Home Grown Lacrosse Announces Youth Lacrosse Leagues and Clinics

(www.homegrownlacrosse.com), one of the region’s leading providers of lacrosse lessons, camps, academy teams, leagues and more, announces that its Fall Youth Lacrosse Leagues and Clinics will begin the week of Oct. 2 at the North Andover indoor sports facility located at 400 Osgood St. (close to the high school entrance).

Boys U-13 and U-15 Lacrosse Leagues

Every team is coached by a local college lacrosse player.  There are no practices – just games! – and every game is officiated by a patched official.  Games are one hour and take place on Sundays from October 2 through December 11, 2011.  Each team plays 10 games. Cost per player is $150 ($125 league fee, $25 to provide coaches).  A second session will begin in January.

Boys and Girls Youth Lacrosse Clinics

Hone your lacrosse skills at these small group (12 players per class maximum) lacrosse clinics.  Players get personalized training with 2 coaches per class (one college coach and one college player).  Skills covered include: basic stick skills; dodging, shooting and scoring; defensive stick checks and body positioning; offensive and defensive team and transition concepts; and goalie play.  Clinics run from the week of October 3 through the week of October 27.  Cost is $140.

• U-15 boys – Mondays, 3 to 4 p.m.
• U-13 boys – Mondays, 7 to 8 p.m.
• U-11 boys – Mondays, 4 to 5 p.m.
• Youth girls – Fridays, 3 to 4 p.m.

For more information call (978) 208-2300 or visit www.homegrownlacrosse.com. 

About Home Grown Lacrosse

Founded in 2005 by Bryan Brazill, a life-long lacrosse player and passionate student of the game, Home Grown Lacrosse is one of the region’s leading providers of lacrosse lessons, camps, academy teams, leagues and more.  Home Grown Lacrosse moved into its current indoor facility, featuring a state-of-the-art, 30-by-60 yard lacrosse field, in 2009.  Home Grown Lacrosse’s staff includes experienced players and coaches like Brazill, a former Merrimack College lacrosse star and currently Merrimack’s Lacrosse Offensive Coach; Corinne Baker, currently Head Women’s Lacrosse Coach at Merrimack College where she was named Division II Coach of the Year in 2010; and Peter Smyth, two-year captain on Nichols College’s lacrosse team and 2011 head coach at Austin Prep high school.  Coaches at Home Grown Lacrosse focus on developing both player’s skill levels, and their love for the game.

In addition to lacrosse-related activities, Home Grown Lacrosse also offers Soccer Foot Skills clinics, Flag Football leagues, High School Field Hockey leagues, field rentals and birthday parties.  More information is available at www.homegrownlacrosse.com.