The Loudoun Fuze U15 summer team will travel to James Madison High School for a scrimmage against the Fairfax Hawks on Thursday, July 10, 2008. This will be a full-length game played in the Warhawk’s state-of-the-art stadium. The game is set to begin at 7:00PM. For a map and/or directions to Madison High School, please click here. Please do not hesitate to contact Coach Blamey or Coach Dewey directly with any questions or concerns.

Due to the heat advisory, tonight’s Fairfax Hawks practice will be shortened by 30 minutes. Please be sure your son’s drink plenty of fluids throughout the day today and they will need to bring their own bottle of water or sports drink tonight. The team will not have access to the school’s water.

Practice tonight will run from 6:00PM until 7:30PM. Please arrive to pick up your sons’ on time. We don’t want them to be out in the heat for any longer than necessary.

Aditionally, we just received word that the South Lakes High School graduation is this Thursday, 6/12, and the Langston Hughes practice fields will be used as parking for this event. Unfortunately, practice will be canceled this Thursday. Practice will resume next Tuesday and Thursday from 6PM-8PM as originally scheduled.

The Fairfax Hawks will travel to Gainseville, VA on Tuesday, July 15th, for a scrimmage against the Generals Lacrosse Club. The Generals run a solid summer program and this will serve as the perfect tune-up for the Summer Sizzle tournament being held the following weekend in Baltimore. The Generals home field is located at Oak Valley Place in Gainesvlle. This will be a full length game, beginning at 6:00PM. Visit this link for a map and directions.

The Seahawks coaching staff will be running two winter clinics for youth lacrosse players. Open to athletes from the ages 6-15, players of all levels, novice to experienced, both girls and boys are welcome to attend. Players will be grouped by levels and gender, working on skills in preparation for the upcoming 2008 Spring Lacrosse Season. This is a great opportunity to see what Lacrosse is all about for new players. For the experienced player, this will be an opportunity to brush up on your lacrosse skills prior to the 2008 Spring Season. Sessions will be held on Sunday, February 3rd and Sunday, February 10th, from 1PM-3PM. Cost is only $20 per session and will be paid at the door. Both clinics will be held at Herndon Middle School. Please visit www.restonlacrosse.com to register.

Welcome to the online home of the Fairfax Hawks! The Fairfax Hawks Lacrosse team is a joint venture between head coaches, Matt Blamey and Nate Dewey from South Lakes and James Madison High Schools. The goal is to provide a fun, no pressure lacrosse club for athletes that will be attending both South Lakes and James Madison in the future. The coaches want to get to know the players in a relaxed environment, all while providing the opportunity to have fun playing lacrosse during the summer!

Currently the Fairfax Hawks program only offers one team at the U15 level. To join the Hawks, you must be a lacrosse player that will be entering the 8th or 9th grade in the fall of 2008 and reside within the South Lakes or James Madison High School district. The Hawks will practice twice a week during the summer, culminating with the Warrior Summer Sizzle Lacrosse Tournament in Baltimore, MD in late July. Registration information will be published soon! In the meantime, feel free to contact Coach Blamey or Coach Dewey directly with any questions or concerns.

Like the driving range in golf, a punching bag in boxing or the batting cage in baseball, “the wall” is a place where repetition breeds skill, and fundamentals are of the essence.

To a fault, lacrosse players oftentimes treat wall ball as a stationary activity. Bad habits can materialize just as easily as good ones when the moving fundamentals are not implemented. Peter Worstell, a former four-time All-American at Maryland and a high school coach in California, offers a wall-ball workout that is diverse and, if done properly, tiresome.

Worstell, who presented a live field demonstration in January at the 2006 US Lacrosse National Convention, calls wall ball “a topic that I am very, very passionate about, although it’s a topic that isn’t the most glamorous.”

Speaking to convention-goers in front of a collapsible practice wall, Worstell contended: “There’s a tendency for [players] to take their game from `A’ and `B,’ and go right to `Z.’ We have a habit of saying to a guy, `Michael, you really have to go out and hit a wall.’ But how many times have we showed Michael what that looks like?”

With Worstell’s help and input from some other popular wall drill engineers, the Lacrosse Classroom took recess outdoors and hit the bricks. Next time you go out to a wall, follow these guidelines, and you’ll be housing line drills by the time next season surfaces.

Click here for the full article and wall drill.