spring.

So Earwigoagin is back but not as the consistent blogger of yore. I still have a pile of books to read.